Tea tree oil

[randyt]

Every spring every fall I get a cough and it turns into a sinus infection. I fight it and fight it. I finally relent and take antibiotics to get over it.

A freind recommended that I dip s q.tip in tea tree oil and gently coat the inside of the nostrils. Best be careful tea tree oil is harsh.

I've done this twice at the start of a sinus infection and both times it worked so well.

 

[jazzy]

i love tea tree oil, and make some salve with it. also rubbed behind hear for an earache. didnt know about the nostril qtip , will try that next time. thaks!~

 

[LadyLocust]

I’m sensitive to tea tree and eucalyptus . I just got the Fire Cider recipe out though. Tea tree would be easier and smell better.

 

[Peanut]

I’m sensitive to tea tree and eucalyptus . I just got the Fire Cider recipe out though. Tea tree would be easier and smell better.

Funny, my herb friend heard about fire cider and made some this summer. She was telling me about it on the phone (and I was dying laughing)!!! She was expecting something pleasant, not the most god awful concoction ever dreamed up!

There is nothing fire cider can do that I can’t do with a few drops of tincture in my favorite beverage. I’ll stick with my tinctures. But I have wondered about the person who dreamed up fire cider… must have had a horrible childhood!!!

 

[DrHenley]

I’m sensitive to tea tree and eucalyptus .

Same here. I used it until I got sensitized and now I can't get anywhere near the stuff.

 

[LadyLocust]

Funny, my herb friend heard about fire cider and made some this summer. She was telling me about it on the phone (and I was dying laughing)!!! She was expecting something pleasant, not the most god awful concoction ever dreamed up!

There is nothing fire cider can do that I can’t do with a few drops of tincture in my favorite beverage. I’ll stick with my tinctures. But I have wondered about the person who dreamed up fire cider… must have had a horrible childhood!!!

What flavor (kind) of tincture? I am planning on R Gladstar’s recipe in ACV. I would just take a tablespoon daily sorta thing. The horseradish for sinuses was what caught my attention. I’m not a horseradish fan but I like breathing.

 

[Amish Heart]

Ugh. I think amish tonic is similar.
I like tea tree for a rough heel rub.

 

[Binky]

Every spring every fall I get a cough and it turns into a sinus infection. I fight it and fight it. I finally relent and take antibiotics to get over it.

A freind recommended that I dip s q.tip in tea tree oil and gently coat the inside of the nostrils. Best be careful tea tree oil is harsh.

I've done this twice at the start of a sinus infection and both times it worked so well.

You're right, it is harsh if it's undiluted - the same could be said about oregano oil too. Pure tea tree oil applied topically to sensitive skin with or near mucous membranes can burn the skin so be careful when using it on the inside of the sensitive skinned nostrils, ok. If in doubt about the potency of your tea tree oil it won't hurt to dilute it a little bit with a gentler oil that's good to put on tender skin, such as olive oil, which feeds the skin and helps reduce the harshness of the tea tree oil.

 

[Binky]

Funny, my herb friend heard about fire cider and made some this summer. She was telling me about it on the phone (and I was dying laughing)!!! She was expecting something pleasant, not the most god awful concoction ever dreamed up!

There is nothing fire cider can do that I can’t do with a few drops of tincture in my favorite beverage. I’ll stick with my tinctures. But I have wondered about the person who dreamed up fire cider… must have had a horrible childhood!!!

There are so many various newly invented recipes for fire cider online now but it's my understanding that the person who originally popularized fire cider in the 1970's is a wisewoman type herbalist and educator named Rosemary Gladstar. I don't know what her childhood was like but I think she must have grown up with a cast iron stomach.

 

[Peanut]

What flavor (kind) of tincture? I am planning on R Gladstar’s recipe in ACV. I would just take a tablespoon daily sorta thing. The horseradish for sinuses was what caught my attention. I’m not a horseradish fan but I like breathing.

All my tinctures are alcohol based and simple. Because I don't have extra energy (cfs) to spend on flavors or premixing more complex medicines I mix only when there is an immediate need.

I rarely get flu or cold symptoms. I sometimes feel a virus attack but not always. The reason is several of the tinctures I take for other health issues also happen have strong antiviral components. For example poke root I take for arthritis has a powerful antiviral component. It's not something I take daily, only when my hands are achy. So I always have low levels of antivirals in my system.

Only 3 times since '08 have I actually gotten the 'flu', had symptoms lasting several days. Each time I had badly over stressed my body (and immune system) and was very vulnerable to viruses. For example, jan of 20, dad was in the icu for 23days. I was sleeping in a chair in his hosp. rm, eating poorly, in a hosp during a mini-flu epidemic and didn't have my tinctures with me... I got very sick.

When I first feel a virus attack my body I throw everything I have at it, shotgun effect. Example, on an overnight trip to TN to have my guitar worked on I was 100miles from home when I felt a bad virus. I stopped and took a round of tinctures and continued for the next 24hrs. Still got a fever before I got to TN, was one sick puppy in my hotel that night. Glad my rm had double beds, I broke my fever twice during night, soaked the sheets on one bed, had to move to the other but by morning I no longer had the flu. My methods work very well for me. They may not work for others...

This is my tincture travel kit, I even have it in my truck when I go to town for groceries. Because of chronic fatigue syndrome getting groceries can over stress my body and leave me vulnerable to viruses, just about everything I do over stresses my body so.... I have little one ounce plastic cups for tinctures in my kit. I put in a few drops of this or that, add water, soda, what ever is handy and drink it down. (its a child's tackle box I lined with foam)

 

[Patchouli]

Every spring every fall I get a cough and it turns into a sinus infection. I fight it and fight it. I finally relent and take antibiotics to get over it.

A freind recommended that I dip s q.tip in tea tree oil and gently coat the inside of the nostrils. Best be careful tea tree oil is harsh.

I've done this twice at the start of a sinus infection and both times it worked so well.

Yeah diluting tea tree oil with a safe carrier oil would serve best. I would use olive oil as someone else suggested. Sounds like you have an allergy that turns into an infection. Annoying! You could also try searching online for homeopathic tinctures for seasonal allergies. There’s one I use specifically for Texas pollens, works for me.

 

[Peanut]

Just to add in way of explanation… the first few years I had cfs I was a bed ridden mess just like all the others. I was chronically sick with the flu and a host of other common issues. As it happens, many of the things I’ve learned to do to cope with cfs, also prepare me very well for common maladies like the flu. Yall would laugh, or think I was nuts if you knew some of extremes I go too just to live. (but its the difference in being bedridden and going to the mtn to play music or hunting plants in the woods)

But many are just common sense… fluids*, regular sleep patterns, diet, I have to watch these like a hawk. These things are also great at combating the flu… and preventing the flu… or sinus infections. The most important is that I have to monitor how I feel minute by minute. Cfs symptoms change by the hour and I have to respond instantly to have any kind of life.

Because I’m practiced at recognizing symptoms I know within minutes if what I’m feeling is normal crappy cfs symptoms or… the flu. I go into attack mode right then. I don’t wait till I get home, don’t wait to take something before bed and most definitely don’t just hope I’ll feel better tomorrow. I can’t treat cfs symptoms like that and don’t treat the flu like that either..

Back to the OP and sinus infections… @randyt water, how much do you drink in a day? You may not need tree tea oil at all…

From the Cleveland clinic… and recommended intake.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/...s-an-often-overlooked-health-risk-for-seniors


My dad gets 5 to 7 infections every year, basically every other month. Its either a sinus infection or a UTI. All of them are the direct result of his poor water consumption… He consumes less than 30oz of liquid a day. He should be consuming 100oz a day. A few cups of coffee in the morning and a glass of milk with supper ISN’T enough!

Think about it… fall is usually a dry time of year, dusty even. Also, people start running their heat for the first time, which drops humidity levels in the home. Both sap water from our bodies.

Combine those with poor hydration and you're a walking sinus infection waiting to happen.

Instead of tree tea oil you might just need to drink a gallon of water each day.

 

[Weedygarden]

My dad gets 5 to 7 infections every year, basically every other month. Its either a sinus infection or a UTI. All of them are the direct result of his poor water consumption… He consumes less than 30oz of liquid a day. He should be consuming 100oz a day. A few cups of coffee in the morning and a glass of milk with supper ISN’T enough!

I know someone who lived on Mountain Dew, probably drank a 6 pack a day. His Dr. told him to quit and to drink water. He told me that water is just nasty to drink. What? So opposite of me.

I drink a double cup of coffee in the morning, and mostly water the rest of the day. I will drink milk in the evening upon occasion and a cup of hot herbal tea especially in the winter. I don't think that I have ever tasted Mountain Dew. On hot days when I have been sweating, I do drink a ginger ale or sprite to help my electrolytes. I do make pitchers of electrolyte replacement, but not as often as I could or should. Koolaid (powdered) with less sugar than called for and salt, no salt, salt replacement. The recipe is here somewhere, maybe more than one recipe is here somewhere.

What I wonder is if there is a way to encourage him to drink more? I don't think that drinking soda's is good for any of us, but maybe some beverage that he might like that isn't full of chemicals and sugar? Herbal tea with a little honey? You might have to make it for him, and I don't think that you see him every day?

 

[randyt]

Just to add in way of explanation… the first few years I had cfs I was a bed ridden mess just like all the others. I was chronically sick with the flu and a host of other common issues. As it happens, many of the things I’ve learned to do to cope with cfs, also prepare me very well for common maladies like the flu. Yall would laugh, or think I was nuts if you knew some of extremes I go too just to live. (but its the difference in being bedridden and going to the mtn to play music or hunting plants in the woods)

But many are just common sense… fluids*, regular sleep patterns, diet, I have to watch these like a hawk. These things are also great at combating the flu… and preventing the flu… or sinus infections. The most important is that I have to monitor how I feel minute by minute. Cfs symptoms change by the hour and I have to respond instantly to have any kind of life.

Because I’m practiced at recognizing symptoms I know within minutes if what I’m feeling is normal crappy cfs symptoms or… the flu. I go into attack mode right then. I don’t wait till I get home, don’t wait to take something before bed and most definitely don’t just hope I’ll feel better tomorrow. I can’t treat cfs symptoms like that and don’t treat the flu like that either..

Back to the OP and sinus infections… @randyt water, how much do you drink in a day? You may not need tree tea oil at all…

From the Cleveland clinic… and recommended intake.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/...s-an-often-overlooked-health-risk-for-seniors
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My dad gets 5 to 7 infections every year, basically every other month. Its either a sinus infection or a UTI. All of them are the direct result of his poor water consumption… He consumes less than 30oz of liquid a day. He should be consuming 100oz a day. A few cups of coffee in the morning and a glass of milk with supper ISN’T enough!

Think about it… fall is usually a dry time of year, dusty even. Also, people start running their heat for the first time, which drops humidity levels in the home. Both sap water from our bodies.

Combine those with poor hydration and you're a walking sinus infection waiting to happen.

Instead of tree tea oil you might just need to drink a gallon of water each day.

I probably drink 8 to 10 glasses a day not all water but liquids

 

[randyt]

Since my kidney stone troubles I've been drinking more

 

[Peanut]

In summer I get more than 100oz of water each day but I spend a lot of time outside sweating. I make the extra effort because with cfs I get a lot of headaches anyway. Dehydration causes me to have more of them.

But in fall I don't drink enough because I don't feel as thirsty, only about 80oz a day. But as soon as I start getting sinus congestion from dry air I make an effort to step up my water intake. My congestion goes away and my joints feel a bit better too.

I get bone and joint pain because of cfs... I can really tell when my joints aren't properly lubricated. Again... many of the things that help with cfs also act as a preventative for respiratory issues like flu symptoms and sinus congestion.