Asthma & Homeopathy...

What Is Asthma?

Asthma is a chronic (long-term) lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways.
Asthma causes recurring periods of:

• Wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe),


• Chest tightness,


• Shortness of breath, and


• Coughing. The coughing often occurs at night or early in the morning.
  

What Causes Asthma?

The exact cause of asthma isn't known. It is usually a combination of factors (family genes and certain environmental exposures) that interact to cause asthma to develop, most often early in life. These factors include:

• An inherited tendency to develop allergies (atopy),


• Parents who have asthma,


• Certain respiratory infections during childhood &


• Contact with some airborne allergens or exposure to some viral infections in infancy or in early childhood when the immune system is developing.

If asthma or atopy runs in your family, exposure to airborne allergens (for example, house dust mites, cockroaches, and possibly cat or dog fur) and irritants (for example, tobacco smoke) may make your airways more reactive to substances in the air you breathe.

Who Is At Risk for Asthma?

Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts in childhood.
In the United States, more than 22 million people are known to have asthma. Nearly 6 million of these people are children.

Risk factors include:

• Having allergies, most, but not all, people who have asthma have allergies.
• Eczema (an allergic skin condition), or
• Parents who have asthma.

Among children, more boys have asthma than girls. But among adults, more women have the disease than men.

What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Asthma?

Common asthma symptoms include:

• Coughing. Coughing from asthma is often worse at night or early in the morning, making it hard to sleep.


• Wheezing. Wheezing is a whistling or squeaky sound that occurs when you breathe.


• Chest tightness. This may feel like something is squeezing or sitting on your chest.


• Shortness of breath. Some people who have asthma say they can't catch their breath or they feel out of breath. You may feel like you can't get air out of your lungs.

Not all people who have asthma have these symptoms. Likewise, having these symptoms doesn't always mean that you have asthma.

ROLE OF HOMEOPATHY IN TREATMENT OF ASTHMA:

Homeopathy helps:

• Prevent chronic and troublesome symptoms such as coughing and shortness of breath


• Reduce your need of quick-relief medicines


• Help you maintain good lung function


• Let you maintain your normal activity levels and sleep through the night

HOMEOPATHIC MANAGEMENT OF ASTHMA:

1. Arsenicum Album : Scanty expectorations, putrid expectorations, restlessness, suicidal, anguish with fear of death, aggravation: midday, midnight, wet weather…Amel: by leaning forward in bed, walking around


2. Hepar Sulph: Croupy and rattling cough, wheezy asthma, cough and breathing mucusy, splinter like pain in chest, hypersensitiveness is marked, asthma better in damp, better by bending head backwards.


3. Kali Carb: wheezing asthma, stitching and cutting pain, chest coldness, offensive and cheesy expectorations, worse lying left side, around 3a.m., cold weather, AMEL: leaning forward, rocking


4. Natrum Sulph: Every fresh cold brings on an attack of asthma, dyspnoea of damp weather, must hold chest when
   

DOSAGE: 4 pills - 3 times a day...