Let’s talk about one of the best natural antihistamine remedies.
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Histamine and allergy symptoms
Histamine is involved in the immune reaction, and it produces a lot of symptoms related to allergies. Sometimes the body inappropriately responds to an allergen, and you get a series of symptoms.
These allergy symptoms can include:
- Hay fever
- Sinus problems
- Hives
- Itching
- Flushing
- Dermatitis
- Photosensitivity
- Sneezing
- Fatigue
- Wheezing
The more of a histamine response you have, the more cortisol response you’ll have. Cortisol is the natural body chemical that helps neutralize histamines.
If someone has adrenal fatigue or low cortisol, they won’t have the buffering effect from cortisol, and histamines will rise too high.
Quercetin
The #1 best antihistamine remedy is quercetin. You can use this natural antihistamine remedy as needed to help minimize histamine symptoms.
Quercetin has been thoroughly studied. It inhibits the cells that make histamines and directly inhibits the histamine response.
It also helps stabilize the mast cell membranes, which is how many antihistamines work. Quercetin can help reduce mucus and inflammation, similar to a natural Zyrtec.
You can get quercetin by consuming foods high in quercetin or by taking a quercetin supplement. If you take a quercetin supplement, you may want to take 400 to 600 mg, depending on your size, every two hours until you feel relief.
Taking it with a small amount of fat can help increase absorption. To increase the absorption even more, you can get quercetin with bromelain.
Foods high in quercetin
- Red onions
- Capers
- Kale
- Radishes
- Dill
Querceti is an effective remedy, but it may not work 100% of the time. To enhance this effect, you can try other natural allergy remedies.
Natural remedies for allergies
- Vitamin D (at least 20,000 IU per day)
- Zinc (50 mg)
- Nettle root
I’ve been almost allergies free since I started intermittent fasting and cut out sugar from my diet.
Last Friday I made the mistake of having just a moderate amount of sugar while traveling and my allergies came back with a vengeance. It’s been almost a week and I still have mild symptoms, was thinking of doing a 24 hour fast to free my body from that poison.
If I eat sugar my nose starts running and I cough. I thought it was my acid reflux. Makes me wonder
Research “leaky gut” and ways to heal it, this may be holding up your healing journey. I spent 50 years as a sickly person, it was only after giving up Gluten, lowered carbs and going to two meals a day that I feel better than I did when I was ten years younger.
I’ve been using it since about 2000. That year I had 3 sinus infections due to either allergies or the antihistamines I was taking for my allergies. I lost my sense of smell for about a year. An herbalist turned me onto it, the version with bromelain, and I rarely get sinus infections now.
I take quercetin w/ bromelein about 15 minutes before my workout (on an empty stomach) and it improves my breathing and aerobic capacity greatly. I’ve been taking it on and off for years and I’m totally convinced of its effectiveness.
Me too! I suffer so much in the spring from allergies, this is the first spring that I’ve been using this and I definitely recommend it if you also suffer from any allergies. It’s a life changer for me. I would react so badly that I felt like I was sick after mowing or just being outside for any amount of time