ASTHMA TREATMENT

ASTHMA
Asthma is a disease of the bronchial tubes or airways. Symptoms are feeling of tightness in the chest, shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing.

Water treatments
1. Fomentation on the chest, 2 times a day.
2. Steam inhalation, 2 times a day.
3. Breathing exercise for 10-15 minutes when there is no attack of asthma, 4 times a day.

Breathing Exercise
Position: sit relaxed on a chair, with high back supported by a pillow. Breath in through the nose. Then purse the lips and pretend that you are blowing through a straw. Blow out twice as long as you breathe in. gradually increase the time of blowing. Relax after blowing and take 3 or 4 normal breathes before you start the purse breathing again. These can be done in the morning, upon waking up, and in the evening, before retiring. These may be performed also when short of breath while doing other exercises and activities.

HERBAL MEDICATION FOR ASTHMA

1. Talumpunay leaves. Roll two leaves. Use as cigarette every 6 hours.
2. Kalatsutsi Leaves or Graveyard Flower. Roll 2 dried leaves. Use as cigarette, one in the morning and one in the evening.
3. Sampalok or Tamarind Bark. Chop and boil bark in a one-foot long piece bark in 3 galsses of water for 10 minutes. Dosage adults: 1 cup every after meals. Children: ½ cup, 4 times a day (after meals and bedtime).
4. Kulitis or Ameranth Leaves and flowers. Boil 5 chopped young stems with flowers and leaves in 5 glasses of water for 10 minutes. Adult-1 cup 4 times a day. Children ¼ cup, 4 times a day. Babies-2 teaspoons, 4 times a day.