Hay fever affects your sinuses, therefore, causing headaches. Hay fever affects your sinuses because pollen or dust is not a cause but a trigger of inflammation in the body caused by our eating and lifestyle habits.
Individuals with severe hay fever issues often find that it can disrupt their productivity at school or work. Inflammation of the sinuses (sinusitis) is a common complication of hay fever.
You might see a lot of advice for natural antihistamines such as butterbur, quercetin, or acupuncture, and all these are for allergies. However, we are approaching it from a hot and cold food perspective based on the system of healing (Ayurveda).
In diabetes, the sugar intake needs to be in control and the time and quantity of food. In the case of hay fever, we need to keep the balance between the hot and cold foods that we consume.
From the perspective of Ayurveda, a healthy body has a balance of hot and cold, and lung health problems are related to excess coldness in the body. Phlegm is characteristically cold. So, excess mucus is the indicator of the imbalance which affects sinuses.
Below are the symptoms of excess phlegm in the lungs, which also happen to be the symptoms of hay fever:
Excess phlegm/hay fever symptoms:
• Runny nose
• Stuff or clogged nose • Sneezing
• Heavy head
• Coughing out phlegm
• Itchy or tingling nose
• Reduced sense of smell
Old excess phlegm/hay fever symptoms:
• All the above
• Dry coughing
• Watery eyes
• Phlegm coming in the throat
• Earache
• Chest congestion or tightness
• Shortness of breath
• Feeling tired
• Wheeze
• Yellow, green colour phlegm
• Bad Breath
• Loss of sense of smell
All these symptoms and the intensity, along with the duration of their triggers, depends on how old the excess phlegm in your lungs is and if the excess phlegm generation problem is chronic.
From the perspective of Ayurveda, a healthy body has a balance of hot and cold, and lung health problems are related to excess coldness in the body. Phlegm has cold properties. So, excess mucus is the indicator of the imbalance. The symptoms of excess phlegm in the lungs and hay fever have uncanny similarities.
Based on the Ayurveda perspective, our body’s hot and cold body balance can be restored and maintained through daily food. As simple as it may sound, the cold and heat imbalance can be addressed through some specific but easy-to-make daily food preparations. Avoiding food that creates coldness in the body and consuming food that makes heat in the body can work magic in getting long term relief from headaches, hayfever cough, hayfever sore throat and other phlegm related problems.
