Asthma | Natural simple home cure

Asthma is narrowing and swelling of the airways. Asthma symptoms are: coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and an audible whistling or wheezing exhaling sound. Asthma symptoms can be a minor nuisance or major and disruptive. Severe asthma attacks can be life-threatening. Symptoms appear primarily at night, during exercise or when exposed to specific triggers. Asthma symptoms are usually triggered by:

● Exercise-induced asthma occurs during exercise

● Occupational asthma, where an irritant is the accomplice such as fumes, gases, asbestos or dust

● Allergy-induced asthma such as pollen

Traditional Asthma treatment

There is no cure for asthma in traditional medicine. Medications are used to reduce attack's severity and frequency.

Long-term medications	Side effects
Inhaled corticosteroids
Leukotriene modifiers	Sometimes linked to psychological reactions such as irritability, hallucinations, depression and suicidal tendencies
Long-acting beta agonists	severe asthma attacks
Combination inhalers	severe asthma attacks
Theophylline
Quick-relief medications	Side effects
Short-acting beta agonists
Ipratropium
Oral and intravenous corticosteroids	Serious side effects when used long term
Allergy shots (immunotherapy)
Omalizumab
Allergy medications (oral and nasal spray antihistamines and decongestants)
Bronchial thermoplasty
Used for severe asthma It involves heating the insides of the airways in the lungs with an electrode

Available asthma treatments are medicine of the first and second degree among the seven levels of medicine. The current asthma medications are expensive, not a cure and some have serious side effects.

Asthma in alternative natural medicine

According to the natural law of duality (where expansion = yin, contraction = yang), asthma is an expansive disease (swelling of the airways). Asthma is triggered by a passing illness or a crisis or an irritant. But the underlying cause of asthma, like most illnesses, is the accumulation of faulty eating habits that violate the natural law of duality and produce imbalance and lowered immunity. Asthma is an illness of the third stage among the seven stages of illness. Asthma is directly related to the lungs, so the pancreas-heart should also be considered in natural treatment. Pancreas-heart are mother-father of the lungs in the five elements theory of natural medicine.

Asthma natural alternative treatment and cure

Food is best natural treatment. Foods affect asthma positively or adversely depending on their type. Foods that restore natural balance cure asthma naturally without side effects. Asthma is expansive, and expansive foods (Sugar, lettuce, sweets, some fruit and vitamin C, etc.) will make asthma worse. Foods that cause contraction will naturally cure asthma. With the right diet, asthma can be cured completely. It takes from several weeks to several months to cure asthma depending on its severity and type.

Healthy mind in a healthy body

The seven conditions of good health include mental well being. All asthma cases are naturally associated with psychological distress, sometimes depression and lethargy. Improvement in asthma results naturally in psychological improvement. Becoming less preoccupied or overwhelmed with daily physical symptoms. This allows time to relax or meditate and be more hopeful and productive.

Asthma and macrobiotics

Curing Asthma does not require eating Japanese food

Most people believe that macrobiotics means eating exotic Japanese foods. This is a misconception. Macrobiotics is not just a diet. When we understand macrobiotics, we understand the laws of nature that govern our health and our being.

The macrobiotics diet does not work for some people. Why?

If you have Asthma and tried macrobiotics, particularly the #7 diet, but it did not work for you, then the foods you selected are not appropriate for your Asthma. Macrobiotics principles, used correctly, help select the foods to eat and the foods to avoid (some permanently and some temporarily) for treating and curing Asthma. Yin foods for Yang illnesses, Yang foods for Yin illnesses.

Asthma & vitamin and mineral supplements

Food is best natural treatment. With a carefully designed diet for asthma, there is no need for vitamin and mineral supplements. Some supplements can aggravate asthma when taken randomly. Example, Vitamin C & iron supplements can have severe adverse effects on asthma.