Homeopathic remedies can have amazing results when colds and flu strike! However it is important to understand that the remedies themselves do not remove or suppress the symptoms. Homeopathic remedies assist your body to heal itself. So a really good sign that a remedy is helping is that the sufferer will start to ‘feel better’ in themselves – and this will result in much faster recovery.

A dietary way that can be considered is the eating of boiled onions mixed with red pepper and butter.

Elderflower tea has the reputation of helping fevers, coughs and difficult chesty breathing.

A drink of hot lemon and honey helps flu sufferers.