The patient should perspire through steam bath, hot footbath, hot hipbath and sunbath as this will stimulate the skin and relieve congested lungs.
Honey is considered highly beneficial in the treatment of asthma. At the time of asthma attack a jug full of honey should be placed under the nose of patient, within few minutes the patient would start breathing easily. One can also mix 1 teaspoon honey in a glass of water and have it 3 times a day. This is very good home remedy for asthma.
The patient should be given garlic cloves boiled in thirty grams of milk daily. Good Home Remedy for asthma.
Steaming ginger tea with minced garlic cloves should be given twice a day (morning and evening). This asthma remedy is good natural remedy for asthma.
A teaspoonful of turmeric powder with a glass of milk 2-3 times a day is recommended. It is highly beneficial when taken empty stomach. This remedy is also considered as good home remedies for asthma.
During the attack mustard oil mixed with little camphor should be massaged over the back of the chest. Effective Home Remedy for asthma
The patient should also be made to inhale steam from boiling water mixed with ajwain (caraway seeds). This is one of the simplest asthma treatment.
Blend radish, honey and lemon juice together in a blender. Mix for 20 minutes and cook in small pan on less heat. Take one teaspoon of it in the morning daily. This is good asthma remedy.
Take cup of hot water and put half a teaspoon of licorice root tea in it, then wait for 10 minutes, strain and drink. This remedy is one of the best home remedies for asthma.
Another asthma treatment is air, sun and water are also great healing agents. The patient should sit in fresh air for sometime daily. Try to avoid dusty places, exposure to cold, mental worries and tensions.
Boil 4-5 cloves in 125 ml of water. Add one teaspoonful of honey and drink the mixture twice or thrice a day. This is a good home remedy for asthma.
1-2 teaspoonfuls of Spiegel seed with warm water twice a day helps in minimizing asthma attacks and this is considered as effective asthma remedy.
Soak dry grapes in water at night and keep in cold milk for half an hour and chew them. Good Home Remedy for asthma.
Take fresh dry grapes with seeds and soak them in 150 grams of water at night. Remove the seeds in the morning and chew them slowly, one by one. In the remaining water add a little sugar and drink it. In a month the lungs will be strengthened and poisonous wastes will be removed from the body.
Mix one gram of dry ginger powder and one gram of black pepper in one teaspoon of molasses of honey. This remedy is also considered as one of the effective and simple home remedies for asthma.
Useful diet for asthma is to take grind kheel of borax (heat borax in an iron vessel so that it spreads and store in a bottle) and dilute it. Take half gram to one gram of it twice or thrice with honey or warm water.
Boil one teaspoon of pure honey, 1 teaspoon of olive oil, half a cup of milk, and some garlic clove. Drink everyday this boil mixture as this is effective natural remedy for asthma.
Boil some fenugreek seeds in 250 ml of water; remove from flame when one-third of it is left. Add one teaspoonful of ginger juice and one teaspoonful of honey. It is highly beneficial for the asthma patients.
Turmeric can be taken along with honey in the morning on empty stomach to reduce the intensity of attack and is one of the most useful natural remedy for asthma.
Regular chewing of fennel helps expel infected mucous from the chest. Thus, helps in preventing asthma attacks.
Peel dry pomegranate and keep them in a jar. Boil two raisins and some part of the peel in 250 ml of milk. Drink this milk twice a day. This is one of the good asthma remedies.
Boil 20 grams of linseed in 300 grams of water. When one-third of water is left, sieve and add 10 grams of sugar candy. Drink one teaspoonful many times in an hour. This will help in the excretion of mucous that has dried up in the chest. This is also good home remedy for asthma.
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However the best home remedy is PREVENTION. You do not NEED treatment if you can simply prevent your attacks. So get off the processed foods, try to eat organic and RAW foods, the honey they mentioned is also an excellent remedy for not only asthma, but for hundreds of ailments... as mentioned before, Exercise regularly (improves lung capacity and efficacy) Avoid allergy triggers (yes you should wear a mask if working in a dusty environment. If you paint, open a window! , etc.).
One that wasn't mentioned here, COLD AIR. when I have a bad attack (which is rare these days), I open my refrigerator's freezer and breathe the cold air. It seems to soothe the inflamed airways and I breathe easier almost instantly.
Heat the water until it is steaming hot, then make the coffee or tea with the peppermint or spearmint (i like using pre-made herbal teas..the brand I use adds rose hips, lemon peel, and hibiscus flowers to the peppermint and spearmint). Put in a favorite mug and add honey.
Breath in the steam. The cup will be hot, so you'll need something to hold it with. Keep your back straight as you do this. After the steam is gone you drink it.
I think the caffeine in the coffee or tea acts a stimulant and helps open the airways (I don't have anything to back this up with, though). And the peppermint and spearmint has always helped me when I couldn't get to my inhaler.
Hope this helps
Anyways, I read some of your responses and sadly, stuck my head in the freezer. And yes, it did help some. But a few minutes back in regular air temp and my lungs are closing back up. Oddly enough, winter air and humidity close my lungs up - so those hot showers and the like only make it worse for me.
One thing that I have found to help, if you catch your tighening chest right away, is eating canned (or fresh) peaches. Go figure. I can't stand honey, as I used that as a cough suppressant for years as a kid before they knew I had bronchial asthma. Peppermint makes me sick to my stomach, even though it's a natural cure for upset tummys. Aren't I annoying LOL.
Ok, back to freezing my head off!
I have had to use a nebulizer or mist treatments my whole life. Inhalers simply idn't work. I went to a summer camp which was just for kids that had asthma. I learned so much there. THe remidies with milk are just wrong, if you had any time spent with e respitory thereapist they will tell you that is is bad, stay away from it as best you can. It makes your body produce more phlem and mucus.
honey is great - natural anitbodies in that.
excerise is tricky as it can be helpful and also a trigger.
caffinee remedies are for a short period only and need to be used sparingly.
Cold air is also a tricky one as it is a trigger and relief. Me Ifind the cold air better to breathe in and it actually helps constrinct the airways that are inflamed causing the attack.
And to Barbara: have you ever though of investing in a nebulizer machine? the medicine and nebulizer itself shouldn't cost that much total!
So the things I keep in keep with my asthma is
-I learned my triggers
-I keep my inhaler on me or in the area Im in. like the office at school, if I happen to leave one at home.
-learn to calm down when an attack apporaches. Keep calm, if you get all worked up then your body is working up too! So you calm down and try to breath deeply you might just find yourself slowing down.
-avoid all triggers, don't smoke, and be leary of dusty places!
Hope this was helpful
PS sorry for all the typos. I am typing in a hurry.
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I've tried: Gargling salt water, steam-tenting, and hot liquids (I dont like coffee, I'll have to try that)
What works for me: Cold air, breathing over a plant (no idea what kind it was, just a regular plant AFAIK), medications.
Cold air will work for some. Internal body temperature will keep the lungs from constricting too much, and cold air is denser (why do you think they intercool turbocharged motors for more power?).
Steam tenting I can see working again only for some, in my case it stabilizes it at where it's at (doesnt get better, but also not worse).
I got the plant idea after learning plants take in CO2 and replace it with oxygen. It seemed to work, albeit slowly (several years ago), needs leaves though.
I'm trying to find something that can cure my athsma altogether as I never remember to take my daily inhaler., and need something I can integrate with lunch, or supper.
Fred
For all those interested is a book :"Breathing free"by Teresa Hale which describe the causes of asthma and how the Buteyko method help.
Good luck
1. Coffee about two or three large cups strong...
2. if you know where to get it medicaly, marijuana. why cause it causes you to cough witch then pushes eccess moucus out of the lungs and the relaxing stoned effect of the THC causes imflamation of the lungs to decress. I love this one it acctually works suprisingly well even tho MANY will dissagree with me on this one.
3. even tho it sounds weird shallow breathing to ballance co2 and o2 levels in the lungs
3. honey about 3 tblsp in a mug of hot boiling water and breath in the vapor
Cold air, can go either way. It does not help me at all, and in fact will make my attack much worse.
As for many of the other ingredients stated, like onion, grape seeds, sugar and turmeric (among others listed) have no real effect on me, no more than the hot water it is drank with.
Milk should be avoided like the plague! Milk builds up mucus in the lungs and bronchial tubes, making it even harder to breath!
In the case of alot of mucus built up in the lungs, it can sometimes be knocked loose by beating on the chest or upper back. Dont be afraid to get hit really hard in the back several times, it may hurt on the outside but within 10 seconds you will cough up a lot of mucus!
I hope some of this information is useful, i know writing this comment took my mind off my own attack and I can breathe alot better now!
COOL air helps (0 to -5C –so freezer temp) but COLD air (-10 to -20C -so Canadian Winter) is bad
I read a report about asthma being higher up north and they said Vitamin D might be the issue. I tan 1 -2 x per week and it helps a lot (very relaxing too – don’t burn!). Alternately if you can’t or won’t tan, I would take 2000 to 4000 IU of Vitamin D / day.
However i am a collegiate athlete, and have played soccer since i was 4. I know its hard but you have to keep exercising! Especially if you have exercised on set. Even if you don't if you can just get in a regular pattern everyday after a week or two of really pushing your self you see it really start to improve. It's not a quick fix, but for me its the only times i really feel i can breath all the way. The only down fall is that if you take a break for any extended length of time you might find yourself at square one again, and building your breathing back up to what it was can be difficult.
As far as other remedies, i stick with the nebulizer. It really is your best bet, and they arnt that expensive. If you are every working out and you do find your self in the middle of an attack, i find it best, to first CALM DOWN!!! panicking only makes things twice as bad it makes your body work double time! Slow your breathing put both hands on your head, and continue to walk, if you can. It will take some time but your breathing will regulate. However you MUST have a rescue inhaler around at ALL times! non of this will work other wise! keep the good info coming the honey is actually helped me a lot!
-sorry for the typos, in a hurry!-
He takes between 3 to 4 capsules when he begins to feel constriction, and in about 15 to 20 minutes he is breathing easier, and feeling better, without the "stimulant" feel or sleepiness. He can go for about 6 to 8 hours feeling fine, even round the things that cause his asthma.
Quercetin also works well for joint pain, and sinus allergy symptoms. If taken preventively, it works great. When we visit my sister who has cats (and he is allergic to them too) he takes Activated Quercetin about 20 minutes before we arrive at her house, and he has no symptoms for most of the day. We have been using this product for over 5 years. It is on line, and at many health food stores.
GOODNIGHT.
I'm surprised that there has been minimal mention of the Buteyko method of breathing. This breathing method is taught by Buteyko practitioners and most people are able to dramatically reduce their asthma medications.
I stongly recommend that you look into it - google will help - and go to a workshop. I went to one here in Australia for my snoring it works for that too), and we had asthmatics there who were so thrilled with the results!
Milk causes more mucus so that sounds like a bad idea. And honey is a definite trigger for asthma for me.
When I was in high school, I rode my bike to school and would get cold/exercise induced asthma. My fix was after I parked my bike, I would take a couple gulps of cold water out of the drinking fountain. It seems counter-intuitive, I know, but the cold air causes inflamation (heat) which the cold water would then soothe.
I don't have any asthma medicine because I only get it when I eat honey, run around in cold air, when I don't take medicine for hayfever and let that get way out of hand, at the beginning of the chest phase of colds (sometimes), or after laughing really hard. And I don't think I've had an asthma attack since I was a kid. For the most part I don't consider myself an asthmatic.
I can avoid all of these triggers and I rarely get colds and even then it usually becomes bronchitis for the last week of it without incident, and as for the laughing, well few things are ever THAT funny and it goes away quickly. So, my prescriptions usually expire long before I finish them, so I just don't keep them around anymore.
When I DO screw up and get the cinder block on my chest, an anti-inflamatory works pretty well, albeit slowly. Although I've heard that asprin and ibuproferin (advil, e.g.) can make it much, much worse for some, so I try acetominifen (tylenol, e.g.). This works especially when your chest is achey, like when consuming a trigger. Less so for the viral-induced, and the others go away on their own quick enough for me to not feel I have to take anything.
Now she is doing Pranayam and Sujog therapy . Her attack had completely stopped.Request all of you to please try this option.
My 3 year old son also gets Asthma attack, But he cant do pranayam and Sojog therapy. Please help let me know that to do .
I can't count the number of times I've been out with my friends, had a few sips of alcohol and bolted for my inhaler.
So far coffee is the only thing that helps me when I don't have my medicine.
One part raw unprocessed local honey and as many cloves fresh garlic as you think you may want. Usually about 10 - 12 is enough. Chop up the garlic as fine as you can. If you have a blender or food processor use that to mix it all up well. If not then chop the garlic as fine as you can.
Mix it all together in a glass jar keep it refrigerated. Take a spoonful twice a day as a preventative or take one spoonful when an attack comes on.
And be sure to drink a glass of water with it. You can put a couple spoons of this in a glass of water or you can take the remedy straight and chase it with the water.
*tip* you can put it on a salad and eat it that way. Drink water with it