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Vicks Non-Drowsy DayQuil Sinus- 20 LiquiCaps(Pack of 1)

Vicks Non-Drowsy DayQuil Sinus- 20 LiquiCaps
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Source Naturals Allercetin Allergy and Sinus, 48 Tablets (Pack of 4)
With HistaStop homeopathic histamine & quercetin. Safe & effective formula. Sneezing, runny rose, sinus congestion, itchy & watery…

Hyland’s – Seasonal Allergy Relief, 60 tablets
Temporarily relieves the symptoms of hay fever or other upper respiratory allergies from mold, animal dander, pollen, ragweed, and…

Hyland’s – Sinus Tablets, 100 tablets
Natural relief for: Congestion Headache Runny Nose Hyland’s Sinus is a traditional…

Heal Sinus Plus 2 OZ

Heal Sinus PlusThis formula has been used historically as a natural and herbal help for clearing up allergies, sinus and hay fever. It works as a decongestant and natural antihistamine to dry up the sinuses and expel the mucus from the head and bronchopulmonary tubes and passages. .
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Hyland’s Sinus Tablets, 100 Tablets (Pack of 3)
Homeopathic. Natural relief for sinus congestion due to cold. Formerly Hyland’s No. 47, Hyland’s Sinus is a traditional homeopathi…

Heel Allergy, Homeopathic Tablets 100 ea
Homeopathic MedicationBHI for homeopathyFor the temporary relief of:Runny Nose Watery Eyes Skin Rashes & Hives…

Hyland’s – Seasonal Allergy Relief, 60 tablets
Temporarily relieves the symptoms of hay fever or other upper respiratory allergies from mold, animal dander, pollen, ragweed, and…

Headache Remedies | Headache Remedies For Pain Relief

Many people suffer from headaches sometime during their lifetime. They can be caused by sickness, illness, stress, or injury. And to treat the pain, people are constantly searching for headache cures. One such treatment is the homeopathic headache remedy. Homeopathic medicine treats the body naturally and wholly and tries to help the body heal itself from the inside out. Some common remedies to treat headaches are listed below. Some people have found great relief with these solutions. You may have to try several to find the one that works for you.

Everyone has heard how it’s beneficial to apply ice when you’ve injured your knee or your elbow, and the same can be true of the pain you experience when you feel a migraine approaching. Applying an ice pack right to the spot on your scalp where you feel the pain starting from is a good idea. You want to be certain to wrap the ice in a towel so you don’t irritate your scalp. You can hold this to your head for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and you can repeat the process whenever you feel the need to. It’s one of the natural cures that is incredibly inexpensive and beneficial too.

Butalbital is a member of the barbiturate class of drugs. It is a sedative that is used in Fioricet as a muscle-relaxer; the purpose of butalbital is to relieve the muscle tension associated with tension headaches. Since barbiturates can be habit-forming, care must be taken when using Fioricet to avoid dependency on the drug. Fioricet should only be taken as prescribed by the doctor, and patients should never exceed the recommended dose or use Fioricet more often than prescribed, even if the current dose is proving ineffective (diminished effectiveness may be a sign of tolerance and/or growing drug dependency?addiction). Patients with a history of drug-dependency may not be given Fioricet.

Natural remedies for Headache:

Rebound headache ,which are also known as analgesic-abuse headaches, are a subtype of primary headache caused by overuse of headache drugs. Cluster headaches are a rare but important type of primary headache, affecting mainly men. Cluster headaches occur daily over a period of weeks, sometimes months. Cluster headaches primarily affect men between the ages of 20 and 40. Traction and inflammatory headaches are symptoms of other disorders, ranging from stroke to sinus infection. Cluster headaches may last between five minutes and three hours; they may occur once every other day or as often as eight times per day.

The IHS classifies cluster headaches as either episodic or chronic. Episodic cluster headaches occur over periods lasting from seven days to one year, with the clusters separated by headache-free intervals of at least two weeks. The average length of a cluster ranges between two weeks and three months. Cluster headaches have diverse causes, ranging from serious and life threatening conditions such as brain tumors, strokes, meningitis, and subarachnoid hemorrhages to less serious but common conditions such as withdrawal from caffeine and discontinuation of analgesicsChronic cluster headaches occur over a period longer than a year without a headache-free interval, or with pain-free intervals that are shorter than two weeks.

Arnica – Arnica is a wildflower plant that grows in the mountains in rich, loamy soil. The flowers of the plant are collected and dried and used to treat sprains, strains, and pain. The plant is mixed with salves and oils and applied directly to the skin in the affected area. Alternatively, it can be made into a homeopathic medicine that is taken internally. For headaches, arnica can be applied to the base of the skull and back of the neck for tension headaches, or to the forehead and frontal lobes for head pain in that area.

Cyclamen – Is used to treat migraines associated with dizziness, blurred or dimmed vision, or eye spasm. Cyclamen grows natively in the Mediterranean region but is often cultivated as a house plant. Cyclamen is also used to regulate the menstrual cycle and to treat violent headaches with flickering before the eyes. It is also good for burning pain in the skin and muscles. It is a strong herb so care must be taken with dosing. Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting.

Ignatia Amara – This remedy is from a small tree that produces a bean pod. These are harvested to make the remedy. It is especially good for treating stress headaches as it works as a tranquilizer and helps to calm stress.

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When Allergy Shots Don’t Work

It has been my experience that the most common reason for allergy treatment by means of allergen desensitization to fail to bring about good results is heavy metal toxicity. This is true whether we are talking about allergy desensitization using conventional allergy shots, or through “energy-medicine” allergy desensitization techniques such as NAET and ASERT. In fact, over the eight years or so that I have been using ASERT (Allergy and Sensitivity Elimination and Reprogramming Technique) in my San Antonio office, EVERY patient who had been on a regimen of conventional allergy shots that did not work turned out to have one or more heavy metal toxicities.

It appears that heavy metals cause confusion in the body’s immune system, and predispose the body to developing allergies. I have observed that the patients who show up as having heavy metal toxicity also are usually reactive to many more allergens that those patients who are free of heavy metals. By far the most common heavy metals that are problematic are mercury and lead, but cadmium, thallium, and a host of other metals can show up as well.

Mercury toxicity appears to most commonly be related to amalgam dental fillings, exposure to thimersol (a preserving agent used in vaccines and various liquid solutions used in medicine), and industrial mercury exposure. Although there has been much concern in recent years regarding mercury contamination of seafood, I have not found seafood consumption to be related to mercury toxicity in my patients. It is my belief that the majority of people probably do not consume an amount of mercury contaminated seafood for it to create a toxicity concern.

In my experience, amalgam dental fillings are probably the most common source by far of mercury toxicity. Even so, I usually do not recommend replacement of amalgam fillings unless there is an indication of major leakage of mercury into the body, because the removal process can release such large doses of mercury into the blood and it is usually safer to leve the fillings in place and simply de-tox the mercury accumulation from time to time.

Lead toxicity is most commonly seen in people who were exposed to lead-based paint (and possibly ingested lead paint flakes during childhood). Lead toxicity can also be acquired from occupational sources, such as in electricians who can get it from stripping wiring insulation with their teeth (the insulation often contains lead). Another occupational source of lead exposure is seen in military personnel and police officers who, during training, handled large amounts of lead slugs (I have heard that a common “punishment” in such training is for recruits to have to go gather up lead slugs from the firing range to collect a pre-determined large amount of lead).

No matter what type of heavy metal is producing the toxic effects, there are a variety of ways to test for heavy metals, as well as a variety of ways to treat the toxicity. Testing can be done by conventional blood and tissue tox-screens, by hair analysis, and by muscle reflex testing (“applied kinesiology”). Of the three, I prefer muscle reflex testing even though it is a bit esoteric, because it is simple to do, inexpensive, and if there are multiple heavy metals present it tells me which metal is causing the biggest problem (allowing me to prioritize treatment).

Chelation therapy is the conventional medical treatment of choice for heavy metal toxicity. Chelation therapy injects various binding agents into the bloodstream to pull the heavy metals out of solution so they can be eliminated from the body by the liver and kidneys. Similarly, chlorella (a type of algae) and/or cilantro extract can be used to bind heavy metals making them easier to eliminate from the body. Another method, that is still somewhat controversial even among “alternative” practitioners is the use of special foot baths that utilize a very low-level electrical current to draw out heavy metals and other toxins through the skin of the feet.

The method of detoxification that I prefer is the use of metal-specific homeopathic remedies to assist the body in eliminating the particular metal that is causing the problem. If a patient presents with multiple toxicities, I will usually begin with the chlorella and cilantro approach to start the process and then eventually use homoepathics to eliminate the specific metals. The homeopathic de-tox approach usually takes 2 to 4 weeks to sufficiently reduce the toxicity so that allergy desensitization can be effective.

Once the patient has de-toxed the heavy metal sufficiently, allergy desensitization can be performed effectively. If using conventional allergy shots, the desensitization will take place over a period of months to a few years. If using “energy medicine” techniques, it has been my experience that most people can have the majority of their allergic sensitivities eliminated within a few weeks. Because of the remarkable efficiency of the energy medicine techniques, I favor them over conventional allergy treatment, but to be fair the techniques I use are quite strange to most people and they can be a bit hard to believe. Many people simply cannot believe that these strange methods of treatment work, so they will stick with conventional allergy treatment, which is quite effective in the long-run once any interfering heavy metal toxicities have been handled.

Headache Remedies | Natural Remedies for Headache Pain Relief

Many people suffer from headaches sometime during their lifetime. They can be caused by sickness, illness, stress, or injury. And to treat the pain, people are constantly searching for headache cures. One such treatment is the homeopathic headache remedy. Homeopathic medicine treats the body naturally and wholly and tries to help the body heal itself from the inside out. Some common remedies to treat headaches are listed below. Some people have found great relief with these solutions. You may have to try several to find the one that works for you.

Everyone has heard how it’s beneficial to apply ice when you’ve injured your knee or your elbow, and the same can be true of the pain you experience when you feel a migraine approaching. Applying an ice pack right to the spot on your scalp where you feel the pain starting from is a good idea. You want to be certain to wrap the ice in a towel so you don’t irritate your scalp. You can hold this to your head for ten or fifteen minutes at a time and you can repeat the process whenever you feel the need to. It’s one of the natural cures that is incredibly inexpensive and beneficial too.

Butalbital is a member of the barbiturate class of drugs. It is a sedative that is used in Fioricet as a muscle-relaxer; the purpose of butalbital is to relieve the muscle tension associated with tension headaches. Since barbiturates can be habit-forming, care must be taken when using Fioricet to avoid dependency on the drug. Fioricet should only be taken as prescribed by the doctor, and patients should never exceed the recommended dose or use Fioricet more often than prescribed, even if the current dose is proving ineffective (diminished effectiveness may be a sign of tolerance and/or growing drug dependency?addiction). Patients with a history of drug-dependency may not be given Fioricet.

Natural remedies for Headache:

Rebound headache, which are also known as analgesic-abuse headaches, are a subtype of primary headache caused by overuse of headache drugs. Cluster headaches are a rare but important type of primary headache, affecting mainly men. Cluster headaches occur daily over a period of weeks, sometimes months. Cluster headaches primarily affect men between the ages of 20 and 40. Traction and inflammatory headaches are symptoms of other disorders, ranging from stroke to sinus infection. Cluster headaches may last between five minutes and three hours; they may occur once every other day or as often as eight times per day.

The IHS classifies cluster headaches as either episodic or chronic. Episodic cluster headaches occur over periods lasting from seven days to one year, with the clusters separated by headache-free intervals of at least two weeks. The average length of a cluster ranges between two weeks and three months. Cluster headaches have diverse causes, ranging from serious and life threatening conditions such as brain tumors, strokes, meningitis, and subarachnoid hemorrhages to less serious but common conditions such as withdrawal from caffeine and discontinuation of analgesicsChronic cluster headaches occur over a period longer than a year without a headache-free interval, or with pain-free intervals that are shorter than two weeks.

Arnica – Arnica is a wildflower plant that grows in the mountains in rich, loamy soil. The flowers of the plant are collected and dried and used to treat sprains, strains, and pain. The plant is mixed with salves and oils and applied directly to the skin in the affected area. Alternatively, it can be made into a homeopathic medicine that is taken internally. For headaches, arnica can be applied to the base of the skull and back of the neck for tension headaches, or to the forehead and frontal lobes for head pain in that area.

Cyclamen – Is used to treat migraines associated with dizziness, blurred or dimmed vision, or eye spasm. Cyclamen grows natively in the Mediterranean region but is often cultivated as a house plant. Cyclamen is also used to regulate the menstrual cycle and to treat violent headaches with flickering before the eyes. It is also good for burning pain in the skin and muscles. It is a strong herb so care must be taken with dosing. Large doses produce violent purging and vomiting.

Ignatia Amara – This remedy is from a small tree that produces a bean pod. These are harvested to make the remedy. It is especially good for treating stress headaches as it works as a tranquilizer and helps to calm stress.

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Natra Bio – Pollen/Hayfever Allergy Relief, 1 fl oz liquid

• Serving Size – 15 drops
• Does Not Contain: Side effects, drowsiness, excessive dryness or thirst, sugar.

Pollen Hayfever provides relief for the symptoms of sinus pressure, congestion, sneezing, runny nose, and itchy, watery eyes associated with hay fever.

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Coughs and Throat Infections- A Simple Way to Prevent Them

Most of us experience lingering cough or swelling in the throat after a bout of respiratory allergy or infection such as common cold, flu, sinusitis, or rhinitis. One of the reasons why this can happen is post nasal drip. During an infection, sputum forms in the nose. Some amount of this sputum may trickle down into the throat from behind the nose. This is called as post nasal drip. When that happens, the throat becomes irritated, swollen, and cough follows. Cough may further worsen the swelling of the throat, which may aggravate into furthers problems.  You can find more about such conditions in http://www.healthscribes.com/category/searchByCategory/Nose,+Throat,+Lungs,+Breathing, and in http://www.healthscribes.com/category/searchByCategory/Allergies.

I have been living with chronic sinusitis for the last fifteen years. I was used to frequent coughing and throat infections because of this. I tried allopathic treatments, including decongestants and antibiotics. I also tried homeopathic and ayurvedic treatments. To some extent, all of them helped. But to sum up, none of them could completely cure my condition. However, I have learned a very simple and yet very effective way to minimize the incidence of throat infection.  You can read more on sinusitis at http://www.healthscribes.com/disease/Sinusitis-+Acute.

Managing post nasal drip went a long way in preventing recurrent throat infections for me. An ENT specialist advised me a simple measure. Whenever I sense something dripping into my throat, I cough mildly to bring it up and then I spit it out. Doing this may not be convenient. It may be embarrassing to do this in public places. It may also be tiring to walk up to the wash room when the dripping is continuous. But that is the price to pay for preventing throat infections and cough. Add to it the benefits of avoiding cough syrups, anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and even antibiotics in some cases. All of them come with little or more risk of side-effects.

I preferred living with the embarrassment and the inconvenience of spitting out the dripping sputum to the easier option of medicines. I started using medicines very sparingly. Overtime, the frequency of my throat infections came down and so did my usage of medicines. It happens because, when the incidence of irritation on the throat reduces, the throat tissues recover over time and become healthy again. And one can actually feel the improvement. A healthier throat can ward off potential infections better as well. It becomes a positive loop of a healthy cycle.

After following this simple rule of keeping my throat free of dripping sputum for three years, I could stop using the medicines for throat infections completely.  I just do not need them anymore. Gargling with warm salt water, and acting promptly upon any respiratory infection are sufficient for me to manage the throat infections now. However, one should not shut out the option of medicines completely. If one gets infected, and if the infection seems growing, one cannot wish away antibiotics. Then only a doctor and those medicines can help. But one can do a lot to prevent infection in the first place. And that is where healthy life actually starts!

Educating oneself about health and health problems goes a long way in preventing, and in managing health problems in a better way.

Boiron Sinusalia for Sinuses, 60 Tablets (Pack of 3)

• A homeopathic medicine that works naturally
• Fast-acting when taken at the onset of symptoms
• Non-drowsy formula
• No side effects, no drug interactions, no contraindications, and no “masking” of symptoms
• Regulated as a OTC (Over the Counter) drug by the FDA

Sinusalia temporarily relieves congestion and pain due to inflammation of the sinuses.

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Headache Buster – .68 oz – Nasal Spray

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Headache Buster Nasal Spray With capsaicin, feverfew and peppermint oil to help relieve even your worst headaches. This formula helps to relieve: Migraine headaches Cluster headaches Fast Begins to provide relief quickly! Effective A powerful pain-relieving sensation praised by serious sufferers. Safe Enjoy worry-free relief – as long as you need it. Non-habit forming Free of harmful side effects No known drug interactions Zinc free Natural Formulated without preservatives, additives or chemicals of any kind. Unlike many headache medicines, Headache Buster® does not contain acetaminophen. Ingredients Active Ingredients: Capsicum 4x/5x (capsaicin), Pyrethrum parthenium 3x(feverfew), Mentholum 1x (peppermint), Eucalyptus globulus 2x (eucalyptol) Inactive Ingredients: Ascorbic Acid (Crystallized Vitamin C), Purified Water, Rosemary Extract, Sea Salt, Vegetable Glycerin

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