By Dana Ullman MPH, CCH
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Imagine a type of torture where there is great pain in what seems to be the very center of your skull, when facial tenderness and pain is experienced by simple touch, where eyes ache and feel like they are coming out of their sockets, and where there’s pain in the teeth and even a sensation as though the teeth are too long. Many people today feel this type of torture too frequently because these people suffer from chronic sinusitis.
There are eight sinuses, or air-filled cavities, in the skull. These sinuses lie behind the eyes, the nose, and fore head. Each sinus is connected by a nasal passage in order to drain mucus and aid air exchange.
Sinusitis is most often the revenge of a lingering cold or allergy, which can impede proper nasal drainage. This congestion becomes a breeding ground for infection which then causes the lining in the sinuses to become inflamed and swollen. Other problems that can create congestion leading to sinusitis are polyps, a deviated septum, large or inflamed adenoids, an ab scessed or inflamed tooth, or a change in air pressure from flying or swimming.
Sinusitis can create its own revenge too. Unless it is successfully treated, it can sometimes lead to ear infections, bronchitis, or pneumonia.
The conventional medical treatment for chronic sinusitis primarily is antibiotics and surgery, the big guns of the medical arsenal. Expectorants, decongestants, analgesics, antitussives, irrigation, and cortisone nasal sprays can also be used. The fact that about one in seven Americans suffer from chronic sinusitis suggests that these conventional treatments are not very effective. They are at best palliative, except in a small number of cases of obstructive chronic sinusitis which modern surgery can now correct. These are the relatively rare obstructive cases are usually caused by a deviated septum, a polyp, or a cyst.
Is there an alternative to this “skullduggery?” Absolutely. The Homeopathic Alternative Homeopathy is a natural medical system that utilizes ex tremely small doses of substances from the plant, mineral, or animal kingdom to augment a person’s natural defenses. Rather than inhibiting or suppressing symptoms, homeopathic medicines are prescribed for their unique ability to cause, when given in overdose, the similar symptoms that the sick person is experienc ing.
Homeopaths, like modern-day physiologists, recognize that symptoms represent defenses of the body to infection or stress. Therefore, instead of suppressing symptoms with conventional medications, homeopathic remedies are individually prescribed based on their capacity to mimic the symptoms the sick person is experiencing. Ultimately, these natural medicines strengthen the person’s own defenses enabling them to regain health more rapid ly.
Homeopathic medicines are considerably safer than conven tional drugs. Although there has not yet been any formal con trolled studies testing the use of homeopathic medicines to treat sinusitis, there is 200 years of successful and safe clinical experience in treating people suffering from this condition. A recent review of 89 double-blind, randomized clinical studies testing homeopathic medicines was published in The Lancet (Sep tember 20, 1997), and it showed that homeopathic medicines were 2.45 times more effective than placebo.
Homeopathic medicines are often effective in treating the acute symptoms of sinusitis, although professional “constitution al care” is usually necessary to cure chronic sinusitis. Consti tutional care refers to individualized treatment of a person’s entire health, physical and psychological, past and present. This professional homeopathic treatment can lead to a significant reduction in the frequency and intensity of acute sinusitis attacks and can often even lead to a total elimination of their occurance.
If one does not have access to professional homeopathic care or one simply seeks to empower themselves with self-treatment, the following remedies are quite effective in treating acute sinusitis. Please note that although several of these remedies are known poisons, they are sold only in such high dilutions that they are known to be non-toxic.
Arsenicum (arsenic): People who need this remedy feel throbbing and burning pains in the sinuses. Their pains are aggravated by light, noise, movement, after midnight, and may be triggered by anxiety, exertion, and excitability. They may feel relief by lying quietly in a dark room with the head raised on pillows and exposed to cool air. Their teeth may feel long and painful. They may feel nausea and experience vomiting concurrent with their sinusitis. They tend to have a great thirst, but they tend to drink frequent sips, rather than gulps.
Belladonna (deadly nightshade): This remedy is effective for people whose head feels full, as if it could burst. The pain usually resides in the forehead or around the eyes. There is throbbing pain that is worse by jarring, touch, bending forward, lying flat, or motion of the eyes and is relieved by gradually applied pressure, sitting up, or bending the head backwards. Another characteristic symptoms of people who need this remedy is when the sinus pain appear strongly and rapidly but then disap pears temporarily, only to repeat the process of coming and going pain. The eyes are also sensitive to light and the face is flushed. They are apt to feel dizzy which becomes worse when stooping.
Hepar sulphur (Hahnemann’s calcium sulphide): Rarely indicated at the beginning of a sinusitis condition, people who need Hepar sulphur begin sneezing and then develop sinusitis from the least exposure to cold air. Their nasal discharge is thick and yellow. The nostrils become very sore from the acrid discharge, and their nasal passages become sensitive to cold air. Concurrently, they may have a headache with a sense of a nail or a plug that is thrust into the head along with a boring or bursting pain. Their headache above the nose is worse from shaking the head, motion, riding in a car, stooping, moving the eyes, or simply from the weight of a hat, but is relieved by the firm pressure of a tight bandage. The scalp is so sensitive that simply combing the hair may be painful.
Kali bichromicum (potassium bichromate): The distinguishing feature of people with sinusitis who need this medicine is that they have a thick, stringy nasal discharge. They have extreme pain at the root of the nose that is better by applying pressure there. The bones and scalp feel sore. Dizziness and nausea when rising from sitting and the severe pain may lead to dimmed vi sion. The pains are worse by cold, light, noise, walking, stoop ing, and in the morning (especially on waking or at 9 am) or at night. They prefer to lie down in a darkened room and feel better by warmth, warm drinks, or overeating.
Mercurius (mercury): People who will benefit from this remedy feel as though their head was in a vise. The pains are worse in open air, from sleeping, and after eating and drinking. The pains are also aggragravated by extremes of hot and cold temperature. The scalp and the nose become very sensitive to the touch. Their teeth feel long and painful, and they may salivate exces sively. The nasal discharge is usually green and too thick to run. It is offensive smelling and acrid.
Pulsatilla (windflower): When the head pain is worse when lying down and in a warm room and is better in cool air, this medicine should be considered. The sinusitis may begin after being over heated. Stooping, sitting, rising from lying down, and eating can aggravate the head pain, which is often in the front part of the head and accompanied with digestive problems. They get some relief from slow walking in the open air or by wrapping the head tightly in a bandage. This condition is commonly experienced when the child is in school or the adult is at work. The nasal discharge is often thick and yellow or green.
Spigella (pinkroot): People who develop sinusitis with a sharp pain that is worse on the left side may need this medicine. They tend to get sinusitis after exposure to cold or cold, wet weath er. They feel pain from warmth or when they stoop or bend the head forward, and they feel some relief by cold applications or from washing with cold water.
DOSAGE: Take a dose of the 6th or 30th potency every two hours during intense symptoms and every four hours during mild symp toms. Some type of relief is commonly observed after one dose. Consider changing homeopathic remedies if observable benefit is not attained within 24 hours.
Homeopathic Combination Remedies
In addition to the remedies listed in this article, sinusi tis sufferers can also obtain benefit from using one of the numerous homeopathic formula products which are available in most health food stores and an increasing number of pharmacies. Homeopathic formula products are mixtures of many of the above described remedies. These products may be useful when you don’t know which individual remedy you need or if that individual remedy isn’t immediately available.
Although sinusitis sufferers may feel like hiring a plumber to unplug their nose and drain their head, homeopathic medicines provide a basically safe and often effective alternative.
Nice and helpful
Super explanation
Good explanation sir benefitted by the detail analysis of the drug intake and its usefulness in overcoming of the malady
Very helpful. Thank you.
Excellent article, accurate description of pain. Will sure help my 17yr old Daughter recover from an acute, misdiagnosed episode of Pansinsitis. We have a correct diagnosis now, so I know how to treat her for a full recovery.
Also simple prevention in place like ” Remember to blow your nose and vaccume bedroom regularly( Ha Ha what teenagers vaccume their room at all? . Thank you sooo much for your help. Cheers Jude.
Very instructive easy to follow. Let Ur Services continue to help humanity.. Thanks.
Extremely helpful thankx jude
Nice post.thank you for sharing with us.really looking forward to read more.Homeopathy treatment offers relief primarily from the recurrent of the sinusitis. There are a good number of medicines in Homeopathy system of medicine which cures sinusitis from the very existence and gives permanent halt to the suffering
Great Article! With personal experience, I would like to say, Infections to any of the four pairs of para-nasal sinuses that are present on the facial skeleton is known Sinusitis, Out of these four pairs of sinuses, Maxillary and Ethmoid sinuses are developed during birth. The Ethmoid sinus gradually grows into frontal sinus during childhood and by the age of 20, a completely developed Sphenoid sinus appears.
Nice Post Helpful to diagnose the signs of sinus & their proper medicines. Thanks
VERY thankful for this information. I’ve had both ears & my nose taking turns making me MISERABLE, even overnight. It started last Winter, but went Whacko in the spring.Some OTC remedies helped but did not fix it.
I started staying inside. THEN! when I did the Fall Cleaning, all the dust, dander, etc… brought it all back again.
I know where to start to make the plan to live without sinus issues. THANK YOU SO MUCH
I am very happy while writing my comments and astonished too,i have been suffering from chronic sinusitis from my childhood days and have done lot of allopathic treatment with lot of medicines tested and there was no relief neither by symptom nor by disease itself.while reading somewhere (as my father itself a homeopathic doctor) i started to take Belladona for 1 week and the miracle had happened.i lost all my sinutis symptoms along with problem too.i would advised everybody too use homeopathy for once and see the miracle happen.you will forget other forms of treatment.
I’ve used a few of different remedies at times for my daughter, homeopathy works so well and I’ve noticed if I give her the right remedy like pulsatilla at night for blocked up nose and pains in her ears she will fall asleep straight away which is a sign it’s the right remedy.
I’ve used nux vomica in the mornings as well at Nat mur as she wakes sneezing alot and pain at the root of nose as indicated with kali bich but with only clear nasal discharge but sometimes after blowing her nose extensively she will get a nose bleed so it gets complicated I find knowing the right remedy to use but arnica can be good to help it stop when it bleeds or carbo veg
The authors of the latter meta-analysis then rejected the quality of the infectious disease studies, despite reporting a lack of bias and higher study quality in the homeopathic vs conventional medical studies assessed. Rather than digress into the historical controversies related to homeopathy, the present paper acknowledges the debates and limitations of the available literature but makes the pragmatic case for good real-world treatment effectiveness of homeopathy in the context of generally increased safety and cost effectiveness compared with standard care for acute, uncomplicated pediatric AOM and URIs.