Do any prescribers know what are the genus epidemicus remedies for the current acute non-specific pharyngitis that is doing the rounds?

I have had similar symptoms to those described by Lisa in her recent thread, so it seems like an international bug.
Other people I know are having the similar symptoms.

Have those of you who are busy practitioners seen enough cases to have found the genus epidemicus remedies?

I have a hunch for NatMur as one of the GE remedies. It seems to affect the kidneys as well as the throat.

The BB could be an effective instrument to communicate GE remedies internationally. If it worked well that way we could together do a lot of good for homoeopathy by treating the "Headline" bugs.

If anyone reading this has the current throat infection, please post all symptoms for analysis, so the pictures can be gathered and analysed.

NM 200 cured it in 24 hours. Other symptoms like a bit of coughing lingered a couple of days since..but improvement noticeable as the hours pass...cough became looser - mucous stopped clinging at the back of the throat.
The main thing was the throat pain was GONE in less than 24hours COMPLETELY...
Even just 4 hours later - I could feel vast improvement. (after the 200 though)..the 30 only seemed to hold it from getting worse .
Hope that helps..I sympathise, because my throat was in agony..while the rest of me was fine.

One thing - after the NM200 - pain in throat lessened while a fluey feeling set in - had to REST that night - and was SO MARKEDLY better by morning..so expect a slight onset of the flu-feeling.
Lisa
Also I sweated A LOT the night I took NM 200.and the next day. It's been three days now and I'm only coughing a wee bit - had a slight headache - but I didn't get more than 4 hours sleep last night..so that is probably why.....

[This message has been edited by Lisa007 (edited 16 December 2000).]

Anna - I was at a lecture by David Needleman of the Homeopathic helpline the other week and he was saying that there was a lot of hepar around. But more usefully he said that if we - as UK homeopaths wish to know the G.A. of anything - we could phone him as part of his service . He said that he gets so many calls a day that he is in the know for something like that. I presume you have the phone no. as I know you can't advertise a commercial thing on this Forum. I suppose if you don't have it I could post it onto the commercial thread.

Ricky, thanks very much. If only David would post the information here.

I do have that number... somewhere... but if you have it to hand please do post it on the bb where you feel it's applicable [also do you know the cost per min?].
Or mail me at thegreen@cwcom.net

Lisa thanks, did you have a massive fruit craving? And high thirst for cold drinks?
I usually love tea, but have no liking for it since this started a week ago, though very unusually I now crave coffee.

Did yours kick off with right sided headache and bilateral low back pain?

How about salty and blood-streaked tenacious mucus in this season's yellow-green?

Did you loose your voice < talking?

Have a fever?

All mucus is post nasal with me, but I think you had a cough so it was a lower infection in your case.

Anna - I'm about to post the details on the Classified Forum.

Thanks again Ricky. I have taken the details.

Anna, Replies to your queries below (although most of the answers you could probably find sifting through my thread ).

"Lisa thanks, did you have a massive fruit craving?"

I wouldn't say massive, but I did want to drink OJ and Prune Juice of all things!

"And high thirst for cold drinks?"

I did and do like Cold water normally and did drink it some!! Cold water seemed to be okay - it did NOT aggr the symptoms, but kinda helped along with warm tea which helped the most, since the mucous was so viscous.

"I usually love tea, but have no liking for it since this started a week ago, though very unusually I now crave coffee."

I only wanted something WARM/HOT and drank tea instead of coffee - as I was afraid that coffee might increase the headaches. No, I didn't crave coffee...I did have one hot-cocoa with my daughter one day and it was nice .

"Did yours kick off with right sided headache and bilateral low back pain?"

Mine began with a right-sided headache AND sore throat pains - and I don't recall bilateral low back pains - although I did have strange stool and gas for a couple of days, but in retrospect that could've been the Prune Juice !

"How about salty and blood-streaked tenacious mucus in this season's yellow-green?"

Well, the mucous was definitely tenacious, salty tasting, viscous and would NOT move! Mine was more clear than anything else (like raw egg white)..although in the first day, I thought it looked a bit yellowish/clear - but my shower isn't terribly well lit, and since it was clear mucous the next day, I wasn't 100% about that..but I can't imagine that it changed in one day! (maybe though?)

"Did you loose your voice < talking?"
Definitely <talking...and I did NOT completely lose my voice, although I was very hoarse...and I think if I HAD talked too much it would have most definitely been lost!! It was certainly going that way!

"Have a fever?"

Only slight - a couple of times...

"All mucus is post nasal with me, but I think you had a cough so it was a lower infection in your case."

No, it was NOT a lower infection with me....I ONLY coughed BECAUSE of the mucous hanging at the posterier nares! Drove me nuts trying to get it cleared - but coughing, hawking (yuk) and clearing my throat....nothing helped much until after I took NM 200. The 30 didn't touch this aspect, unfortunately. When you say post-nasal - do you mean drainage in the posterior nares? Is that the same thing? Maybe I misunderstand the definition..so I'll describe it: There was drainage from the interior nose - down my throat..where the nose opens into the throat.

The subsequent, slightly productive coughing only came AFTER NM 200 - when the throat symtpoms cleared and whatever stiff mucous might've been in my chest - then loosened and came out. I didn't even realise I had anything in my lungs at all....even though very little was coughed up subsequent to the NM200...and is now cleared up...it's now been 4 days, I believe - not bad hey..feeling much better! (still a little sniffly in the nose - but very slight and could be the weather change here...its gotten much cooler in the past three or four days).

Hope this helps. And hope you get to feeling better soon.
Lisa

[This message has been edited by Lisa007 (edited 17 December 2000).]

Thanks very much Lisa.

The similarities are strong enough to suggest the same infection.

I think you differed a bit because you were not as dehydrated, so the mucus was a bit wetter in your case, and caused different problems.

"Posterior nares" is one of those classic old fashioned repertory terms that refers to the nasal passages behind the nose, above the throat, as you correctly surmise.

Did you have cracks in the corners of your mouth too? Or perhaps you headed it off before that developed?

Actually, I wasn't as dehydrated as you assume! I wish I hadn't been - as it especially was bad when first waking - I think this was due to the a/c running those first couple of nights - and it dries the air out badly..
I only had some mild improvement with regard to the horrible dried mucous - when I finally just opened the windows at night (it is humid here now)...and the humidity helped a little bit.

It really was only after the NM 200 - that those particular symptoms really cleared up quickly (including the throat which was the most notable of the improved sx).

I did not have cracks at the corner of my mouth - but then I don't usually get that particular symptom - maybe twice in my life - with horrible flu or something like it in the past. Possibly it might have come - and maybe the rem did head it off.
Did you take the rem? If so, has it helped yet? Hope you get to feeling better soon.

Lisa

PS One big symptom that was particularly painful and iiritating was the pain in the ears on swallowing...mostly right side to begin with - then moved to the left!
AND, the pains in the throat kept switching sides (RIGHT FIRST, though!!). Sorry, should've mentioned this earlier...

[This message has been edited by Lisa007 (edited 17 December 2000).]