Rid Throat and Sinus Mucus with SALT

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So, if you have any type of excuse me, one second. Oh, man. Any problem with mucus in your throat, today we’re going to talk about how to get rid of it using salt. Very, very simple. This is part of a series of three different videos to address this problem from different angles.

So, whether you have sinus mucus or mucus in the inner ear or coming from your tonsils or up from the throat, we’re going to get into it. So, I’m not sure if you know this, but salt is really good for anything bacterial, fungal, yeast, and mold. Even if you think about um how they cure meat, they add salt to actually raw meat to stop any type of bacterial growth. And even when you make sauerkraut, you have this bacteria that is fermenting this cabbage, but then when they want to stop it, they add salt to it. Then it stabilizes this stage of making sauerkraut.

I want to explain what salt does to these microbes. Okay, we take a look at my little chart right here. If we put salt on either a bacteria, a fungus, a yeast, or a mold, the salt concentration is a lot more outside than inside, right? In inside you have water and water tends to flow towards a concentrated salt mixture. So the water is going to move out of the cell into the extracellular area right here, turning this bacteria into a shriveled, dehydrated, dead particle.

So the salt will kill bacteria, fungus, mold, and yeast through dehydration. Another cool thing that the salt will do is it’ll thin mucus. So, a lot of times people get this really thick mucus that won’t come out of their bodies. Well, you can use salt to loosen it up. How does it do that?

The same mechanism. It takes the water out of the mucus. It breaks it up and it thins the mucus. So, we have two things going on. We have the inhibiting of the microbial growth and the killing of microbes.

And we also have the thinning of the mucus. So, this is really good for an infection anywhere in your respiratory tract. You could have a post-nasal sinus drip situation that’s leaking down into the back part of the sinuses into the throat. You could also have a situation where there’s an ear infection and there’s mucus buildup through the estian tubes on either side and that can end up in the throat as well. And so here you are trying to get rid of the throat infection but it keeps coming from the ear.

So the source is the ear, the effect is the throat. So you have to be able to handle where it’s originating from and also if it’s in the sinuses you have to handle that as well. So this mucus can be originating from the sinus from the ear or even from the tonsils which are little uh immune glands in the back part of the throat which can swell up especially in children and be a source of infection. But really the tonsils are trying to fight off the infection and protect any invading of the microbes deeper into the body. So, it intends to create defenses and it creates inflammation and a lot of times you’ll end up with a sore throat.

On occasion, some of the mucus could be coming up from the esophagus because you have either acid reflux that’s irritating the esophagus or you could have some mucus that’s coming up from the lungs. So, there’s many different uh things that you can do related to salt from very expensive to very inexpensive. So, let’s start with the least expensive thing you can do. You can basically take a teaspoon of sea salt. Now, as far as the salt that I recommend, I don’t recommend using table salt because they have so many additives in there, anti-caking agents, and you really don’t know the source of where they got that refined product.

I would highly recommend uh you find a good rock salt, something that has been preserved um that hasn’t been exposed to plastics and pollution in our oceans. A lot of times people will use Himalayan sea salt, but I will mention if you’re going to use one of the therapies that I’m going to recommend, I think usually when you buy one of these units, which I’m going to explain, it comes with its own rock salt. And so in that case, you maybe you don’t want to put Himalayan sea salt because that does have a bit more iron. But certain units also just use sodium chloride. So let’s say, for example, you’re not going to get those units.

You’re just going to use uh some sea salt. Himalayan sea salt is a really good one. What you’re going to do is you’re going to take a a teaspoon of this sea salt and dissolve it in a glass of water and you’re going to drink that down. Just by drinking it down, you’re going to expose everything in your mouth and the throat area to this salt. Plus, the salt’s going to go inside the body and strengthens something called the autonomic nervous system, which especially focuses in on this uh flight or fight mechanism.

It it tends to improve that. So, many people will get results just from drinking some salt water. So you want to heat up the water to a certain degree so you can dissolve the salt in there. So you have the option of drinking it or using it as something you can gargle with. Right?

So you just you drink this salt water, you gargle it, get the back of your throat all exposed to this seawater and you’re going to start to improve your immune system because it’s going to kill off the microbe and start loosening up this mucus. So salt water gargles are great. But just remember when you gargle with this, make sure you dilute the salt in the water. You may want to also add a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. I like Fairchild’s because it’s a little more concentrated and it’s more pure.

But apple cider vinegar changes the pH and it kills microbes as well. So, we’re not only going to dehydrate the microbes, thin the mucus, but we can actually also kill the microbes by adding this apple cider vinegar, which is acetic acid. Now, I’m not telling you to put this straight concentrated acid into your body because that’s going to irritate it, especially if you have a sore throat. You want to dilute it like one teaspoon in a glass of water to make it more diluted. But both salt and apple cider vinegar works really good for an anti-acterial effect as well as an anti-inflammatory effect.

The next thing you have an option to do is get a netti pot. A ni pot is something called a nasal irrigation in which you’re going to pour some salt water up into your sinuses through here and it’s going to come out the other side over the sink. So the reason I like that is that you’re using this diluted salt water and it’s very gentle to your sinuses. You’re not using any chemicals and it seems to really thin the mucus and you will notice that you’ll when you blow your nose a lot of mucus will come out. If you have a post-nasal drip all year round, suspect a fungal infection or some type of mold growing in your sinuses because that would indicate it’s not seasonal.

And uh hopefully you’re going to change your diet and come off any sugar because sugar feeds this mold and candida and fungus. You’d probably want to do like a nasal irrigation netty pot maybe every other day until it’s completely settled down. The problem with some people is they get their sinuses scraped out and they might get surgery and now they damage this very delicate uh layer of skin that has all these good bacteria to protect you against pathogens. So in another video I talked about using a drop of diluted kimchi juice and a little cotton swab to add that microbiome into the sinuses to give you relief. There’s some great uh data on that.

Now, the next uh thing you can do is use a humidifier, which basically turns a liquid into a vapor. And so, you would use this while you’re sleeping, right? You turn it on, you put your salt water in there, and you let it run all night long. So, you can actually breathe this into your body, into your lungs, and it can help to uh thin the mucus. One more thing I would recommend is to really bundle up and get