Remedy for catarrh

Posted by: Wale Adepoju

A traditional medicine practitioner, Dr Lambo Adebisi, has recommended onions, garlic and sunflower for the prevention of catarrh and cold.

According to him, these plants have essential ingredients that are useful for the treatment of these ailments.

He said inhaling the smell of onions, sunflower and garlic can help clear the mucous membrane and nasal track of people who have catarrh.

Adebisi, who is a naturopath, said this is a form of treatment known as aromatherapy, adding: “It is a form of alternative medicine that uses plant materials and aromatic plant oils, including essential oils, and other aromatic compounds for the treatment of diseases.”

He said people can also mix some cold pressed natural sun flower oil with some seabuckthorn seeds oil and grease the inside of their nostrils, using a cotton bud.

He further said garlic tea can be drunk twice daily to relieve a catarrh problem.

People who have catarrh, he said, can soak two fingers in vinegar and rub their nose from the tip to beneath the eye area. “Besides, those who have cold or catarrh can bring a bulb of onion close to their nose to smell it. Similarly, vinegar can be applied on the nostrils.

“With two dried fingers, rub on the nostrils some vinegar, then put another finger in vinegar and daub the insides of his nostrils. This will bring some relief. Also, people can burn garlic cloves, which has been peeled off for three seconds and inhale the resulted smoke on one nostril and then on the other afterwards,” he said.

He said people can drink garlic tea to prevent coming down with allergic reactions or seasonal allergic rhinitis, or even hay fever

“All a sick person needs to do is boil 20 garlic cloves, 20 bulbs of onions and some violets flower in one litre of water to be taken daily.

The sick person can be taking one or two cups daily depending on his immunity.

The naturopath also recommended foods that are rich in magnesium.

He said this is active against the ailments, adding that cucumbers and red pepper have magnesium, as such people should consume then in soup when sick. Dr Lambo Adebisi