What are the dangers of using a yoga neti pot?

The yoga neti pot can help yogis breathe, open up the meridians, etc. It also helps clean the waste in the nose and plays a health-care role. It is especially suitable for patients with rhinitis. From a clinical perspective, regular use has a good effect, but long-term use can cause certain harm and can easily lead to nasal lining infection. In severe cases, it can reduce the patient's sense of smell.

1. Overview of Neti Pot

The neti pot is used by yogis to help their breathing and open up their energy channels before sitting in meditation. Another use of it is to clean waste from the nose, which has health benefits. There is a kind of exercise in yoga cleansing called Yoga Nirvana, which is a method for cleaning the nasal cavity. For some patients with rhinitis, they are prone to nasal congestion and sneezing, and occasionally sinus pain may cause headaches. Neti Gong is very effective for rhinitis. After doing it, the mucus in the nasal cavity is cleaned, breathing is smooth, and you feel refreshed. Even if you do not have rhinitis, you can still do this exercise, because the air in many of our cities is bad. For example, if you have just been to a dusty place or have just cleaned the house, you can clean your nasal cavity before doing the Nirvana exercise. This way, the dust will not flow into your nasal cavity. Clean your nasal cavity frequently to reduce the damage of air pollution to your body. The frequency of doing Nirvana Exercise can be determined according to the cleanliness of your nasal cavity. You can do it three times a day or once every other day.

2. How to use the neti pot

The nasal wash method can flush out the viscous secretions and bacteria inhaled into the nasal cavity by flushing the nasal cavity. In this way, the normal physiological and sanitary environment of the nasal cavity can be restored, allowing it to function normally, thereby alleviating or eliminating the symptoms of rhinitis, without the use of medication and without side effects. After investigation, it was found that some patients stopped using antibiotics and other drugs after starting nasal irrigation, and some patients could even avoid the pain of surgery. This proves that nasal washing is indeed effective for rhinitis. The nasal wash method can be used every day to keep the nasal cavity in a normal state, or it can be used only when symptoms appear. Even friends who do not have rhinitis can use it regularly to maintain the normal physiological state of the nasal cavity in time and avoid the occurrence of rhinitis. Breathing is smooth and I feel refreshed.

Cleaning the nasal cavity is beneficial to the treatment and prevention of various nasal diseases. The neti pot is a new type of health care product. It has a novel design, compact structure, and is easy to carry. It can conveniently spray clean water, light salt water or medicine into the nasal cavity, which can not only rinse the nasal cavity evenly and thoroughly, but also achieve the purpose of treating nasal diseases, and can stimulate meridian points and regulate physiological functions.

3. The hazards of neti pots

If you wash your nose for a long time, it is more likely to cause nasal infection, and sometimes it may damage the epithelial cells of the nasal cavity, which in turn leads to a decrease in the sense of smell. Therefore, it is recommended that you pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene when you suck your nose, and control the frequency.