If it is worse with cheese, then it is sure kapha. Maybe your prakriti is not kapha but current condition (vikruti) is due to kapha. Why don't you try nasya (nasal drops with medicated oil) or jala-neti ?

choc is fine marcia

The things I listed are the extremes and all of them as well.

Try having a little ginger every day for a week or so and see if it helps. I had an acquaintance who specialized in women's health via ayurveda and she used to have a small 1/8 inch slice of ginger after a meal that was heavily kapha, and especially after drinking milk or too much chai.

There is also a massage you can do that will help the sinuses drain.

For your upper sinuses, place the thumb edge of your index fingers of each hand on their respective eyebrow with the tips not quite touching. You should be able to feel a slight furrow in the bone if you try to move your index finger a little up or a little down. Pressing the edge of your finger into your eyebrow slowly make a circular massaging motion with your fingers - top, center, down, towards your ears, top, center, and so on - very small. After maybe even as short as 5 seconds you may have a drainage down the back of your throat from your sinuses.

For the lower sinuses, lay your index fingers across your nose in an upside down V, right at the bottom of the boney part of your nose and on the bone. With a sweeping motion apply light pressure as you arc your fingers down and across your cheek in a line similar to the bottom edge of the boney part of your nose all the way out to an up and down line even with the outer edge of your eyeball. Again about 5 seconds of doing this should break things up.

The massages work for dry or gunky stuffed up.

I hope these things help.

%^)

neti

You could also just try normal saline solution nose drops to break things up, wash out the excess mucous and hopefully restore things to normal (our poor noses work so hard keeping junk out of our lungs).

- Boil tap water for five minutes.
- Add 1/4 teaspoon of salt per 8 ounces of water (kosher or cooking salt might be best since regular table salt tends to have a bit of silica in it to make it free flowing and sometimes its also iodized, neither of which your nose cares about).
- Store in a clean covered container (Whole Foods sells various sized eye droppers).
- Allow the solution to cool to body temperature before using (and at body temperature is best overall).
- Lie on a bed with your head hanging over the edge, top of the head parallel to the floor, fill up your nose and let it *soak in* for a minute or two (this will get into the upper sinuses and you may have to add more as it gets up in there).
- Now lie flat for a minute or two and allow the saline to get into the lower sinuses.
- Sit up and get rid of the stuff that comes down.

You can do this twice in a row, and even do it twice a day twice in a row (or four times total spaced over the course of the day), but too much could dry the sinuses out excessively.

I hope some of what has been recommended in this thread works for you.