My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 3)

 

In my previous post - My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 2), I have highlighted some of the preventive steps that you need to take note for preventing or reducing the sensitive nasal sympthoms. However, what can we do if those sensitive nasal symptoms are happening now ? Drink apple cider ! 

I love to use apple cider because it is a pretty simple way and normally get instant effect.

• Pour some apple cider on the cup. (If you are having a stuffy/blocked nose, you may use the aroma of the apple cider to unblock your nose as well.)

• Put some some water and mixed with it. After that, just drink it. You will get the relief on your nasal symptoms after few minutes later ;)

Puffy eyes ? Tired and fatigue eyes ? Intraocular pressure ? Try this way !

Puffy eyes, tired or fatigue eyes and Intraocular pressure (IOP) are the most common eyes problem that we are facing nowadays. Many of us love to use the cosmetic products for puffy eyes, drink coffee for tired eyes or consult doctor for Intraocular pressure problem. If you do not have any idea what is puffy eye or Intraocular pressure, please get the description at below, I am not going to explain deeply what is it about.

Puffy Eye

Periorbital puffiness, also known as "puffy eyes" or swelling around the eyes, refers to the appearance of swelling in the tissues around the eyes, called the orbits. It is almost exclusively caused by fluid buildup around the eyes, or periorbital edema.

Intraocular pressure

Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the fluid pressure inside the eye. Tonometry is the method eye care professionals use to determine this. IOP is an important aspect in the evaluation of patients at risk from glaucoma.

What's Traditional Chinese Medicine said ?

Many eyes problems normally caused by poor blood circulation. As a result, many "garbage and precipitate" unable to remove from the eyes areas through the blood vessel on time. It leads us to the eye symptoms like dark eye circle, puffy eye, tired eye and so on.

Leg Tai Yang Baldder Meridian is one of the most important meridian for human body. Disharmony of Leg Tai Yang Baldder Meridian can cause symptoms such as difficult urination, incontinence, painful eyes, runny nose, nose bleeding and nasal congestion. Eye problems, pain in the head, neck, back, groin and buttock areas indicate disharmony in the Bladder Meridian pathway. Here, I am going to share how can we massage three acupuncture points - Jing Ming (精明穴), Pu Can (仆参穴) and Shen Mai (申脉穴) on the Leg Tai Yang Bladder Meridian as circled blue in below picture, and get an instant effect on relieving your eyes problems !

How to massage ?
 
Use your fingers to massage Jing Ming, Pu Can and Shen Mai acupuncture points. 
If  you want to compare the miracle between before and after massaging, try one side first. For example, complete the right hand side massage for the right Jing Ming, right Pu Can and right Shen Mai acupuncture points first.  After massaging the right side, normally your right eye will feel better and relief compare to the eye on your left hand side which haven't massage.

• Find the correct position of the mentioned acupuncture points and place your fingers on it. 

 

• Press the mentioned acupuncture points and gradually increase the power (you will feel a bit pain while pressing if you get the correct position of the acupuncture points) 

• At least one minutes massage (clockwise motion) for each of the mentioned acupuncture point.

You will see the miracle after completing the massaging :))

My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 2)

In the past post - My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 1), I have highlighted that, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine's view, most of the sensitive nasal problems (sneezing, runny, stuffy) are caused by "weak lung" and the "intrusion of chill" into human body. To reduce the sensitive nasal problem, we need to reduce the chill from "intruding" our body. Previously, I highlighted that always wear a long pant when we are staying in the air-conditioning environment because the meridian on the our legs are one of the main entry point for the chill. Besides that, there are few more important things that we need to concern in order to reduce the chill "intrude into our body" like :

• After washing your hair, always make the hair dry as soon as possible. 
• Never get your body exposed to the rain.
• Never have a cold drinks or foods. (This not only applicable to sensitive nose, it also bring a huge impact to your body in the life.)

If you wet your hair for quite a long time and do not dry it up, the chill will "intrude" into your body through the meridian on your head. If you have a cold drinks or foods, the chill will directly enter into your body through the stomach meridian. When the chill successful "intrude" into your body and your body doesn't have enough blood and Qi (I will create another post on explaining the function of blood and Qi in Traditional Chinese Medicine's view) to fend off the chill from your body, the chill will finally enter and remain deeply in your organ - Lung. It is very hard to fend off the remained chill in the lung without enough blood and Qi in the body. What is the impact ? Eventually, the sensitive nasal problems will follow you through the whole life.

I know some of the peoples will feel lucky as they do not encounter sensitive nasal problems even though they take the cold foods or drinks as usual, never dry the wet hair and some even take off their clothes to enjoy their sleep in the air-conditioning environment.........Bear in the mind, even though you do not have the sensitive nasal problem, it doesn't mean that your body is strong enough from protecting "the intrusion of chill". On the contrary, "the chill that intruded" into your body will bring other impact or problem to your body. If you able to reduce and fend off the chill from your body, you will not only reduce the probability of sensitive nose problems but you will also reduce the probability in generating extra & unused body fat in order to make yourself look youthful. I know it is not easy to adopt these good living habits, however, you will see the miracle if you do so ;)

Health is the root of beauty

When I am browsing the beauty forum, normally I will notice some of the common questions and comments in the posts like below:

1. Is this product really can remove dark circle ?
2. Which product can clean the spots ?
3. No No, this product is useless...
4. Try this xxxx product, it can let you look young, refresh your skin, whitening ...
5. The laser really good, it can rejuvenate your deep skin.....bla bla bla

When you are having the facial or skin problems, is the beauty product really the best way for you ?

Based on my experience and understanding, 20 percent of beauty depend on products while 80 percent of beauty depend on the health. 

I take dark circle as an example.

As we know, there are many factors that cause dark circle. Each dark circle case are subject to different curing methods. If there is any company, boasted that it's product 100% guarantee the effect for dark circle, it is absolutely a lie ! Even you try to consult a aesthetic doctor, using laser and injection, dark circle can only be reduced but not 100 percent diminished. In order to maintain the effect after the laser or injection, you will need to keep the laser or injection treatment as usual in a routine basis (maybe you are rich enough for that......) 

  

Traditional Chinese Medicine's View
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine view, all the facial or skin problems were come from the health issue (including dark circle) especially the five important organs in our body - Heart, Liver, Spleen, Lung and Kidney. The organs problems normally give us an early 'signal' and reflect on our face or skin by having dark circle, wrinkles ....... When you are healthy enough, with sufficient blood and Qi and ensure the healthy of five organs, the facial and skin problem will be gone automatically. 

However, it is not easy to turn our body into "true" healthy in a short period. We need more time and be patient. For conclusion, health is the best way to build "true" beauty instead of using numerous beauty product. In the future post, I will try to share more my healthy tips to you all in order to let us move towards the healthy and beauty life together ^^

Hiccups ! How Do I get Rid of it ?

Hiccups is an involuntary spasm of the diaphragm and respiratory organs. Normally it is caused by rapid eating, indigestion, carbonated beverages, alcohol, dry breads, and spicy foods or etc........ I believe most of you have the "experience" before, so I am not going to nagging too much here.

Normally what will you do to stop hiccups? Drink more water ? Drink Vinegar ? Hold your breath ? or...? Yes, sometime these highlighted ways may work for you , but sometime it may not work or may not last.....

My simple, effective and natural way

Use your fingers to massage "Cuan Zhu" acupuncture point  (攒竹穴) and "Yu Yao" acupuncture point (鱼腰穴)

• Find the right position of the mentioned acupuncture points and place your fingers on it.

• Press the mentioned acupuncture points and gradually increase the power (you will feel a bit pain while pressing if you get the correct position of the acupuncture points)

• One minutes massage (clockwise motion) for each of the mentioned acupuncture point.

You will find a relief after completing the massaging :))

My remedy for sensitive Sneezing, Runny & Stuffy Nose (Part 1)

Sensitive runny and stuffy nose are the nasal symptoms that I've always been plagued with. I had been consulting a lot of nasal specialist, try a lot of medicines, did nasal laser surgery treatment and etc........anyway my runny and stuffy nose problem still with me. Normally my stuffy nose problem happens at the night time before I am going to sleep (it is really a nightmare to get your nose blocked when you want to have a quality sleep) while my runny nose happens at the day time when I awake from my sweet dream.

Traditional Chinese Medicine's View

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine's theory, weak lung and the "intrusion of chill" to human body are the factors of causing all these nasal symptoms. Sneezing, runny & stuffy nose are the reaction of body to fend off the chill from the body. Due to the active of lung meridian (named 肺经 in mandarin) at 3 am till 5 am, most of the sneezing and runny nose issues will be happened during the morning period. To reduce all these nasal symptoms, first of all, we need to find a way to reduce "the level of chill enters into our body". According to the research, the meridian on the leg is one of the main entry point for the chill. To reduce all these nasal symptoms, please, always wear a long pant when you are staying in the air-conditioning environment or under cold weather  (To reduce the chill enter into your body through the meridian on the legs). Understand that many ladies love to wear skirt (some even with short skirt) in the air-conditioning office or some people love to wear short pants when enjoying their air-conditioning night sleep, but, please, please, don't do that especially for those who are suffering the nasal problem! Always try to to wear a long pant when you stay in a cold environment. I have tried this way for some time, yes, it works for me ....My nasal allergy medicine is no more in use as usual. When you are having the same nasal symptoms like me, keep using the nasal spray or having the allergic medicine as usual which can bring you the side effect, why not just have a try on this simple preventive step ? ;)

Stay Young ? Take regular naps !

A nap is a short period of sleep during the day time period. We will face drowsiness during waking hours maybe after having the lunch or due to not enough rest. According to research, most of the peoples used to take a cup of coffee to sustain and "refresh" from sleepiness in the afternoon. A cup may temporary help you, but it is not a good idea for your long term of health.

From Traditional Chinese Medical view, your body is lacking of "Blood and Qi" (which is a Traditional Chinese Medical phrase) when you feel tired or sleepiness. If you insist to continue your activity during this period, the body will try to use the "blood gas" that stored in the body organs (especially from liver) to maintain your activity. Sometime, you will even feel ok even though no need to take any coffee after sustain for some time...... because the body is overdrawing the "blood gas" from your organs to maintain your activity. On the same time, your organs performance will be affected due to the withdrawal of "blood gas". Slowly, due to the low performance of your organs, your health level will drop and your skin aging will speed up as well.

I used to nap about 30 minutes every day. After napping, I found that my body and mind totally look refresh. My skin condition looks smooth as well. Some people find that even 5 or 10 minutes of nap is enough to feel refreshed (so it is depend on your situation). If you try to maintain a regular napping habit for few years, you will find that you always look younger than those who are in the same range of age with you. So next time when you feel tires, instead of drinking coffee, why not just try a nap ?

Dry Lips ? Gargle with salt water !

Dry lips is one of the most disgusted symptom which is facing by most of the people nowadays. There are numerous factors which can lead us to such symptom like environment issue, drink not enough water, health issue and etc. As usual, when we have such symptom, normally we will go to the pharmacy or related shop to buy some lips oil to moisturize our lips. Indeed, I am the one who use lips oil on dry lips for many years. After a quite long period of using lip oil continuously, I notice that I seem to "addict" on using the lips oil (apply lips oil twice times per day for my dry lips). Indeed, it is just a palliative remedy, my dry lips symptom never turn better, keep using lips oil is just a temporary way for me to relieve the uncomfortable dry lips symptom.

One day, a doctor advised me to gargle with salt water (maybe he had been annoyed by me who keep requesting lips oil from him :P). So I tried the way continuously every night before I sleep. It works ! Nowadays I stop relying on lips oil but just gargle with salt water when the dry lips symptom happen. If you are facing the same problem, maybe you can have a try also ? ^^

*** Warning : Don't use your tongue to moist your dry lips with your saliva, it will only become worse ***

Feel sleepy...Coffee ? Don't over drink !

Nowadays, most of us having a crazy and busy life everyday. Overtime of work, tension, not enough sleep.....lead us to negative symptoms like sleepy, tired, hard to pay attention on our works and etc. So normally when you feel sleepy in the office, what will you do the next ? Coffee !!! Drink a cup of coffee to stimulate the brain and let the body to "forget" the sleepiness.

I did ask my colleague (who looks fatigue and I suspect he doesn't really with good health as well) how can he resist the fatigue/sleepiness for whole day without taking any nap in the afternoon (indeed, I used to take a short nap in the afternoon to give a pause for my body and recharge my power). Obviously, his answer is coffee. When feel sleepy, he will drink coffee. If feel sleepy again, drink another coffee again.....Yes, indeed this is the most common way for the office people to "hide" the fatigue and tiredness. The reason I use the word "hide" fatigue because coffee is just a temporary method for stimulate the nerves of the brain in order to suppress the fatigue. This doesn't mean that the fatigue has been gone, indeed the fatigue is still "store" on your body ! You will need "pay back the debt" later ! If you do not let your body to have a great pause and enough rest after that, the fatigue will still remain in your body. By continuing this bad habit without appropriate rest (bad life cycle), your health will fall into poor condition slowly (your skin will start aging earlier, sickness/disease will come to you sooner or later....).

A cup of coffee per day is good for your health and cheer up your day. However coffee is absolutely not the good and long-term way for anti-fatigue. To overcome fatigue, proper rest is the only and best way but not with coffee.

Moisturize your skin with Fish Oil Supplement

When we talk about fish oil supplement, normally an expert will list down a lot of benefits that we can gain from the fish oil like good for lung, smarten your brain, useful for health and bla bla bla. Yes, indeed I know there are thousand of benefits from fish oil but the only thing which I care is  moisturizing the skin. Everyday, I used to take at least one tablet of fish oil supplement in the morning after my breakfast. Sometime, if my skin is too dry, I might take two tablets or twice times a  day, which depend on the situation of my skin. After taking the fish oil supplement in a continuous days, the skin will become moisturized and not that dry & tight like a zombie........ So when you feel your skin condition become worse, perhaps you should take some fish oil supplements to get 'moisture from the inner skin layer' instead of just applying the moisturizer on the surface of the skin.