April

Finally ordered and received the Ferrum Phos #4 6x. Now I have to figure out what to do with it.

Well, I took 3 of them. I am also getting a cold so we'll see if it nips that too since that is what it says on the bottle.

Sandi,

When you're taking the #4 as a preventive to illness it helps to take 3-4 every 15 minutes for an hour. After that you can take it 3-4 times a day to get through the illness faster. We find it works even when we're already sick and start taking it but the key for our family has been doing the every 15 minutes for that first hour. You can go ahead and do an hours worth even if you've already started taking it. Might be different then how April uses it, but that works for us. I gave it to my retarded sister in law every 15 minutes for an hour after she woke up with a bad cold one day and within the hour she was fine and she never did get worse.

If you happen to be anemic it will also deal with that issue. You can avoid iron supplements by taking 4 pellets 3-4 times a day. We use them at meals to make it easy to remember.

And we use it to stop bloody noses....... and ... and... and... Well, you get the picture. :laugh:

Well I've got the full blown cold now. I just took four of them. Seriously, do that every 15 minutes three more times? Then that's it for the day?

Sorry. After you do the every 15 minutes for an hour you still want to take it. So today you'd do 4x's in addition to the hour (meals work good to remember). Tomorrow you would start 4x's a day (each meal and bedtime works for us). It should cut it short. There are other cold remedies that would be better homeopathically, but it should help shorten the duration significantly. Not sure if I'm making sense. Trying to, but I have a head cold too. We're pumping the salts and remedies here too.

Thanks, I get it. 3 more times today.

BTW, I don't think April has seen this yet. I know she is buried in patients this week. She'll probably check the forum closer to the end of the week.

That's okay. I got it.