sinus any home remedies for drying them up?

Question

Tried every thing I know nothing seems to help.

Answer 1

The best thing to do is to flush them out daily, sometimes twice a day, using a bulb syringe (like you use for babies) and warm, slightly salted water (you want to put a little salt in the water to bring it up to the proper pH level of your body, so it won't sting as much, table salt works fine). After a few days of flushing them and cleaning the sinus cavities out, you will definately notice a difference :) Also, not smoking, and cleaning the air filter in your home regularly will help alot on your sinuses.
If you are looking for other means, I found an article on some natural herbal suppliments that can help:
Among the herbs most frequently claimed to alleviate sinus
symptoms are the following:
• Echinacea. Thought to enhance the immune system and
help prevent infections, this popular herb is used widely to
reduce the symptoms and duration of colds and flulike
illnesses. Laboratory studies have suggested that it enhances
the body’s replication of T cells, white blood cells used to
fight infection. Clinical trials looking at the efficacy of
echinacea for infections have yielded mixed results.
• Goldenseal. Referred to as nature’s antibiotic because of its
presumed antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties,
this herb was introduced to early settlers by Cherokee
Indians, who used it as a wash for skin diseases and wounds.
After the Civil War, it became an ingredient in many patent
medicines, and today its adherents use it to treat everything
from sore throats to canker sores to premenstrual syndrome.
Goldenseal’s benefits are often attributed to berberine, an
active ingredient.
• Bromelain. Thought to reduce inflammation, bromelain is
a compound present in pineapples. Three studies performed
in the 1960s showed that patients who took bromelain
tablets with an antibiotic reported greater sinusitis symptom
relief (reduced nasal inflammation, mucus discharge, and
congestion) than people who took the antibiotic alone.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Call around to your local pharmacies. Ask the person behind the counter if they have a product called Alkalol. Buy a couple of bottles. Then either buy a Neti Pot or a spray bottle of saline nose spray.

To use the neti pot, pour the liquid into the pot, then insert the pot into your nostril, pour the Alkalol in. Be sure to spit out the Alkalol, not swallow it. You should also get a lot of mucous out of your nose. This is not a medication, it is an herbal mixture.

If your too squeamish for the neti pot, dump the saline out of the bottle, refill it with Alkalol and spray each side of your nose repeatedly to cut the mucous loose.

Alkalol is a mucous cutter, your sinuses should drain.

You can use this as many times a day as you need to.

You can also check with a health food store or a chiropractor for a spray called Euphorbiam. It;s good for opening the sinuses to drain too.

The Alkalol gives instant relief, and as I said before, you can use it every time you feel stuffy or start to drain. If you sinus passages are swollen, you may have to use Afrin nose spray to reduce the swelling to let the sinus passages drain. Don't use nose spray for more than 3 days or you will have rebound swelling.

Answer 3

You might try smearing some Vick's salve on your upper cheeks then steam your face on and off for as long as you can stand. Also drop saline solution into each nostril, spitting it out, twice daily. Sounds gross but this has all worked for me.

Answer 4

I open up my dishwasher while its on the drying cycle and inhale the steam makes me feel alot better,or you could go buy a humdifier at a drug store or wal-mart =D

Answer 5

eating wasabi makes mine run out when clogged

Answer 6

HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT(s) FOR SINUSITIS / HEADACHES / MIGRAINES (Without any side effects or complications) :-

SINUSITIS :-

Right sided frontal sinusitis; discharge thick, yellowish; worse by cold,damp and exertion Penicillinum 30X or 200X, 6 hourly

Sinusitis after mastoid operation Helka lava 3X or 6X, 4 hourly

In acute or chronic sinusitis; catarrh with stringy discharge Kali Bich 30X 4 hourly

Tearing pain in head; from root of nose, extending to forehead with nausea; dryness of mucous passages Natrum Mur 30X, 4 hourly

Pain begins at the back of head and settles over the eyes; worse under a fan Silicea 1M, weekly (6 Doses)

Chronic cold with loss of smell and yellow green phlegm; better in cool, open air Pulsatilla 30X or 200X 4 hourly

Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200X or 1M fortnightly (3 Doses)

Complaints worse early morning; aversion to take bath Sulphur 200X weekly (3 Doses)

HEADACHE :-

With constant nausea; clean tongue Ipecac 30X, 3 hourly

With severe throbbing and rush of blood towards head Belladonna 30X, 3 hourly

Due to over eating; stomach disorders; tongue thickly whitish coated; worse bathing specially after river bathing Antim Crud 30X or 200 4 hourly(3 Doses)

Due to exposure to dry, cold wind; sudden with anxiety Aconite Nap.30X or 200X, 1/2 hourly (3 Doses)

With watering of eyes and sensitiveness to bright light Euphrasia 30X, 3 hourly

Headache; better by bending backwards; due to nerve injury Hypericum 30X, 3 hourly

Headache with humming in ears; due to nervous weakness Kali Phos.6X or 30X, 3 hourly

Hammering headache; worse during menstrual cycle going in sun; school girls head ache, Natrum Mur.30X or 200X, 4 hourly

Headache starts from nape of neck and shift over to the head; patient desires to lie down quietly; better passing urine Gelsemium 30X or 200X, 3 hourly

Violent headache due to working under gas light; sun-stroke Glonoine 6X or 30X, 2 hourly

Bursting headache; worse by stooping and movements; excessive thirst and constipation Bryonia 30X or 200X, 3 hourly (6 Doses)

Nervous headache; after grief, disappointment; worse inhaling smoke Ignatia 200X or 1M, 3 hourly (3 Doses)

Headache; due to sinusitis, pressure and pain at the root of nose Kali Bich 30X, 4 hourly

Due to eating rich fatty food, loss of thirst, better in open cold air Pulsatilla 30X, 4 hourly

Due to eye strain; disturbances of accomodation of eye sight Ruta Grav 30X, 4 hourly

After taking alcoholic drinks; sedentary habits; chilly patient Nux Vomica 30X, 4 hourly

Sun haedcahe; aggravation from sun rise to sunset; from cardiac origin Kalmia Lat.30X or 200X, 6 hourly

Of school children; crushing headache, pressure on top of head Acid Phos 30, 4 hourly

Headache localised; at the nape of neck; worse by walking and noise Pneumococcin 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)

Frontal headache; neuralgic pain above and behind the right eye; heaviness of head. Better by rest, lying down and eating Penicillinum 30X or 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)

Headache worse early morning;empty gone sensation at 10 -11 A.M. Sulphur 200X or 1M, weekly (3 Doses)


MIGRAINES :-

From mental work; cold, uncovering head, pressure, sitting upright or sun-stroke Glonoinum 30X, 3 hourly

For nervous, gastric, bilious individuals. Migraine due to mental over exertion in teachers and students. Right sided, specially Sunday migraine, blurred vision, hemiopia; blindness; often burning pain in entire gastro-intestinal tract with violent acid vomiting at the height of attack; worse hot weather; spring and fall; better after vomiting or sufficient night sleep Iris v.200X or above, 10 min (3 Doses)

For irritable hypochondriacs of bad temper; cholerics, neuropathics; from abuse of alcohol, coffee, spices, tobacco, vexation and worry, mental over exertion, business worries, sexual excesses, sedentary habits, cold dry air and winds Nux Vomica 30X or 200X, 4 hourly

For pronounced vasomotor individuals (irritable and full of fear) during pre-climacteric and menopausal stage.Tired expression, head congestion, circumscribed red cheeks; pain above right eye, throbbing, stitching, rhythmic pain, often in every 8 days, early morning, beginning in nape, extending upwards, locating in the region of eye, rising and falling with the sun; sensation of heavy congestion Sanguinaria C 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)

For weak, fat and irritable patient; often apathetic, changing moods, strange changes of character (egocenteric), memory weak, due to disturbance during climacteric period, results of tobacco abuse. Person with shallow complexion, yellow saddle across the nose; pain located on left temple; throbbing, stitching pains Sepia 200X, 10 min (3 Doses)

For neuropathic persons, full of fear caused by noises, change of weather or worms; with face pale, located above left eye; specially left pupil (ciliary neuralgia); sharp, shooting, tearing, stitching, periodical pain from occiput to left eye; slowly rising in intensity with sun. Bile vomiting at the height of attack, slowly improving with setting sun. Feeling as if head were open along sagittal suture Spigelia 200X or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses)

Left sided; worse during and after sleep; before menstruation; heat; during menopause Lachesis 200X or 1M, 10 min (3 Doses)

Intercurrent remedy Bacillinum 200X or 1M, fortnightly (3 Doses) .

Take the remedy which is similar to your symptoms.
No side effects or complications if taken as directed, please do not exceed the given dosage and under any circumstances do not try to mix any remedies and avoid Chocolates, Mints, Coffee, Red Meat, Alcoholic and Carbonated drinks, Spicy Rich Food while taking any Homeopathic remedies, and keep the medicines away from direct sunlight, heat strong smells and perfumes and do not store them in the fridge.
Curing without any side effects or Complications Thats the Beauty of Homeopathic Medicine
Feel free to email me if you do not understand anything or if you want to discuss anything.

Take Care and God Bless you !