Sinusitis FAQ

adding swedish bitters to saline mix

Question:

 My parents swore on swedish bitters for just about any illness and I had astonishing results with them myself.  Sooooo…I figured I’d try some for my sinus problems.  In the literature they recommended to put a nightly compress on your forehead.  (Swedish Bitters stain like crazy, so I haven’t tried that yet…also, they were referring to frontal sinusitis, mine is allover the sinus cavities).  I have however started to add a tablespoonful when I do my sinus irrigation (that is for about 2 cups of saline/baking soda solution).  I’ve done it for about 2 weeks now and my sinuses are better than they were the entire 4 months that I was on antibiotics.  The only other thing I use is a spray of Vancenase after the irrigation to keep my allergies down and prevent re-sparking the infection. Swedish Bitters are a  really safe natural medicine that you should be able to get at any local healthfood store (you can take them internally and externally). I was wondering if anyone would be interested in trying this out and giving me some feedback if it works for you, too. I’d really like to know if this is just co-incidence or if it’s really the swedish bitters that are helping me. When I did an Internet search I found a site that has quite a bit of Info on Swedish Bitters ( http://www.survival.com.mx/herbs.html ).  Admittedly…the stories in there sound a little over the top, but there really is some truth to the value of them.  The brand I use is Swedish Bitters by NatureWorks, that seems to be the one most commonly carried by Health Food stores.

Response:

- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -AAyu wrote: >  My parents swore on swedish bitters for just about any illness and I had > astonishing results with them myself.  Sooooo…I figured I’d try some for my > sinus problems.  In the literature they recommended to put a nightly compress > on your forehead.  (Swedish Bitters stain like crazy, so I haven’t tried that > yet…also, they were referring to frontal sinusitis, mine is allover the sinus > cavities).  I have however started to add a tablespoonful when I do my sinus > irrigation (that is for about 2 cups of saline/baking soda solution).  I’ve > done it for about 2 weeks now and my sinuses are better than they were the > entire 4 months that I was on antibiotics.  The only other thing I use is a > spray of Vancenase after the irrigation to keep my allergies down and prevent > re-sparking the infection. > Swedish Bitters are a  really safe natural medicine that you should be able to > get at any local healthfood store (you can take them internally and > externally). > I was wondering if anyone would be interested in trying this out and giving me > some feedback if it works for you, too. I’d really like to know if this is just > co-incidence or if it’s really the swedish bitters that are helping me. > When I did an Internet search I found a site that has quite a bit of Info on > Swedish Bitters ( http://www.survival.com.mx/herbs.html ).  Admittedly…the > stories in there sound a little over the top, but there really is some truth to > the value of them.  The brand I use is Swedish Bitters by NatureWorks, that > seems to be the one most commonly carried by Health Food stores.

Were you experiencing sinus type headaches and were they alleviated somewhat by your nightly nasal irrigation.

Response:

I actually do my irrigation in the morning.  I didn’t seem to get any headaches anymore since I started any sort of irrigation.  After I came off the antibiotics finally, my mucus went back to the icky yellow/green type and I lost my sense of smell again.  Since I started adding the swedish bitters, the mucus went back to being clear, my sense of smell is back, I hardly ever feel blocked up anymore and my postnasal drip seems better, too.  I have an appointment with an ENT next week, I hope that he’ll request another CT scan, because I’d like to see what it shows.  They want to operate on me because all the antibiotics didn’t do much at all, but maybe there is hope after all. By the way…when you look at the Swedish Bitter bottle, all  it says is"Gentle and Stimulating..promotes regularity…for healthy digestive function" (at least on the NatureWorks bottle).  Don’t worry…this IS the right stuff!!!  Read up on it on the web

Response:

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