Your nose is a very efficient air filter, humidifier, and a conduit for delivering scent molecules to your olfactory receptors. As part of that process your autonomic nervous system, that controls heart rate, digestive system, etc., creates alternating bilateral congestion in process called the nasal cycle. The process improves olfactory functioning and gives the the mucous and cilia in each nostril a break from the their work.
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