Allergic rhinitis
☘️ It is a condition where allergens irritate inner lining of nasal passage and causes inflammation.
☘️ Outdoor allergens – mist, dust, pollution, pollens, smoke etc
Indoor – dust, animals skin, fur or saliva etc.
☘️In ayurveda it can be correlate with pratishya.
☘️Symptoms
✅Continuous sneezing.
✅Runny nose, itching in nose.
✅Blocked nose.
✅Watery and red eyes.
✅Headache and heaviness in head.
✅Itching on upper palate.
✅Breathlessness.
☘️ Symptoms appears mostly during change of seasons or with change of place.
☘️If it ignor this condition may change into asthma and eventually COPD.
☘️Causes
👉Weak digestive fire.
👉Using wrong food combinations.
👉Not following proper diet and lifestyle.
👉Excessive water consumption
👉 Staying up late night and sleeping in day .
👉Living in damp, dark, cold and humid place.
👉Long term use of some allopathic medicines.
👉 Low immunity.
👉Forcefully holding natural urges(urge to urine,sneezing, vomiting etc) .
☘️Treatment –
👉 In other systems of medicines there is no permanent solution to this problem.
👉Ayurveda offers effective and permanent solution.
👉Panchkarma(detoxification therapy) is given in chronic cases.
👉Medications are given to improve digestion and to remove toxins.
👉Immunity Booster specially respiratory immunity improving medicines and therapies are given.
👉Follow ayurvedic daily routine, seasonal routine and sadvritta.
👉Massage body with sesame oil followed by warm water bath.
👉 Put anu oil in both nostrils and do oil pulling using sesame oil in morning.
☘️Things to follow –
✅Have light to digest, warm and fresh food.
✅Avoid spicy, cold and non veg food.
✅Avoid excessive sour, salt and sweet food.
✅Avoid Banana, potato, tomato, Curd, ice cream, cakes, alcohol, cold drinks.
Include moond daal, Jau, kulthi, radish, sour fruits
✅ Avoid points mentioned in causes.
✅Regular yoga.
✅Avoid anger, stress, excessive talk and overthinking.
☘️Home remedies
👉Take black pepper powder, ginger, turmeric powder with honey in morning.
👉Inhale fumes of turmeric (burn turmeric powder on pan and inhale its fumes).
👉Chew clove or black pepper.
👉Have milk +turmeric + dry ginger powder+Pippali .