@86317 - Isn't povidine iodine synthetic? Can 2% iodine work instead? Thanks for the recipe. Curious if nebulizing or diffusing these EOs would work as well?
I don't know about using 2% iodine instead of povidone. I've only seen that one study about the povidone.
Diffusing EOs would usually react with viral particles in the air and also give some immune system support as you inhale the oils, but I don't know how the spike proteins might react differently in the air or with the immune cells in the nose. I mean I doubt the diffused EOs would make what reacts in the air that you then inhale worse, so if you can afford it, yeah it's probably useful somehow. And diffusing the EOs would get some of the chemicals onto the mucous membranes of your nostrils and to the olfactory bulb, but depending how it reacts with the stuff in the air you don't want to inhale, you might be inhaling the stuff you want to touch your membranes and olfactory bulb and inhaling the stuff you don't want that hasn't been made less harmful by mixing with the EOs in the air, and so if (given what we don't know about the spike proteins) that's the situation then how much does the diffused EOs stop the stuff you don't want as they both come into contact with the inside of your nose? I think it might be more reliably effective to put a couple drops in your nose and rub it into the mucous membranes directly, to make sure better it's a protective covering, and snort it up to the olfactory bulb too. (Remember, dilute the essential oils.) Some of the EOs are inexpensive enough to diffuse and use in carrier oil directly (or if you're rich, diffuse rose otto and waft in it luxuriously).
Putting the oils in the nose and snorting it up to the olfactory bulb -- nasya is the Ayurvedic name for that. Sometimes it's just with plain sesame oil for keeping the mucous membranes moist, like after a saline nasal rinse with a neti pot which can be a little drying, but nasya includes the use of a variety of medicated oils. Traditionally the medicated oils would be prepared by infusing a carrier oil with the herbs. There are very specific recipes for making some traditional oil formulations. Those extensive combinations of ingredients might not be safe for nasya, I'm not sure, but it's an example of how detailed they were with the development of the formulations. Examples:
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But nasya doesn't have to be complicated recipes to make infused oils. If an essential oil is diluted safely in the carrier oil, that can be a good way to do nasya too.
There are lots of articles online about nasya. For a description that's in a good bigger picture context of the Ayurvedic ideas, by someone who really understands the traditional concepts, the book Ayurveda and Panchakarma by Sunil Joshi is the best introduction to Ayurvedic ideas I've found. It can be downloaded free as PDF here (the author didn't post this; the book's still in print to buy new):
Library Genesis: Sunil V. Joshi. - Ayurveda and Panchakarma : the science of healing and rejuvenation
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He's teaching Ayurveda and doing consultations still:
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