Effective essential oils for sinusitis

One of the most common complications of colds is inflammation of the middle ear, otitis media . The middle ear begins behind the eardrum, deep inside, and is a small, pea-sized cavity in the thickness of the temporal bone. The middle ear communicates with the external environment only through the Eustachian tube, which opens high in the nasopharynx. If there are a lot of microbes in the nasopharynx, then they directly enter the Eustachian tube, and then just into that tiny cavity called the middle ear. Against the background of general malaise, fever, and often a runny nose, a sharp, “shooting” pain in the ear suddenly occurs, which can intensify and cause many unpleasant minutes for the sick person. In advanced cases, purulent discharge from the ear canal may appear. Under unfavorable conditions or if otitis media is not completely cured, it can become chronic. Hearing loss and hearing loss may be a consequence of otitis media. Therefore, it is so important to take emergency self-help measures if this illness makes itself felt.

Medicinal plants and folk remedies

Collection (parts):

string, herb 4 yarrow, herb 2 calendula, flowers 4 plantain, leaves 4 eucalyptus, leaves 3 pine, buds 2 licorice, roots 2

Pour 1 teaspoon of the plant mixture into 1 glass of hot water, leave for 30 minutes and drink warm throughout the day. Course 24 weeks.

Heat the remaining meal from the above herbs after preparing the infusion to 40 ° C and make a compress on the area of the sore ear (16-30 minutes daily, and so on for 5-7 days).

Inject a 0.1% alcohol solution of sanguiritrin into the sore ear, 6-8 drops 3 times a day (you can also use tincture of eucalyptus, mint, plantain, chamomile, sophora or calendula).

Traditional medicine recommends:

10% tincture of lemon balm leaves - 6-8 drops 2 times a day in the ear; 5% celandine tincture - take 5 drops, and so on for 5 days;

alcohol tincture of shag (1:10) 6 drops 2 times a day.

10% tincture of walnut (Manchurian) pericarp - take 5 drops 2 times a day.

This treatment does not exclude the use of chemotherapy.

Beneficial properties of sea buckthorn oil

Sea buckthorn oil is an orange-colored product with a pleasant smell. It is sold everywhere not only in pharmacies, but also in many traditional medicine stores. Essential oils based on sea buckthorn berries contain a large number of active components that have a powerful effect on the human body. The product can be used not only for the treatment of sinusitis, but also for any type of cold, if it is just a runny nose or malaise.

The properties of sea buckthorn are unique. The fruits of the tree and the oil based on it contain polyunsaturated (oleic) and saturated (linoleic, stearic, palmitic) fatty acids. High content of vitamin C, vitamin A, nicotinic acid, bioflavonoids and other trace elements. There are also anti-inflammatory substances, as well as antibiotics of plant origin, with the help of which it is easy to rid your body of pathogenic bacteria.

Even when using homemade sea buckthorn oil for sinusitis, the patient’s body receives a large number of positive effects. Many vitamins in the oil are antioxidants, which at the local level effectively improve immunity. With their help, the human body uses all its internal reserves to remove infection, which is extremely important for many diseases. Other medicinal properties of sea buckthorn:

relief from pain and a large number of discharges from the nasal cavity and its paranasal sinuses;
restoration of nasal breathing;
relief from irritation and dryness of the mucous membrane;
stimulation of mucosal regeneration;
bactericidal effect;
improving blood supply to the body and elasticity of capillaries.

How to apply a warm compress to the ear?

For a warming compress, prepare:

60-70 ml of vodka or alcohol, half diluted with water;
a small gauze napkin or clean cotton cloth measuring 6x6 cm;
polyethylene (or wax paper) 3 cm larger than a napkin;
cotton wool;
wide bandage;
wool or cotton scarf (in no case synthetic).

1. In a gauze napkin and polyethylene (waxed paper), make a cut in the middle of such a size that the auricle fits through it. Please note: what is needed is a cut, and not a hole in the form of an oval, circle, etc.

Methods of application

Sea buckthorn oil can be used:

as a means for instillation into the nose (drops);
as an inhalation base;
using turundas;
as the main component in vitamin tea;
as part of other healing herbs and oils. Let's look at the first 3 points in more detail.

"Sea buckthorn" drops

We have already described the technique of how this substance is usually used: first the nose is cleansed, then washed, and only then irrigated with a life-giving agent. The oil should be at room temperature, so before using it, remove the bottle from a cool place and wait until it warms up.

Instead of saline solution, will you use iodine for rinsing? In this case, add no more than 4 drops of it to the water. For the course of treatment to be effective, do the procedure up to 4 times during the day. Practice until complete recovery.

Inhalation practices

It is believed that inhalation using sea buckthorn is one of the best remedies in the fight against sinusitis and colds. The specificity lies in the deep penetration of life-giving ethers into the respiratory tract: this significantly increases the effectiveness of the entire treatment.

For inhalation, you must carefully prepare the steam bath:

Heat water to 85 °C, use a saucepan. Pour in 50 ml of sea buckthorn oil - per 1 liter. Wait until the liquid cools slightly (hot steam can damage the mucous membrane). Cover your head with a blanket or terry towel and inhale the fragrant steam for 30 minutes. It makes sense to carry out this procedure only if you don’t go outside after it. It is recommended to stay at home for at least 3 hours after inhalation.

Cotton turundas

The technique involves using cotton swabs soaked in sea buckthorn oil. If you have bilateral sinusitis, consider the following treatment method:

Rinse your nose thoroughly.
Twist small swabs of sterile cotton wool.
Moisten them with sea buckthorn oil.
Lie on your left side as you place the tampon in your left nostril. Lie like this for half an hour.
Then turn over onto your right side and place the turunda in your right sinus. And similar to the previous point - do not get out of bed for 30 minutes.

It is necessary to use turundas until symptoms are relieved or until complete recovery.

In practice, when treating sinusitis, it is best to simultaneously carry out all of the above methods, including the creation of herbal teas, the consumption of berry juice and jam.

Treatment of otitis media with folk remedies

For the treatment of acute and chronic otitis in the presence of purulent discharge from the ear, traditional medicine offers the following recipes :

Lemon . Chew 1/4 lemon with peel.
Peony (tincture) . Take 20 drops 3 times a day.
Calendula (70% tincture of flowers, sold in pharmacies) . Apply a compress to the behind-the-ear and parotid areas.
Onion (juice) . Soak a swab in fresh onion juice, squeeze lightly and place in your ear. Tie a woolen scarf over the ear or apply an alcohol compress to the parotid area.
Horseradish (juice) . For purulent inflammation, place 3-4 drops of horseradish juice into the ear.
Juniper (berries) . Insert a cotton swab dipped in an alcoholic tincture of juniper berries into your ear.
Geranium fragrant (houseplant) . Roll a fresh leaf into a tube and insert it into the ball! my ear (relieves inflammation and relieves “shooting” pain in the ears).
White elderberry (flowers), chamomile (flowers) - in equal parts. Mix the herbs, steam and use as a compress (relieves ear pain).
Ramson (plant) . Place wild garlic juice in your ears.
Beetroot, honey . Peel, wash the beets, cut into slices and cook in honey. Place on the sore ear as compresses.
Bay leaf . Pour 5 bay leaves with 1 cup of boiling water, bring to a boil, heat in a water bath with the lid closed for 2 hours, cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, strain, squeeze. Place 8-10 drops of the resulting decoction into the sore ear and drink 2-3 tablespoons of the warm solution. Do the procedure 3 times (for ear pain, suppuration).
Onions (juice), cumin . At the top of the onion, cut a small part in the form of a cube, place 1 teaspoon of crushed cumin seeds in the recess, cover with the cut out part, bake, squeeze the juice from the hot onion and place 2-3 drops in your ear 3 times a day.
Egg . Hard boil 2 chicken eggs. Run under cold water, then clean. Separate the white from the yolk. Wrap the warm white in a thick cotton cloth and squeeze it with all your might until liquid starts to drip. This liquid, slightly warmed, should be instilled into the ears.
Mumiyo . At night, place tampons soaked in a 2.5% mummy solution in your ears. For severe pain, change tampons several times a day. If there is discharge from the ear, bury the mummy in a mixture with furatsilin. After or during the procedure, the ears should be warmed up.
Propolis . For purulent inflammation of the middle ear, use a 30% alcohol extract of propolis - 5 drops into the external auditory canal 3 times a day. For advanced forms of the disease, insert gauze pads moistened with this extract into the external auditory canal for a day. The course of treatment is 10-12 days, depending on the degree of the disease. Propolis kills germs, relieves pain and eliminates unpleasant odor in purulent inflammation of the ears. Turundas should be changed daily.
Milk, hemp oil . For ear pain, rinse your ear with hot milk, to which hemp oil has been added when boiled.
Sea buckthorn oil with honey . Place 1 drop of sea buckthorn oil and 1 drop of melted honey into your ear, then cover the ear canal with cotton wool for 1 hour.

“Untreated” runny nose

Sinusitis is called inflammation of the mucous membrane of the maxillary cavity, and in a more advanced version, also the bone walls of this cavity. The disease manifests itself in the form of irritating pain, nasal congestion, mucous and even purulent discharge from the nasal cavity.

Often, classical methods of treating the disease and even surgical intervention do not contribute to a quick recovery. The pills taken provide only temporary relief, and after the end of the treatment course, headaches, difficulty breathing, unpleasant discharge in the form of pus and other symptoms appear again.

Treatment of sinusitis with sea buckthorn oil

Treatment of sinusitis with sea buckthorn oil has become increasingly popular recently. As is already known, this disease is characterized by severe pain in the maxillary sinus, and it occurs very often.

Many of us still use classical treatment methods and resort to the services of surgeons. Sometimes it happens that this does not bring the result that was expected. And after some time, the slight relief passes, and headaches, breathing problems, discharge of pus from the nose reappear - the same familiar symptoms of the disease. Currently, there are a large number of various treatment methods, accumulated since ancient times, for this rather serious disease.

Traditional medicine offers many methods that really give a positive effect in the treatment of sinusitis. Warming with salt water, using apple cider vinegar, bee products, as well as herbs such as chamomile and St. John's wort are also effective. With all this variety of recipes, many healers gradually began to use sea buckthorn oil to treat sinusitis. As it turns out, it has beneficial properties.

This video provides an example of preparing sea buckthorn oil for the treatment of sinusitis:

Treating sinusitis with sea buckthorn oil is a simple procedure. It is carried out in the following sequence:

1. First, you need to thoroughly rinse your sinuses before starting treatment with sea buckthorn oil. To do this, it is recommended to use a disposable syringe with a thin polyethylene tube attached to it. It is better to rinse with a solution of warm water with sea salt or drops of iodine. In addition, to prepare such solutions, you can use table salt or lemon juice. Rinsing the nasal sinuses must be carried out for 10 minutes.

2. Next, the procedure of instilling sea buckthorn oil into the nasal cavity is performed. In this case, it is necessary to try to ensure that it reaches the maximum possible area of the mucous membrane. To do this, tilt your head to the right (if instillation is carried out in the right nostril) and tilt your head back a little. After instilling the oil, you need to press the nasal wing to its septum. At the end of this procedure, you need to lie in this position for 15 minutes. A similar event should be carried out for the left sinus.

Treatment with sea buckthorn oil gives a very good effect and improves breathing several times, reduces the amount of mucus secreted from the nose, and eases headaches.