INTRODUCTION
AF-200
is a product of SBL's Research and Development and is a combination of
well proven drugs of homeopathy therapeutics which bring quick and significant
attenuation of signs and symptoms of influenza and is highly effective
in common cold. The specific signs and symptoms of influenza e.g. malaise,
headache, pain in the back and limbs, fever, chills, anorexia, sneezing,
blocked nose, watery nasal discharge, cough, flushing of face, suffused
conjunctivae, hyperaemic fauces and tenderness over the sinuses are remarkably
attenuated on the 2nd day in patients receiving AF-200.
COMPOSITION
| Arsenicum
Album |
200 |
| Gelsemium
Sempervirens |
200 |
| Eupatorium
Perfoliatum |
200 |
| Bellis
Perennis |
200 |
| Bryonia
Alba |
200 |
in
equal proportion
Excipient
q.s. to one tablet of 100 mg.
ACTION
OF INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS
ARSENICUM
ALBUM
Thin
watery, excoriating nasal discharge,blocked nose, sneezing and fever.
GELSEMIUM
SEMPERVIRENS
Dullness,
drowsiness, chillliness, heaviness of head, muscular soreness and great
prostration.
Eupatorium
Perfoliatum
Influenza.
Acute bronchitis. Naso-pharyngeal catarrh and congestion of the respiratory
mucosa (British Herbal Pharmacopoeia, 1983). Relieves pain in limbs and
muscles that accompanies influenza. Occipital pain after lying down with
sense of weight.
BELLIS
PERENNIS
Acts
upon the muscular fibres of the blood vessels. Great musclur and joint
soreness. Headache with bruised feeling.
BRYONIA
ALBA
Bronchitis,
rheumatic pains and lumbago (BHP, 1983). Bursting, splitting headache,
lips parched, dry, cracked, dryness of mouth, tongue and throat with excessive
thirst.
INDICATIONS
Cold,
influenza and coryza. Acute influenzal cold with cough. Indicated in acute
catarrhal condition with or without fever, influenzal type of pains in
the body with nasal cold, sneezing and cough.
ADVANTAGES
No
Post - influenzal depression
Safe
for Asthmatics
CONTRAINDICATIONS
No
known contraindications.
DOSE
Adults
: 4 tablets every three hours or four times a day.
Children
: Half of the adult's dose.
PRESENTATION
Bottle
of 25g. containing 250 tablets of 100 mg. each.
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