Smell and taste is extremely essential for your daily life. They make you feel the eager to eat which is the most important activity in your life; also it even assists you in your social activities. Smell and taste are parts of the chemical sensing system or chemosensation. The process of smell and taste functioning is fairly complex and complicated. However, to be simple, it is when the molecules of basically any substances around you come in contact with the nerve cells in nose and mouth. Then the signal will be transmitted to brain to identify which smell or taste would that be.

That brings us the problems when smell and taste are impaired. Your daily activities will be definitely affected negatively. Smell and taste sometimes can keep us out of dangers such as fire or poisonous foods and fumes. Being loss of smell and taste will carry on other illnesses in the long term such as sinus and nasal passages problems or even tumors in brain.

Home Remedy for Loss of Smell and taste
Castor Oil
Contain various properties such as anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antimicrobial which are effective in cleansing your nasal passage and restore your sense of taste and smell.

How to use:
-- Warm up the oil
-- Put 1 drop in each of the nostril
-- Apply twice per day, once in the morning and once at night before going to sleep
-- Keep doing until the sense of taste and smell are restored.

Garlic
Good at cleansing nasal passage and clearing any nasal blocks, garlics is an effective remedy for restoring your sense of taste and smell and even promote the sense of smell.

How to use:
-- Take 2 to 3 cloves of garlic and chop into small pieces
-- Add 1 cup of water and let it simmer for 5 to 10 minutes
-- Strain the mixture and consume warmly
-- Keep doing for 2 to 3 times per day

Ginger
With the ability to promote the flavor of foods, ginger can help encouraging and stimulating your taste buds which in turn restore your sense of taste and smell.

How to use:
-- Freshly chew some ginger pieces on regular basis
-- Chop some ginger and add a bit of rock salt. Consume this mixture 30 minutes prior to your daily for few weeks
-- Another option is consuming ginger tea 2 to 3 times per day.