I have a cough that is very irritating and I just feel very tired, stuffed up, irritable and my homeopath says these are all good signs that the remedy I am now on could be working. Well is there anything I could take to rid myself of the congestion in my chest. I tired Ginger Tea and then read that it is very strong and could antidote the remedy I am on. I also bought an herbal expecortant and then noticed it had mint in it.

Any suggestions

[ 23 August 2001: Message edited by: Danielle ]

Signs that the remedy is working? Gee, I think that's a little self-congratulatory, don't you? It could also be that you've got a cold! This is what's meant by "The Tyranny of the High Potencies", because now, there's nothing you can do. The remedy may not even be working or even be the wrong remedy, and still there's nothing you can do, because you have to assume it's the right remedy even if it's not! If you were on a low daily potency, you could stop this remedy and treat your cold, then go back on your remedy.

Well, all you can do now is try Vitamin C, and I wouldn't worry about ginger tea antidoting. Good luck!

Snoopy

These are only signs that the remedy is working if they are old symptoms returning or current symptoms worsening. If they are new symptoms then it could be the wrong remedy creating those symptoms or if other people around you are sick in the same way then it has nothing to do with your remedy - as Snoops has said, you just have a cold.

I find that some practitioners are willing to attribute any reaction at all to their prescription, instead of taking note of the Direction of Cure and judging it carefully and without bias. I know we all WANT our remedies to work, but you gotta be honest about it. (not that this person is being dishonest)

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Cough Syrup,

In India a common homemade rececpie is
Cinnamon sticks, Cardamum pods and Ginger boiled into a tea. Then add a tsp of honey to a cup and drink it warm or hot, sipping slowly. SOmeitmes the irritation in the throat is helped with a pinch of pepper added to the above.

Doctorleela

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Thanks for your replys. The symptoms I am having are old symptoms. At aroung 2 pm I start feeling stuffy and at night I am having a really hard time breathing. I feel like the food I am eating for dinner is giving me a kind of allergic response and then for the rest of the night I am stuffed up and just coughing. I also had some food the other night that made me sick and I had a stomach ache which made me so tired I slept for an hour and a half when I came home from work it felt like I had a little bit of a bug. So it seems like ever since I have been back on the Nat Mur LM1 I started feeling lousley. Although the caugh started before the Nat Mur. The stuffy nose happend after and not sure if what I ate was the cause of my stomach ache or the remedie. I also have been a little constipated and I used to have that. But The stuffy nose and feeling bad in the afternoon is an old symptom also but it seems more exagerated now. What is strange is that Nat mur was the second remedie I ever took and it seemed to help. I didn't have any allergies to food after I was on it the first time. A year later my allergies came back. I don't know why. So when my new homeopath reworked my case he said Nat Mur seemd like the correct remedy and gave it to me again. I just feel lousley. I went to the vitamin shop and got a herbal remedy to stop my coughing. I hope it is ok to take. It's "Elderberry/Olive Cough Syrup" and seems to be helping a little. The other strange thing is the first homeopath I ever went to stoped treating me when I got a caugh like this. He didn't know what to do for me and the caugh never went away. It seems to be fluid stuck in my chest and I am a lot smarter now and will only take and expecortant and not a supressant but I never get sick until I get this cough that I always have a hard time getting rid of.

[ 24 August 2001: Message edited by: Danielle ]

Well, if these are old symptoms making a return then they ought to dissipate with the repeated dosings of the low-potency you've been given of the Nat Mur. How often do you dose and redose your remedy? Perhaps your homeopath needs to be consulted so that your potency can be readjusted (it may be just you need to alter the number of succussions with each dose). Many patients find using the liquid posology to be a difficult thing--but at least they offer a great deal of flexibility in your treatment in that they allow for safe repetitions of the remedy.

Return of old symptoms are a sign of progression towards cure, particularly if these old symtpoms have been suppressed by previous treatments and/or remedies which suppressed the symptoms away. You should consult your homeopath, bring him/her up to date about your symptoms and concerns, and see if you can talk about a way to speed you out of this process through the old symptoms.

Divina

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How long does one stay in the old symptoms? I don't feel like I have a cold just a cough with stuffy nose, congestion in throath, and a little constipation/diarreah. I took some Ginger tea and some cough medecine and it seems to help. I ma successing the remedy 10 times before each use. And have been taking it in the morning. By afternoon I feel lousley. And what I don't understand is the first time on Nat Mur 6C I didn't have thses symptoms. That was about a year and a half ago but I remember my allergies to food were gone. I agree with the homeopath that this seems like my remedie but am confused now because of the caugh that came out of nowhere and now being on Nat mur and feeling stuffed up and so.

So you're on LM's....That's different....
Nevermind.

(I was just doing Gilda Radner as
"Emily Litella"...gpm will explain.)

Anyway, well Danielle, something is very wrong here. First of all, with any aggravation on a daily potency you should stop the remedy, that's the first thing, and wait to see if an amelioration (improvement)
follows. If you're still sick in a few days, I think you should call your homeopath and suggest that an acute remedy might be in order.

Snoopy

[ 25 August 2001: Message edited by: Snoopy ]

Tell your homeopath that as you may be one of those people for whom a C potency is better then an LM. Personally I never give LMs only C's but I know that other homeopaths swear by then and never give C potencies!!!!!

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I did talk to my homeopath when I first started taking this remedy and told him how I was feeling and told him about the cough I have. I guess I will have to call him again. I just don't feel well at all. My stomach has been upset, I am still caughing a little, my skin has been acting up, I have been slow to go to the bathroom, almost constipated, I have discharge and haven't been sleeping well because I am stuffy and caughing. I would have thought this remedy would work becuase when I first was on it my allergies cleared up almost instantly. Now it seems as though it is doing nothing.I have always had problems with certain foods that don't agree with me and run through me and it seems like I have had an upset stomach the last week and a half. The cough happened before this remedy while I was still on pusitilla. But the stuffy nose and overall upset stomach/discharge seems to be during the NatMur. I honestly though this was a good remedy for me and agreed when he prescribed it. Why if it worked once at a apotency of 6c and right away do I now have aggravations. I wonder why my allergies came back? How long should I feel worse before I get better if it is the right remedy. You also said if I am experiencing some aggraviations I should stop the remedy and wait. He did not mention this.

[ 27 August 2001: Message edited by: Danielle ]