Traditional medicine has nothing against Pets inhalation, relieving nasal congestion and eliminating a bad cold and cough.
Steam inhalation demand is not the first century, because they are simple to use and does not require any special skills that people teach in medical universities. Even a teenager, already knowing what the hot water and steam can make inhalation.
Do steam inhalations are the benefits?
Of course, there is! And several of them. First, vapor, unlike drops, penetrates deep into sinuses and thins mucus penetrated there, as a result, she is better out of the nose. Second, not all eye drops have the ability to alleviate nasal congestion with a cold, but steam inhalation copes with this task on hurrah. Thirdly, nasal drops are manufactured from chemical components and to steam in just a couple of drops of essential oils of some aromatic plants in water, add.
The only drawback steam inhalation can be called careless handling of boiling water, which is quite possible to get burns of the mucous membranes of the nose and larynx.
So how did the therapists suggest to conduct inhalation of common cold at home:
1. Prepare the place where you can breathe the steam. It should be a Desk and chair or a table standing near the couch, on which you will be comfortable to bow freely and inhale the healing steam.
2. Put to heat water for inhalation. Again, the doctors strongly recommend not to boil the water, just heat it so that the temperature did not exceed 80 degrees Celsius. For the treatment of rhinitis or cough in children can also be carried out inhalation, but in this case, the temperature of water maximum can reach 45 degrees.
3. To prepare a decoction of herbs, tincture or put on the table the essential oil added to hot water to steam had healing properties. By the way, make inhalation longer than 15 minutes, physicians do not recommend, but 10-15 minutes.
4. Prepare solution for inhalation, you can cover your head with a large towel and inhale the steam.
5. Physicians are advised to breathe only a nose in the process of steam inhalation to medicinal substances enveloped mucous membranes of the nose and contributed to the speedy elimination of the cold. But the eyes and mouth should be closed.
