Tape this chart inside

your medicine cabinet,

and you’ll be ready the
CHOOSE THE RIGHT REMEDY FOR
next time you feel those

Colds, Flus, and Coughs sniffles coming on.

You will also need a
by Stephen Messer, ND, DHANP book or two to help you
differentiate among the
remedies suggested in
Go to this chart. Boericke’s
Is there a Aconite?
high fever?
YES
Belladonna? NO NO Flu Pocket Materia Medica
Symptoms. with Repertory is a
Ferrum phos?
good choice, or use the
NO
materia medica section
of one of your favorite
Are there Nux vomica? homeopathic home
YES NO NO
predominantly Gelsemium? Restlessness? care books.
flu symptoms? S Bryonia?
E
Y

Rhus tox? NO
Mercurius? Go to
Eupatorium perf? NO Cold
Symptoms.
NO NO
Arsenicum? Pyrogen?

Nux vomica? Allium cepa? Go up to

Are there Flu Symptoms
YES Mercurius? NO Arsenicum? NO
mostly cold or down to
symptoms? Cough
Pulsatilla? Natrum mur? Symptoms.
NO

Does the cough Aconite?

YES YES NO
Is the cough croupy? Spongia? NO
predominate?
Hepar sulph?
NO

Is the cough Rumex?

from the throat THROAT NO
NO
or the lungs? Kali bich?

Pulsatilla?
LUNGS

Bryonia?

Phosphorus? NO
Go to the
Repertory Causticum?

or look for
keynotes. Please note: This information is meant to supplement the advice and guidance of your health care
practitioner and is not a replacement for appropriate medical care. ©1983, Stephen Messer, ND

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