My Advice on Chronic Nasal Congestion

[GoldenxChild1]

Hello family!

So, after considerable time, I have finally begun treating my chronic nasal congestion. I wanted to give anyone out there suffering from this ailment some anecdotes.

Originally, I hadn't realized that the sinus system can be affected by organs that are seemingly unrelated in western medicine. Specifically, and in my experience, the kidneys for one.

Now, the lungs (whose door to the outside is the nose) and the kidneys share a special relationship with respect to Qi in TCM. I am not going to describe the entire relationship because a simple Google search would be more effective. However, let's note that although the Lungs are the "Master of Chi", the kidneys are responsible for "grasping the Chi" the lungs inhale, which if they fail to do so, fails to circulate Chi deep into the body. This leads to respiratory problems.

From Lei Zheng Zhi Cai:
"The lungs are the master of qi and the kidneys are to the root of qi; the lungs dominate exhaling qi and the kidneys grasp inhaling qi; a coordinating work between them, respiratory movement will be harmonized.

I encourage anyone to look into the relationship further, but for the sake of the topic I wanted to touch on it because once I found this out, I was able to at least partially diagnose myself with kidney yang deficiency. This then led me to do a Mars square to "vitalize and energize my kidneys", and this was a tremendous help not only with my lung to nose function, but I am warmer, less bathroom breaks, longer sex, and less lower back pain.

Anyhow, aside from that, I also changed my dietary preferences. I noticed that I generate a lot of heat that rises to my head and doesn't circulate back down. In order to combat this, I have been successful with using peppermint, pears, and more recently, honey and peppercorn.

According to TCM, pears and peppermint are cool in nature, and they help keep inflammation down. As for the honey and peppercorn, I learnt that from Sadguru as a way to reduce phlegm in the lungs and sinuses, along with all the other advantages of consuming honey.

I still get acute attacks that last a while, but I have had more success in the last couple months than I have had in years.

I am not saying this is your situation, but at least you can seek alternative explanations as an example.

Also, I have yet to try Laguz or the element of water to reduce inflammation.

 

[GoldenxChild1]

Also, I wanted to add that I have been exercising 3 times a week, and cardio seems to be the most helpful, along with pressing movements.

Next, I have found that cutting back on red meat helps reduce excess heat, and avoiding dairy all together.

 

[Centralforce666]

There is also an important relationship between the spleen and lungs that I urge you to explore.

The spleen creates damp, and the lungs store it..

This is why the sinuses, part of the opening of the lung organ becomes afflicted with and holds onto damp.

It is a product of the generating cycle in 5 elements or Wu Xing where Earth (Spleen) generates Metal (Lung).

Physiologically this manifests as the moistness the lungs require to function, but pathologically an excess of this turns to phlegm.

 

[bluefire07]

The liver plays a major role if you’re dealing with a sinuses issues as well it’s why detoxification of the liver is necesarry, specially if you’ve had so so good diet. It amazes me how something like the organs that’s far away from the sinuses can really affect one another. The human body is all connected in a sophisticated way.