How To Combat Allergies With Homeopathic Remedies

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Allergies could be around for a season or they could linger all-year-round, making your life a constant battle against a stuffy nose and watery eyes. When you’re tired of trying all sorts of prescribed medications and over-the-counter treatments, maybe it’s time to look towards natural remedies for your allergies. Try to experiment with these nine homeopathic remedies if you’re living your life next to a box of tissues.

Alkaline Diet

An alkaline diet is filled with fruits, nuts, legumes and vegetables. You could consider this a plant-based diet. An alkaline diet is on the opposite end of the spectrum from an acidic diet, which is packed with all of the meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, grains and alcohol.

When you pump your body with an alkaline diet, you’re helping to balance the conditions in your body that may lead to sensitivities like inflammation. If you’re trying to minimize allergic reactions, the less chance for inflammation, the better.

Local Honey

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Seasonal allergies can be a bitch. It all happens when plants start to produce pollen (the powder-like substance that helps plants reproduce) and people inhale that pollen. When someone eats local honey, it means they’re digesting local pollen and over time, this could act like a vaccine against pollen in your neighborhood. This might not translate if you’re traveling a lot, but for someone who doesn’t stray far from the same city or neighborhood, it doesn’t hurt to try this as a homeopathic treatment.

Butterbur

This particular type of marsh plant has been a staple of homeopathic treatments. It grows throughout parts of North America and Asia. There’s research that says butterbur is effective in treating migraines and potentially your allergies.

Butterbur seems to act as a leukotriene receptor inhibitor (a leukotriene receptor is an inflammatory chemical that triggers allergic reactions in your body). Before allergy season starts up, you can take butterbur in capsule form to give your body a chance at fighting possible allergy-triggering variables around you.

Allium Cepa

You might know allium cepa more commonly as the red onion. Allium cepa is used in reaction to non-irritating watery discharge from your eyes and nose that come about during allergy season. You can try it in pellet form when you start to notice runny nose symptoms.

Nettle Leaf Tea

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On a basic level, nettles are herbs with leaves, roots and stems. Nettles have anti-inflammatory properties so it’s never a bad idea to take nettles when allergies are bothering you (that is, unless you have an allergy to the herb or you’re taking a medication that might not interact well with it). It’s not recommended to take nettles on a long-term daily basis, but you can take it in capsule form or herbal tea form when pollen comes into high gear.

Natrum Muriaticum

For those times when you’re having watery or egg white-like nasal discharge, headaches or sneezing, a homeopathic remedy to try is natrum muriaticum, also known as sodium chloride. It’s prepared from common table salt and when it’s taken in potent doses it can treat a whole range of symptoms. You can introduce it into your body in pellet form.

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