Influenza

Gelsemium is a useful remedy for influenza.
If you have the flu and you feel awful this remedy can help.
The typical symptoms of flu are heavy head, prostration, cold and hot shivers, trembling, sore muscles, dizziness, weakness, headache, even the hairs on your head feel sore.
Take gelsemium and go to bed immediately.
Don't try to work through it, because you may make yourself worse and prolong the illness.
The flu is especially debilitating and if you force your body to work while ill it could lead to chronic fatique (tireness sysndrome or M.E.
Gelsemium is also good for headaches which are like a tight band round your head and the head feels very heavy.

Click here to return to A-Z Diseases