The following are common homeopathic remedies for treating fevers.
Aconite
- Sudden rapid onset especially when brought on by exposure to cold weather
- Restless, anxious with fear of death “I feel like I’m dying”
- Compare:
- Arsenicum alb is also thirsty, chills with red hot face, restless, anxious but aconite is more robust, Arseniucm more prostrated
- Belladonna – heat and suddenness
Belladonna
- Sudden hi fever like aconite, rarely for a fever that’s several days old
- Dry usually no perspiration, thirstless usually
- Eyes glisten (glazed)
- Desires lemonade
- Commonly peaks 3pm
Arsenisum album
- Body chilly, as if blood were ice water, burning pains, improved with warmth; head, face hot, improved with cool applications.
- Thirst for sips often; wants hot drinks esp during chill
- Wants company around
- First restless; then prostrate; then alternates
Baptesia
- Real lethargic, looks seriously ill
- Offensive whole room smells putrid from him (breath, persp, diarrhea
Bryonia
- Slower onset
- Irritable; desire to be left alone
- Commonly used for flus with body aches, pleurisy, bronchitis