Sinuses are air-filled pockets in the skull that are connected to the nose and throat by passages designed to drain away mucus. The sinuses are the first line of defense in protecting the lungs against infection. If the sinuses are too small or poorly positioned to handle the volume of mucus produced, they can become clogged. Pressure in the sinuses increases, causing pain. Sinuses that are clogged for a long time seem to invite infection.
Symptoms of sinusitis include fever, cough, headache, earache, toothache, facial pain, cranial pressure, difficult breathing through the nose, loss of the sense of smell, and tenderness over the forehead and cheekbones. Sometimes sinusitis produces facial swelling followed by a stuffy nose and thick discharge of mucus.
Arsenicum Album 30X – Nose feels stopped up with fluent coryza. Burning and itching. Knotty swelling of the nose. Thin, watery, excoriating discharge. Sneezing without relief.
Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum 30X - Sinusitis after coryza. Postnasal dripping. Soreness of nostrils with catarrhal troubles. Offensive discharge. Stopped up every time he goes out into cold air.
Kali Bichromicum 30X – Sinusitis with distress and fullness at root of nose. Loss of smell. Nasal discharges, thick, ropey, sticky, greenish, yellow, acrid. Inability to breathe through nose. Suppressed catarrh. Coryza with obstruction of nose.
Lycopodium Clavatum 30X – Nose stopped up, snuffles, breathes through mouth. Chronic coryza, blows nose often. Fluent coryza. Sense of smell very acute. Nasal troubles from childhood. Feeling of dryness.
Mercurius Solubilis 30X – Sinusitis and colds. Coryza with sneezing, sore, raw, smarting sensation, worse damp weather, profuse fluent. Copious discharge of corroding mucus.
Natrum Muriaticum 30X – Fluent coryza, lasting from one to three days, then changing into stoppage of nose, making breathing difficult. Loss of smell and taste. Violent sneezing. Sneezing early in morning.
Phosphorus 30X – Chronic catarrh with hemorrhages. Coryza, alternately fluent and dry, on alternate sides. Sneezing worse odors, smoke with dyspnea, causes pain in throat. Over-sensitive smell.
Pulsatilla 30X – Loss of smell with catarrh. Chronic bland yellow discharge. Coryza, stoppage of right nostril, pressing pain at root of nose. Yellow mucous, abundant in morning. Bad smells, as of old catarrh.
Sepia 30X – Chronic nasal catarrh, especially post-nasal, dropping of heavy, lumpy discharge, must be hawked through the mouth. Pressing pain at root. Great sensitiveness of odors.
References: Prescription for Nutritional Healing;
By Phyllis A. Balch, CNC & James F. Balch, MD
Homeopathic Remedy Guide; Robin Murphy, ND
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