Smell

-   Anosmia: Decrease or complete loss of sense of smell. Inability to detect surrounding odors. The cause should be treated: sinusitis, coryza, nasal polyps, frontal or nasal fracture, anesthesia or surgical trauma...

- Ageusia: This is the total loss of taste for food which often goes hand in hand with the loss of smell. Dry mouth, smoking can affect the sense of taste. Also involved is the absence of saliva, a tumor of the glands, paralysis of the facial nerve, etc. which can reduce the taste on one side of the tongue.

-  Dysgeusia: alteration of taste. Many medications are likely to cause taste disturbances

-   Cacostomy: Bad smell in the mouth. The causes should first be treated: tonsillitis, dental caries, pyorrhea, intestinal parasitosis, fetid bronchitis...

- Ozene: Exhalation through the nostrils of a fetid odor compared to that of a crushed bedbug. The olfactory power is very diminished.

-   Taste: degeneration of taste has been observed following vitamin deficiencies to which the mother was subjected during pregnancy in 55% of criminals, 70% of epileptics, 80% of the insane, 82% of the mentally retarded

Adopt a raw hypotoxic diet

Cacostomy: Juice of young cereal shoots, chlorophyll

Mouthwashes-gargles at olive oil (see Oleotherapy in the volume Well-being tools)

Caution: medications are often the cause of smell disorders. Carefully examine the list of pharmaceutical remedies used and find out about their side effects or their interaction with food.

Consult the book “Drug interactions” by Dr. J.-C. Rodet, published by Éditions du Dauphin - Paris / F

-   Ozene: E.O. of Peppermint (Mentha piperita) + Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis citrolifera)

- Anosmia: avoid breathing strong essences