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What are nasal polyps?

Nose polyps are tiny tissue growths on the surface of the mucous membrane-the lining of the nasal passage-that are soft and noncancerous.

What causes nasal polyps?

Patients with asthma, allergies, recurrent infections, and nasal inflammation are prone to this affliction. Chronic inflammation in the nasal and sinus cavity is the leading cause of the nasal Polyps.

What are the symptoms of nasal polyps?

Common symptoms that indicate the presence of nasal polyps are a patient’s running/stuffy nose, mucus running down the throat, being unable to smell or taste properly, facial pain or headache, tooth pain, snoring, and a feeling of pressure on the forehead and face. People with nasal polyps have constant nasal congestion, which can lead to anxiety and insomnia.

What is the treatment available to address nasal polyps’ affliction?

Allopathic treatment consists of simple outpatient surgery and medication that reduces the nasal polyps and thus palliates symptoms.

However, Herbs for Nasal polyps are often viewed by medical practitioners as treating root cause of the nasal polyps: chronic inflammation. After the inflammation is gone, you will not have  more nasal polyps growing back again.

It is observed that even after surgery nasal polyps reappear. Therefore, it is crucially important that a root cause treatment should be solicited for long-term relief. Some patients can have more than three time surgeries to remove the nasal polyps and still has congestion after each surgery.

Holistic Remedies

Holistic treatment therapies along with the use of herb extracts and acupuncture go a long way to ensure extended and long-lived relief from debilitating symptoms of nasal polyp problems. Natural remedies are also found to be equally potent to treat this issue.

Combing herbs, acupuncture and other natural and holistic remedies like nasal irrigation, and steam inhalation including showers, baths, steam rooms, humidifiers or boiling water steam do wonders in the treatment of polyps.

The popular TCM center, Boca Acupuncture Clinic treats nasal polyps with a personalized regimen of holistic, natural, and herbal therapies.

It is well known that the herbal extracts can be combined with acupuncture treatment to clear up the chronic inflammation much faster. People can breathe better with more oxygen, which balance their nervous system and immune function.

Which herbs are commonly used for nasal polyps?

Given below are some of the herbs and their concoctions that are commonly used for nasal polyps:

1) Stinging Nettle leaves are used for its anti-inflammatory effects and easing of nasal congestion.

2) Garlic is used for its anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial nature that stops further exacerbating the condition.

3) Bromelain, an enzyme in pineapple, that helps reduce swelling and congestion-related issues.

3) Eucalyptus oil inhalation therapy provides a short-term interim relief from nasal congestion.

4) Grape Seed Extract, some preliminary studies suggest that it has anti-inflammatory properties.

Nasal polyps have remained a debilitating condition to date which the current Allopathic medicine protocol has not been able to address if patients cannot find the root cause of nasal polyps.

However, therapies with extracts of Herbs for nasal polyps, according to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are known to yield satisfactory results that help patients to experience symptomatic relief from nasal polyp symptoms and prevent the nasal polyps growing back. It is cheaper to use single herbs listed above to treat this condition, but if you take the above single herbs for more than a year and can’t get good results, it will be wise to find an herbalist to put the herbs together to target different organs. Boca and Boston acupuncturist

Li Zheng and Changhong Zhou have combined over 60 years of experiences to make a formula for different constitutions in order to get the fastest result for nasal polyps.

Many retiree experience dramatic relive from nasal congestion after receiving herbal and acupuncture treatments offered by acupuncturist and herbalist in Boca, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach, Coral Springs, Parkland, Pompano Beach, Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Fort Lauderdale, Coconut Creek and Boca Raton.  The mucus cleared up and did not recur for over a couple of years which is a major relief to the patients from pain and anxiety as long as they stay in a healthy diet and life style. Furthermore, this will save a lot of money for the insurance company such as blue cross and blue shield, the best insurance in USA.

Therefore, utilizing herbs in conjunction with acupuncture efficiently treats nasal polyps’ symptoms and prevent their recurrence to avoid multiple surgery will save our country money.

Treatment for nasal polyps with herbs has few adverse effects; furthermore people noticed that they have improved digestion and sleep to cope with daily stress when they can breath in more oxygen.