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Natural Strategies for Sinus Relief

Research has found that people with chronic sinusitis scored worse on quality-of-life surveys and reported more pain than those with heart disease, lung problems and back pain.  Clearly, people feel miserable when there is inflammation in the sinuses, the four pairs of body cavities found behind the nose, cheeks, and forehead.  Anything that blocks the flow in these moist air spaces causes mucus to back up in the nose.  This creates a perfect breeding ground for viruses, bacteria, and fungi.  When the nasal membranes swell and sinus pressure builds, infections can occur.  While it is unlikely that chronic sinus problems have a single cause, one recent study suggests some infections may be linked with an exaggerated immune response to common airborne fungi.  Allergist Randy Horwitz, MD, PhD, the medical director of the University of Arizona's Program in Integrative Medicine lists the best natural remedies for sinus relief.

Clean your nose.  If you're prone to sinus infections, nasal irrigation is a must-do practice to prevent them:  Flush your nasal passages with a stream of salt water once or twice a day to wash away mucus and irritants.  The simplest ways are to use a neti pot (a spouted device with a handle), bulb syringe, or a specially designed squeeze bottle.  Mix a quarter teaspoon of sea salt with one cup of warm water.  Lean over a sink, tilt your head, and let the solution stream into one nostril with enough force so that it flows out the other.  Repeat on the opposite side, then gently blow your nose.  Nasal rinsing might sting or feel weird at first, but it's my top recommendation for sinus health, and studies show that people who do this technique regularly have fewer symptoms and use less medication.

Get steamed.  Bring a pot of water to boil on the stove, lower the heat to simmer and add a drop of eucalyptus or thyme oil, both of which have antibacterial properties.  Then stand over the pot with a towel draped over your head (keep the towel away from any flame) and breathe in the steam for 10 to 15 minutes.  Do this 2 to 4 times a day to soothe inflamed sinuses and ease congestion.

Seek warmth.  At the first sign of a sinus infection, place a hot washcloth over your nose, cheekbones, and eyes for 10 minutes or more. (Reheat it as necessary.)  This home remedy breaks up congestion and improves mucus drainage, while taking the edge off sinus pain.  By the way, acupuncture may also ease sinus pain and promote drainage.

Bring your own humidifier.  Since dryness irritates sinuses, Dr. Horwitz suggests using saline nasal spray.  A squirt or two in each nostril works like a portable humidifier, misting and healing nasal passageways so that you'll breathe easier.

Change your diet.  Milk and wheat are the two most common foods that cause allergic reactions and boost mucus production.  Read labels carefully and cut out one of these foods at a time for four to eight weeks to see how your symptoms respond.  Eat fewer animal foods and less saturated and trans fat, all of which promote inflammation.  Instead, include more plant protein, omega-3-rich fish, fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and the anti-inflammatory herbs gingert and turmeric.  And drink lots of water to thin mucus.

Control your allergies.  A sinus infection can be triggered by a close encounter with common allergens like dust, pollen, pet dander, mold, or fungi.  Reduce your exposure to these irritants by installing HEPA filter to clean the air in your bedroom.  A humidifier can moisten indoor air to ease congestion, but clean it regularly.  Otherwise, it may do more harm than good.  Avoid strong chemical odors, smoke from tobacco and fireplaces, and other air pollutants.  These can all swell sinus membranes, as can drinking alcohol.

Boost your immunity.  For year-round prevention, the Chinese herb astragalus is safe to take every day as an immune-boosting tonic.  The same goes for extracts of medicinal mushrooms.

SI.-W  My all-time personal favorite for the relief of sinus infections.
The much relied upon and appreciated formula for sinus congestion. Prevents sinus attacks. Rapidly opens breathing passages and restores breathing. When it comes to chronically (condition of long standing) blocked sinuses, the answer is to liquify and drain. To dry up infected mucus in breathing passages merely adds another deposit to the previous layers of accumulated dried, infected mucus. This does not correct the problem. Each successive "sinus attack" is a desperate call for help from the sinus basin to be drained. SI.-W opens breathing passages and liquifies and drains sinus passages. SI.-W combines the qualities of a cooling, antibiotic, anti-inflammatory, detergent team for relief of sinus anguish. 10 to 40 drops, 3 times per day brings relief for breathing. To break loose old deposits may require several days or weeks at the rate of 40 drops, 3 times per day, but what else would you have been doing? As chronic dried, hard sinus deposits are liquified, they come off layer by layer just as they were laid down. This may involve extensive drainage, and many colors of expelled mucus may be exhibited in the process. Do not mistake this for a sinus infection. It is not. This process of re-hydration takes time, but the results are worth it. Continue this process until the sinuses liquify and finally drain all their old deposits, and the mucus turns clean. An interesting adjunctive use of SI.-W is for earache and ear infections where someone is recommending putting tubes in the ears to drain them. Swab the ear canals with Vitamin E from 100 i.u. capsules to reduce any irritation. Then insert a cotton ball soaked with SI.-W into each ear canal. This a time-release, corrective antibiotic with a detergent effect to drain the middle ear into the mouth through the short tubes provided for that purpose, known as the eustachian (U-stay-shun) tubes. Change the time-release cotton balls morning and night. Usually overnight or throughout the day is enough time for the SI.-W to clean the drain and get the plugs out of the tubes which empty into the mouth. Many recorded cases of hearing problems have cleared up with use of this procedure, when used for several days. Please note: Most sinus problems are caused by either of two problems. Incompletely digested food which forms irritants and causes the body to produce mucus to prevent irritation. Improper bowel management of less than one bowel movement per meal. This causes the body to use an emergency exit, such as the sinuses, to expel the wastes. Therefore, please use a digestaid and a bowel maintenance program with the use of SI.-W to cut off the source of the sinus problems. (Digestaids, SEE: Gentian, Sweet Root, Scarlet Pimpernel, D.-W); (Bowel Maintenance, SEE: Cascara Sagrada, C.C.E.-W, Buckthorn, Senna)

COMBINATION: Bayberry, Golden Seal, Wood Betony, Gentian, Chickweed, Oregon Grape.

DOSE: 10 to 40 drops, 3 times per day, and as given above.

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ASTRAGALUS - (Milk Vetch Root) Powerful immune system builder. Comes to us from Chinese herbal medicine with the recommendation of nearly 2,000 years of recorded satisfactory use as a powerful immune system builder. We know from use and clinical investigation in the Western world that the root of this legume (a type of plant which enriches the soil and produces proteins by having nodules or "bumps" on its roots that collect nitrogen from the air) does indeed activate the liver to produce a substance called interferon. Interferon holds tightly to the surface of body cells and causes them to produce the body's own antibodies (proteins) which kill viruses and viral infections. This can be especially helpful where drug medicine has no answer. Also, please understand that many times a vaccination or immunization can leave lingering viruses to masquerade as a whole host of symptoms and baffling "dis-eases" which are seldom connected with being the true cause. As just a single instance, who would ever think of warts under the eyes or elsewhere as being a side effect of an immunization, but they can be. Astragalus, with its ability to see to it that viruses are killed, can be very helpful as an answer to the common cold - provided a person has a decent diet and 2 to 3 bowel movements per day. Because viruses are killed, pus is expelled from wounds and they are healed. Astragalus also works to improve appetite where needed, and either cause the skin to sweat and expel poisons or, if perspiration is unwarranted, reduce it. Astragalus strengthens the ability to digest, repairs chronic lung problems, reduces fluid swellings, provides energy by being an adrenal gland(s) nutrient and increases circulation. Astragalus and another Chinese herb Dong Quai (Chinese Angelica) are often combined for this purpose. Thanks for this friend of the immune system and energy builder must be given to the Creator and the Chinese for its discovery.

DOSE: 40 to 80 drops 3 times per day. If Dong Quai is also taken to form a team , then take both in the same amount.

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DONG QUAI - From China. The root of this, Chinese Angelica, herb is a time proven and tested remedy for feminine distress. Dong Quai contains a very remarkable type of phyto-estrogen (vegetable source estrogen). It can act as estrogen for the woman if needed. If, on the other hand, estrogen levels are too high in the body, this phyto-estrogen competes with the body's estrogen for activity sites and lowers the body's estrogen levels to normal. This explains the apparent contradiction of why herbalists have successfully recommended Dong Quai for maladies we now know were caused by a condition of too high or too low levels of estrogen. For example when P.M.S. (Pre-Menstrual-Syndrome) occurs and there is too much estrogen, Dong Quai is recommended. When menopause occurs there is too little estrogen, once again, Dong Quai is recommended. In both cases, Dong Quai can handle the job. This causes people who work with synthetic estrogen in the orthodox medical field much consternation and head shaking. They are used to drugs that act in a limited manner with possible undesirable side effects and not the safe balanced multi-task capability with which many herbs are endowed. Dong Quai strengthens and oxygenates all of the female organs. Circulation is restored and "dryness" is solved. Traumatic injuries such as during child birth and operations are corrected. Pelvic congestion is corrected and expelled. The antibiotic nature of Dong Quai to eliminate infection and thus calm nerves, as well as its hormonal balancing ability can be especially helpful in cases of a condition labeled "endometriosis" where there is infection and or uterus lining cells (endometrium) get scattered and grow in many unusual parts of the body where they have no business being, even in the lungs and nasal passages. These, then are also active hormonal sites which can throw the body into an uproar. Dong Quai can help to correct this hormonal imbalance, as well as, the infection.

DOSE:   For menstrual disturbances, starting 10 days before and during the period, 40 drops three times per day after meals. For correcting more serious problems, increase from 1 tsp. to 1 Tbl. 1 time per day and, if found really necessary, 3 times per day until problem(s) disappear. For maintenance, 40 drops per day.

DOSE:   In cases called "endometriosis", 40 to 80 drops three times per day internally, and externally apply 80 drops three times per day on the lower abdomen. Also, institute a bowel maintenance program which produces 2, and preferably 3, easy and complete bowel movements per day. (SEE: Cascara Sagrada, Buckthorn or C.C.E.-W.)

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