The symptoms are not extreme and fever is minimal. The chest cold develops slowly into a persistent bronchitis. Cough may be present. Patient is thirsty. Despite allopathic predictions of a flu epidemic this year because of shortages in the conventional flu vaccine, no such epidemic has arrived as yet.
Patients prefer to remain still.
There is dizziness from motion which often induces nausea. There have been several cases of Kali Bichromicum sinusitis interspersed with the Bryonia cases. Symptoms include headache both frontal and occipital, facial pain with extension to the upper teeth. The discharge, both nasal and posterior nasal is thick although the color varies from clear to white to yellow. There can also be a reflex cough from the thick post nasal drip.