Asthma - Try Homeopathy as an alternative medicine

Asthma is a conditon in which you find difficulty in breathing. It is a chronic disease that partially blocks the airways of lungs. Inside walls of airways becomes sensitive due to swelling and narrower causing difficulty in breathing. Asthma is divided in to four: mild intermittent (symptoms occur in normal intervals but yur lngs function normally), mild persistent asthma (symptoms occur more than twice a week and feel difficulty at night), moderate persistent asthma (symptoms come every day and at night it is more severe), severe persistent asthma(symptom comes every day at any time and at night you find more difficulty vey often). Mostly children (boys) are affected with asthma.

Symptoms

Wheezing, coughing, Nasal flaring, Sweating, chest tightness, chest pain, difficulty to breath, Rapid pulse, discoloration of lips in some cases etc. When the symptoms are worse condition is called asthma attack. Symptoms intensity and duration are different for each person. For some symptoms occur often and for some during exercise or when exposed to some diseases.

Causes

Allergy to various materials like dust, pollen, mold, smoke, pets, tension, air pollution etc can act as triggers to asthma. Asthma occurs due to genetic reasons and environmental changes. Medications like aspirin and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease are also reasons for asthma. Preservatives in some preserved foods can also cause asthma. Its usually a life long disease and gets chronic. Obesity and exposure to smoke is also a reason.

Treatment

Asthma is incurable, but can be controlled. For this you have to know about asthma in depth. Regular check up and following the directions of doctor strictly will help. Keep away from things for which you are allergic. Medications for allergy can help to keep asthma under control and to keep away from its symptoms.

Two types of medicines are usually used in asthma. Medicines for quick relief for immediate relief and long term medicines to control symptoms and attacks. Usually inhalers which are bronchodilators are used for quick relief and it is very important for preventing asthma symptoms. They are of many types and proper methods must be known. They help to relax the muscles in airways and thus help for free flow of air. It must be used with the appearence of symptoms and must be always carried with as the attack may occur at any time. Short-acting beta-2 agonists, Ipratropium (Atrovent), Oral and intravenous corticosteroids etc are used.

Among long term medicine corticosteroids like Fluticasone, Budesonide etc is most widely used, for preventing swelling of airways. Corticosteroid are inhaled to control all types of persistent asthma. Steroids are also used in cases of severe asthma. Beta agonists that act for long period are inhaled against night time symptoms. Leukotriene modifiers like zafirlukast with inhaled corticosteroids are given. Cromolyn , nedocromil or theophylline for mild asthma and theophylline with inhaled corticosteroids for persistent asthma which are moderate. Those who use theophylline should check blood level frequently to use appropriate dose. patients can even use drug cocktile. Suddenly stopping long term medicines will worsen asthma. You can use a peak flow meter to know the working condition of lungs. Long-acting beta-2 agonists (LABAs), Leukotriene modifiers, Cromolyn and nedocromil, Theophylline etc are also used.

Children must be given proper advice and assistance of parents. During pregnancy asthma must be kept under control or else it might affect the child. Most of the medicines are safe during pregnancy. Using of corticosteroids can cause side effects like cough, loss of voice, slow growth in children etc. Immunotherapy, Anti-IgE monoclonal antibodies, Xolair in children above 12 years (by injection ), Omalizumab are also given.

Alternative medicine

Homeopathy is the most commonly used alternative medicine to treat asthma. In this method bodies defensive power is enhanced and patient is helped to lesd a healthy life. Acupuncture, Relaxation techniques, ayurveda, herbal medicine, folk medicines, Music therapy, Laser therapy etc are also used.

Links

http://www.asthma.net.in/app/asthma.asp

http://mohfw.nic.in/brochial%20asthma_final.pdf

http://asthmaticbronchitis.com/app/default.asp

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Asthma/Asthma_WhatIs.html

http://www.asthma.net.in/app/more_about_homeopathy_asthma.asp

http://www.noattacks.org/about.html

http://www.asthma.net.in/app/conventional-treatment.asp

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/dci/Diseases/Asthma/Asthma_Causes.html

http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=9&sub=19&cont=254

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/asthma/DS00021/DSECTION=8

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/asthma-medications/AP00008

http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/244/main.html

Asthma alternative medicine -Bathini Fish - 2008 June

HYDERABAD: It's that time of the year when thousands of asthmatics assemble here, open their mouths wide and gobble up a fish medicine that promises them a herbal cure!

Being an alternative form of medicine, the fish medicine promoted by the Bathini Goud brothers, lacks scientific evidence till date to prove that it cures asthma or any respiratory diseases.

"The Bathini family is giving the medicine free of cost and over the years nobody has complained of any complications, so why this controversy?" asked Dattatreya. Around 6,00,000 patients were given the medicine last year and the number is expected to go up to 7,00,000 this year, according to the family. But if one goes by the number of fish supplied by the fisheries department, about 2,00,000 people take the medicine every year. The response to the medicine may differ from patient to patient and there may be no scientific proof of how the medicine works, but the mere belief draws thousands of asthmatics from different parts of India and even abroad to Hyderabad every year.
It is for this reason that the Goud family renamed the event as "fish prasadam" three years ago in the face of the controversy.

The family claims that in 1845 a holy man passed on the formula for the miracle medicine to their great-grandfather Veranna Goud, if he promised to distribute it free of cost and never reveal the ingredients to others.

The family has consistently turned down demands from rationalists and physicians to reveal the ingredients, claiming the medicine would lose its efficacy.

For many the controversy has no relevance.

Asthma treatment with 'fish medicine'

The fish medicine for chronic asthma patients, a traditional treatment known only to Bathini Gowd brothers of Hyderabad, will be administered free of cost for 24 hrs in the hyderabad city city in india.
The "miracle" asthma fish medicine of the Goud family is again being dispensed in the Andhra city of Hyderabad. This 153 year old tradition continues to draw sufferers from all over as it's believed to be an actual cure for the ailment. Apparently you swallow a live fish, for three days in a row and then stay on some special diet for 45 days. "Post-mortem", the patient is supposedly cured of asthma. Couldn't find any scientific or clinical studies so some skepticism may be in order, but placebo effects can go a long way.

List of some diseases with no medicines

You will think this following diseases doesn't have medicines, that is false believes, Lots of people have invented and tried and succeeded by using different medicines for the following diseases. Please share your experience if u knows some thing about these ‘incurable’ diseases.

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia
Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Acquired Immune Defficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Alzheimer
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease)
Aspartylglucosaminuria
Asthma
Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
Autism
Avian Influenza
B-Mannosidosis
Batten disease (Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ("Mad Cow" disease)
Bipolar disorder (Manic-depression)
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Chronic myeloid leukemia
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Currarino Triad
Cystic Fibrosis
Cystinosis
Dementia
Diabetes
Emphysema (C.O.P.D.)
Farber disease
Fatal Familial Insomnia
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Flu
Fucosidosis
Galactosialidosis (Goldberg syndrome)
Gaucher disease
GM1 Gangliodsidosis
Hairy cell leukemia
Hopeless Astrocytoma (Brain Cancer)
Hurler syndrome (includes Hurler-Scheie)
Hunter syndrome
Infantile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis
Infertility
Krabbe disease
Kuru
Lissencephaly
Lymphocytic Lymphoma
Maroteaux-Lamy
Metachromatic Leukodystrophy
Morquio A
Mucolipidosis II (I-Cell Disease)
Mucolipidosis IV
Multiple sclerosis (MS)
Niemann-Pick disease, Types A and B
Polio
Pompe disease
Prosaposin
Progeria
Pseudomyxoma peritonei
Psoriasis
Salla disease
Sandhoff disease
Sanfilippo A
Scheie syndrome
Schindler disease
Schizophrenia
Sialidosis (Mucolipidosis I)
Sly syndrome
Spreading Adenocarcinoma
Spreading Melanoma
Takayasu's Arteritis (Pulseless Disease)
Tay-Sachs disease
Wolman disease
source : wikipedia.