Many people mistakenly believe that snoring is a completely normal phenomenon that poses no threat to health. In fact, it’s much more complicated.
Firstly, snoring poses a threat to the health of those around. A snorer disturbs neighbors’ sleep, disrupting their rest and psyche. Secondly, snoring often heralds more serious illnesses and is even considered one of the symptoms. Thirdly, snoring negatively affects a person’s productivity as it doesn’t allow the brain to rest during sleep. Furthermore, scientists have proven that snoring individuals are more irritable, and snoring over time worsens their memory and attention.
Thus, it becomes obvious – snoring needs to be addressed, and for this, we have at our disposal both traditional and folk remedies. However, before we consider ways to treat snoring at home, let’s look at its causes.
Causes of Snoring
The first and most obvious reason for snoring is the position of the body during sleep. When a person lies on their back, the muscles of the throat relax, and the throat narrows, causing snoring.
The second reason for snoring is excess weight, or in other words, obesity. A person suffering from excess weight experiences certain difficulties in breathing, a well-known fact, but in a lying position, breathing becomes even more difficult because the excess tissues in their body compress the throat.
Snoring is also very common in people who regularly consume alcoholic beverages and have an individual anatomical predisposition to this phenomenon.
Treatment of Snoring with Folk Remedies
To get rid of mucus that has accumulated in the nasopharynx and prevents normal sleep, you can try simple fasting. Just abstain from food for one day a week, drinking only water, and within a month, you will see results.
A few hours before bedtime, instill sea buckthorn oil into the nostrils, one drop each. Treatment course: 2-3 weeks.
Eat one baked carrot before breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Also, it is useful to eat stewed carrots with onions as part of main dishes.
Squeeze a glass of cabbage juice, add a tablespoon of honey, mix, and drink before bedtime. Treatment course: 4 weeks.
Before bedtime, it’s helpful to rinse the nose with water mixed with sea salt.
Boil 500 ml of water, add a tablespoon of calendula and oak bark, infuse for 2-3 hours, cool, and gargle before bedtime.
Gargle with a tablespoon of olive oil before bedtime. Treatment course: 2-3 weeks.
An hour before sleep, insert cotton or gauze swabs soaked in freshly squeezed onion juice into the nostrils. To avoid mucous membrane burns, onion juice can be diluted with water.
Take three lemons, cut into pieces, remove the seeds, and pass through a meat grinder along with the peel. Then add two crushed cloves of garlic, mix, and store in the refrigerator. Take a teaspoon in the morning and evening.
Exercises:
• Squeeze the lower jaw with your hand and move it back and forth. Number of repetitions: 20-30.
• Bite down hard on a wooden stick or spoon and hold it for 3-5 minutes. If the jaw gets tired earlier, it’s okay, the desired effect is achieved.
• Open your mouth and make 15 circular movements with the lower jaw in one direction, then in the other.