Written by admin on 2009-03-20T12:12:30+0000">March 20, 2009 – 12:12 pm
What good news that researchers have isolated the weak gene that causes asthma. Homoeopaths have always known that the disease of our forebears, tuberculosis, was passed down through the genes to make us susceptible to asthma.
My story-Having been born with asthma, I understood the feeling of gasping for air, the fear that you just won’t get that next breath. As a child, every cold went to my chest. I loved walking in the rain and getting my feet wet, but wasn’t allowed to do it!
Certain foods can provoke an asthma attack. My foods were eliminated one by one, and always they were the ones I liked best: milk, wheat bread, chocolate, ice cream, eggs, tomatoes, peanuts. Since I have been treated by natural healing techniques, I haven’t had an attack of asthma.
House dust mite and moulds severely aggravate asthma in the genetically weak child. Lowered immune response and allergens are also high on the list. So, every sniffle becomes a fear, with bronchitis nearly always developing into asthma.
As a child, emotional excitement (giggling) set me off gasping. Now my strongest asthmatic reaction comes if I drink cask wine at a barbecue. It is safer to check labels on a good bottle of wine for the preservative that can affect the asthmatic.
Chiropractic was the first therapy that helped me. I had my middle spine adjusted, along with the ribs which affect the diaphragm. Massage along and around here freed a lot of the spasm that stimulated an attack.
Excellent results are also being gained from gently adjusting the cranium of an asthma patient thus affecting the fluid mechanism in the brain. This in turn stimulates the cranial nerve supply affecting the breathing response. This is heady stuff but many cases of asthma cure have been reported. This technique is chiropractic and osteopathic one where evidence of success is accumulating.
Bill’s story-I have suffered from bronchial asthma since I was eighteen and have been under medical treatment since then. The consequences have been debilitating. I could not play strenuous sport; a smoke-filled room brought on attacks of asthma and in the home we were unable to have carpets or curtains.
Since having chiropractic treatment my condition has improved dramatically. I can now enter a smoke-filled bar without ill effect, and our house has carpets and curtains!
A warm bath is good for muscle tension, while an infra-red lamp, twenty minutes a day either side, will relax the chest and dry out the mucus in the area. Infra-red also raises the temperature which is the naturopathic way to eliminate an infection or virus. (Be very careful with an infra-red lamp around children, as it gets very hot and will burn if touched.)
Moxibustion breaks the phlegm very quickly. A second moxibustion treatment can solve the case. Acupuncturists highly recommend this marvellous preventative treatment which does not require needles. Everyone who gets bronchial asthma should have moxibustion once each season for a year. In my experience that is all that is needed.
The other important factor in curing my asthma was the taking of vitamin C to eliminate the infection that started the attacks. Latest research has shown only good results from the constant taking of a little extra vitamin C. As an adult, I gradually increased the dosage to about 3 gms daily, 5 gms if I was under stress or if someone with flu had coughed all over me. This stimulates the immune system. I slowly reduced the dosage becoming healthier and more confident. As my resistance to colds and flu developed and I stopped getting tonsillitis, I noticed that my allergies were fewer and I could eat normally again.
In one of the articles that I wrote for Mode magazine, I attracted a lot of attention from the medical profession when I quoted research that showed that vitamin B12 injections could break a difficult asthmatic attack. Asthmatics often have difficulty in digestion, so injections work better and more quickly. Try them. Ask your doctor. So many more medical people are turning to natural methods and are willing to accommodate people who react adversely to drugs.
Garlic is a natural antibiotic. Take it in combination with horseradish. I know patients who have not had an asthma attack since they have taken this capsule. Combine it with vitamins A and C with bioflavinoids (these are found in the pith of the citrus skin and aid in healing.) They are obviously easier to take as a tablet.
So too, a ‘new’ method of breathing (called Buteyko) is currently very popular with asthmatics. Judging by the response of patients, it is well worth learning.
The idea is to increase the interval between breaths so that the available carbon dioxide necessary for most asthmatics is slowly raised. This has the effect of relaxing the bronchials, and opening up the capillaries in the rest of the body.
This is simplistic but offers you something different to investigate. It goes without saying that an instructor is necessary and the technique must be mastered, before medication can be reduced. The results are impressive.
Asthmatics respond very well to homoeopathics, but see the practitioner for an individual assessment. Homoeopathics support not supplant the regular pharmaceutical medication prescribed by the doctor. However, if the drugs are a derivative of cortisone, they are much less effective as a rule. Have these homoeopathics on hand: in urgent cases they will help until the doctor arrives.
ACONITE for the first sign of a cold or sniffle. Or for fear during an attack.
It calms.
ANT TART Wheezing. Rattling of mucus in the chest.
ARSEN ALB for the midnight to 2 a.m. attack.
CARBO VEG for an attack after spasmodic coughing.
Ipecac for nausea and the loud noisy cough.
Kali carb for the 3-5 a.m. spasm.
Nux vox for attack after food upset with burping. Patient irritable.
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