For patients with chronic nasal occlusion, who are unable to receive the drug treatmene because of drug allergy, etc., the following methods can be tried effectively;
1) Nasal occlusion subsides with moderate pressure applied by thumb and index finge on the lower third of lateral margins of both nasal bones adjacent frontal processu of maxillae toward a center of the skull.
2) Frontal headache disappears with simultaneously applied pressure to frontal and oc cipital areas by both hands.
3) Duration of pressure is limited to 10-30 seconds. Longer application is useless.
4) The effect is ipsilateral, namely-the pressure to the right side relieves the righ sided occlusion and the pressure to left for the left nasal occlusion.
5) Excessive pressure causes nasal pain.
6) The effects last for 15 minutes to 3 hours.
7) Uncomplicated nasal diseases respond more readily to these methods and so does till acute.
8) Eighty seven percent of 162 cases treated responded favourably.