Hearing Health House

                                                 Pollen counts are high and rising, and it seems like a great opportunity to find the                                                    perfect Allergy remedy you’ve been looking for, especially with around 40 percent of                                              the population being hay fever sufferers, but just how reliable are these natural                                                        remedies?

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                                                  Hay fever is caused by an allergy to certain types of pollen,

                                                  affecting most people in the spring. Hay fever symptoms are

                                                  caused by histamine, a chemical which helps your immune

                                                  system fight certain substances in your body.

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Have you tried any of these old wives tale remedies?

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                              Cure a runny nose by sleeping with onion slices in your socks. According to Chinese                                                medicine, there are meridians at the bottom of our feet that act as pathways to the internal                                  organs, and onion slices are supposedly able to open those meridians and draw out the                                          toxins.

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Putting garlic cloves in each of your nostrils is supposed to alleviate sinus pressure

and congestion by sending a rush of mucus out of your nose.

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More ideas to help!

Speaking of socks, here is an old English remedy. Take a pair of dirty socks and wrap them around your neck after first greasing the neck with either rendered chicken fat or lard. This process is thought to bring on sweating.

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                                         Rubbing rum on your chest to ease congestion is another remedy. Take a capful of rum                                           and rub it on your chest. Supposedly the alcohol acts the same as the tingly                                                               ingredients in menthol rubs. You could also rub on some cedar leaf oil, nutmeg oil, or                                             turpentine oil, to clear congestion.

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Try making a mustard poultice. Simply mix 4 tablespoons of flour with 2 tablespoons of dry mustard. Add enough lukewarm water to make a paste. Take a smooth tea towel (not terry cloth) and spread the paste over half the tea towel, to one side. Fold the remaining half of the towel over the paste and apply to the chest. Leave the poultice in place for twenty minutes.

 

Use turnips to relieve your sore throat or painful, persistent coughing. Peel and cut a turnip

into pieces, boil them in a pot with a litre of milk. Simmer for a good forty minutes. Strain

the liquid off, and let cool for a bit before drinking it. To make it more palatable, add some

honey. the concoction reduces coughing due to a naturally occurring sulfurous ingredient

that loosens and eliminates phlegm and disinfects the respiratory tract.

 

Make a turnip syrup. Peel the turnip and cut it into thin slices. In a bowl or plastic container, place a slice of turnip, sprinkle with brown sugar, add another slice of turnip, sprinkle with brown sugar, and so on. Cover the container and let sit for at least twelve hours. Drain the turnip syrup and store in a bottle. Sip as needed.

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More ideas to help!

 

Rub Vaseline or some menthol rub at the opening of your nose to trap pollen and prevent it from entering your nose and causing irritation and worsening symptoms.

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Take a hot shower. The simplest of remedies, a hot shower creates steam, helping clear your sinuses in addition to rinsing allergens off of your body.

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                                   Listening to jazz music reduces stress, which amplifies immunoglobulin levels in the                                               body. Immunoglobulin is a naturally occurring protein that helps the body defend itself                                         against infection.While listening to jazz, your antibody levels rise, while cortisol, a stress                                     hormone, decreases.

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                                   Eat locally sourced honey, as it exposes you to antigens that prime the

                                   immune system so that the immune system is more tolerant.

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Mix some apple cider vinegar into water and lemon juice to break up the mucus that can cause a runny nose runny nose and sinus headaches during allergy season.

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Breathe in the vapors of a few drops of eucalyptus oil to help open airways by reducing inflammation,

bringing relief for breathing problems brought on by allergies or asthma. Rub the oil on your chest when chest when you get congested.

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