Dr Ron Roberts
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 Although it may seem a little unusual, sitting on the toilet can often help relieve or control wheezing and asthma. The toilet or bathroom is a convenient refuge where you can be alone and not pressured by people trying to be helpful. You can take your time, and concentrate on breathing out slowly using diaphragmatic control, whilst in a bent over, foetal-like position.
Of course, keep in mind that once an attack has begun, there is often no alternative but to resort to your prescribed medication. It is imperative that the attack be stopped at all costs—whether or not a drug is used. |
| Sing while you are working around the house, especially songs with lots of words,- sing along with the radio. A vocalist or singer 'throws the voice'?breathing out long and in short. There's no harm in trying it, after all, people who sing or whistle while they are working are usually happy people—and happy people are usually healthy people! |
| Roughage and fibre are naturally present in high quantities in bran, wholemeal bread, wheatgerm, raisins, dates, sultanas, prunes, garlic and especially in the skin of apples and grapes. An ideal breakfast is a combination of wheatgerm, bran and muesli with raw or stewed fruit. Canned fruit, without added sugar, is acceptable for the sake of convenience.
All vegetables, particularly carrots, celery, potatoes, parsnip, cauliflower and broccoli, as well as herbs such as sennapod, liquorice and cascara, will improve and regulate bowel function. |
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| Avoiding problems or worrying about them does not help us handle them any better. The secret of balanced stress is learning to cope with the underlying causes. Even though we may not have control over the events around us, we can have control over how we react to them and minimise their effects.
To create a balanced life, one that flows easily rather than one that is a struggle, we must first want to have a balanced mind and body. An important part of being out of balance is that often we don't feel like doing anything about it. |
| Seaweed stimulates the immune system and in the past folk medicine used it to treat respiratory and gastrointestinal problems. Seaweed has also been shown to lower cholesterol and blood pressure and to maintain balanced thyroid activity.
Sourced from the sea bed, seaweed has added minerals not usually associated with 'earthly produce.
Japanese cuisine uses seaweed extensively, but Western cooking is not as adventurous. Rather than being served as a vegetable, or in sheets of nori wrapping sushi, we are more likely to encounter seaweed in powdered form or incorporated in prepared foods. |
Jack Challem
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 One condition lies at the root of your troublesome allergies and asthma. And one condition describes the underlying cause of heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and some types of cancer. It is inflammation.
As you read this, medicine is rapidly redefining coronary artery (heart) disease, the leading cause of death among people in the United States and most other Westernized nations, as an inflammatory disease of the blood vessels. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 And one human trial showed that asthma patients on a restricted diet for two months — three meals one day and only five hundred calories the next—had fewer markers of oxidative stress and inflammation in their blood (and their asthma symptoms improved). This finding supports the theory that imposing mild stress on the cells—in this case depriving them of fuel — makes them more resilient to future challenges and reduces free radicals. "It's kind of like exercising for an hour every day," Mattson says. "It's a mild stress, but as long as there's a recovery period, it's good. |
John A. McDougall
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 Between 34 and 89 percent of asthmatics have GERD, while 75 percent of children with asthma experience GERD. Patients with asthma caused by GERD commonly complain of heartburn, regurgitation, and difficulty swallowing, with worsening of symptoms following meals and after lying down. |
Gregg Braden
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 In the tests, subjects who were known to have asthma were given a vapor that the researchers informed them was a chemical irritant. Although it was really only an atomized saline solution, almost half of the participants developed breathing problems, with some experiencing a full-blown asthma attack! When they were told that they were being treated with another, healing substance, they recovered immediately. In reality, however, the new treatment was only saline in water as well. |
Jack Challem
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| More often than not, individuals with chronic inflammation, such as with arthritis and asthma, have low levels of anti-inflammatory antioxidants (such as vitamins E and C), omega-3 fatty acids, and many other important nutrients. Many patients also have previously undetected adverse food reactions, abnormal gut permeability, yeast overgrowth, and hormonal imbalances. All of these factors can impair normal functioning of the immune system, sustaining inflammation well beyond its biological usefulness. |
Anne Harrington
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 Asthma is not an emotional or psychological disease, although strong emotions can sometimes make asthma worse."66
Nevertheless, to acknowledge a decline in mainstream acceptance of psychosomatic medicine is very different from saying that its key narrative—the idea of the speaking body—no longer holds power in our culture. On the contrary, the speaking body continues to hold considerable power; but it does so in the busy, restless margins of health care, and particularly in the worlds of alternative, feminist, and holistic medicine. |
Jack Challem
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Vitamin E and Rheumatoid Arthritis
Consistent with the anti-inflammatory properties of studies showing that it can reduce inflammation and rheumatoid arthritis. The first study, published in Anndl. |
| Not eating your vegetables or taking your vitamins can increase breathing problems in people with asthma.
• Being overweight increases your body's production of inflammation-causing substances.
Taking common anti-inflammatory drugs will actually make your osteoarthritis far worse.
• If you have one inflammatory disease, you are likely to develop others in the coming years, because the inflammation will eventually spread and affect other parts of your body.
I have had my own experience with inflammation and how I have avoided chronic pain. |
| Israel's National Institute of Oceanography, and his colleagues measured lung function in thirty-eight people with asthma, then asked them to run on a treadmill. The subjects had an average decrease of at least 15 percent in their lung function. Next, Ben-Amotz gave them 64 mg of natural beta-carotene (derived from Dunaliella algae) daily for seven days. After taking the supplements (equivalent to about 100,000 IU daily), they went back on the treadmill. This time, twenty (53 percent) of the subjects had significant improvements in their postexer-cise breathing. |
| Depression is frequently associated with some inflammatory diseases such as asthma, Alzheimer's, coronary artery disease, and diabetes.
Herbs and Spices
Medicinal and culinary herbs are rich sources of anti-inflammatory antioxidants, especially flavonoids. They also contain trace amounts of natural Cox-2 inhibitors, such as salicylates. Medicinal herbs can be especially potent, while culinary herbs are perhaps less potent but more tasty anti-inflammatory nutrients.
Over the past several years herbal medicines have moved from folk-medicine status to scientifically supported treatments. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 How about arthritis, asthma, skin lesions like psoriasis, eczema, and autoimmune diseases like lupus, multiple sclerosis, and Crohn's? Ironically, we're looking for the sinister cause of the staggering increase in childhood asthma, all the while stuffing our youngsters with refined grain products. Is it any wonder that we're depressed, achy, and having our hips and knees replaced right and left?
But, evidence is mounting that high-dose omega-3 therapy is effective in reversing many of these inflammatory conditions. What's surprising is that we are only now rediscovering these facts. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 Excellent, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials showed that homeopathy works for, among many conditions, asthma,21 diarrhea,22 upper respiratory tract infections in children^ and even heart disease.2?Of at least 105 trials of homeopathy, 81 showed positive results.
The most unassailable were carried out in Glasgow by Dr David Reilly whose double-blind, placebo-controlled studies showed that homeopathy works for asthma, with all the usual checks and balances of a pristine scientific study.2? |
Dawson Church
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 When compared with a control group that had not had the same environmental stimuli, the children in the experimental group had both fewer episodes of asthma and fewer incidences of the use of anti-asthma medication. Immune factors in the blood of the experimental group increased, as did gene expression of the factors governing interleukin-2 production.11
Immediate early genes can also affect the developing fetus. |
Anne Harrington
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| Asthma is not an emotional or psychological disease, although strong emotions can sometimes make asthma worse."66
Nevertheless, to acknowledge a decline in mainstream acceptance of psychosomatic medicine is very different from saying that its key narrative—the idea of the speaking body—no longer holds power in our culture. On the contrary, the speaking body continues to hold considerable power; but it does so in the busy, restless margins of health care, and particularly in the worlds of alternative, feminist, and holistic medicine. |
Roberta Bivins
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 For example, acupuncture is applied for lower back pain, homeop-athists treat asthma and allergies, hypnotism is popular with those fighting addiction to nicotine, and herbal medicines address depression. Like these conditions, gout was an important disease in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for both commercial and intellectual reasons. It also clearly demonstrates the relationship between medical failure, disease intractability, and the transmission of medical knowledge across cultural boundaries. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 The implications of this research is that folate in fortified foods like bread and cereals may be related to the increase in asthma in children that has occurred over the past few decades, although no one has shown a direct link so far.
Low folate in the blood has been linked to depression. However, obtaining adequate folate in the diet should be enough to prevent depression as well as problems related to birth defects in pregnant women.
There is a small fraction of the population of women who have antibodies to folate. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Moreover, hypoglycemia has been called the "Great Imitator" because its strange, startling symptoms—some experts list as many as 125 of them—can mimic a frightening array of diseases and conditions, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, neurosis, migraines, Parkinson's syndrome, chronic bronchial asthma, paroxysmal tachycardia (rapid heartbeat), rheumatoid arthritis, cerebral arteriosclerosis (hardening of the brain's arteries), menopause, mental retardation, alcoholism, hyperactive disorder, and senility. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| Individuals with allergic asthma have high blood levels of a substance called immunoglobulin E (IgE). IgE sitting on the surface of the airways binds allergens and causes mast cells and basophils to release inflammatory factors, which cause the airways to constrict. (IgE in the nose and mouth causes hay fever, and IgE on the skin causes eczema.) Symptoms include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath or rapid breathing, and chest tightness. |
| Patients with chronic asthma should be treated with inhaled corticosteroids, including fluticasone (Flonase, Flovent), beclomethasone (Qvar, Beconase, Vancenase), flunisolide (Aerobid), budesonide (Pvhinocort, Pulmicort), and triamcinolone (Azmacort, Nasacort). Inhaled corticosteroids have the same side effects as systemic steroids but to a much lesser degree. Studies have shown that inhaled corticosteroids (budesonide) can be used intermittently; there is no advantage to regular use of these medications. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Millions of Americans have asthma and allergies, often triggered by such airborne substances as mold, dust mites or pollen. The immune system identifies these normally harmless substances as dangerous and releases inflammatory chemicals that cause sneezing, wheezing, congestion and other symptoms.
The drugs used for these conditions—antihistamines, inhaled corticosteroids, etc.—curtail symptoms but frequently cause side effects. |
| It also inhibits the release of histamine, a chemical that triggers allergy and asthma flare-ups.
Quercetin works better for prevention than short-term treatment. It usually takes several weeks to become effective.
What I recommend to my patients: 300 milligrams (mg) twice daily. If your symptoms are severe, increase the amount to 1,000 mg twice daily until symptoms abate. Then switch back to a maintenance dose of 300 mg twice daily.
VITAMIN C
This potent antioxidant has a mild antihistamine effect.
What I recommend to my patients: 500 to
1,000 mg daily. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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| As a result, every year children under age seven, everyone over sixty-five, all health-care workers, and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma specifically are urged to get the influenza vaccine. And yet there is no evidence that the flu vaccine does anything at all. There are no controlled trials that show that a flu shot prevents deaths in children or the elderly. The only positive studies are of patients with COPD, probably because COPD patients have marginal lung function and preventing any flu infections will have a greater impact.
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Ray D. Strand
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 Though his parents were relieved that Christian had survived, they were terrified about his future—they had had no idea asthma could manifest itself so suddenly or become so severe. Obviously motivated to be sure Christian received all of his medication, his parents took the fragile boy home.
Minimal lung reserve marred Christian's childhood. He could not participate in normal rambunctious activities with the other children, and as he grew older, the doctors kept adding more and more medication because his lungs were just not performing well. |
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