During flu season, you may want to use preventative measures like a flu shot, eating healthy foods, washing your hands, or taking nutritional supplements. However, homeopathy for flu symptoms has been gaining popularity. The French have used these remedies for generations. They are gentle, effective, and free of known side effects.

What is Homeopathy?

If you have been paying attention to alternative strategies for flu prevention, you have no doubt heard about homeopathic combinations meant to both treat and quickly resolve the influenza virus. Most of these combinations contain the same two ingredients: anas barbariae hepatis and cordis extractum, made from the heart and liver of wild duck. Practitioners consider these organs reservoirs for the influenza virus. Homeopathic dilution removes the original substance but retains its energetic imprint. This is what makes homeopathy so safe.

Homeopathy For Flu Support & Prevention

These remedies may significantly improve flu symptoms within 48 hours. Many people also use them preventively during flu season. Instructions vary slightly between brands, but most follow similar dosing guidelines. For prevention, take one tube per week. Treatment recommendations, at the onset of symptoms, are to take one dose under the tongue every 8 hours for a maximum of 3 times/day. If you are already suffering from the flu, take one dose every morning and evening for 3 days.

How Homeopathic Remedies Work in The Body

Homeopathy is beneficial because when it is used correctly, it stimulates your body’s defences internally. The immune system, when optimized, is an incredibly complex and effective function. Lifestyle and environmental factors can overwhelm and tax our immune system; stress, poor diet, some medications, lack of sleep and environmental toxins lower our immune systems. This internal environment allows for the attack and takeover of viruses. Homeopathy provides the body with a reminder of its own efficacy and allows it to fight anything that’s invading.

Medications aimed at relieving the various symptoms of the flu do not support the bodies own processes, and can even diminish them further. Unlike many pharmaceutical cold and flu products, these products do not cause drowsiness and are safe for all ages, and during pregnancy.