Ricky, I think taking remedies at random in a cold can supress, but if the symptoms fit, i.e., it's the similimum, the remedy helps strengthen the resistance. A case in point - I am working with a 60 yr old female who has had a suseptibilty to colds since childhood. She has gotten about 10 a year with all of them going into bronchitis. While I was working out her constitutional remedy, she developed another one. I ended up giving her two different remedies in 30C twice each as the cold progressed over several days. It did not go into bronchitis and she said it was very different from her other colds. It's been several months now and she hasn't had another cold - a record for her. In the meantime, I worked out her constitutional. It was neither of the remedies I gave for the 'acute'. But the right remedies, prescribed on the presenting symptoms did a lot for her resistance. I really don't think anything was supressed because the symptoms developed according to Herings law.

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Shirley Reischman