Asthma is a common long-term (chronic) respiratory disease in which the walls of trachea, bronchi, and lungs gets inflamed.

This inflammation causes the airways to become sensitive to environmental exciting factors, such as dust, smoke, strong smell, pollens or cold air.

In reaction to these factors, an asthma attack can occur. The bronchial tubes muscles get tighten, and due to inflammation of walls of airways, mucus is oversecreted leading to difficult breathe.

Types:

  • Exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB)
  • Allergic asthma
  • Cough-variant asthma
  • Occupational asthma
  • Nocturnal or night time asthma(orthopnoea).

Signs and Symptoms:

  • Coughing
  • Wheezing
  • Chest pain

Pathology:

Exciting factors (dust, smoke, strong smell,etc.) à wall of bronchial tubes swells à wall gets constrict, tubes become narrow wheezing, coughing, chest tightness/ heaviness à difficult breathing.

Scope of Homeopathy for asthma:

Asthma is an expression of internal hypersensitive immune system in the form of symptoms at the level of lungs, so it has to be treated at the root level by correcting the disease at immunological level. Homeopathy is based on the same principle. It improvise asthma at the immunological level by balancing the hypersensitivity and by enhancing the healing capacity of our immune system.

Being a recurrent disease, asthma requires long-term management.  Homeopathy is very effective for long-term management of asthma, as homeopathic medicines have no side-effects and risk of any dependency.

It helps the patient to live a comparatively symptom-free span for a long time.  As per the medical studies, patients who are on homeopathy treatment live a much better life than those patients who are on bronchodilator pumps or other conventional treatment for a long time.

Conventional treatment like cortisone or bronchodilators helps to treat acute attacks of asthma. But for reducing the recurrency, duration, and intensity of acute attacks, homeopathy proved wonderful.  Homeopathy has imparted better life to many who suffered from this chronic disease.

For the children suffering from asthma, homeopathy is a blessing. It helps in reducing the number of attacks, the duration of acute attacks, and the intensity of attacks. It also reduces the dependency on inhaled cortisone and other bronchodilators.

Nowadays child asthma is also very common and many kids faces difficulty and had to take bronchodilator and later on steroid pumps. In such cases if we introduce proper medicine in early stage, we can definitely avoid life-long medicine dependency.

How homeopathy can help in treating asthma?

  • Asthma results from oversensitivity of the immune system. Homeopathy works by balancing the body’s over-sensitivity and treats the disease at a root level.
  • Homeopathic treatment is absolutely safe, non-habit-forming, non-toxic, and hence can be used as a part of the long-term management of asthma.
  • Homeopathy improvises your body’s immunity and hence reduces the body’s tendency to catch a frequent cold and cough, recurrent throat infections, etc. Hence, it corrects the general health of the patient.
  • Homeopathic medicines reduce the frequency, intensity, and duration of acute asthmatic attacks.
  • Initially, homeopathy can be taken along with conventional medicines.
  • When taken regularly, homeopathic medicines may reduce the frequent need for conventional medicines, such as inhalers, bronchodilators, cortisone, or antibiotics and decreases its dependency.
  • It helps the patient to live an attack-free phase for a long time and produces long-lasting results.

Duration of treatment:

Many patients experience a definite change in about initial 3-4 months of the homeopathic treatment, but the total duration of treatment varies from patient to patient depending on the following factors:

  • The duration of illness
  • Severity of the disease
  • Frequency, intensity, and duration of acute attacks of asthma.
  • Genetic factors- Family history
  • Environmental factor
  • Previous and current use of medications, such as inhalers, bronchodilators, cortisone, antibiotics, etc.
  • Associated diseases, such as eczema, allergies, bronchiectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, heart diseases, etc.
  • The general health of the patient.

Commonly prescribed homeopathic medicines in asthma:

Some of the commonly prescribed homeopathic medicines for asthma are Antimonium tartaricum, Blatta orientalis, Lycopodium, Kali Carb, Natrum Sulphuricum, Ipecacuanha, Lobelia inflata, Medorrhinum, Arsenicum album, etc.