Need your help! Tired of cold and sinuses

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#21

[QUOTE=Pandara;30170]90% of all colds and flu’s are caused by the virus clinging to our hands. Watch out for those hands.[/QUOTE]

Thank you all for your help! Great postings!

Agree, good point:) do not eat viruses. But what about inhale a virus? Do not hang out with people? do not go to the store?

Our body has strong defense against viruses and bacterias, and we consume MILLIONS of viruses and bacterias every day with breath, with food, with pores of the skin, with water, and we fight most of them, unless one has HIV or low immune system.

Maybe I just have low resistance to cold … BUT I’m SURE THAT THERE IS a cure for that!!! and I will find out!

Thank you all for your help! Great postings!

#22

[QUOTE=Yoga & Unity;30128]Are you suffering from allergy?[/QUOTE]

One of the doctor I went to said that this is allergy, but all allergy drugs do not work ever for this problem.

The only think that worked was very unpleasant Functional Endoscopic Surgery:(( (will never ever do it again…)

I still believe that our body has all resources to fight all disease we just need to find that trigger.

#23

[QUOTE=daniel;30093]Hi CityMonk,
Please try this:

  1. Do not eat egg;
  2. Have fresh ginger tea(hot) in the morning;
  3. Drink lemon juice daily;
  4. Do Kapalabahti.
    Hope it helps.[/QUOTE]

Thank you, daniel,

Doctors and aurveda doctors told me that people who suffers from colds and sinuses (especially with 2 positive blood) should avoid or limit eggs and diary, since those products turn into literary snots in their bodies.

Used to love lemon juce, but now it is too acidy for my old stomach:)

Kabalabhati is awesome!

#24

Thanks , Yes neti works, really works,

especially after comming back home after dirty city or crowded auditorium - wash away all the germs and dust!

I’m practicing neti since…hm…1986, when I was 5y.o… It helps a lot. I’m adding herbs to salt water sometimes (chamomile, sage or iodine)

#25

[QUOTE=InnerAthlete;30052]Meditation is contained within Yoga.[/QUOTE]

yes, but some yoga styles can practice asanas only:(((

same thing - can practice meditation without asanas …

obviously, better together

#26

Your nose has evolved to actually keep most of the virusses at bay and to prevent them from entering your body before they can do harm. But your mouth and eyes are much more vulnerable as they have evolved without the necessary protective meganisms. Again 90% of all colds and flu’s are caused by we ingesting the virus due to it clinging to our hands and then entering our systems via our hands.

Another take on colds: When I started yoga years ago the first three years or so I had about 2-3 colds every year. My teacher explained that a cold is a cleansing and as yoga is a purification of the physical as well as the subtle bodies, she explained that we develop colds to actually help us to get rid of old energies. I now hardly ever gets a cold. At that point I also lectured at university so I was in contact with sick students constantly (and I used to bite my nails a habit I have stopped in the mean time thanks to yoga) which enabled me to get the colds to get rid of the unwanted old energies. :slight_smile:

#27

[QUOTE=CityMonk;30210]REALLY!?? why? I would think that Sun Salutations help to drain the sinus passages and cavities…

Why is sleeping without pillow not good?

Thanks

CityMOnk[/QUOTE]

Because these things swell sinus. But the reverse posture that we do lying down like Sarvangasana and viparitakarani mudra are good for treating sinus. But you must at least be able to breath without much difficulty when you are in the posture. You may notice that when we do sarvangasana the nose get bloked in the beginning and then slowly opens up due to t5he heat produced there.
May be your case is different.
You can do a test to see if forward bending is good for you.
Sit in vajrasana. Then bend down forward and stay like that for sometime. See if your nose is getting blocked or opening.
Do the test for pillow also. lye with pillow and without pillow to see the difference. :sunglasses:

#28

City monk,One question: Do you have long hair?

#29

[QUOTE=CityMonk;30215]Thank you, daniel,

Doctors and aurveda doctors told me that people who suffers from colds and sinuses (especially with 2 positive blood) should avoid or limit eggs and diary, since those products turn into literary snots in their bodies.

Used to love lemon juce, but now it is too acidy for my old stomach:)

Kabalabhati is awesome![/QUOTE]

Hi CityMonk,
For lemon juice, you may add honey!

#30

Hi Willem,

I don’t recall any one saying to use force, but this thread has been going on a while now so I may have missed it.

You are correct force should not be used, and there are various drying techniques, and some of these are definantly best shown not read about. This is why I was suggesting they go to some one who can show them properly.

This bit is general not in relation to your post. I didn’t want to get into explainaing the technique for two reasons, one there are plenty of places it is described without me re-inventing the wheel, and two it is much better to be shown it (as mentioned above). Although this is an easy technique, the drying is the more involved part!

The right temprature and saline content (as has been mentioned several times now), is also important.

[QUOTE=Willem;30077]You may be a sea water surfer or a fresh water surfer, but in either case the salt concentration is not correct. Sea water contains too much salt and fresh water has too little. When you do neti, make sure that you use exactly the right amount of salt. Preferably salt without additives. Your solution should be exactly like the saline drip that you see on Grey’s Anatomy and House :). The inside of the nostrils contain delicate tissue and they can be easily irritated. There are special spoons for getting the salt concentration just right.

When drying your nose, please do not use force (as suggested by another poster). There are procedures for drying.[/QUOTE]

#31

Then I made the post I probably wanted some answers on how not to get cold and sinus whatsoever, rather than how to treat cold. I’m having them for years and kinda manage to treat them.

I was looking for answers related to diet, dosha, maube chakra balancing, and some ayurvedic approaches.

ANY SUGGESTION?

#32

Have you looked for a kriya?

#33

[QUOTE=justwannabe;31415]Have you looked for a kriya?[/QUOTE]

What do you mean? What kind of kriya?

PS. Thank you all for your suggestions. Lets drop Neti Pot theme for now. I do it for as long as I can remember myself. It helps.

#34

Are you making sure you are getting the correct nutrients in your diet to help your immune system stay strong? There are remedies everywhere, and they don’t always work. Each person is unique. I rarely eat fruit containing vitamin C (maybe twice a week) but I have a strong immune system. Such that when the husband and son get sick enough to stay in bed with a fever, and are stuffed up so badly they can’t breathe, I get a little sniffly and feel really crappy for a few days, and might get a slightly elevated temp, but not usually.
I make sure I have a well rounded diet, and listen to what my body wants. I don’t eat lots of vegetables, but I eat enough. I have discovered a sensitivity to wheat, and some other foods. A clue is if you love a food SO much you can’t get enough of it when you eat it. You get full, but you want to eat more and more of it. This is a sign that your body may have a sensitivity to it that is unnatural.
I have found that foods I eat that do this to me will sometimes make me VERY tired soon after eating them, or I get a slight stomach upset that I just usually ignore because it’s so mild.
Avoiding these foods has helped my immune system immensely.
Try some looking around, do try some remedies (a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a cup of very warm water in the morning will prepare your stomach for the day, and is very soothing - add a teaspoon of honey to make it palatable).

#35

[QUOTE=Joanna63;31490](a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in a cup of very warm water in the morning will prepare your stomach for the day, and is very soothing - add a teaspoon of honey to make it palatable).[/QUOTE]

I use to do that, but all fruits and honey are too acid for me…

Thanks, you got few good points about the food. I agree that WE ARE WHAT WE EAT. The food makes a huge difference.

I’ve heard from my doctor, as well as and Dr.Bragg, and others have mentioned about diary. The say that the diary products turn in to mucilage in the body. We tend to eat more cheese, butter and cream in the cold time of the year to develop some fat to warm us up. Maybe thats why we getting colds and snots in the winter:)

#36

do this test to determine your Dosha imbalance http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/w_ayurveda-dtest1.htm

#37

Hey I at last found an effective home remedy for cold and sinusitis. I found this in my experiments with spices.
Add 1\3 of black pepper powder,same amount of turmeric powder, Pinch of Cardamom, and a small stick of cinnamon in one glass of milk.
Boil it and drink.
This is my preparation. You may ignore cardamom and cinnamon.
I searched on web to see if its ok to put pepper in milk and found it is recommended in ayurveda.

#38

[QUOTE=Shivoham;31574]do this test to determine your Dosha imbalance http://www.holisticonline.com/ayurveda/w_ayurveda-dtest1.htm[/QUOTE]

The one problem with the test that on each question I can mark all 4 answers and this would be the true.

#39

[QUOTE=CityMonk;35177]The one problem with the test that on each question I can mark all 4 answers and this would be the true.[/QUOTE]

So what? you must do multiple selection it they match

#40

[QUOTE=CityMonk;35177]The one problem with the test that on each question I can mark all 4 answers and this would be the true.[/QUOTE]

So what? you must do multiple selection if they match