A rise in the amount of people suffering from rhinitis today could be due to the factor of an increase in air pollution or perhaps we have become more susceptible to allergens as stressful modern lifestyles and toxicity from processed foods undermine our resilience.

The presence of hayfever indicates an underlying weakness that needs constitutional treatment and though there are few first-aid remedies for acute hayfever.

Homoeopaths prefer to treat a the sufferer through the winter months in order to strengthen resistance to pollen and other allergens.

• A teaspoon of local honey taken everyday throughout the year
• Where possible avoid pollen, animal hair or other substances (tobacco, dust, flowers etc_ to which you know you are allergic and keep dust levels low in the home.
• Use foam pillows and duvets filled with synthetic fibres
• Bathe the eyes if they are itchy and inflamed (2 drops of EUPHRASIA in an eyebath)
• Don’t take antihistamines or decongestants if you can avoid it. These suppress the body’s defenses and can cause a rebound effect so that they symptoms return more fiercely than ever as the effects wear off. Often side effects are drowsiness and damage to the nasal tissues. Quite often people who seek treatment for autumn bronchitis have been ‘suppressing’ their hay fever through the summer.

Histadelia – high histamine Histamine = chronic dehydration

Symptoms:

• Sneezing in sunlight
• Depression
• You can hear your pulse in your head on the pillow at night
• Get frequent stomach aches
• Backaches
• Muscle cramps
• Regular headaches
• Seasonal allergies
• Abnormal fears
• Unable to tolerate large amounts of alcohol and other ‘downers’
• IBS
• Painful periods

Supplements:

• Vitamin C and B3 – NOT folic acid (raises histamine levels)
• Magnesium -supplementation reduces the release of histamine from mast cells and basopillic leukocytes. Magnesium is one of a number of natural antihistamines that include vit B6 and vit C
  If this doesn’t work
  Low-protein, high-complex-carbohydrate diet and 500mg twice daily of calcium and amino acid methionine

Supplements for hayfever

• Quercetin
• Bromelain
• Vitamin C
• Probiotics
• MSM

Aromatherapy for hayfever

Helps by supporting the immune system

• Peppermint – unclogs sinuses
• Basil oil – supports the adrenals, lowers inflammation and helps the body detoxify
• Eucalyptus – expectorant
• Lemon Oil – helps to relieve symptoms by supporting lymphatic system drainage
• Tea tree oil – health anti-inflammatory properties, is an antiseptic and destroys pathogens
• Frankincense – can boost the immune system and optimize health

OTHER ESSENTIAL OILS

Bergamot, chamomile, cinnamon, clove, juniper, rosemary, rosewood

Homeopathic Remedies for hayfever:

Euphrasia
Profuse acrid lachrymation, with profuse bland coryza (reverse of Allium Cepa). Short-acting remedy: very useful in catarrhal affections without fever. Sneezing; fluent bland coryza with acrid tears Eyes worse open air, and wind.

Allium Cepa
Begins sneezing, with increasing frequency. Watery discharge drips from nose; excoriates lip and wings of nose. (Ars., Arum trip.) Rawness in nose; copious lachrymation. Fluid from nose excoriating: from eyes bland. (Reverse of Euphrasia). Generally begins left side and goes to right. Every year in August (Naja) morning coryza with violent sneezing: very sensitive to odor of flowers and skin of peaches. Spring coryza: Hayfever in August every year on rising from bed, and handling peaches.

Arsenicum
Discharge burns a red streak over upper lip and about wings of nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge The typical Ars. patient is anxious, restless, often asthmatic, when his worst hour is soon alter midnight. Sneezing a prominent symptom, but sneezing no joke. Starts from tickling in one spot nose; after sneezing tickling as bad as before. Hay asthma.

Arum Triphyllum
A prickling sensation that cannot be left alone. Pinches and pricks, and bores into the nostrils, however sore. A dreadful catarrh. Nose stopped, worse left side. Sneezing worse during the night. Fluent acrid coryza, with lachrymation usually bland. (Comp. Allium Cepa.) Fluid from nose, produces rawness, smarting, burning: leaves red streaks as it flows over skin’. (Ars.) –

Arsenicum Iodatum
Hay fever with fetid, corrosive discharge. Discharges excoriating, thick and yellow, resembling honey. (Graph.)

Kali Iod
Violent sneezing, acrid, watery discharge. Worse cool air, worse open air: but patient feels better in open air: i.e.: finds no quarters for relief. Frontal sinuses involved with the coryza; much pain in forehead, eyes, cheekbones.

Carbo Veg
Frequent sneezing, with constant violent crawling and tickling in nose; lachrymation and biting pain in and above nose. Ineffectual desire to sneeze, with crawling in left nostril. Watery discharge, and sneezes day and night. Suffers from heat: is chilled by cold: sweats in a hot room. No comfortable place.

Ranunculus
Eyes smart; lips burn and are sore. Nose stuffed, especially evenings, with pressure root of nose and tingling and crawling inside. May attack posterior nares: hawks and swallow in effort to scratch affected part. (Comp. Wyeth.) Hoarseness: stitching pains chest: muscles sore.

Silica
begins with itching and tingling in nose. Violent sneezing and excoriating discharge. Itching in posterior nares, or orifice of Eustachian tubes. (Ars., Sil., Wyeth.)

Natrum Mur
Squirming as from a small worm. Watery discharge from eyes and nose. Severe coryza, had to lay a towel under nose. Woke with headache; after rising nasal discharge with violent and frequent sneezing. Loss of taste and smell: cough from tickling in throat pit. Lachrymation acrid; canthi red and sore. Characteristics: Worse in sun; desire for salt in hay fever, better at seaside. Recorded case, cured by a swim in the sea.

Zincum
Frequent sneezing starts with cutting-crawling in nose, without coryza; or fluent coryza; sensitive nostrils; crawling in nose; frequent sneezing. Itching in left nostril: in right: followed by frequent sneezing. Much burning in eyes. Itching. Photophobia. Overworked; over-excitable; extremely over-sensitive. (Nux.) Characteristic: Burning whole length of spine: fidgety feet; relief with menstruation.

Bromium
Fluent coryza with frequent violent sneezing. Corrosive soreness under and margins of nose. Right nostril more affected. Aversion to smoking: to drinking cold water.

Gelsemium
Sneezing: hot face: feeling of great weight and tiredness in whole body and limbs. Violent morning paroxysms of sneezing: tingling in nose. Watery, excoriating discharge. Curious symptom, a feeling from throat up to left nostril, like a stream of scalding water.

Nux Vom
Distressing prolonged paroxysms of sneezing. Excessive irritation in nose, eyes. face; – Heat as if a hot iron plate were near it. Itching extends to larynx and trachea. Nux is very irritable: very sensitive to cold.

Dulcamara
Nostrils stopped up, cannot breathe through nose. (Lach) Constant sneezing, profuse watery discharge from nose and eyes. Worse open air: better in closed room: worse near newly cut grass: better at Seaside. (Nat.mur.) Eyes swelled and full and most affected, then nose, then again eyes. Dulc. cannot stand cold and wet: worse from chill when hot.

Psorinum
A sort of continuous hay fever, runs all the year and ripens up in the Fall. Catarrhal state of eyes and nose. Nose dries up part of the time and runs part of the time: must continually use handkerchief. “Hay fever a difficult condition to fit a remedy to; constitution must be built up before hay fever will cease” – KENT. Must wrap up in hottest summer. Wants head covered. Skin greasy, oily, looks unwashed.

Sabadilla
Spasmodic sneezing: fluent coryza. Nostrils stuffed up: inspirations through nose laboured: snoring. Itching in nose; bleeding from nose. (Zinc.)Violent sneezing; with copious watery discharge. Severe frontal pains and redness eyelids. Very sensitive to smell of garlic

Arundo Mauritanica
KENT gives this drug in black type in the Repertory for Hay Fever. Hay fever begins with burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva. Coryza with snuffling. First water runs from the nose, later green mucus. With sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus. Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderian membrane. Curious symptoms, when sneezing, stitches in loins.

Wyethia
Peculiar itching in roof of mouth (Arund.), for relief patient must draw tongue back and forth over soft palate; with this coryza, sneezing, etc.

Kali Phos
Hay fever, said to be prophylactic. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing ; at 2 a.m. Eyes burn, sting, swim in tears. Tongue coated like stale brownish liquid mustard.

Sanguinaria
Rose colds in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors. Hay fever with burning in nose, throat – dry: as if mucous membranes would crack open. Dry burning in larynx with hoarseness of chest with asthma. Palms dry, burning, wrinkled. Burning palms and soles: puts them out of bed. (Sulph., Puls., Cham., Med.)