HELP with stubborn cold!?

Question

I have had a cold on and off for nearly a month. This morning I started coughing up green phlegm. I am asthmatic and have felt pretty bad for 3 weeks but my chest feels clear so I am doubtful I have a chest infection. I just need something to get the stuff out of my sinuses and nose and start to feel a bit more energetic.
Anyone recommend anything alternative that might work like magic - or better than being pumped full of antibiotics AGAIN!

Forget to say reason I dont want antibiotics again is that over last 3 years probably had near on 50 courses and hence developing immunity and an allergy to penicillin!

Answer 1

Homeopathic Treatment for Cold, Catarrh and Coryza (without any side effects or complications):-

1st Stage

Icy coldness of whole body; internal and external both. To give heat to the system Camphor 6X or 30 1/2 hourly

Cold due to sudden exposure to dry cold wind; chilly feeling; headache, watering of eyes and sneezing; anxiety and fear; feverish feeling Aconite 30 or 200 2 hourly

Running of nose during day and blockage at night with chilly feeling Nux Vomica 30 3 hourly

Cold with sneezing and profuse from eyes and nose; worse in warmth and indoor; better in open air Allium Cepa 30 3 hourly

Dryness of nose with headache; worse from motion; thirst more; lips parched and dry; stools constipated Bryonia Alba 30 or 200 3 hourly

Sneezing; watering of nose and eyes; throat sore with constant desire to swallow saliva; foul smell from mouth; feverish feeling with sweat which do not relieve. Worse at night Mercurius Sol 30 3 hourly

Watering and burning of eyes with streaming nose; acrid discharges Euphrasia 30 3 hourly

Chilly feeling though face is hot; restlessness; un-quenchable thirst, drinks often but little at a time; better hot drinks Arsenic Album 30 3 hourly

Acrid discharge from the nose which corrodes the upper lip. Nose filled with phelgm; breathes through the mouth Arum Triph 30 3 hourly

Cold; running of nose and sneezing; redness and pain forehead; watering eyes Sabadilla 30 4 hourly

Cold; pain throat; red face, rush of blood towards head Belladonna 30 4 hourly

Aching pain; dullness; chilliness in back; sneezing; bland and thick discharge from nose; feverish; better by passing urine Gelsemium 30 3 hourly

Coryza with sneezing and aching in bones of extremities with soreness of flesh Eup Perf 30 3 hourly

Cold; better from cold bathing Calcarea Sulph 30 4 hourly

Dripping of nose while eating Trombidium 30 or 200 6 hourly

Dripping of nose while going to sleep Thuja Oc 30 or 200 6 hourly

Dry coryza; sniffles of infants, blockage of nose Sambucus Nig 30 4 hourly .


2nd Stage

Discharge from nose; yellowish or greenish; stringy Kali Bich 30 4 hourly

Greenish yellow mucous from nose; loss of taste and thirst; better open air Pulsatilla 30 4 hourly

Thick yellow discharge from nose; post nasal cattarh; constipation Hydrastis Can 30 4 hourly

Watering from nose like a tap; thirst more; stools constipated; cold aggravates till noon and ameliorates after noon Natrum Mur 30 (in acute stage Bryonia 30) 4 hourly

In fat and flabby patient; worse after bathing; chilly patient Calcarea Carb 200 6 hourly

Watery discherge from the nose and finally it becomes thick, yellow. Pain in the throat on swallowing as if full of splinters; sensitive to cold Hepar Sulph 30 4 hourly

Cold worse early morning; chronic; dry catarrh; aversion to take bath Sulphur 200 weekly (3 Doses)

Chronic catarrh; dry coryza, with blockage of nose; worse change of weather and cold Psorinum 200 weekly(3 Doses)

Chronic cases with tubercular history Tuberculinum Koch 200 or 1M fortnightly (6 Doses)

Obstinate chronic cases when indicated remedy fails Bacillinum 1M weekly (3 Doses)
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INFLUENZA :-
Head remedy; restlessness with prostration and excessive thirst at short intervals Arsenic Album 30C or 30X 4 hourly

Intercurrent remedy Influenzinum 200 and Sulphur 200 4 hourly

Early stage with chill and sneezing; heaviness and tiredness of body and limbs; loss of thirst, bursting headache; relief from passing large quantities of pale urine Gelsemium 30 or 200, 4 hourly

Severe pains in limbs and back; bones feel 'broken', bursting headache; shivering, and chills in back; eyeballs sore Eupatorium Perf 30 or 200, 3 hourly

Rapid prostration; high fever, gastric symptoms; dull red face, nervousness Kali Phos 6X or 30 4 hourly

With dry, hacking cough; headache is worse after least movement; wants to lie still and alone; better by pressure, tongue is coated white; great thirst Bryonia Alba 30 or 200 4 hourly

Patient very chilly; feels cold even in bed; least movement or exposure intensifies the sensation of cold; fresh shivering and chill after drinking; aching in limbs and back; nose stuffed up at night Nux Vomica 30 or 200 4 hourly

Severe pains in back and thighs; chilliness, no fire or heat can warm up the patient; rapid pulsation with temperature not proportionately high; restlessness; violent pulsations; bruised feeling all over Pyrogenium 200 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Take the remedy which is similar to your symptoms. No side effects or complications if taken as directed, please do not exceed the given dosage and under any circumstances do not try to mix any remedies and avoid Chocolates, Mints, Coffee, Red Meat, Alcoholic and Carbonated drinks, Spicy Rich Food while taking any Homeopathic remedies, and keep the medicines away from direct sunlight, heat strong smells and perfumes and do not store them in the fridge.
Curing without any side effects or Complications Thats the Beauty of Homeopathic Medicine (Cures Par Excellence)

Take Care and God Bless you.

Answer 2

echinacea. buy it in a tincture, as it gets into the system quicker. Put 15-30 drops in a little water and drink .Do this 2-3 times a day.then have a break for a week. Repeat process.
You must take vitamins, it's important, and vitamin c.
Pour boiling water into a large basin, add two teaspoons of mustard powder. Put your face over the bowl and place a towel over your head and the basin. Breathe in .It's like giving your face a sauna.This will help to unblock your sinuses. Your face will be dripping with sweat but keep going, as it really works well.
make yourself a ham sandwich and smother it with mustard. You'll feel you can soon breathe easier.

Answer 3

You could have a chronic sinusitis. With it your nose is stuffed up and you have a cough due to the post nasal drip even though your chest is clear. It can also make the symptoms of asthma worse. Sinus irrigation might work - you sort of rinse the sinuses out. You can do that either with products readily available at the drug store or with a neti pot (looks like a tiny tea pot and can be bought at the drug store) and a homemade saline solution. Be sure to ask your doctor though before you do that because it can spread bacteria to other sinuses.

Answer 4

Sinus problem natural but good remedy is:
Buy some eucaliptas crystals from chemist or supermarket then boil a kettel, pour hot water in to bowl adding just a FEW crystals, get a towel and place it over your head and over bowl making sure no gaps for steam to come out close eyes and breath. Do not go to low to water or you may burn your face but tell you your sinuses will clear through really well.
Natural if not sure about the crytals due to your asthma just use the boiling water just as good

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Hm! I am almost as worried about your doctor as I am about you! Asthmatics are no more prone to bacterial chest infections than anyone else and the average number of BACTERIAL chest infections that the average person gets in a year is approximately NONE.

One of the major and most obvious symptoms of patients with asthma is that viral infections trigger their asthma off, and this is what causes the chestiness, bacterial infection is seldom an asthma trigger ergo asthmatics who get chesty don't get benefit from antibiotics.

When they are triggered the lungs get irritable, producing cough, the airways go in to spasm, producing wheeze and mucus and eosinophils ( the white cells involved in allergy) pour into the lungs. This produces mucous which is often green coloured as the eosinophils release virido peroxidase ( virido meaning GREEN) this is nothing to do with the infection, but is part of the asthma. 70% of asthmatics have rhinitis as well, which might be described as ' asthma up your nose ' so they always produce green nasal mucous as well.

The average person, asthmatic or not, gets about 7 virus infections a year, that is one infection every 7 weeks. If each of these produces triggering for 3 weeks, it means the asthmatic is symptomatic for 50% of their life!

If this describes you, it means your asthma is either untreated or poorly treated. You gave no information as to your regular asthma therapy. If you want to reduce the frequency and duration of your episodes, this needs to be dramatically improved. 3 years of repeated courses of antibiotics suggests you are not going to get this from your GP surgery, so, despite the fact that a asthma should be a GP management issue, I suspect you should be looking for a referal to a respiratory/chest physician in secondary care/hospital out patients.

Answer 7

Take the following daily:
desertspoon clear honey 3 times daily
garlic capsule 2 times daily
Half of a lemon squeezed to juice - add hot water, sugar. Drink this a.m. & p.m.
Stay indoors in warm.
Drink tea, & eat as much as you can.

I think your cold will go in 3 days.Good luck.