Treatment of bronchial asthma includes mandatory medical supervision and the use of medications. But today, doctors not only do not deny, but also recommend the use of traditional medicine recipes in addition to traditional therapy.
When resorting to home treatment, it should be remembered that folk remedies for bronchial asthma can not serve as an alternative to classical procedures, and should only be carried out after the approval of the attending physician.
What is bronchial asthma?
Bronchial asthma is a chronic disease that forms in a person at an early age and finally fixes (or goes into the stage of remission) by the age of 14-15. The disease is paroxysmal and can lead to death if you do not stop every single episode of spasm and constantly do not support the body with background therapy.
Attacks of bronchial asthma adhere to the same algorithm, but can be different in duration and intensity of spasms. At the beginning of a seizure, a person feels that he does not have enough air to inhale, and tends to take a sitting position with an inclination forward to alleviate his condition at least a little. Then his breathing quickens, and inhalations occur in the manner of a jerk, and exhalations break out lingering, sometimes with a whistle and wheezing.
During the attack, other symptoms of the disease are observed:
- sweating
- dry painful cough;
- instant weakness;
- increased heart rate and respiration.
According to the form of clinical manifestations, the disease is divided into three main forms and an additional number of types of independent and mixed genesis. Such a distribution of pathology by signs helps in each case to find an individual approach to treatment.
Forms of bronchial asthma:
- Exogenous - caused by third-party pathogens, such as pollen, mold, parasitic forms (ticks). It develops gradually and in the initial stages it looks like a severe allergy with all the accompanying symptoms.
- Endogenous - the disease begins after an infectious or viral infection, as well as a consequence of a severe cold or stressful situation.
- Mixed - pathology arises due to the influence of adverse external factors (poor ecology, unstable climatic conditions) and difficult living conditions of the object (frequent stresses, hard physical labor, smoking).
Special forms include bronchial asthma that arose against the background of professional activities associated with the inhalation of harmful substances. Aspirin asthma develops due to intolerance to non-steroid drugs, including acetylsalicylic acid.
Features of alternative therapy
How to cure bronchial asthma forever with folk remedies? Medications used in asthma require a long course of administration, which negatively affects the condition of the liver and the body's immune system. This load can be reduced if you resort to home medicine, however, folk remedies for bronchial asthma have their own advantages and negative aspects:
- exceeding the dosages of preparations based on fat, plant components or beekeeping products can lead to a deterioration and the development of an allergic reaction;
- home-made drugs have a short shelf life, so they need to be constantly replaced with freshly prepared;
- in medicines prepared with your own hands, you can not change the ingredient composition, otherwise their effect may be distorted;
- any recipe from a home piggy bank should be "tested" for no more than 5-7 days; if there is no improvement, replace it with another.
If the disease is a consequence of an allergy, then first of all you need to eliminate any contacts with the irritant, and only then proceed with treatment. Of great importance is the background compliance with conditions that facilitate the relief of the patient's condition:
- the formation of sleep, rest, eating;
- regular ventilation of rooms both at work and at home;
- adherence to a sparing diet with the exception of aggressive foods, alcohol;
- quitting smoking, strong coffee and tea.
Experts recommend asthma at least 1-2 times a year to travel to the seas or mountains. It has been observed that mild climatic conditions in places with high air humidity have beneficial effects on patients with bronchial asthma and even contribute to their complete cure.
Therapeutic balm recipes
How to treat bronchial asthma with folk remedies? For the preparation of homemade balms and decoctions, a complex of components compatible with each other is used, which together constitute a therapeutic mixture of preventive and therapeutic action.
Folk remedies for bronchial asthma:
- Take 5 tbsp. tablespoons of all of the above: alcohol, liquid honey, beetroot, lemon, cranberry, black radish and onion juices, pulp of aloe leaves, granulated sugar. All ingredients are mixed well with a wooden spoon and transferred to a tightly closed jar. Drink the finished composition three times a day for 15 minutes before meals, 40 ml each.
- In a preheated skillet with 200 g butter, lightly fry two small, finely chopped onions. In the mixture cooled down to 40 degrees, add as much softened oil and 1.5 cups of liquid honey. The resulting paste is transferred to a jar and consumed in this way: 2 teaspoons of the drug are spread on a slice of bread and eat all this half an hour before meals three times a day.
- Take 2 tbsp. spoons: pine buds, rose hips, dry hypericum, wormwood, yarrow grass, celandine flowers. 6 glasses of cold boiled water are poured into the dry mixture, the dishes are covered with a towel and insisted for 2 hours. Then put the infusion on the smallest fire and simmer under the lid for another 2 hours, after which they wrap the pan for a day. 200 ml of the Befungin preparation is added to the filtered liquid, the same amount of fresh aloe juice, vodka and 1 glass of liquid May honey. The mixture is taken in 2 tbsp. tablespoons 3 times a day.
Medicines prepared using herbal decoctions are stored in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, and mixtures containing fats, juices and honey can be kept at a temperature of 4 to 10 degrees to 1 week.
Badger Fat
Many folk remedies for the treatment of bronchial asthma in adults and children contain badger fat. It is used as a substance with a unique spectrum of capabilities to alleviate the condition in any diseases of the respiratory system.
The substance helps well, even if you take it in its pure form, but in the composition of various therapeutic solutions, the effectiveness of fat increases:
- Take a full tablespoon of natural propolis and badger fat and, stirring, dissolve them in a bowl in a water bath. Then 1 teaspoon of freshly grated ginger is added to the hot solution. One teaspoon of the resulting mixture is diluted in 200 ml of boiling water and the drug is drunk before meals three times a day.
- 70 g of dark chocolate is broken into small pieces and dissolved in a water bath. Then, 100 ml of liquid honey is mixed into it, the same number of badger fat is laid, and the medicine is poured into a glass container. The drug is taken in the morning: children - 1 teaspoon, adults - two.
- Take ¾ cup of fat and mix it with 300 g of may honey. Dilute the thick paste with filtered juice of a three-year-old aloe, place the medicine in the refrigerator door. Take the mixture three times a day before meals, 1 tbsp. spoon.
Usually, children tolerate badger fat well, but experts do not recommend to parents giving it to babies under the age of three, and in the future adhere to the following dosages: from 3 to 6 years old - 1/3 teaspoon, from 6 to 12 years old - 1/2 hour. spoons, from 12 years old - 1 teaspoon each.
The benefits of a bath
Among folk remedies for bronchial asthma, a bath can be called a controversial method of treatment, since it is not suitable for everyone. Such therapy is contraindicated in children under 12 years old, in patients with heart and vascular disease, fever, as well as anyone who is diagnosed with any tumorous disease. You can’t go to the bathhouse during an exacerbation of asthma - only during a remission lasting at least 1 week.
Therapy can be made more pleasant and effective if the strength of medicinal herbs is used during a guy:
- Dilute 5 drops of eucalyptus oil in 2 tablespoons of alcohol eucalyptus tincture and pour the resulting solution with 12 glasses of boiling water. This water should be portioned (2-3 glasses) to pour hot stones in the steam room.
- Dry or buy flowers of coltsfoot in advance at the pharmacy and spread the dried flower in a thick layer on the hot stones in the steam room.
- Make a dry mixture of herbs taken in 1 tbsp. spoon: lemon balm, chamomile, clover, thyme, licorice root and coltsfoot. Brew grass with five liters of boiling water, and sitting in the steam room from time to time sprinkle hot stones with a filtered broth.
If the treatment in the bath is carried out correctly - to be in the steam room for 7 minutes in three runs, and in the interval between warmings to drink a cup of herbal decoction - then you can significantly postpone the next relapse. Already after 2-3 procedures, carried out once a week, the patient will notice that shortness of breath began to torment him much less, and the constant heaviness and dryness in the chest almost disappeared.
Homemade hyssop preparations
According to experts, hyssop herb is considered one of the best ways to get rid of bronchial asthma by folk remedies. This remedy can be bought at a pharmacy, but young shoots of a plant that has not had time to fade after tearing off have the highest efficiency.
How to cure bronchial asthma with folk remedies with hyssop herb:
- Grind the freshly cut grass (6 teaspoons), transfer the raw pulp into a thermos and pour 1 liter of boiling water. After an hour, the infusion is filtered, cooled and cleaned in the refrigerator. You need to take the medicine half an hour before meals, 2 times a day, 10 ml. It is required to take 2 courses of 21 days with a break of one week.
- Pour 6 full teaspoons of dry grass from the pharmacy into the saucepan, pour them with 2 cups of chilled boiled water and put everything on medium heat until it boils. Then the flame in the burner is reduced to a minimum and the broth is languished for another 15 minutes under the lid. The cooled and strained infusion is drunk in three doses over the next day, and they do so for the next 3 weeks.
- Take 1 tbsp. spoon coltsfoot and dry herbs hyssop, lay them in a liter thermos and fill it with boiling water. After an hour, the solution is filtered. Then take it in half a glass in the morning and evening before meals.
All infusions and decoctions with hyssop can be drunk with the addition of honey, provided that there is no allergy to it.
Viburnum treatment
Often among folk remedies for the treatment of asthma in adults and children, recipes with viburnum are found. Here are some of the most effective home-made products based on the berries of this shrub:
- Put 150 g of fresh berries in a jar, add a pinch of dried herbs of lemon balm and pharmacy chamomile, brew all with two glasses of boiling water. After a day, strained infusion is taken in a third of a glass in the morning and evening.
- 3 tbsp. tablespoons of fresh berries crush into pulp and mix with 300 g of liquid honey. The mixture is taken 1-2 teaspoons after each meal.
- A glass of berries brew 1.5 liters of boiling water and then simmer on fire for 10 minutes. In strained and cooled broth put 2-3 tbsp. tablespoons of liquid honey. You need to take the infusion three times a day for a third of a glass.
According to reviews, the treatment of bronchial asthma with folk remedies with viburnum will be more beneficial if you pick the berries in November after the first night frosts.
Oat-based products
Oats are considered a universal therapeutic raw material and are often used as part of folk remedies for bronchial asthma in adults and children. It has many useful properties.
The most effective treatment for bronchial asthma with folk remedies using whole oat grains without husks:
- Pour 2 cups of cereals into the pan and pour them with two liters of boiling milk mixed with 0.5 liters of hot water. The mixture is simmered under the lid for exactly 2 hours, then filtered. Take a solution in half a glass in the morning and in the evening, after heating it and dissolving in a hot jelly 1 teaspoon of honey and softened butter.
- Alcohol-containing substances can be added to therapeutic mixtures from a piggy bank of folk remedies for bronchial asthma in adults. Take 5 cups of crushed oats, soak it in 2 liters of hot water, and boil the mixture for 15 minutes. The cooled and filtered broth is mixed with half a glass of aloe juice and the same amount of cognac. Take medicine for 2 tbsp. spoon twice a day after eating.
All home preparations with oats must be warmed up before taking to 40-50 ° C.
Propolis for bronchial asthma
To alleviate the symptoms and treat bronchial asthma with folk remedies, both a pharmacy 20% propolis tincture and a solid natural substance are used. The simplest method of propolis therapy is to take 7-10 drops of an alcohol solution diluted in 100 ml of warm milk. They take the medicine three times a day for a period of 50 days, and after a month, if necessary, repeat the course.
Other recipes for folk remedies for asthma in children and adults:
- A piece of frozen propolis is grated, and a full tablespoon of the resulting chips is dissolved in half a glass of vodka. Tincture is poured into a dark bottle and kept for 10 days in a cool place. A filtered solution is taken in the same way as a pharmacy tincture.
- Half a teaspoon of frozen and then grated propolis is dissolved in 180 ml of vegetable oil and everything is heated in a water bath. After half an hour, the mixture is filtered and subsequently used to massage the chest and back in the bronchial region.
Children are advised to give propolis starting with quarter doses and gradually increasing them to the usual portion. If the child has allergies in the family, it is better to refuse treatment with propolis before the onset of 5 years of age. Then give it only under the supervision of an allergist.
conclusions
Is it possible to cure bronchial asthma with folk remedies? At the initial stages of the disease, it is quite possible to achieve relief without the use of medications, but doctors caution against such “one-sided” therapy. This is explained by the fact that this disease with insufficient treatment is able to “hide” for a long period, creating the illusion of recovery, but then it returns again in an even more severe form.
The most effective treatment for bronchial asthma becomes when it includes two types of therapy: the main (drug) and auxiliary. As a rule, home methods of symptom relief fit perfectly into the treatment regimen prescribed by the pulmonologist.