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Chapter 10: Natural medicines

Like most of the pharmaceutical anti-snoring sprays and pills that you can buy across the counter in the pharmacy or store, there are many similar treatments that are entirely natural that you might want to consider.

And in the same way, most of the natural products tend to focus on achieving the same primary objective as their pharmaceutical brethren which generally tends to be the relief of congestion.

The obvious advantage of using these products is that there are no potentially harmful pharmaceuticals in them and that is no small consideration in itself. This is particularly true as we are talking about a respiratory condition and those kinds of conditions are notoriously sensitive to chemical irritation.

So, if you have to use sprays and pills to reduce congestion, you should definitely be using those with only natural ingredients. Such a spray might, for example, be handy to keep as an emergency stand-by.

To give you some idea of what is available in the market, take a look here. You might also want to search eBay to see what is available when you search with a term like ‘stop snoring’.

However, despite the fact that these medicines are natural, there are nevertheless a couple of points that you should consider.

Firstly, you shouldn’t really need them. You have already seen that simple steam is one of the best decongestants there is, so why spend good money of sprays and pills when you can do the same job at home, for free?

Which brings me to the second point. Whilst most of these products are not necessarily all that expensive when you buy one unit – a bottle of pills or a can of spray, for instance – if you use them regularly, you might come to rely on them, and need to buy a new bottle or can every week or even every couple of days.

That is when it starts to get expensive, and, as you don’t really need them, there is no need to get into that situation.

Section summary

• There are lots of natural sprays and pills that you can buy online that could very well help to alleviate your condition.

• However, there are equally good ‘treatments’ available in your home for free, so save money by using them.