Sinus Problems (Infection?)

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Butch Owen <butchbsi

Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:27:08 -0800

Sinus Problems (Infection?)

 

 

Hey Cheryl, Deonia, other good folks ..

 

>>if you do come up with anything to help, please let me know!! lol

>>I have had a sinus headache since our wehter changed and the

>>sinus blend, oregano, or anything else i've tried hasn't helped.

>>I STILL have a headache just behind and over my right eye.

>

> I will do so. My went away when the weather changed slightly but

> it is now coming back. Right behind the right eye, along the ear.

>

> Does anyone have any other suggestions to help with sinus'. I

> know of at least two others that have written me privately with

> the same areas of concern. Cheryl

>

> =====

> Cheryl Smith

> A Heavenly Body

> Anchorage AK 9950*

> (907) 222-0886

> http://www.aheavenlybody.com

 

I'll tell y'all a tale .. a personal testimonial .. and it might help.

For many, many years I would have a couple of sinus infections a year ..

US Army docs would give me the slow moving Ornate Capsules .. took a

week to 10 days to make it go away but then a couple of weeks later I

would have another infection. And I was addicted to Vicks Inhalers back

then too .. I'd panic when I left home if I didn't have an extra one

stashed in my brief case.

 

Twas 1980 I showed up in Istanbul as a guest of the Turkish Army to

attend their Command and General Staff College .. no US Army support as

part of the mission was to immerse myself in the Turkish culture. So

when my sinus infection came I let it slide .. it got worse and worse

and it was so bad I couldn't sleep. Finally, I went on sick call at the

Turkish Army Clinic. Was a civilian contract doctor there .. might have

been in his mid-70s or so. Told him my tale and he sent me off for an

X-ray .. came back and he told me I had two extra sinus cavities .. and

all of my sinus cavities were blocked .. said odds were they had been

blocked for many years and the antibiotics the US Army gave would help

to a point .. but not clear out the colony of bacteria .. so they came

back. Basically, I had not suffered from many sinus infections .. I'd

suffered from one sinus infection many times.

 

He said he was gonna kill it .. gave me a shot and three horse pills and

said take one a day for three days. Told me to drink lots of water and

gave me a laundry list of chow to eat daily .. immune building chow it

was .. said he. Said the shot and pills was gonna kill all kinds of

critters to include some that didn't need killing .. and I needed to

work to build my immune system back up. Also said I would likely have

sinus problems again in the future and I might eventually need an

operation .. but that this major sinus infection was gonna be history.

 

He also told me to dump the Vicks Inhalers .. said I was to where I

needed to use them to feel normal .. not feel better .. and that they

were inflaming my sinuses.

 

Long story short .. inside a week I felt better than I had felt in many

years. And I didn't have any sinus problems for maybe a year or so.

 

Then they came back .. maybe once a year I would get what I thought was

a sinus infection. Not as bad as they were before but enough that I

experienced symptoms like y'all have described .. pain behind the eye or

the cheekbone. I began to control them with Actifed. During a routine

physical I told the US Army Doc I was using Actifed and he told me to

switch to Sudafed .. and I did. In a couple of years it got to a point

where I was using Super-Sudafed. This went on up to 1996 .. when I was

visited by a feller who is a quack in many regards .. but even quacks

can't be wrong all the time.

 

I had been selling thousands of kilos per month of Oregano and Rosemary

to Dr. Cass Igram .. feller who wrote " The Cure is in the Cupboard: How

to Use Oregano for Better Health. " Igram goes overboard in the book and

on his radio program claims .. and generally speaking, it is my opinion

that he is a con-artist .. and my personal knowledge that he's dishonest

in his business dealings .. and has since lost his medical license. But

that is aside the point.

 

He visited me here in Turkey .. and I saw him practicing what he was

preaching .. might have been for effect .. hard to say if he did it all

the time but he did it all the time while traveling around with me.

 

He told me I could kick sinus problems in a heartbeat with a cocktail of

Origanum vulgare and Rosmarinus officinalis .. he took'em in a capsule.

Igram is not into Aromatherapy .. avoids the term completely .. he even

avoids the terms " essential oils " and " " hydrosol. " He calls them Oil of

this and that and Water of this and that .. and nowhere in any of his

writings or preachings does he touch on sniffing .. because like Gary

Young, I think he wants to sell more product and sniffing is not gonna

use up your product in a rapid manner.

 

Anyway .. I popped a few capsules and damned if they didn't help FAST!

After that, having no capsules, when I needed to treat myself I started

using a drop or three in the manners I told you folks over the years ..

and it worked. But I'm talking about sinus flare-ups .. I'm not sure if

I've had a real sinus infection since I visited the old Turkish Doc back

in 1980 .. might have had a sinus infection .. but it was not enough to

kick my butt .. just enough to make me know something ain't right.

 

Then through a process of accidental experimentation or whatever .. I

can't give a date-time-group for learning what I know .. I found that I

could get the same effects for sinus problems .. not for others I will

mention .. from simply inhaling the vapors of Oregano and Rosemary ..

and Eucalyptus globulus. I'm convinced the Eucalyptus cured little ..

but it helped relieve the symptoms almost immediately.

 

Weather has been terrible here .. lots of snow. One night last week I

walked home (1/2 mile) in a snow storm and was wet and cold time I got

home .. stripped off clothes, turned up heat (gas heat) and put on a

deep-pile Turkish cotton robe. Read a while, got sleepy and turned in.

Couple of hours later I woke up with a ferocious pain in my left eye,

right temple and right cheek bone. I knew it was sinus I grabbed a

bottle of Oregano .. dumped a few drops on a wash cloth and sat down to

sniff it .. sniffed for maybe five minutes. The pain went away during

that time. Twas maybe 4 or so in the morning .. cooked a pack of Saimen

Noodles and put two drops of Rosemary EO in the soup. Then I took a hot

shower .. and soaked in the tub a while keeping hot water trickling ..

built up a lotta steam. Since then, I've had no problems. But I know

they will come back.

 

Dry heat is a bitch on sinuses .. steam is great. I recommend you use

Eucalyptus globulus or Rosmarinus officinalis, Cineole for the symptoms

first .. a drop or three in a cup of hot water .. enclose the top of the

cup in your hands and sniff .. this should give pretty quick relief if

your problem is swollen sinuses. But if I had a sinus infection .. then

I would do the above AND then sniff Oregano .. AND then put a drop or

three of Oregano EO and/or Rosemary EO in a soup and lap it up. We are

not going to go wrong using Oregano or Rosemary EO in our food .. there

is NO CHANCE of it harming us.

 

Between all the above .. Eucalyptus, Oregano and Rosemary .. we can get

temporary relief and kick the butt of a sinus infection. Don't ask me

for percentages cause I don't do blends in the second place .. though I

do have a bottle of 50/50 Oregano/Rosemary I made up for various uses.

 

Since 1996, I have not taken an over-the-counter or prescription med ..

nor have I visited a doctor except for routine checkups. Those of you

who have been on this list for a few years have read many testimonials

from me on various rapid cures for colds, flu, and a tooth problem where

I refused the antibiotics my dentist wanted me to take for a week .. and

won a fish dinner from him when he bet I couldn't cure it myself in 48

hours .. actually, it was less than 48 hours.

 

I am ONE HUNDRED PERCENT convinced that there is no SAFE medicine around

that is more powerful than Origanum EO .. its the carvacrol that does it

and its a Big Bad Bug Butt Kicking EO. Along behind that I'll take

Rosemary, Cineole .. I'll take either over Ravensara aromatica .. though

there is much therapeutic value in Ravensara .. unless we buy from

some of the European folks who label Ravintsara as Ravensara.

 

If we can't get a cure from what I have written here .. then its time to

go for a culture and if they can't get a culture .. then odds are we

have a viral infection that may be one of those weird ones that are not

affected by the aforementioned EOs. Some viruses can be stopped dead

with EO .. can't kill them cause they're not alive to begin with .. but

we can make'em stop replicating and go back into retrograde.

 

Problem with many doctors is they will give us antibiotics when they

don't know what else to do. That's the worst thing one could do if a

patient has a viral infection. Those antibiotics do nothing but lower

the immune system and help the virus grow stronger .. antibiotics are

useless as tits on a boar hawg when dealing with viral problems. And

there is a big difference between an antibiotic and a probiotic .. most

essential oils operate as probiotics .. has to do with evolution and a

few other reasons I won't go into here cause this is already too long.

 

So .. that's my take on it.

 

Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch http://www.AV-AT.com