30 years ago, Dr Murray Grossan, an Ear Nose and Throat specialist in Los Angeles was treating Scuba Divers for sinus problems. Because of extreme underwater pressure, these commercial divers needed to equalize their ears and sinuses, but could not take medications before diving. If they did, they would experience drowsiness and risk death. Earning $300/ hour, they could not afford not to dive because of sinus problems. The same severe pressure changes affected Airline Pilots. At that time, Drug companies were only interested in Nose drops, decongestants, and Antibiotics. Alternative medicine in this country hadn't really started.

Dr. Grossan had been researching the Healing techniques practiced in Yoga for 3,000 years. He sought out Indra Devi, a revered Yoga Teacher and spiritual leader who enlightened him on the Yoga technique of rhythmically sniffing salt water in and out the nose at a very low pressure. In India, the incidence of sinus disease had always been low as a result of this practice.

But his patients, rugged commercial Divers and "Right Stuff" airline pilots couldn't spend months learning this method. So Dr. Grossan devised a simple mechanical way to do this-a special tip that gently pushed warm saline solution through the sinuses, cleaning them out and letting the patient breathe freely. The results with his patients were impressive. Divers would use the device before diving and have few problems. It looked like a great success.

The good Doctor took his invention to the big drug companies and received his first lesson in medicine and money. "The profit is in selling pills" Rather than a new kind of therapy, they saw it as competition. So, against the advice of his accountant, partners, and family, he decided to make the device himself- today called The Hydro Pulse®Nasal Sinus Irrigator. Otherwise his patients would not have this drug free method available.

In the nose and sinus there are millions of tiny oars called cilia. These move the nasal mucus out of the nose to the stomach. Bacteria, virus, toxins, etc get trapped in this mucus to keep it out of the lungs. As long as the cilia keep moving the body is healthy. But if the cilia slow down, then the bacteria can multiply and enter the body. Slow cilia accounts for post nasal drip, breath problems and sinus disease. The HYDRO PULSE sends a stream of warm saline pulsating thru the sinus passages at exactly the same rate as healthy cilia beat back and forth. This action thins out the mucous, and "wakes up" the cilia to start removing bacteria. The result is healthy sinuses that fight off the infection. Overuse of Antibiotics.

30 years after Dr. Grossan discovering a new way to help Scuba Divers, there is now a new health threat in this country that has received a lot of press lately.

Now many of the standard, and even some of the newer, very expensive designer Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. Drug resistant bacteria are on the rise. Infections like tonsillitis, sinusitis, ear infections - no longer clear with a shot of penicillin.

Everyday we learn that our drugs with few side effects that worked yesterday no longer work for infection.

The very latest Medical research is showing that for common infections- like sore throat sinus etc, common sense things like rest, nasal irrigation, adequate liquids, chicken soup and tea, may be more effective than an antibiotic.

Hydro Med's products have come just in time. Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. In the recent Archives of Internal Medicine they report no difference in healing 6 days after using an antibiotic for sinusitis vs. using a placebo, except that there were side effects from the antibiotic! "Because most of the patients I see have already had several courses of antibiotic without relief, I think it is very important to consider using natural methods against disease."

Antibiotics are losing their effectiveness. In the recent Archives of Internal Medicine they report no difference in healing 6 days after using an antibiotic for sinusitis vs. using a placebo, except that there were side effects from the antibiotic! "Because most of the patients I see have already had several courses of antibiotic without relief, I think it is very important to consider using natural methods against disease."

Even though his work received an AMA award and his device was listed in Time Magazine, "I am up against the 200 million a year spent on advertising just for Allegra alone".

30 years and some 300,000 success stories later, Dr. Grossan is still improving on drug free approaches to sinus symptoms, post nasal drip, and allergies. Now, hundreds of thousands of persons have benefited from his decision to develop the world's most effective drug free sinus products. And Dr Grossan's book, The Sinus Cure, that stresses treating the patient as a whole, is among the top sellers at Amazon in this subject category.

As to what he feels is the most important thing for sinus health today, Dr Grossan answers, " We stress all aspects of a healthy body, especially Hot Tea."

Not content to rely on one method to help sinus patients, Dr Grossan has also added nasal gel for moisturizing and natural fruit enzymes for scuba divers, pilots speakers and performers. Hydro Med's nasal spray, Breathe.ease XL contains the electrolytes that keep the body in health. Stay tuned to Sinus Central even more breakthrough sinus products are on the way.