Sinusitis, or inflammation of the nasal sinuses, mainly affects the area around the eyes and either side of the nose. It can also affect the other systems in this area, with excess mucus building up because of allergies or viral or bacterial infection. If you have small sinuses they will clog up more quickly. Symptoms include headaches, earaches, and facial pain.
Adopt a mucus-free diet, especially cutting out wheat and dairy products. Investigate any food allergies you may have, and address these to balance digestive enzyme action and so on.
Take acidophilus capsules.
You need to take small but consistent amounts of lobelia leaf in order to purge the lungs of old tissue, mucus, and other foreign materials. But be careful, as taking too much will cause vomiting.
General respiratory herbs will help as a daily formula, including horehound leaf, wild cherry bark, mullein leaf, and elecampane leaf and flower. Also take immune-boosting and tonic herbs to help with infection: use equal parts of garlic, echinacea root, thyme leaf, and Siberian ginseng root.
Inhale steam infused with essential oils like chamomile and lavender. Afterward take a cold shower and eat twelve raw black peppercorns; you will feel cleansed and soothed.
Put two drops of eucalyptus or lavender essential oil into the bath. Inhale the water into each nostril, and similarly blow out of each nostril. This treatment really clears the nose, and can help first thing in the morning when the mucus blockage is usually at its worst.
Use herbal snuff . Sometimes the problem is so severe and deep-rooted that repeated use of the snuff will be necessary.
Avoid decongestants and surgery.
This Natural Sinus Remedies article is taken from :
The complete home guide to herbs, natural healing, and nutrition / Jill Rosemary Davies.
