I was looking answer for my question regarding herons dropping frogs eggs and fish eggs in their droppings in ponds, but haven't found it; instead, I found this:
What is the biggest type of frog?
The biggest species of frog recorded to date is the Goliath frog of Cameroon, West Africa. These frogs can grow up to 1 foot in length.
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A recent interest in nasal wash has led me to experiment with saline water; a mix of bicarbonate and sea salt and nasaling the whole lot, one nostril at the time whilst the water runs out from the other nostril.
Though, reading more about it brought some interesting facts: the salt water does something to the cells but I didn 't understand what; as a summery bacteria are in mucus and if you remove the mucus, the bacteria will cling to the cells where they can cause infection, instead of staying in the mucus where they don't do much harm. But I don't know.
Later, they mention xylitol and the fact that this wood sugar, used as a sugar replacement (safe for diabetics, originally extracted from birch trees but is also extracted from corn(gm??!!)) has an antibacterial action; they were saying that bacteria clings to sugar molecules left behind, in throats and mouth, but the sugar molecule of xylitol doesn't allow the bacteria to cling.
So they advise to try xylitol in nose washes.
Following the nose washing experiments (5 times in the last week) I have now a strange left ear (it pops) which I cannot explain other than some water may have gone in the middle ear, or what else could it be? Anyway, I will do one last one and then stop for a while.
After all, nose washing is only dealing with a symptom (in the case of hayfever or colds etc) and as my old homeopath would have said, you have to look at the causes of those things rather than try to shut away the symptoms.
But if nose washing is like hand washing, then I understand also the urgency in doing it since if we didn't wash our hands and touched wounds (and spots) they get infected more easily. So should it be done?
Nasal wash is done with neti pots (even though I tried with a glass in the first instance, much more fun as it goes everywhere except in the nose) but is to think about and try and make sense of.
The info about the saline nose wash was on
this site.
If you want to see a video of
netti pot washing
