Sinus And Allergy Relief

icle will help minor suffering in both sinus infections, and may even help some cases of nasal type allergies. I am writing this article out of my own experience with sinus infections, post nasal drip, and from having lots of nasal allergies years ago. Now I am almost 90% free of all of those problems.

A few years back I used to smoke cigarettes. And if you smoke, or if you are around those who smoke, chances are, if you do not have some sort of allergy or problem, in time you will. But this article is not about smoking. I am going to take you through some trail and error of my own, all that lead me up to a wonderfulremedy that still helps me today breath clear and free, all day and all night.

Lets proceed. Back when I used to smoke I noticed my sinuses were usually clogged. If one side of my sinuses were not clogged, then the other was. At night time I was breathing open mouthed, and in the morning my lips and mouth were both dried out. After some time of that, I wasbeginning to get tired of it. For the longest time I just tried to ignore it.

One day I received in the mail a letter with a subscription in it for a doctors home remedies. Of course I sent it in and awaited for my first newsletter to arrive. One it did I found the newsletter very interesting, and started a note book in which I could store them for latter. Then one day I finally had gotten a newsletter with one article about sinus problems. There was a section with instructions on how to make a sinus flush.

In these ingredients, which were basically salt and water, I found the beginning of what would later be my answers to relieving my sinus problems for good. In this time, I was dealing with seasonal allergies, sneezing sometimes constantly for hours, my eyes watering, my nose dripped water. You might say I was becoming a bit annoyed by my situation.

I had also tried non-prescription medicines like Alavert and NasalCrom. They worked some times, but not all the time. I had tried acupressure with no relief. I had tried changing my pillow covers to special dust mite free material, started tovacuum more, all sorts of things that keep me busy, but none seemed to help me and my condition.

I could have gone to a doctor for my condition, but I am not much for doctors after past situations with other problems. It seemed all I did was go to doctors, wait around, and never seemed to get to my problem and get it solved. I spent ten years messing around with my degenerative disk disease and still have to find my own ways to deal with that.

So in all this time I had quit smoking. The real benefits of that took months, actually a year or two. And at that time I was feeling better, but my sinuses were still not open and what I would consider healthy. I could tell that my sinuses were causing me to breath shallow, and not deep.

getting back to the newsletter written by the doctor, I had tried his recipe for his sinus irrigation. It consisted of dissolving 1/2 teaspoon of table salt in 1/4 cup of water. Then you were to fill a eye dropper. You merely laid on your bed on your back, your head held off the edge so you could angle your head back, so when you slowly squeezed the eye dropper bulb and released the salt solution into your nasal passage, it would go deep back into yoursinuses. The instruction read to fill one side of your nose, and tilt your head to that side slightly and hold for a while before discharging unto a Kleenex.

Now I want to say, the doctors home remedy did help some, it did give me some relief. But that was far from the cure I was looking for. And that cure did not come until several years latter when I stumbled across something called, Jala Neti.

Jala Neti has been used in India for many years and has been a very favorite part of personal hygiene in my life. This method has freed me of my sinus and allergy problems. I never get post nasal drip, hardly ever get a cold, it has been years, and I breath with my mouth shut at night, not open.

To give you an example of Jala Neti... you have a small pot like container with a small spout, called a neti pot. The neti pot can be stainless steel, plastic,ceramic, and I am sure just about any other material, but I choose stainless steel for sanitary reasons. The pot is filled with roughly 8 ounces of warm water, and a packet of salt is added and dissolved. After the salt has dissolved, you simply tale the pot up and place the edge of the spout up one side of your nose. You then tilt the pot keeping it straight, then letting theweight of the water and gravity push the salt water through your entire sinus cavity and out the opposite side. You would do thisuntil half of the salt solution was used, then go to the other side to flush your sinuses out.

To some this method may seem gross, or hard to deal with. But one needs to remember that at all times you keep your mouth open and breath out of your mouth while administering the slat water.

I hope that you will try this method out if you have sinus problems. It has helped my with a 95% success rate. It has been a year now and I have not gotten a cold, I have not had post nasal drip, I have not gotten allergy flare ups, and I can breath much clearer and better now my nasal pathways are open and not halfway open.

For some sinus allergy relief, try a Jala Neti!

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Michael Homan is a Reiki Master and studies natural healing methods such as Acupressure, Electro-Acupuncture, Reflexology, Crystal Therapy, Chinese Magnetic Cupping, has his own e-Book called "4 Steps To A Pain-FREE Back!", and has a health related web site devoted to health issues and natural healing techniques called HealthGrowHealthier.com.

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