Question:
Can anyone help me, I would like to find out if there are any
alternative therapies to help with asthma. My child has asthma and is
needing to use his inhalers more and more. I don't like the fact that
he is taking steroids, i know it is only a small dose, but i would
rather he didn't have to use this at all.
Answer:
There are various herbs that can be helpful with asthma, but which herbs are
helpful can vary among different people and even with the same person at
different times. I speak from personal experience. website
alt.folklore.herbs is oriented toward herbs and not asthma-specific. website
alt.support.asthma is heavily oriented toward prescription drugs. Some of the
people there think anything that deviates from straight-and-narrow conventional
western medicine is quackery, and they get nasty. There is Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture and Chinese
herbal formulas. My use of herbs is western-oriented, though I use Chinese
green tea and wouldn't want to be without it. I have tried vitamin C daily three times a day infact and it helps to relive
the symptoms a lot and I also walk each day which helps expand the
lungs.......and dont eat phelm causing food dairy products, cheeses, cows milk
yogurt all that and I find that helps alot and drink lots of water to flush the
kidneys because asthma stems from the kidneys.......herbs do help and also
homepathics work wonderfully.........need to see a homeopath in your local area
Cell salts are good for treating asthma including housedust allergies and
hayfever.
I used to get housedust allergies particularly badly and anything like
unpacking boxes, shaking blankets, cleaning out the vacuum cleaner bag etc.
would set me off. Homeopathic nat mur is particularly good for housedust
allergies but there are other contributing cell salts for asthma including
calcium, potassium, sodium (not salt), magnesium, silica and iron.
