You continue to hear that your Vis is alive and that it wants to be healthy and in balance.   As I quoted Hahnemann  last month, when we are in a state of health, things are running smoothly so that we can carry on with our life's higher purposes without the distraction of physical problems. 
   So what happens when things don't seem to be running so smoothly?  For a minute, think of your body like your house.  Many activities take place in your house - some constructive, some destructive - but they all require energy and likely produce some waste materials.  Say you're cooking dinner.  That takes energy from you, creates a lovely, nutritious (of course!) meal, but also creates a pile of carrot peelings, brown lettuce ends, eggshells and a stack of dirty dishes and crumbs on the tablecloth.  And so you then do the clean up bit.  But what if you don't?  Or only do part of the job?  Say you have to run off to an evening meeting and just pile things up in the sink, get home late and add to the stack with the next day's breakfast dishes and then have an even bigger pile from the next dinner prep.
  Even if you do the regular clean up promptly, you know that sometimes you have to do that "deep" cleaning.  How DO those dust bunnies, crumbs and bread bag ties get all the way under the oven?  Where do all the crumbs and mystery goo on the refrigerator shelves and drawers come from?  Ah, life's wonders, and all we know is that every once in awhile we have to haul everything out and clean up.
   Each of your cells is sorta like that.  They take energy to do a job, creating whatever that cell is responsible for, and also creating waste products in the process.  Under normal circumstances, our body is pretty good at doing the clean-up routine on a regular basis.  But sometimes, if it gets overloaded with a larger than average burden, or if a larger problem presents to divert resources elsewhere in the body, then things can get piled up.  Eventually this creates a barrier to the smooth flow of our normal working and the Vis has to take some drastic action to clean up.
   I am asking you to consider the possibility that this is actually why there will never be a "cure" for the common cold...because the common cold IS the cure!  It is the drastic clean-up action taken by the body to throw off the gathered dust bunnies and goo built up in our daily lives.  This drastic action shows up in us as what we generally call SYMPTOMS.  Our mucous production increases to gather accumulated gunk and get it out of the body (stuffy then runny nose), aided by some force (coughing, sneezing).  There might be a loss of appetite (digestion takes a lot of energy and the body wants to concentrate on cleaning out, not taking in), achiness (caused by cytokines and other proteins released by the immune system in its activation to help with the cleaning out), fever (a part of the immune system and possibly creating an inhospitable environment for some of the stuff that needs to be cleaned out).  And these are all clear messages that we should rest, as the body does its best cleaning out & healing when we're sleeping and resting! 
   Okay, if you've actually read this far, I'm assuming you are either willing to consider this possibility or you're entertained by the thought that I'm crazy and you want to see how much more confirmation I'll provide in that regard.  But I hope you will actually consider it for a minute. 
   Consider the range of cold medicines available over the counter.  They suppress cold symptoms, but don't really do anything to speed up the healing.  What if that's because there's nothing to heal?  It's just time for a cleaning - and it takes as long as it takes.  In fact, there is an argument that suppressing the "symptoms" may hinder the process.  If a cold really is a cleaning out and the "symptoms" are the tools of cleaning, what happens if we take away the ShopVac and leave only the whisk broom?  How much less efficient is this? 
   When you have a cold, then, consider that it's a sign of your natural healing ability, your Vis, actually DOING something to improve your overall health, rather than feeling like it's letting you down.  Consider how you can support rather than suppress this natural cleansing action.  Consider building a helping relationship with your Vis.