Catarrh is inflammation of the mucus lining in the sinuses and the nose or nasal mucosa. Catarrh is often a symptom of infection or disease, and it is mucus discharge, which can be thin or thick depending on the type of infection. In cases of chronic catarrh, the problem may be the allergy, and anyway, the best way to deal with catarrh is to find what causes it.
There are two types of catarrh problems; acute and seasonal inflammation and allergic one. Causes of catarrh can be an allergy to pollen, dust, or grass, or in cases when the immune system is weakened, viral infections. Symptoms of catarrh often include green, yellow, or white discharge.
Conventional medicaments in cases of catarrh are only for short-term usage. So if you want to get rid of catarrh permanently, especially if children are involved, you should try alternative treatments, like home, natural or homeopathic. Those alternative treatments can help you relieve symptoms like swollen sinuses, or stuffy or runny nose.
Here are some of the recommended homeopathic remedies for cases of catarrh.
Sabadilla
Recommended homeopathic remedy in cases of catarrh that is caused by allergies like hay fever, with symptoms like runny nose, sneezing, and watery discharge.
Allium Cepa
Symptoms that are indicators of the usage of this homeopathic remedy are burning and itching in the nose, sneezing, watery discharge, etc.
Teucrium Marum Verum
This homeopathic remedy is one of most commonly used in cases of allergy problems caused by hay fever, usually in the springtime when the grass is high. Symptoms that indicate usage of this remedy are nasal polyps, loss of smell, and chronic nasal catarrh discharge.
Arsenicum album
Symptoms that indicate the usage of this particular homeopathic remedy are chilliness and craving for heat, clear nasal discharge, watery eyes, sneezing, and a burning sensation in the nose.
Pulsatilla nigricans
In cases that need this remedy, the catarrh is in various intensities and frequencies, and the discharge is yellow, green, or clear. Symptoms get worse in the night and in the evening.
Kalium iodatum
Red and irritated nose, sore throat, puffy eyes, and thin discharge are the symptoms that indicate the use of this homeopathic remedy. Kalium iodatum has proven to be very helpful in those cases, relieving the symptoms.
Kalium carbonicum
Excellent choice of remedy for cases of severe hey fevers. Discharge is yellow and thick, and symptoms are worsening in the night and morning. Sore throat and sneezing are also among the symptoms.
- We searched CENTRAL (2014, Issue 8), MEDLINE (1966 to August week 4, 2014), MEDLINE In?Process & Other Non?Indexed Citations (4 September 2014), AMED (2006 to September 2014), Web of Science (1985 to September 2014), LILACS (1985 to September 2014) and EMBASE (1980 to September 2014). We contacted the manufacturers of Oscillococcinum® for information on further trials.
- Selection criteria: Randomised, placebo?controlled trials of Oscillococcinum® in the prevention and/or treatment of influenza and influenza?like illness in adults or children.
- No new trials were included in this 2014 update. We included six studies: two prophylaxis trials (327 young to middle?aged adults in Russia) and four treatment trials (1196 teenagers and adults in France and Germany). The overall standard of trial reporting was poor and hence many important methodological aspects of the trials had unclear risk of bias.
- There was no statistically significant difference between the effects of Oscillococcinum® and placebo in the prevention of influenza?like illness: risk ratio (RR) 0.48, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.17 to 1.34, P value = 0.16. Two treatment trials (judged as 'low quality') reported sufficient information to allow full data extraction: 48 hours after commencing treatment, there was an absolute risk reduction of 7.7% in the frequency of symptom relief with Oscillococcinum® compared with that of placebo (risk difference (RD) 0.077, 95% CI 0.03 to 0.12); the RR was 1.86 (95% CI 1.27 to 2.73; P value = 0.001).
- A significant but lesser effect was observed at three days (RR 1.27, 95% CI 1.03 to 1.56; P value = 0.03), and no significant difference between the groups was noted at four days (RR 1.11, 95% CI 0.98 to 1.27; P value = 0.10) or at five days (RR 1.06, 95% CI 0.96 to 1.16; P value = 0.25). One of the six studies reported one patient who suffered an adverse effect (headache) from taking Oscillococcinum®.
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