Humming for Healing

A case report shows it cured chronic sinusitis within days

One of my most popular posts on X is about the efficacy of humming for chronic sinusitis.

I wrote about chronic sinusitis before and showed that there is strong reason to believe that almost every case is a fungal infection, so the widespread use of antibiotics and steroids makes no sense whatsoever. The antibiotics only serving to wipe out healthy bacteria and the steroids serving only to pour fuel on the fire by inhibiting the immune system’s ability to keep the fungus in check.

Antifungals may work, but the prescription ones we have are relatively hard on the liver and prolonged use requires regular monitoring of liver function. There are natural antifungal protocols that can be used as well, and humming alone seems particularly powerful according to this case report where the patient did an hour a day for 4 days then 10 minutes a day thereafter to maintain the benefits:

A case report is a useful starting point for making hypotheses. What it proves is just that humming worked for this particular person, it may work for others and it may not. According to the founders of evidence based medicine the most powerful bit of data is the case report, when used on that particular case, meaning the best data comes from what you have tried on yourself.

If you think about it what most mainstream researchers and clinicians trust, the double blind randomized controlled trial, doesn’t tell you much at all about any particular person. It tells you what happens on average to an average person as defined in that trial, and if the data set is large enough it may give you some information on subsets of “average persons” from within the data, men and women of certain age ranges for example, or those with certain preconditions like heart, lung or kidney disease. But without trying the study intervention on yourself you won’t know what will happen to you. The problem is compounded the further an individual is from the average in terms of genetics, lifestyle, metabolism, health, stress, etc. Outliers who are particularly healthy or unhealthy are least well represented in the data of any trial and while the results mean little for any one person who wasn’t in the trial, the results are particularly meaningless for them. And this bleak realization comes before accounting for the fraud and bias endemic in all big pharma connected trials where the datasets are almost always proprietary and closed to outside review, where various shenanigans frequently occur like the removal of inconvenient data points to skew the outcomes to the desired results, or to fit preconceived notions, or to advance careers.

To understand why humming isn’t an automatic panacea we have to understand that the chronic sinusitis sufferer may have developed the disorder for a number of reasons. Maybe a course of antibiotics wiped out a keystone bacterial species in the nose that was necessary for blocking the growth of pathogens. Maybe they are exposed to a lot of EMF and the mold they have is stimulated by that radiation (like the mold that grew towards the radiation of Chernobyl). Maybe they are under a lot of stress and their cortisol heavy metabolism suppresses their own immune response to the mold. Maybe the mold was stimulated to grow by the presence of toxins in the tissues of the nose, binding those toxins and in some sense protecting the person’s cells from them. Maybe there is an emtoional issue that ties into the problem affecting the energetic balance in the sinuses.

Depending on the mix of causes humming may rid one person of chronic sinusitis in days, and do nothing for another. Either way 10 minutes a day is a good general practice for managing stress and stimulating immunity. Modern science has confirmed what ancient ayurvedic wisdom knew, namely that humming calms the autonomic nervous system which has profound body wide effects on healthy functioning. This is particularly important for us in the modern world since many if not all our chronic health problems have a component of autonomic dysfunction. Our fight or flight responses are dialed up to 11, even when there’s nothing to fight or fly from. This leads to poor sleep, weight gain, poor digestive function, poor immunity, and a suceptibility to all manner of chronic diseases.

So humming is worth a try for anyone and is a useful tool to have on hand even if used only as needed. But if you’re suffering from severe persistent chronic disease you need a broad and comprehensive approach to ridding the body of the actual causes, and supporting it in healing.