This process is taking water in through one nostril and expelling the same through the other. Get a feeding cup or a small sized tea-pot. Filling it with cold or luke warm water, insert its nozzle into either of the nostrils and bend the head a little to the other side. Suck in the water very lightly and let it pass out through the other nostril. The water will start flowing in a continuous stream after some practice. Beside cleansing the conjunction of the nostril, the water, in this process, exerts some pressure on optical, auditory muscles and gives them strength.
The fore-going neti practices prove very effective in curing chronic catarrh and the diseases caused by cold. Weak sight also improves and spectacles can be removed. For the improvement of eye-sight, sutra-neti followed by Vyutkrama and siddha Jala-neti processes done with milk, to which some drops of almond oil are added, would prove extremely beneficial.
Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Indian Nation (BAPU JI), was a great advocate of Jala-Neti. In his latest book on health, “The Key to Health”, he writes, “Just as we wash our mouth every morning, the nose should be cleaned. Clean water, cold or luke warm, is the best agent for that purpose. It should be taken in a cup or in palm of the hand and drawn up through the nostrils. It is possible to draw the water up through the nostril, the other remaining closed and expelling it through the other by opening it and closing the former. This process should be carried out gently so as to avoid discomfort. In order to cleanse the back portion of the nose known as nasopharynx, water should be brought out by the mouth or even swallowed.”