Health, Nasal Congestion, Neti Pot, Salt for Respiratory & Cardiovascular Systems

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Dear Carol,

Your question about neti pots reminded me of a scene from my childhood while visiting my paternal grandmother. She lived in a two room shack without running water or electricity, raised enough meat and food from the livestock and garden to feed herself, two sons a husband and father in law off the land. This was before organic foods and sea salt were in vogue. She awoke before the menfolk to get the fire started in the kitchen to prepare breakfast for all. If there had been money for doctors or medicines, more than likely it would have been spent to repair a leak in the roof or perhaps buy feed for the chickens that produced the eggs she was about to fry. She had been suffering with congested sinuses. She put whatever kind of salt they sold at the local general store into some water she'd warmed on the wood burning stove that was in a canning jar that was recently emptied of the vegetables she'd canned in the summer to eat in the winter.

She then went out onto the porch that overlooked her laundry being rinsed on the line by the falling rain, held her head back, poured the warm salt water into one nostril, held her nose,

leaned over so that her head was lower than her knees and then after a few seconds arose and shoved whatever was up in that nostril and air passage out onto the ground below the porch. This process was repeated for the other nostril. Upon completion of this health care not covered by insurance or approved by her managed care primary care physician nor including any pharmaceutical drug that had side effects or withdrawal symptoms, she conserved the salt that had not been used in the canning jar by putting a canning lid on the canning jar and placed it near her wood burning stove for the next day's medicinal application.

 

In response to your question, you know why salt help schrink swollen nasal passages and clears them of occluding mucus. The salt sitting on your kitchen table would work as well as a little packet of salt that oftentimes comes with packets of plastic silverware or expensively from a health food store. If you really need to spend money on a neti pot for your convenience, you can.

Or you can save that money for a rainy day and do as my grandmother did and use anything you have on hand to dissolve the salt into the water before you administer it at no charge in the same manner she did when she had no choice having been born before women got the vote and gave birth to her two sons the same decade women did get that right which has lead to better but not equal financial equality.

 

When we look at the big picture of health care in America and the truth about how our government, insurance companies and the medical industrial complex appers to consider human bodies as nothing more than a bar code for an insurance claim with little to no accountability for the results of the health care, perhaps we would all be better off to revert back to the days when there wasn't so much high tech health care.

 

On Friday nights I like to go to the Ritz Carlton about 2 miles from my office to listen to a great female vocalist. There was a reception going on sponsored by a company that has just approved a new drug for the treatment of heart attacks. The name tags awaiting those who'd pre-registered primarily had M.D. after their names. It is assumed that the drug manufacturer not only paid for the lavish reception with live music and open bar but for the $200/night Ritz Carlton Rooms where the M.D.'s would enjoy a relaxing weekend while their wives shop across the street at two malls while they are being taught how to use this new drug. I walked past that open door glimpsing at the cardiovascular surgeons that would be giving their heart disease patients encouraging words about a new drug that had been developed that may save their lives and was determined more than ever to reduce the amount of salt in my diet and never endanger myself to taking a chance on subjecting myself to having my chest opened up for a quadruple by-pass by any of those wined and dined drug manufacturer influenced cardio-vascular surgeons. Then I went and enjoyed bottled water and humus while enjoying the lady's jazz motivated finally to control my desire to drink wine and sulfites.

 

Thank you,

 

Dr. Sandra Lance, D.C.

 

Message: 10 Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:27:26 -0500 "Carol Minnick" <carolminnickNeti PotHas anyone ever used a neti pot, and what kind of results did you get? I'mthinking of buying one - does anyone have any suggestions? What kind ofsalt do you use, just regular table salt, or sea salt, or is there a specialkind of "nose salt"?