Since information has been very much available to everyone, people have become more conscious of the many side effects that they can suffer from due to taking too many medications. As a result, a lot of people have reverted to natural healing techniques. One form of natural healing is by using what we eat or drink to help treat diseases or illness. Read on and find-out how you can get these natural stuff to fight on your side against sinus infection.

Citrus Fruits

Juicy, pulpy, sweet-sour citrus fruits like oranges and lemons are good for sinus infection. Taking in the juice does not only increase your oral fluid intake to loosen mucus secretions, but also gives you an extra dose of Vitamin C, which can help boost your immune system.

Garlic

This might get your breath a little nasty, yes, but a good toothbrush time can fix that for you. Putting aside this little disadvantage, garlic can be considered as super food. It’s packed with vitamins and it has anti-inflammatory properties. It is also very well-known for its ability to lower down blood pressure. What’s more is that it has a substance called "allicin" which has antimicrobial properties against bacteria and fungi. For sinus infection, you can enjoy the benefits of garlic either by pounding it and then taking in the extracted juice, mixed with a squeeze of lemon juice; or by adding crushed cloves into a pot of boiling water during steam inhalation.

Spices

Some like it hot, and for good reasons! Spicing up your food with chili, cayenne powder and the like, can give instant relief from decongestion when you have a sinus infection or colds. It is so effective that some over-the-counter decongestants even have the substance "capsaicin", which is naturally contained in pepper, as one of their active ingredients.

Water

Indeed, water is vital to our health, to our very existence. But, as for sinus infections, here are some ways to use water to treat your problematic sinuses:

• First, simply increasing your water intake when you have colds or sinus infection can already do you a lot of good because it loosens mucus so you can easily expel it.

• Next, you can do nasal or sinus irrigation. This process can also help wash away excess mucus, debris and bacteria, to relieve congestion and ward-off infection. This can be done by flushing your sinuses with warm saline. The salt helps to shrink the inflamed sinuses. You can use simple gadgets like a neti-pot or a syringe with the needle removed. However, there are also commercial irrigators available in the market right now. One of them is the ActiveSinus, by Sinus Dynamics. The advantage of using ActiveSinus over similar gadgets is that the irrigator comes with pre-mixed saline packets containing all natural sea salt. This is your guarantee that the solution is sterile and the water-salt ratio is ideal to ensure maximum effects. Aside from saline solution, Sinus Dynamics also creates or compounds sinus medications for sinus irrigation. This process, termed medicated irrigation, allows decongestants, antibiotics and antifungal medications to come in direct contact with the affected sinuses for immediate relief without systemic effects.