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Natural remedies for hay fever are in great demand as confidence in medications and drugs for this distressing condition collapses.
Most natural remedies for allergies, though, revolve around food and herbs. The reason is simple. Certain substances, such as pollen, dust and animal mites and certain foods, weaken your immune system, which then in an effort to redress the balance over-reacts and puts itself under stress, thereby causing the symptoms we know as hay fever.
What we need, therefore, is to ingest foods that will strengthen our immune system and restore it to its normal balance. Here are the main foods and herbs that you need.
Raw and locally produced honey
Honey helps boost the immune system and lower your susceptibility to hay fever by decreasing your sensitivity to pollen, and it also helps you to develop an immunity if it is locally produced as it contains local pollen itself. If you can, take honey regularly throughout the year to keep your immune system strong. Only take raw honey bought from the producer or your local health food shop, not the mass-produced stuff found in supermarkets.
Nettles
The nettle herb is anti-inflammatory and also acts as an anti-histamine, and is completely natural. It has been shown to strengthen the body's defence mechanism and reduce the body's response to pollen. The best way of taking this herb is by way of capsules, found in health food shops, or you could take it as a herbal tea, perhaps with some raw honey in it. You should start taking it at least a month before the hay fever season starts.
Vitamin C
Most people take capsules of 25 to 50 milligrams a day to combat hay fever, but you can take as much as 10 grams if you are suffering from a severe attack.
Onions are another great source of Vitamin C, and more natural than capsules, especially as they also contain quercetin, a very strong herb often used to treat herpes and at its strongest when combined with honey (not, perhaps, in the same mouthful, but in the same meal). They help strengthen the immune system.
Butterbur
This helps the body combat allergies, and also helps with non-allergic ailments. You can drink it as a tea or take it as a capsule.
Garlic
Like onions, garlic contains quercetin. It can be added to foods or taken as capsules. Capsules are better if you don't want your breath to smell strongly.
Turmeric
This is an anti-inflammatory herb that can be added to foods or taken in capsule form.
Ginkgo
This has been used for hundreds of years and was a favorite of the ancient Chinese in treating memory loss. It is a circulation enhancing herb, but can also help with allergies like hay fever.
Goldenseal
This is probably labelled for the treatment of colds and 'flu in your local health food shop, but it can in fact be used also for combating allergies including hay fever.
Foods containing magnesium
These include almonds, soy beans, brown rice and kidney beans. For clearing the nasal passages, try cayenne and horseradish, or put some eucalyptus oil in a steam bath and breathe the vapours deeply.
There are doubtless other herbal and natural remedies not covered here, and you may have your own ideas of a hay fever cure, but this should help you get started in combating your hay fever, hopefully before it even starts. Certainly natural remedies for hay fever are beginning to come into their own, and for good reason. They work.
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