Holistic Health and Me

Holistic Happens–Allergies

The flowers that bloom in the Spring, tra-la. Or perhaps not. Is anyone else out there sneezing their brains out more than usual this Spring?  We did have a wet winter and spring so far, so it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the flowers, weeds, trees, shrubs, bushes and any other greenery I may have omitted are all really doing their Spring thing and having a major pollen party. 

Just take a look at the giant Mesquite tree blooming outside my house and the yellow puddles of flower dust piled up under it.  Makes me snuffle just looking at the photo.  As much as I try to keep it out of my house and don protective mask and bandana around my face and use the blower or broom to get it away from my front door, it blows right back.  What is the point, anyway? It is all around.  I would have to stay inside with the windows and doors shut tight to avoid it completely.  In general, the other stuff like spores, dust and pollutants floating around on the Spring breeze aren’t helping.

I know I am not alone. An estimated  60-million people in the US suffer from allergies.  But being one who hates the dry, woozy feeling that antihistamines bring on, I take them only when I am at the end of my rope of used Kleenexes.   Mostly, like so many others, I simply suffer along sporting a red, itchy nose that is alternately clogged or drippy, watery, itchy eyes and a tickle-y throat that, when nobody else is around, causes me to make funny sounds to try to scratch it.

Then, like the sun breaking through a massive cloud of white, puffy hankies, it dawned on me.  Some allergies, so I have heard, can be successfully treated with proper holistic health remedies and natural treatments.  Working at Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, I have access to a wealth of wellness practitioners. Well duh on me for not thinking of that sooner.  One person at SWIHA told me that among other holistic treatments, local natural honey can help local pollen allergies.  A quick Google search turned up a lot of information on that.  I found a honey supplier in Tempe that produces natural honey from Central Arizona. I am going to give it a try, along with other information about holistic allergy treatments that I can mine from the experts available at SWIHA, and report back on it.

Until then, please feel free to share what natural allergy remedies work for you.

Merry L.