The Empowered Lifestyle

I was speaking with one of my really good friends this morning about her weekend. She had phoned last week to say that she had to fly out to Ohio for her mother’s emergency brain surgery this past Saturday. Her mother is 86. Her dad died a few years back and this trip was troubling at best.

Well, her mom came through the surgery with higher than flying colors and is already out of the hospital. My friend Jeanne is a little the worse for wear though. Already back at her high profile position at one of the biggest booksellers in the world, when asked how SHE was doing after all this, she shared that due to a rare ear condition she felt like her head was “under water” all the time. Her eustation tubes are congenitally and constantly clogged and, therefore, so are her ears. She said that both wings up and landing while on the plane were excruciating. I can TOTALLY relate!
I have terrible ear problems on planes when the altitude changes and almost always forget to take a decongestant before I travel. Jeanne’s problem, though, is different.

Most of us who experience “plane ear” will, at one point or another, hear a sort of “pop” in our ears post landing and then will go about our daily lives. Jeanne is still walking around feeling like she is under water. I told her about the few holistic remedies that I have both embraced and enacted with legions of clients, especially those parents who are really reticent to put the proverbial tubes into their infant’s aching ears.

The gold standard of ear ache and infection is to put ten drops of true lavender essential oil on a half of a sterile cotton ball and stick the oil side of the cotton into the ear and leave it there for at least three hours. If there is any water, infection or other foreign element in the canal, it will be drawn up into the cotton ball itself. Change out the cotton with fresh lavender oil until the ache abates. This really and truly does work.

Jeanne, however, is allergic to lavender.

In her case I told her what I have recommended to scores of other clients. Go to any natural health food store and find some garlic oil. That’s right, Rachael Ray, I said garlic oil. Now, however is easiest, warm the garlic oil and then put three drops into the affected ear. Continue to do this every 6-8 hours for three days and the entire problem should be healed. Did you hear that? I said entirely healed!!

Jeanne is heading out to get that oil and start this protocol today. I will let you know whether she had the same success that many others have had and will hope that soon she feels like her head is finally above water and on dry land, exactly where it should be.