I eat a pile of horseradish on a soda cracker and that takes care of my
brain fog.  Really clears the nasal passages.  :-)

You can buy prepared packages of solution to mix with
distilled water.  It consists of clean salt and sodium
bicarbonate, in small amounts.  I was told not to "snort"
it, but rather propell it into my nose with a bulb.  I do it
every day, about a cup's worth, alternating nostrils until I
use up the cup's worth of solution.  As my ENT instructed,
in one nostril, out the other, or in the nostril, out the
mouth.  I simply close the trap below so none gets down my
throat ("snorting" would, I suspect, draw it into the lungs,
and you don't want to do that - you want to deliver it to
the sinuses, not the lungs), and use the bulb syringe to
gently fill the sinus cavity, and you'll find it immediately
drains out the other one!  Brilliant.  You can make your own
solution with Kosher Salt and bicarbonate of soda in precise
small amounts, but it is much easier to buy the prepared
little packets that make up a daily dosage, and that solves
the storage and cleanliness problem of making larger
amounts.  A hundred doses for $13.00 American, last time I
bought it at the pharmacy.

Like swimming as a child, it is at first disconcerting to
find your nose full of water, but you get used to it
quickly.  I enjoy it, because I feel much better afterwards.
 It is a good treatment when you live in a very dry
environment, like a heated house in the winter.  It loosens
up the thick sticky stuff in your nasal passages if you
should have an infection.  Do it bending over your sink.
And clear the room of small dogs and children.  HAHA!!

Now, this is all very gross, but I've found a very effective
and soothing therapy.

Just use the bulb to squirt the solution into the nose, but
I wouldn't advise "snorting" at the same time.  Gently blow
your nose afterwards, and make sure you drain as much out as
you can.  They advise you not do this just before you go to
bed, but a little earlier in the day.  My ENT does this
himself, and says I can do it every day of my life if I find
relief with it.

It shouldn't be making it to your throat, Jenny, just the
sinus cavities.  In and out, quickly.  A cup a day keeps the
snot away.  :-)

Murray, are these instructions complete and correct?  Anyone
else do this?  I find great relief in the technique.

Best wishes,

scp

I have chronic sinus infections and sinusitis, and using a saline spray really
helps at times that it's at its worst.

Susan

Is this what is meant by rubbing salt into a wound?!!

Ben

% on the advice of the naturopath I snorted hot salty water tonight...it was
% disgusting and burned my throat, but the brain fog and head ache has
% lifted......works great for the sinus..the light headeness is great at the
% moment too.

% Might do it every couple of days.

% Jenny

I think this is an interesting thread.  A saline solution is sold at Walgreens
to do a sinus rinse.  When the bottle is empty your can make your own
solution on the stove, boil a little water and salt to provide a steril
solution, be sure to clean the tip.

Years ago when I had a sinus infection the doctor told me to inhale from my
hand into my sinus a little water while in the shower.  It was a lot
easier as my shower wand has a mister/fogger so inhaling a little mist is
easy.  I found the hotter the water the better it works.  

I had an health update via E-mail arrive frequently years back.  One of them
stated a frequent rinse of one's sinuses wouild prevent most sinus problems.
As a result of all this feedback I try and rinse my sinuses on a regular
basis in the shower.  In addition I keep saline solution around on the
outside chance I need it at work or somewhere else.

The Grossan Hydro Pulse nasal/sinus irrigation system works, and there is an
add-on nasal irrigator product for Water Pik.  You can make the solution as
salty as you want.