Spring Pollen allergy - natural remedies

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

We live in Eastern USA where the pollen is very high in Spring.

Can you please recommend anything we can do or any natural remedies

available for prevention of allergies?

 

Regards,

Vani

[Guest guest]

Using the local honey has seemed to help many and sometimes local herbalists

make a mix that seems effective.  Daily use of the neti pot and a healthy diet

to boost the immune system are simple ways.

Health,

Michelle

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We live in Eastern USA where the pollen is very high in Spring.

[Guest guest]

Hello Vani

 

In addition to what Michelle suggested, author would like to suggest a

simple home remedy, which has been proven to be a good immuno-modulator

in his practice.

 

As soon as you get up in the morning, even before brushing teeth, put

one clove of garlic in mouth with about half a cup drinking water, and

chew the clove. The Garlic juice dissolves in water, drink it and throw

out the garlic remains, or swallow them with a little more water. It

does not matter if you remove garlic skin or not. In next 20 minutes

you finish brushing teeth etc and take half a cup yogurt or 1 cup

buttermilk, in which 1/4 tsp turmeric powder is mixed in.

 

Allow another 20-30 minutes before you take tea/coffee/breakfast. Those

addicted to tea/coffee without which bowels would not move, they will

slowly find that tea/coffee is unnecessary to activate bowels.

 

The suggested routine relives nasal congestion, dripping nose, reduces

cough/cold, improves digestive fire, reduces constipation, reduces

blood pressure to some extent(if used for many months), and reduces

cholesterol also. Bloating will reduce. Some relaxation in piles too.

Only one unpleasant side effect. Gas will be eliminated, with sound but

no foul smells. You will feel light and calm throughout the day. To

gain all these benifits, practice for minimum 2 weeks. If suffering

from anxiety, loose motions might occur for 3-4 days initially, which

you ignore. All asthma/eczema/psoriasis/diabetes patients of this author follow

this routine advantageously. Author finds that the routine helps better

management of blood sugar too.

 

If Garlic clove is too thick, cut into half to start with and increase

gradually. When yougurt is taken in above manner, the allergy to dairy

gets softened.

 

In neti, use sea salt only. In addition, if you can add a tsp of self urine ,

collected first time in the morning, per cup of saline water, it helps keeping

nasal congestion to minimum.

 

Dr Bhate

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We live in Eastern USA where the pollen is very high in Spring.

Can you please recommend anything we can do or any natural remedies

available for prevention of allergies?

[Guest guest]

Dear Vani

Please try following remedy. It may benefit you.

Apply pur Ghee inside both nostrils at morning and at night.

Vaidya Upadhye

http://www.astroayurvedalogy.com

http://www.astrotreat.blogspot.com

 

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We live in Eastern USA where the pollen is very high in Spring.

Can you please recommend anything we can do or any natural remedies

available for prevention of allergies?

[Guest guest]

Generally, allergies are due to excess of kapha and weakened immune system.

 

The main approach should be

1) Remove ama

2) Reduce kapha

3) Rejuvenate the depleted tissues

 

Many allergies are very intense, for instance allergy to birch pollen and

some types of hay, producing terrible itching of the eyes and aggressive

sneezing. For these conditions the general remedies are not enough, and one

has to take stronger approach.

 

Stop all dairy and wheat for the spring time. Both dairy and wheat increse

kapha and produces mucus. Avoid yeast-baked bread. Reduce intake of rice.

Instead of wheat and rice, use buckwheat which does not form mucus. Also

corn is fine in moderation. Shift away from cereals and grain-based

breakfast to vegetable based breakfast. Steamed veggies or veggie soup and

dals are fine, as well as scrambled tofu. Lunch can be kitchadi or

buckwheat, dal, subji. Or steamed veggies, some beans and buckwheat or

millet.

 

You can use safely un-sweetened soymilk during the allergy season. Avoid

heavy meals, no icecreams, frozen foods, cold drinks, cold water, canned

foods, canned beans, kidney beans. Drink hot water through out the day. You

can boil it in the morning and put in thermos flask, and keep with you at

work etc. You will notice a big difference after drinking a cup of hot

water: the nostrils and sinuses open, the congestion relieves, sneezing

subsides.

 

- Neti with salt water every morning, and also in afternoon if required

- 1 tsp trikatu churna mixed with 1tsp honey twice-thrice a day to reduce

kapha and enkindle the agni

- Also sitopaladi churna with honey is helpful.

- Anti-allergy tea containing sage, hyssopus officinalis, birch leaf,

dandellion, black pepper - thrice a day. Take one rounded teaspoon of the

herbs, and boil for 10 minutes. Drink with honey.

- Ghee in both nostrils, as recommended by Ajeya. Maharishi nostril oil is

even better.

- Take vegetable soup as dinner. No heavy dinners, as they tend to increase

kapha and cause mucus.

- Do regular fasting. One day once a week is good.

- Eat consciously, eat lightly, eat little, eat healthy.

 

Pancha karma is an excellent detox and rejuvenation package to be taken

before allergy season begins.

 

Ac. Omkarnath

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> We live in Eastern USA where the pollen is very high in Spring.

> Can you please recommend anything we can do or any natural remedies

> available for prevention of allergies?

[Guest guest]

Most detailed letters may help vaidyas, but patient may want some simple

remedies.

 

Giving most importance to dosha and diets is not practical  and to what extent

patient will co-operate I don't know. I too don't know home remedies to

allergies because the herbs which reduce allergies are known to vaidyas only.

 

Try pancha thitikthaka kashyam   all allergies will go

 

Vidhyasagar.

 

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Generally, allergies are due to excess of kapha and weakened immune system.

 

The main approach should be

1) Remove ama

2) Reduce kapha

3) Rejuvenate the depleted tissues

[Guest guest]

Dear Dr Bhate,

 

I was just wondering if it is suitable to take garlic clove/yogurt in

the morning, if the pitta is vitiated (acidity)? Will yogurt create

congestion for people with low digestive agni? Also yogurt being cold,

will it increase vata/kapha or being sour reduce vata/increase pitta?

 

Instead of crushing garlic in mouth, can we crush it, put it in pan

with 1 cup water, boil it, cool it and drink it luke warm?

 

Kindly throw some light.

Regards

 

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As soon as you get up in the morning, even before brushing teeth, put

one clove of garlic in mouth with about half a cup drinking water, and

chew the clove.

[Guest guest]

The receipes in home remedies are so designed to balance the property

of one herb to enhance one dosha, with the property of another

ingredient to reduce same dosha, and work harmoniously with the first

herb. Sometimes the ingredients are enhancing the resultant benifit.

Warm milk after eating ripened banana is one example. Boiling ginger,

black pepper, piper longum in milk kills its mucous promoting

property. And boiling milk with turmeric helps loosening the dried up

mucous in air passages, when suffering from cough, breathing

difficulties etc. Adding Indian cow ghee, sea salt enhances this. See

how ayurveda presents many paradoxial receipes. Milk incompatible

with lemon, but if you take both together, it becomes a pile remedy!

 

In the present case, garlic should not be considered alone. Yogurt

with turmeric follows in 20 minutes after garlic. The total effect

should be evaluated. 20 minutes gap is deliberate to achieve better

results for persons suffering from allergies.

 

One interesting experience you can get is that the yougurt with

turmeric powder is a remedy to boost liver function, which boosts

digestion, i.e. agni! It will not cause congestion.

 

But one caution. Even home remedies should be evaluated by each

individual according to guideline in post#4511. They will never work

same for all.

 

Garlic taken raw is best as nothing is lost in volatile parts!

 

But if you wish to take garlic alone, author recommends following

way, as proposed by you.

 

Take 2 cups water, boil till 1 cup remains. Remove from fire.

Add 1 clove of garlic crushed, and let cool to lukewarm.

Squeeze in the juice of a 1/4 lemon and drink warm.Adding lemon

optional. This tea is good for cough/colds. Slightly less potent than raw garlic

chewed in water.

 

If you see the posts on anxiety panic management, a garlic syrup

using sugar base has been suggested as cough/cold remedy in addition

to anxiety remedy. Now anxiety is linked to candidiasis and

cadidiasis increases with sugar. But garlic in sugar syrup has been

used for children, as they dislike taking galic alone. Medicines for

children have some compromises in some cases.

 

 

Dr Bhate

 

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I was just wondering if it is suitable to take garlic clove/yogurt in

the morning, if the pitta is vitiated (acidity)? Will yogurt create

congestion for people with low digestive agni? Also yogurt being

cold,

will it increase vata/kapha or being sour reduce vata/increase pitta?

 

Instead of crushing garlic in mouth, can we crush it, put it in pan

with 1 cup water, boil it, cool it and drink it luke warm?