Can you cure asthma? What is it?
Asthma cures are where you find them. Doctors say that asthma is incurable. It is a matter of definition. Hunger is incurable, but you can make it go away by eating enough food. Make your asthma go away by medical use of health foods.
Asthma is like a bruised forehead in several ways, such as cause, prevention and cure. The main difference is that breathing difficulties are usually there for the rest of your life, while a bruise goes away quickly.
That's the official point of view. This page is about the official point of view for those who can't accept the simplicity of the cure for asthma.
Diagnosis
It is often an allergy or combination of allergies. When you breathe in, air is sucked down a thick tube, which splits into two thinner tubes, which keep branching off into narrower and narrower tubes. All these tubes are referred to as airways. Asthma is a chronic disease that affects your airways.
If you have asthma, the inside walls of your airways are inflamed (swollen). The inflammation makes the airways very sensitive, and they tend to react strongly to things that you are allergic to or find irritating. When the airways react, they get narrower, and less air flows through to your lung tissue. This causes symptoms like wheezing (a whistling sound when you breathe), coughing, chest tightness, and trouble breathing, especially at night and in the early morning.
Doctors are needed to diagnose asthmatics, but they are pretty useless for anything else. They can give you a drug for the relief of a symptom, but their official attitude is "Asthma cannot be cured, but most people with asthma can control it so that they have few and infrequent symptoms and can live active lives."
I don't like that defeatist attitude. Sure you can't cure problems with hunger because it will keep coming back, but the treatment of having some good healthy food looks very like a cure to me. You should quit smoking if there are kids around to cut down on childhood asthma. You may not want to change your lifestyle to avoid asthma, but if there is a child around you should. Homeopathic treatments and natural herbal medicine often work. Sometimes correcting a nutrient deficiency is all you need.
An asthma episode or attack is when the symptoms become worse than usual. As if it wasn't bad enough having swelling to narrow the airways, muscles around the airways also tighten up and you may have some cells producing a flood of mucus which makes breathing even more difficult.
Asthma affects womens health more than men's health for some unknown reason.
The Cause
What causes a bruised forehead? Perhaps stepping on a rake so that the handle slams your forehead. Perhaps trying to walk through a glass door that was so clean that you didn't see it. Perhaps someone head-butted you. Perhaps... the list just goes on.
The causes of asthma are probably just as numerous. For instance deficiency in magnesium can cause asthma. Breathing second-hand smoke can cause asthma. Peanut butter, or mold, or dairy products can also cause an allergic reaction. Even garlic dust can cause industrial asthma although garlic itself is a cure. An air purifier that puts out ozone can also cause an asthma attack. Read about a better way to grow fresh air USA source, or New Zealand source develloped by the CSIRO in Australia.
Some research seems to show that all these causes are secondary, and that you can cure all asthma for free once you know how with Buteyko asthma breathing techniques.
Prevention
If you stopped leaving rakes on the ground where you could step on them would that prevent you getting a bruised forehead? Only if you are in the habit of leaving rakes about. Could you paint pretty pictures on a glass door to stop you getting a bruised forehead? Only if you have a glass door. Duh...
Will getting enough magnesium in your diet prevent asthma? Only if your asthma is caused by a deficiency in magnesium.
So what are you to do - give up? Well to avoid a bruised forehead you would remove each possible cause. You wouldn't just remove a rake then say "It doesn't work!" when you get knocked off your horse by the branch of a tree.
In the same way, don't you think it would be a good idea to try as many prevention methods as possible for asthma to avoid medical treatment? If not for yourself, then for your children. You can read about more further down. The following may not be the best eBook ever (I didn't write it - grin) but you can learn a lot about how to treat asthma naturally.
Cure
If you apply Arnica tincture to your forehead immediately after the accident the bruise may not develop and it will heal more quickly, but your body is curing itself. You are just helping it a little. However you may be able to help your body a lot when it comes to curing asthma.One doctor who I trust is in favor of taking what I think of as the "shotgun" approach. You just aim in the general direction in the confidence that a stray pellet will hit the target. He says "Normally, asthma is not that difficult to treat. Optimizing your diet and removing sugars, grains and all fluids but water is typically a remarkable step in the right direction." Homeopathic asthma treatment is probably the most gentle medical intervention.
Borderline Cures
Acupuncture, and breathing exercises can sometimes improve the health of asthmatics. Even a psychological approach sometimes works. For instance "expressive writing" can help. Asthma patients who wrote about their most stressful life event showed a 19% improvement in a specific measure of lung function, while control asthma patients showed no change, researchers report.
Inhalers with a solution of Xylitol sugar (plus some sort of preservative to prevent decomposition of the sugar) have sometimes been very successful. Apparently bacteria "latch on" to xylitol molecules in the lining of the respiratory tract. If you spray in a solution of xylitol, the bugs grab hold of the stuff in the solution instead of in the lining of your respiratory tract, and are swept away as your lungs get rid of the moisture. I like that sneaky trick, but it doesn't always work.
While I may not have much faith in some of these, if I was an asthmatic I would be trying every possibility until I found something that worked.
Doctors may be poisoning you.
Dr. Seif Shaheen from King's College, London says that acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol and other products, might increase the risks of asthma and help to partially explain why it is so much more prevalent in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand than elsewhere. They have some of the world's highest rates of allergic disease, and some of the highest levels of acetaminophen sales.
The prevalence of wheeze in adolescents increased, on average, by half a per cent for each gram increase in acetaminophen sales, per head of population.
Antibiotics pros and cons
Antibiotics can destroy the bacteria in your digestive tract that protect you from asthma so probiotics may be necessary to counteract the damage. However, some asthmatics suffer from a low-grade infection that encourages their problems. Antibiotics can cure asthma in these people.
I have no medical backing for what I would do, but here it is. I would eat half a dozen raw cloves of garlic (hating every mouthful) to see if that killed the infection. Another alternative would be to drink some colloidal silver, which is kills more bacteria and fungi than any antibiotics. The only problem is that it would probably need probiotics afterwards. Even better would be to include astragalus and shiitake mushrooms in my diet, because both of them strengthen my immune system.
In one study, 31 out of 55 patients with chronic, stable asthma also had a low-grade airway infection with Mycoplasma pneumoniae, bacteria that commonly cause pneumonia in people younger than 40 years of age, or another bacteria called chlamydia (not associated with the sexually transmitted kind).
The infected patients were treated with antibiotics for six weeks and had significant improvements in lung function.
Conclusions
None of the asthma treatments work in all cases. Wearing a crash hat while riding won't protect your forehead against rakes in the garden. If you have testimonials about an 80% cure, you might still be in the 20% and have to find another cure.
