Tali Catz
student
- May 1, 2009 • 6:16 pm PDT
- + responses
So you start to feel a cold come on. What are your options?
Vitamins, water, rest, etc. There's nothing to medicate
or cure. The matzo-ball soup/Nyquil combination is all I have, but I
like to check in with my doctor anyway.
Recently I went in for a visit to hear the
usual. As he tells me that it's been a bad cold season, he pulls out a prescription pad and starts writing.
The doctor
- not wanting to throw antibiotics at everything- mentions something
about some old Indian remedy of nasal irrigation as primary treatment. I go down to the pharmacy and buy a Neti Pot. I come
home to ask Google and YouTube what exactly I should do with it.
It
looks like little blue teapot, and it comes with 100 saline packets.
Mix in one packet with warm water, lean over the sink, tilt your head,
place the spout of the pot into the upper nostril and raise the handle.
This sends the saline solution up your nasal passage clearing
everything out the other end. Repeat for the other side, and you can
breathe again.
Jala Neti, which literally means nasal cleansing with
water in Sanskrit, is used daily in India and parts of South Asia along
with all the other morning cleansings. In some polluted areas people
use it up to for times a day, or use public Neti devices in smoggy
cities. It has been used in India as a yoga discipline.
Using only gravity
and saltwater it removes infection from your sinuses. Amazing. It is
your new best friend this cold season and you can get one anywhere for $15.
Like here
Vitamins, water, rest, etc. There's nothing to medicate
or cure. The matzo-ball soup/Nyquil combination is all I have, but I
like to check in with my doctor anyway.
Recently I went in for a visit to hear the
usual. As he tells me that it's been a bad cold season, he pulls out a prescription pad and starts writing.
The doctor
- not wanting to throw antibiotics at everything- mentions something
about some old Indian remedy of nasal irrigation as primary treatment. I go down to the pharmacy and buy a Neti Pot. I come
home to ask Google and YouTube what exactly I should do with it.
It
looks like little blue teapot, and it comes with 100 saline packets.
Mix in one packet with warm water, lean over the sink, tilt your head,
place the spout of the pot into the upper nostril and raise the handle.
This sends the saline solution up your nasal passage clearing
everything out the other end. Repeat for the other side, and you can
breathe again.
Jala Neti, which literally means nasal cleansing with
water in Sanskrit, is used daily in India and parts of South Asia along
with all the other morning cleansings. In some polluted areas people
use it up to for times a day, or use public Neti devices in smoggy
cities. It has been used in India as a yoga discipline.
Using only gravity
and saltwater it removes infection from your sinuses. Amazing. It is
your new best friend this cold season and you can get one anywhere for $15.
Like here
