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Hayfever - Tips to survive the Season Remedies
What is Hayfever?
  • Eyes that stream, itch, swell, and are sore, red or puffy

  • Noses that stream and itch or feel continually blocked

  • Sneezing first thing in the morning - often on an ongoing basis, not just in the hayfever season

  • Feeling bunged up and uncomfortable in the head, sometimes with alterations in sense of smell or hearing

What remedies are there that may help alleviate symptoms?

Often, a combination of supplements may help in alleviating the symptoms of conditions but please read the comments below alongside this important notice concerning supplement medical claims)

 

Bioforce Luffa Complex - for all eye and nose symptoms

 

Bioforce Euphrasia (eyebright) - for eye symptoms

 

Higher Nature Butterbur - for all types of allergic rhinitis

 

Bioforce Urtica - for red rashes and itching skin

 

BioCare Vitamin C - as a natural antihistamine

 

Bioforce Luffa Complex - for all eye and nose symptoms

 

Luffa Complex is a combination preparation derived from a number of tropical plants, which, Bioforce say, are known to prevent and alleviate the symptoms of allergies, particularly hayfever.

More details here

 

Bioforce Euphrasia (Eyebright)

 

Euphrasia has been widely used in Europe since the 17th Century. It has a place in literature with Milton, in his poem Paradise Lost, describing how the Archangel Michael used 'Euphrasy' to clear Adam's sight.

 

It  has long been used for conjunctivitis, inflammation of eyelids, and hayfever.

 

According to medical herbalist Ed Smith, use of eyebright benefits the eyes. The herb contains flavonoid pigments that specifically affect mucous membranes in the eyes and nasal passages, he notes. "The flavonoids in eyebright are anti-inflammatory and stabilize mast cells, the lining in nasal passages," says Smith. "These cells make up the tissue that usually reacts to allergens."

"Use of eyebright can help break the allergy cycle caused when you breathe in pollen and your body overreacts with burning eyes and runny nose", says Smith. He states that this inflammation increases your sensitivity to pollen which then intensifies the inflammation. He  goes on to say that use of eyebright can break this allergy cycle.

David Hoffmann author of The Herbal Handbook (Healing Arts Press) calls eyebright an excellent remedy for the problems of inflamed mucous membranes. The combination of anti-inflammatory and astringent properties makes it relevant in many conditions, he notes. Used internally, it is a powerful anti-catarrhal (helps the body remove excess mucus) and may help relieve congestion. Best known for its use in eye irritations, it can relieve inflammations, stinging and weeping eyes, and is valuable in conjunctivitis, he says.

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Higher Nature Butterbur

 

Dr Alfred Vogel, Swiss Nature Doctor, had this to say about Butterbur: "The medicinal use of Petasites (Butterbur) goes back to the Middle Ages, or even earlier. The more we study the plant the more impressed we become with its good effects on a whole range of complaints, and the therapeutic spectrum of its active substances.

 

"Petasites has a wide range of applications as an analgesic (a pain-relieving drug) and excellent results have been reported in connection with its use for headaches, migraines, menstrual cramps, toothache, painful wounds and many other aches and pains."

 

Butterbur has been used for hundreds of years to help whooping cough and various respiratory conditions.

 

In 1998 a Polish clinical study found that Butterbur was very helpful in improving lung ventilation, and a Swiss study recently found Butterbur to be as effective as antihistamine drugs for treating hayfever. Their study was published in the British Medical Journal, where they concluded "We believe butterbur should be considered for treating hayfever, particularly in cases where the sedative effects of anti-histamines need to be avoided."

Bioforce Luffa

Bioforce Euphrasia

Bioforce Urtica

 

BioCare Vitamin C

 

Nutri Eskimo-3

 

 

 

Bioforce Urtica (stinging nettle)

 

Dr Alfred Vogel wrote in The Nature Doctor: "It is most appropriate that nature has given this plant the protection of stinging exterior. Without it, we would probably never have the opportunity to benefit from its healing power. Animals, with their instinctive knowledge of what is good for them, would not leave us even one leaf.

 

"The stinging nettle is rich in calcium, phosphorus, iron and other important minerals."

 

Bioforce produce a tincture of stinging nettle (Urtica) for use as a herbal antihistamine useful in cases of allergies such as hayfever or urticaria.

More details here

 

Vitamin C - antihistamine

Way back in 1949 S Ruskin and colleagues showed that, of sixty hay fever patients given 1,000 to 2,250 mg of ascorbic acid daily along with a few milligrams of vitamin B3, 50 percent taking the lower dose, and 75 percent taking the higher dose, showed improvements.

W Dawson and colleagues presented a series of papers on the effects of vitamin C on bronchial spasm. They showed that when spasm was induced in guinea pigs, broncho-constriction could be prevented by vitamin C.

More importantly, they showed that this action is dose-dependent; at low levels it may potentiate the effect of spasmogens, such as histamine, and at higher concentrations it inhibits their spastic effects. This dose-related smooth muscle phenomenon may explain some of the conflicting clinical results of the past six decades.

Dawson W, et al.  The nature of the antagonism of bronchospasm in the guinea pig by ascorbic acid.  Jour Pharmacy Pharmacology, 1965;17:595-596.

Dawson W, et al.  Actions of sodium ascorbate on smooth muscle. Brit Journ Pharmacology Chemo, 1967;31:269-275

Bieolory L and Gandi R reported in 1994 that since 1973 there have been 11 clinical studies of vitamin C supplementation in asthma. 

From their review they found that seven of the studies showed significant improvements in respiratory measures and asthma symptoms.

They also found vitamin C appeared to be dose-dependent, and suggested the data indicated supplementing the diet with 1 to 2 grams of vitamin C daily. High-dose vitamin C therapy may also help asthmatics by lowering histamine levels.  Bieolory L;Gandi R.  Asthma and vitamin C.  Annals Allergy  1994;73:89-96.

Johnston CS, et al.  Antihistamine effect of supplemental ascorbic acid and neutrophil chemotaxis.  J Am Coll Nutr  1992;11:172-176

 

 

Head Lice epidemic

 

More of a pandemic really! Now that the kids are back at school, you may need some Delacet.

 

 

Healthpol Delacet

 

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