Let me start by saying that I haven't had a cold in years, today that happy fact came to an end lol.  I got up this morning all stuffed up with my nose running and I was hacking all over the place and my head felt HUGE, I had the crud!  The first thing I thought of was the Herbal Snuff.  I measured out 1/8 teaspoon, split it in two parts, lined it up, cut off a straw and stood there looking at it for what seemed like an hour lol.  I had to prepare myself mentally to snort it before I could bring myself to do it so I went and sat down on the sofa for awhile and thought about it. It was either snort the stuff and endure whatever it would feel like for just a little while or live with how I felt for God knows how long.  That did it for me, off to the kitchen I went.

I blew my nose right before so that I could get the whole 1/16 teaspoon up at one time.  As it turned out I snorted about half of it in one breath and it felt like nothing else would go up there, it felt like it plugged up my nose.  I want to describe to the best of my ability what it felt like so that you'll be prepared, although I'm sure like with anything it will be slightly different for every person.  Its SHOCKING to the system to say the least but it wasn't by any means unbearable.  I sat down and kept sniffing. It felt like my nose was on fire lol, then it started traveling up to my temple.  I could actually feel it moving up there and it kind of throbbed but didn't really hurt.  It did make my temple and my forehead right above my eye feel kind of warm/hot, it was working on my sinuses.  It also made my right eye water, thats the side I started on.  Then I started to taste the garlic in my mouth and the roof of my mouth got warm.  After about 10 minutes I went and snorted up my left nostril, same thing, I could only snort half the line.  I ended up snorting the whole 1/8 teaspoon in just a little while.

During the aftermath of snorting, my nose would get stopped up and then it would run and then it would clear so I could breathe through it and all the while I could feel the herbs working their way through my sinuses.  Strange feeling but not a hurting feeling.  This went on for about 45 minutes.  After a little over an hour I noticed my chest felt lighter somehow which tells me the crud was already going into my chest, I hadn't even noticed my chest felt congested until the herbs got there.  I never did blow my nose until a couple of hours later, nothing gross came out because I guess I caught it before I got the full infection.  

I was so excited about how the snuff cleared me out, I just can't tell you how great it felt after all the "burn" went away! Throughout the day I've also taken 3 tablespoons of Echinacea and 4 cloves of garlic so far.  If I would have thought I wouldn't have taken anything but the snuff so that I could see if that alone would have taken care of it but its too late now and besides, I'm sure it would have lol.

When my husband got home from work he told me he felt horrible, he very rarely gets colds but he said he was all stuffed up in his head and felt really bad.  Well, I had just the thing for him lol.  My husband is the biggest baby when he does get sick, thank God its rare!  So I explained how I felt when I got up this morning and went through the whole thing about how it felt to snort the snuff and he said he wanted to try it.  I was shocked but I cut him some straw and  lined it all up for him and told him to blow his nose first and then take a big sniff with the straw and snort all he could at one time. Well, he snorted all of about 1/16 of the 1/16, in other words, next to nothing lol.  As soon as the snuff hit his nose he dropped the straw, screamed and looked at me like he wanted to kill me lolololol!   It was all I could do to hold myself back from laughing at him.

He said OMG and started walking to his office with me following close behind but before he got to his door he informed me he wanted to be alone lololololol!!!!!  I left him alone.  About 5 minutes later he came into the family room and told me he'd rather have his finger cut off than to ever feel that kind of stuff in his nose again and not only in his nose but it was hurting in his ear!  I told him it was perfectly fine for him to let the cold drag on and on all winter if he wanted to, he didn't have to snort anymore and that he was the one who wanted to try it lol.  He went back to his office and stayed there for about 1/2 an hour then he comes out again and tells me he still feels the snuff working through his temple and in his ear and throat. So I say well DUH its healing that nasty stuff!  Off he goes again to his office, out he comes a few minutes later and tells me that he'll do it again but he's got to wait until later lol.  In the end, even though he snorted only that tiny amount, he could feel it working and knows it IS HEALING and not harming no matter how awful it felt for him!  Simply amazing I say.

Dr. Schulze in one of his healing crusade videos video.google.com/videoplay told a story about a women who came to his office with her sinuses so stopped up that before he could have her snort he put a hot washcloth with some eucalyptus oil on it for awhile then had her chop onions and horseradish a couple of times so she would be opened up at least enough to snort the snuff.  She ended up leaving his office with her sinuses completely unstopped!  It is hard when you're plugged up to get the whole amount up there at one time lol so I should have chopped some stuff before hand, it sure would have made it easier to snort more.  If you haven't watched the video its a hoot and very encouraging.  I have every intention of snorting until I can snort the whole 1/16 line in each nostril but even with less I was astounded at how much it cleared me up.

I'll post tomorrow and let everyone know how I feel when I wake up, stuffy or not but I'm betting NOT!!!!!  I can now recommend this to everyone and know that it works for sure and for certain.

Oh, one more thing I forgot to say.  Just like you get used to the cayenne tincture, its the same with the snuff.  When I snorted the second half it wasn't nearly as bad at all and thats a very good thing but you won't know just how good a thing until you snort the first time lol.

Happy snorting.

Willow