06/09/2021
Hayfever season is coming.. What can you do?
Ayurveda always looks at the root cause first..
Possible triggers:
🟡External factors such as pollen, dust, smoke, animal fur or hair etc
🟡Exposure to humidity dust and cold
🟡Asthma
🟡Persistent of disease
🟡Sinusitis
🟡Family history of hay fever
🟡Low immunity
🟡Unhealthy/incompatible lifestyle during seasonal changes
Prevention is better than a cure
If you suffer from hay fever, start paying extra attention to your diet and lifestyle a few months before your symptoms would normally start.
Recommendations in the lead up and during hayfever season.
FOOD
🟡Try a seasonal cleanse at the junction of winter and spring.
🟡Eating seasonally - foods harvested during any season contain the antidotes to offset the characteristics of the season.
🟡It’s time to up those lighter seasonal green vegetables and have a bit less of the heavier starchy and protein-rich foods which we needed during the winter.
🟡Eat freshly prepared, warm foods and drinks with plenty of herbs and spices – include turmeric and black pepper in your daily diet. Raw unheated honey is great too for dealing with extra mucous – favour a local variety of this.
🟡Avoid cheese, yoghurt, bananas, desserts, sweets and cold foods and drinks if you are suffering from mucous as these encourage its formation.
🟡Avoid alcohol
🟡Avoid heavy, fermented, fried, sour foods
DRINKS
🟡Enjoy lots of warm drinks. A great tea for hay fever is ginger.
DAILY ROUTINES
Here are a few lifestyle suggestions that will help – see full article on our blog for instructions.
🟡Medicated Nasal Drops.
🟡Do steam inhalations.
🟡Gandoosh – Oil pulling.
🟡Mouth Gargle.
🟡Home remedy:
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cardamon
¼ tsp ground ginger
½ tsp ground black pepper
½ tsp ground turmeric
2 tbsp honey or enough to make a smooth paste
Take ¼ tsp 2 x daily or as often as needed. Follow with a sip of warm water.
For more herb suggestions, treatments and Dosha specific Hayfever – see full article on Blog.
