Top 17 Natural Home Remedies for Sinus Headache Relief

Updated: 8/15/2019

Sinus headache  is one kind of headache which is accompanied with sinusitis. But you should know what are the symptoms of sinus headache as well as the reasons why sinus headache is caused. On the first hand, sinus headache can cause pressure and pain around the sinuses; for example, in the forehead, above the nose, behind and between eyes. And this area can be tender to the touch. On the other hand, if you have headache pain only, you may not have sinus headache. So how can you know whether you have sinus headache or not? The answer is that with headache pain, there are some symptoms as well which include fatigue, cough, stuffy nose, sore throat, and nasal discharge. And the factors which cause this disease are swelling in the nasal passage, nasal bone spur, sinus congestion and inflammation. Therefore, in order to escape from this pain, you often go to the doctor and have a check. Then what you need to do is take some medicines every day until your sinus headache is gone. However, it’s not essential enough. Now, why don’t you try some natural remedies to cure sinus headache? If you wonder to know what the natural treatments are for this case, please continue reading this article on our page AllRemedies.com which will present to you the best natural home remedies for sinus headache relief that you can follow to get rid of it easily and fast.

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Top 17 Natural Home Remedies For Sinus Headache Relief

These are 17 natural home remedies for sinus headache which you can do to remove sinus headache quickly:

1. The Hot & Cold Compress

For treating sinus headache, the hot and cold compress is the best choice.

When you apply this remedy, it will help to relieve blocked sinuses as well as open them up in order to decrease the inflammation. Thus, if you have sinus headache, let’s follow this detailed direction below:

• Now pour warm water into a pad to make hot compress meanwhile wrap some ice cubes to make cold compress
• Then apply the hot compress for 3 minutes
• Next apply the cold compress immediately after taking the hot compress
• Leave it on more than 30 seconds
• Do this process from three to five times a day
• Repeat every day until your condition is better

2. Ginger

A remedy which can be found and implemented easily is ginger. It has an effect in treating sinus headache because of its anti-inflammatory properties along with painkiller properties. And this is the recipe you are able to consult:

• First cut a fresh ginger root into slices
• Then put them into a cup of boiling water
• Next let it steep for 10 minutes
• After that, strain the liquid
• Finally, drink ginger tea when it is still warm
• Follow this remedy several times per day daily until all the symptoms of sinus headache are gone away

Alternatively, you can chew ginger thoroughly or apply ginger on your diet every day. in addition, you may take ginger supplements daily.

3. Steam

In order to treat sinus headache, why don’t you try to steam? When you steam, this will help you to relieve nasal congestion and clear the nasal passage. Plus, it calms the mucus membrane. Here is the detailed instruction you ought to follow:

• Firstly, take a saucepan
• Next boil water about 10 to 15 minutes
• Add a few drops of peppermint oil or eucalyptus oil into the steam water
• After that, drape the towel over your head
• Finally, inhale the steam so as to clear the nasal congestion as well as headache
• Do this remedy once a day daily until you feel better

4. Eucalyptus Oil With Olive Oil Or Coconut Oil

With the strong anti-inflammatory properties inside, eucalyptus oil can help you to decrease inflammation and mucus production. When you want to get rid of sinus headache, you just need to consult these steps below:

• Take a few drops of eucalyptus oil
• After that, dilute with two teaspoons of olive oil or coconut oil
• Then rub this mixture of oil gently the aching and swollen areas
• Do this remedy several times per day as needed

Besides, you can use eucalyptus oil as this way:

• Pour a few drops of eucalyptus oil on a cotton pad or a clean handkerchief
• Take it close to your nose
• Breathe in
• Do this process as needed. It will give you an immediate relief from sinus headache

5. Basil Tea

One of the effective and natural home remedies for sinus headache is basil tea. Basil leaves have cineole, eugenol, and camphene which can help to reduce inflammation and relieve allergic reaction. Moreover, basil leaves contain antiviral properties which can cure any infection causing sinusitis and headache. Furthermore, the cool soothing properties may help to relieve the pain associated with headache as well as sinusitis. Therefore, when using this method, these things need to be prepared well:

• Ten basil tulsi leaves
• Ten black peppercorns
• A piece of ginger
• Sugar candy (it is used to sweeten)
• A cup of water

Here is the detailed instruction for you:

• Firstly, wash the basil leaves and ginger carefully
• Secondly, peel the ginger
• Thirdly, mix basil leaves, ginger and black peppercorns
• Now crush them all in order to get a paste by using mortar and pestle
• Add the paste into the water and then boil it
• After that, simmer the mixture until it decreases to half of its quantity
• Next strain the liquid and add sugar candy into this tea
• Finally, drink this tea every morning when there is nothing on your stomach or after your meals two hours

Besides, you can use basil oil for the steam inhalation.

6. Baking Soda With Salt

When you use the mixture between baking soda and salt as saline solution, your sinus headache will go off naturally. Do you want to know how to implement this solution? If yes, please prepare these things first:

• A quarter teaspoon of salt
• A quarter teaspoon of baking soda
• A cup of warm water
• Neti pot/ dropper/ squeeze bottle/ Waterpik

Let’s implement this remedy:

• Add salt and baking soda in warm water
• Mix well
• Then fill this water in the neti pot, dropper, squeeze bottle or waterpik (it depends on what you have)
• Now introduce the saline water to your nostrils one by one and after that, drain it out.
• Following this process will clean your nasal passages
• Repeat once a day daily until your condition is improved

7. Cinnamon Steam

Another herb which can help you get rid of sinus headache is cinnamon. Cinnamon contains excellent antiseptic, antiviral and antibacterial properties which can treat sore throat, flu, nasal congestion. And it can treat headache effectively due to its anti-inflammatory properties. Thus, if you want to use this herb, you had better follow one of both recipes here

This is the first recipe

• Boil water in a saucepan
• Add three to five drops of cinnamon oil into hot water
• Cover your head with a towel
• Inhale cinnamon steam

This is the second recipe

• Brew a cinnamon stick in a hot water
• Leave it on about 10 minutes
• Inhale its steam

Although you choose the first or the second recipe to follow, you should do every day and once each day until your headache is taken away.

8. Cinnamon Powder With Honey

Cinnamon is a good solution for you when you get sinus headache. And besides steam, you can use the combination of cinnamon powder with honey. Here is the detailed instruction for you:

• Prepare a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon powder as well as a tablespoon of honey
• Mix them well together
• Consume this mixture twice a day
• Continue the process daily for at least three days or until you see the result

Besides, you can apply cinnamon powder to your milk, coffee or tea every day.

9. Cayenne Pepper, Ginger Powder, Honey And Apple Cider Vinegar

Cayenne pepper is a wonderful remedy for sinus congestion. It can work as the main decongestant because of its component capsaicin which reduces inflammation in order to clear nasal congestion. Meanwhile, apple cider vinegar helps to thin mucus out so as to make it easy to drain out. So combining all these ingredients together will help you cure sinus headache. This is the list of what you need to prepare:

• A half teaspoon of cayenne pepper
• A half teaspoon of ginger powder
• A half teaspoon of cinnamon powder
• Three tablespoons of honey
• A quarter cup of lemon juice
• A quarter cup of apple cider vinegar
• A glass jar

Now, let’s do this remedy as the following direction:

• Firstly, mix apple cider vinegar with lemon juice in a pot
• Then gently simmer this mixture
• After that, add cayenne pepper, honey, cinnamon powder as well as ginger powder into this mixture
• Finally, store this mixture in the glass jar
• Every day, take one or two tablespoons of this mixture
• Keep doing until the symptoms of sinus headache are gone away

10. Chinese Skullcap Tea

One of the effective and natural home remedies for sinus headache is Chinese skullcap tea. In order to make this tea, you need to do these steps below:

• Take one or two teaspoons of dried Chinese skullcap leaves
• Then pour a cup of boiling water into the dried leaves
• Cover it
• Let it steep from 10 to 15 minutes
• Drink two or three cups of this tea a day
• Repeat every day until your condition is improved

There are also a lot of other natural home remedies for sinus headache relief presented in the next part of this writing, so keep reading it if you want to discover more!

11. Feverfew Tea

Another kind of tea which can be used to treat sinus headache is feverfew tea. It is capable of reducing inflammation which takes the pressure off the nerves and may help to prevent headache. Do you want to use this tea? Let’s follow these steps below:

• Now pour a cup of boiling water into two or three teaspoons of chopped feverfew leaves (to get the best result, you should use freshly chopped leaves)
• Then allow it to steep for about 15 minutes
• After that, strain the liquid
• Finally, drink this tea up to thrice per day
• Keep doing this process every day till you don’t feel the pain anymore

12. Willow Bark Tea

Willow bark tea is a traditional remedy which is used to cure sinus headache at home. But now it still works very effectively. Do you want to get rid of sinus headache? If yes, follow this remedy as the detailed instruction below:

• Mix a teaspoon of willow bark powder with 8 to 10 ounces of water
• Then simmer the mixture in 5 minutes
• Allow this mixture to cool
• Drink this tea three or four times a day
• Continue doing this method daily until you see the improvement

However, if you don’t have willow bark powder, you are able to use chopped willow bark instead.

13. Massage

Massage is the simplest and cheapest remedy you are able to apply at home. But it works very effectively in this situation. Now follow these steps below so that you can feel better:

• First tenderly rub the parts of sanctuaries, forehead or anywhere you feel pain by using your fingertips
• Then lie down and ask your companion who may support you to get the cure from sinus headache to rub your head by setting the thumbs over your eyebrows and draw them towards your hairline.
• Now at the point, lift your head and then repeat this procedure. But attack the thumbs to the sanctuaries and then afterward lift it at the hairline
• Continue doing higher for each one time till the entire forehead locale can be secured by kneading
• Follow this method when sinus headache attacks you and makes you hurt

14. Neti Pot

 One of the natural home remedies for sinus headache is to use the neti pot. This will help you to expand seepage. In addition, it also reduces the pressure and aggravation in the nasal passages which cause sinus headache. Now let’s follow this process in order to get rid of the pain which is caused by sinus headache:

• First take a neti pot
• Then fill it with salt, warm water
• Now go to sink & spot your head over it by putting your head to one side
• Put the end corner of the neti pot into the higher nostril. Make sure that there does not have space between the nostril and the end of neti pot
• At the point, lift the pot so as to stream the water from higher nostril to lower nostril
• Remember that you take breath through your mouth when you are doing this method
• After that, take a tissue and then clean the nostril in the wake of completing the Neti pot saline.
• Finally, do the same process with the other nostril so that it gives you a relief from the pain
• Continue doing this process in a week in order to get rid of sinus headache

15. Lemon

Another home remedy for this case is the lemon. It contains a lot of vitamin C which is rich in antioxidant properties. That can help to fight the infection. There are two ways for you to use the lemon as a treatment for the sinus headache.

This is the first process:

• Take a lemon
• Next cut it into two halves
• Squeeze the juice from it
• Put this juice into your favorite tea
• Drink this solution two or three times a day daily until your sinus headache is gone away

And this is the second process:

• If you want to drink lemon juice, just take its peel
• Pound the lemon peel in order to make a fine paste
• Apply it on your forehead as the plaster
• Leave it on for 10 to 15 minutes
• Follow this twice a day
• Continue every day until your situation is better

16. Hydrotherapy

When talking about home remedies for sinus headache relief, you should know a method which is called hydrotherapy. And if you do this remedy, it will increase the blood flow and circulation, carry the toxins away and bring nutrients to organs. Or in other words, it has an effect in curing sinus headache. Here is the procedure you should consult:

• Stand in the water as hot as you can for about 2 minutes
• After that, stand in the water as cold as you can for 2 minutes
• Do this procedure about 20 minutes
• Keep doing thrice a day
• Repeat every day until all the symptoms of sinus headache are taken away

17. Sandalwood Powder, Cinnamon Powder And Water

When you have sinus headache, do you think to try the combination between sandalwood and cinnamon? Here is the detailed instruction for you:

• Prepare a tablespoon of cinnamon powder, a half teaspoon of sandalwood powder and enough amount of water
• Then mix all the ingredients well together so that you can have a fine paste
• Apply this mixture on your forehead
• Leave it on for about 5 minutes
• Finally, remove the mixture by washing it off with water
• Do this remedy every day and twice each day in a few days. It will give you the best result

People always say that prevention is better than cure. So, you not only apply one of these above remedies, you should know some tips here so that you can cure or prevent sinus headache:

• Drink a lot of water, especially warm water when sinus headache attacks you
• Have a balanced diet every day
• Consume more food or fruit containing vitamin C such as oranges, lemons, strawberries, and so on. Or sometimes you can take vitamin C supplements
• Keep your nasal passages moist
• Drink more fruit juice or vegetable juice
• Take a rest when having sinus headache
• Avoid smoking cigarettes, pipe smoke, cigar or even the room which is filled with smoke, dust, pollution, strong perfumes and so on
• Stay away from extremities of temperature
• Use a humidifier
• Stay away far from stress

• Sleep well enough, maybe 8 to 10 hours per day
• Stretch for the head and neck
• Try acupuncture
• Have the medical checkup every month
• Regularly wash your hand
• Use saline nasal spray when necessary
• Have hot shower twice a day daily
• Take food with magnesium; for instance, broccoli, soy milk, spinach, nuts, beans and so on.
• Stay away from the foods like butter, chocolate, cheese, and cream.
• Avoid eyestrain by taking breaks from your monitor often. Get up every fifteen minutes or focus your eyes on something else which is at least 20 to 30 feet away
• Make sure that you have the good and comfortable sleeping condition. Be sure it is dark, quiet, not too warm and not too cold
• Take exercises or yoga every day
• Apply some relaxation techniques such as listening to relaxing music, thinking positive, taking deep breaths, laugh every day and so on

If you want to know more about natural at home remedies for other diseases and conditions, go to our main Home Remedies page. After reading the article of top 17 natural home remedies for sinus headache relief, hope that it can help you find out the best and the most suitable home remedies to get rid of your sinus headache easily and quickly. However, the article is only for the informational purpose; therefore, you should see your doctor in order to get the advice before applying any home remedies for sinus headache relief. If you have any question, or you know other at home remedies for sinus headache, please leave them below.

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