Coryza is the infection of upper respiratory tract.

Catarrhal Inflammation of mucous membrane in the nose.

It is also known as common cold.

It is an airborne disease. 

Usually it is self limiting disease.

Aetiology

It is caused by Viral Infection.

Droplet Infection.

Incubation Period-  1-4days

Illness last from 2 weeks

Clinical Feature

Burning of back of nose

Nasal stiffness

Rhinorrhoea

Sneezing

Patient feels chilly 

Low grade fever.

Nasal discharge watery and profuse

Discharge become mucopurulent due to secondary bacterial Infection.

Complications

Sinusitis

Pneumonia

Bronchitis

Otitis media

Tonsillitis

Differential Diagnosis

Allergic rhinitis

Influenza

Whooping cough

Treatment

Bed rest

Plenty of fluids

Antihistamines

Analgesics

Antibiotics

Homoeopathic medicine for Common Cold

1. Arsenic Album
2. Allium cepa
3. Bryonia
4. Natrum Mur

Arsenic Album

It is top grade remedy for coryza.

Thin, watery, excoriating discharge.

Nose feels stopped up.

Sneezing without relief

Coryza

Worse in open air

Better indoors.

Burning in nose.

Fears suffocation.

Air passages constricted.

Allium Cepa

It is highly effective remedy for cold

A picture of coryza, with acrid nasal discharge and laryngeal symptoms.

Eye secretion bland

Singers cold

Worse in warm room and towards in evening

Better in open air.

Specially adapted to phlegmatic patients, colds in damp cold weather.

Neuralgic pain, like a fine thread, following amputation or injuries to nerves.

Burning in nose, mouth, throat, skin.

Sneezing, especially when entering a warm room.

Copious, watery and extremely acrid discharge.

Feeling of a lump at the root of nose.

Fluent coryza with headache.

Bryonia

It is very important remedy for cold.

Coryza with shooting and aching in the forehead.

Swelling of tip of nose, feels as if it would ulcerate when touched.

Hoarseness in open air.

Pressive headache.

Natrum Mur

Violent, fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, them changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult.

Discharge thin and watery, like raw white of eggs.

Violent sneezing and coryza.

Infallible for stoppoa cold commencing with sneezing.

Use 30th potency.

Loss of smell and taste.

Internal soreness of nose.

Worse warm room, 10A.M- 11A.M.

Better in open air.

The selection of homoeopathic remedies based on symptom similarities and doses according to the Susceptibility of patient.

Don't take homoeopathic medicine without any prescription / without any advise of physician