Post Nasal Drip (PND)

Post Nasal Drip (PND)

Post nasal drip is the backward flow of mucus down your throat.

The constant dripping of mucus down your throat, irritiation and congestion, are just some of the symptoms we know only too well. Many think this condition will just go away on its own, but after waiting for months even years, you are here reading this page and wondering whether you will find some relief. Untreated post nasal drip often leads to a sinus infection or nasal polyps.

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Index
What is Post Nasal Drip?
Nasal anatomy.
What is the function of mucus?
What happens when the body increases its mucus production?
What causes Post Nasal Drip?
What are the Symptoms of Post Nasal Drip?
How can I effectively treat my Post Nasal Drip?

What is Post Nasal Drip?

Post Nasal Drip is the backward flow of mucus from the sinus cavities into the back of the throat. When one has Post Nasal drip they may experience one or more of the following:

• Mucus stuck at the back of your throat.
• A constant dripping of mucus down the back of your throat.
• Sore or infected throat.
• Constantly coughing or clearing your throat.
• A gruffy voice
• Constant wanting to blow your nose.

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Nasal anatomy

Our nose is one of the easiest organs in our body that bacteria containing particles can invade and it provides a medium in which bacteria can flourish. Two of the nose’s main fighting agents against these dangerous particles are cilia and mucus.

• Cilia are hair like structures found in the nasal passages which help transport mucus efficiently and effectively from the nasal passages towards the throat where it is swallowed and destroyed by the strong stomach acids.
• Mucus is a thick, slippery fluid produced by the membrane that lines the nasal passages, throat and sinus cavities.

Post nasal drip is the feeling of mucus, which may be thick, colored or even infected, accumulating in the back of the naso-pharynx and throat or dripping down the back of the nose into the throat.

What is the function of mucus?

The body normally produces around two cups of mucus a day, which is usually swallowed unconsciously. Mucus is importants to the body's natural balance and provides the following functions:

• Moistens and humidifies dry air
• Helps trap and remove foreign particles
• Helps get rid off bacteria and infections

What happens when the body increases its mucus production?

The body's normal mucus production can at times be accelerated as a result of an infection, foreign particle or allergic reaction to an allergen within the nasal passages and sinus cavities. This invasion of our delicate nose and surrounding structures results in the body sending white blood cells to the membrane lining of the nose as well as swelling of the nasal linings causing our bodies to produce more mucus to help flush away the irritant or bacteria containing particles.

As a result of the increased mucus production, the cilia are unable to transport mucus effectively, allowing the mucus to become thick and tenacious. This results in a blockage of the nasal passages and sinus cavities. The only alternative way for the mucus to exit these spaces is therefore down the back of your throat resulting in post nasal drip.

Our personal reaction to this increased mucus production is however the opposite of our bodies. We strive to get rid of it by blowing our noses, coughing or hawking the mucus up from the back of our throats and then swallowing. What you don't know however is that if there is a mucus infection or bacteria present in the mucus, it may be transferred into the ears via the delicate Eustachian tubes, forced into the sinus cavities or even cause chest and throat infections.

What causes Post Nasal Drip?

• Inhaled Irritants - These minute particles cause swelling of the nasal and sinus lining and originate mostly in areas with a lot of smog and dust.
• Dairy Products - These food substances may cause ones mucus to thicken, making effective mucus drainage difficult. Dairy products also cause an irritation to the delicate mucus membrane lining and stimulate the nasal lining to increase their production of mucus.
• Continuously eating foods that you are allergic too - This will cause mucus to thicken, resulting in poor mucus drainage and congested nasal passages.
• Living in dry areas - This dry environment may cause the drying out of nasal mucus, making it thick and difficult to get rid off. This stagnant mucus is then a perfect host for bacteria to live and thrive in.
• Smoking - Causes an irritation and inflammation of the delicate mucus membrane lining of the nasal passages. This causes an increase in the amount of mucus the nasal membrane secretes.
  Smoking also causes damage to the cilia, decreasing their ability to transport this excess mucus.
• Avoid drinking caffeine containing products and alcohol - As these substances may cause the drying out and thickening of mucus.
• Colds and flu - Ones immune system is lowered when one is suffering from a cold or flu. This makes it easier for a person to develop post nasal drip and sinus infections.
• Throat and Swallowing disorders - These disorders may result in an accumulation of fluids, mucus and solid particles in the back of the throat. This accumulation of foods and liquids may cause the glands of your throat to increase their mucus production resulting in post nasal drip.
  Any growth or swelling in, or at the back of the throat may also prevent one from swallowing the mucus which will then stagnate, becoming thick and tenacious and creating another perfect environment for sinusitis creating bacteria.
• Pregnancy and Birth control pills - Both these factors cause fluctuations in ones bodily hormones. These fluctuations may cause one to experience an increase in mucus production and consequently result in post nasal drip.

What are the Symptoms of Post Nasal Drip?

• A constant cough and a need to clear ones throat regularly
• Frequent sore throats
• A upset stomach due to an excess of slightly acidic mucus running down the back of your throat and into your digestive system
• A bad breath or "halitosis" may be due to a sinus infection with post nasal drip
• A person swallows less frequently when sleeping which causes an accumulation of mucus and fluids to build up at the back of the throat. This results in coughing, sneezing and hawking up of thick mucus in the morning after one has woken up.

What are the consequences of untreated Post Nasal Drip?

Untreated post nasal drip may lead to:

• A sore throat
• Upper respiratory infections
• Ear infections and sinus related tinnitus due to the sinus infection spreading to the ears via the delicate Eustachian tubes.
  (Tinnitus is a condition whereby continuous ringing, buzzing or other sounds are heard by a person without there being any external source of sounds).
• A sinus infection which is usually noticeable by green, yellow, white, opaque, grey or colored mucus may occur. This happens when bacteria containing particles become trapped in the mucus and begin to multiply. This mucus provides an environment in which bacteria can thrive, not only increasing the duration that one will have a sinus infection, but also the severity of the sinus infection.
• Halitosis or severe bad breath which not only affects ones confidence levels but also ones ability to form strong relationships.

How can I effectively treat my Post Nasal Drip?

It is important that one drink lots of water during the day as these liquids help stimulate mucus flow, preventing it from becoming stagnant and thick.

Washing your nasal passages regularly with a saline solution containing no preservatives helps to wash away any harmful bacteria or foreign particles which may be trapped in the nasal passages or sinus cavities. This irrigation of ones nasal cavities will not however treat the underlying cause of a sinus infection or sinus related conditions.

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Homeopathy

Homeopathy (also spelled Homoeopathy or Homœopathy) is a form of alternative medicine, first proposed by German physician Samuel Hahnemann in 1796, that treats patients with heavily diluted preparations which are thought to cause effects similar to the symptoms presented. Homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution with shaking by forceful striking, which homeopaths term "succussion," after each dilution under the assumption that this increases the effect of the treatment. Homeopaths call this process "potentization". Dilution often continues until none of the original substance remains.^[1]

Apart from the symptoms of the disease, homeopaths use aspects of the patient's physical and psychological state in recommending remedies.^[2] Homeopathic reference books known as repertories are then consulted, and a remedy is selected based on the totality of symptoms. Homeopathic remedies are considered safe, with rare exceptions.^[3] However, some homeopaths have been criticized for putting patients at risk with advice to avoid conventional medicine such as vaccinations,^[4] anti-malarial drugs,^[5] and antibiotics.^[6] In many countries, the laws that govern the regulation and testing of conventional drugs do not apply to homeopathic remedies.^[7]

Claims of homeopathy's efficacy beyond the placebo effect are unsupported by the collective weight of scientific and clinical evidence.^{[8][9][10][11][12]} While some studies have positive results, systematic reviews of all the published trials fail to conclusively demonstrate efficacy.^{[13][14][15][16][17]} Furthermore, higher quality trials tend to report less positive results,^[18][15] and most positive studies have not been replicated or show methodological problems that prevent them from being considered unambiguous evidence of homeopathy's efficacy.^{[8][11][19][20]}

Homeopathic remedies generally contain few or no pharmacologically active ingredients,^[21] and for such remedies to have pharmacological effect would violate fundamental principles of science.^[12][22] Modern homeopaths have proposed that water has a memory that allows homeopathic preparations to work without any of the original substance; however, the physics of water are well understood, and no known mechanism permits such a memory.^[22][23] The lack of convincing scientific evidence supporting homeopathy's efficacy^[24] and its use of remedies lacking active ingredients have caused homeopathy to be described as pseudoscience^[25] and (more plainly) as quackery by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.^[26] and more recent writers.^[27][28][29]

Homeopathic Pharmacy
Drug Administration
In Homoeopathy mode of administration is special and is based on the following guidelines given in the Organon of Medicine. (1) Medicines are given by oral and olfaction method. (2) 'In no case it is requisite to administer more than one single, simple medicine at one time' (See 272, 5th edition, Organon of Medicine.) (3) 'It is wrong to attempt to employ complex means when simple means suffice'. (4) 'The smaller the dose of the homoeopathic remedy is, so much the slighter and shorter is this apparent increase of the disease'. (5) 'This minutest yet powerful dose of the best selected medicine be repeated at suitable intervals which experiences shall pronounce to be best adopted for accelerating to cure i.e. do not repeat so long the signs of improvement continue. (6) Corporeal constitution, magnitude of the disease, nature of the medicinal substance-specially in psoric cases will decide the question of 'smallest dose' and repetition. (7) There are specific instructions for application of a remedy in cases of intermittent fever. The best time is-when the temperature is coming down. In case of menstrual difficulties, the best time is the post menstrual period. (8) The diet and regimen which can have any medicinal action should not be taken, in order that the small dose may not be over-whelmed and extinguished or disturbed by any irritant. (9) Medicines should not be given during their aggravation time (day or night) of the drug. (10) The most appropriate and efficacious time for administering the medicine in cases of intermittent fever is immediately or very soon after the termination of the paroxism (Vide aphorism 236-237, 5th edition of Organon of Medicine). In this context a person concerned with Homoeopathy should read the following aphorism of 5th edition of Organon of Medicine-288, 289, 290,291, 292. Footnote 2(288), 1(239), 1(292).

Homeopathic Materia Medica

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Homeopathic Vehicles

The term 'vehicle' implies, "Means of conveyance or transmission", In Homeopathy vehicle is a substance, in which medicines are prepared or mixed and given for their internal administrations either by oral or olfaction method and external application for medications. These substances are comparatively inert as such taken as a means of developing the therapeutic activity of medicinal substance.

AN IDEAL VEHICLE

I. It must not have any medicinal property of its own.

2. It should be chemically neutral; neither acidic nor alkaline in medicinal effects. They must not undergo change or decomposition,

3, The above two specific properties are more applicable to those which are used in potentising medicines.

4. It must be harmless regarding its action on human organisms. The pharmacological message of the original drug is not disturbed in any way.

5 It should be capable of carrying the dynamic powers of drugs into interior human organisms to fight the disease force.

6. It should be edible and palatable.

Uses of Vehicles :

1. Vehicles are used in the preparation of mother tinctures, mother solutions and mother powders from crude drug materials and without any vehicles these preparation could not be made.

2. It is used for further triturations and increased potentisation from the mother, so that pharmaceutical message is easily carried and therapeutic values are retained of the particular drug substances.

3 Used as bases for preparing external applications of medicines.

4. For dispensing medicines or remedies according to the prescriptions of physicians.

5. Vehicles like olive oil, vaseline, glycerine, etc. are themselves applied externally as a mechanical aid only.

6. As a preservant or certain medicines, vehicle like alcohol is mixed in certain percentage with the freshly expressed juices of plants (vide Organon of Medicine, aphorism 268, footnote).

7. Used as 'placebo' or 'phytum' in between the administrations of the two doses of medicines or remedies, especially in cases of chronic diseases and where long-acting remedies are used. Dr. Kent holds, "Second best medicine in our Materia Medica is placebo", which is given to the patient to please.

8. Sick babies who could not tolerate fats, sugar of milk is given as a diet.

Forms of Vehicles

There are two forms of vehicles: 1. Solid and 2. Liquid.

Solid Vehicles:

1. Milk sugar or Sugar of milk( saccharum Lactis, Lactose).

2. GlobuleS or pillules.

3. Pellets.

4. Tablets or Tabloids.

5. Cones.

Liquid Vehicles

1. Aqua Distillata (Distilled Water)

2. Alcohol - Absolute Alcohol, Strong Alcohol, Dispensing Alcohol, Dilute Alcohol

3. Glycerine

4. Olive Oil

5. Almond Oil

Homeopathic Pharmacy
Preparation of Drugs & Homeopathic Scales of Dilution
Introduction - There are three essential processes involved in preparation of remedies: (a) Serial dilution, (b) Succussion, (c) Trituration. Dilution is the means by which we reduce the toxicity of the original crude drug. Serial dilution means that each dilution is prepared from the dilution that immediately preceded it.

Homeopathic Pharmacy
Preservation of Homeopathic Drug Substances
PRESERVATION OF DRUGS: There are specific directions for the preservation of homoeopathic drug substances in the monographs of the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India and other Pharmacopoeias but the general rules are: (1) A container or jar should be properly labelled while preserving a drug in it.