Natural Help with Allergies

Natural Help with Allergies – by Caitlin Rushton LMT 

Living with allergies does not mean a choice between taking a pill or suffering the season. There are many healthy herbs to easily incorporate into your life, making you feel better and able to enjoy the season. Reasons people suffer from allergies range widely; low immune system, excessive stress / low tolerance to stress or even a weak digestive system leading to phlegm accumulation. Your liver is another thing to consider, some allergies are related to poor liver function, which reduces how effective your liver is at cleaning your blood of toxins. Toxins over stimulate the immune system causing it to pour out inflammatory chemicals like histamines, which is where you get the itchy skin and eyes, runny nose, or hives.  

We are going to dive into some herbs that can be beneficial. When you are looking to nourish your liver Lycii, Holy Basil, and Nettle are all great nourishing herbs Lycii enriches yin of the Kidneys and Lungs and nourishes Liver Blood to nourish the eyes. The fruit is sweet, neutral, and moistening, with a nature that enriches and tonifies the body, were holy basil is an adaptogen which is great because it will react to your body how your body needs, and Nettle provides nourishment and replenishes deficiency of the blood. It restores the Spleen and stimulates the Lungs to relieve wheezing and allergies. Dries excess fluid and stops discharge. Promotes cleansing, clears toxins by stimulating the Liver and benefits the hair and skin. It helps to promote urination to relieve fluid congestion. 

When your body is needing a detox herbs like Dandelion Root, Burdock Root, and Milk Thistle Seed are great at helping aide in the detoxification process. Dandelion Root promotes detoxification and relieves eczema. Promotes bile flow, reduces liver congestion, removes accumulation and so relieves constipation. Promotes urination, drains excess fluids, and relieves urinary irritation. Reduces infection and inflammation and relieves swelling. Stimulates immunity and reduces lymph congestion.  Enriches fluids and nourishes the blood. Restores and protects the liver, pancreas, and spleen and enhances immunity. Burdock Root promotes detoxification clears excess fluid. Removes lymph congestion and relieves eczema. Promotes urination by increasing urogenital strength and relieves incontinence. Clears infection and inflammation and relieves swelling. Stimulates immunity and reduces allergies. Stimulates digestion, promotes bile flow.  Promotes tissue repair and benefits the skin. Milk Thistle Seed stimulates the Liver and Gallbladder, breaks up obstruction and promote bowl movement. Dredges the kidneys, promotes urination and softens stones. Stimulates the heart and lungs therefore promoting urination to drain excess fluid and dispel cold and promote menstruation. Moderates menses, stops bleeding. Promotes tissue repair and benefits skin. 

If you’re looking for a simple way to either nourish your liver, or detox it we have you covered! Available in house, our Love Your Liver tea tastes mildly minty with a slightly bitter green aftertaste, and helps make it easy to nourish your liver, and our Lively Liver tastes slightly bitter and slightly sweet and takes the guess work out of your detox process in a delightful tea blend. For those of you that are always on the go, remembering to make and drink tea is hard. Or perhaps you are not a tea person? We also offer a Lustrous Liver Tincture an easy portable liver detox.