Homeopathic Treatment of Asthma Patient
When there is any inflammation or constriction in air passage of lungs, it causes obstruction for the passage of air to the lungs. The air passing through narrowed air passages makes a sound that is popularly known as wheeze and hence this condition of short of breath, difficulty in breathing with wheezing in the chest is termed as asthma.
CAUSE OF ASTHMA:
Mental cause:
Prolonged fear, domination by other and incapability to defend the situation may cause asthma where primary reaction affects the bronchi of patient and lead to loss of its normal consistency leading to difficulty in breathing.
Physical cause:
Genetic disposition, Excessive use of cough syrups antibiotics, steroids, bronchodilators etc lead to permanent dilatation of bronchi causing asthma.
SYMPTOMS OF ASTHMA :
- Consistent dry cough, wheeze, breathlessness,
- Sputum with cough, anxiety, and restlessness.
- Every time patient consumes cold drinks and ice creams, every time the weather changes or child is exposed to humid weather, dust, pollens, or patient undergoes strong emotional upheaval, the patient gets the attack.
COUGH : Our Friend Or Enemy:
When the tissue of respiratory tract is invaded by
bacteria or by dust or pollens, then it gets inflamed and cough reflex is initiated
very naturally to throw out foreign and harmful substances.
Thus, cough is our friend and the dirt thrown out with mucus is called
expectoration.
Normally the tissue lining our respiratory tract are supposed to be strong enough to
bear the dust, pollens, bacteria, ETC.
But when the immunity is impaired all these factors start irritating the inner
aspect of the respiratory passage easily. This makes a child or an adult prone to
recurrent respiratory infections.
WHAT COUGH SYRUPS DO:
Cough syrups are meant to suppress our cough reflex. Suppressing the cough (our natural defence reflex) is not a correct line of treatment. Cough syrups paralyze the cilia (hair) in the air pipe and dangerous infective material gets a chance to invade the lungs without hindrance and cause more harm to the patient. Thus, the patient travels from ordinary cough to asthmatic bronchitis.
CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT:
Cough syrups, antibiotics, steroids, and inhalers are used to suppress the cough and asthmatic attacks. This treatment is aimed at only giving the relief but fails in controlling the recurrences. So, the doctors say, “there is no permanent treatment of asthma. So, patient must take inhaler and antibiotics etc always the attack comes. You can’t get rid of this problem completely. We can only control but can’t cure.
HOMOEOPATHIC TREATMENT:
Eradicating the cause is the basis of homoeopathic
treatment. Homoeopathy treats the cause and affects will disappear. This means
making the tissue healthy so that immunity in the tissues increases and tissue does
not invite any bacteria.
After right homoeopathic medicine, the patient gets cured as a whole. In an
asthmatic patient, his respiratory tract starts functioning properly, ciliary reflex
and natural defences get activated as before and his defences become strong enough
to fight against these diseases. The cure of diseased patient in homoeopathy is
brought about by stimulating the immune system to cure itself.
The stimulus (CONSTITUTIONAL Homoeopathic medicine) is based on the understanding
the patient’s genetic characters i.e. his nature, his personality, his interaction
with people in society, the ups and downs in his life, his built and many more. If
the homoeopathic receives the proper and relevant information and understand the
patient as a whole, then only the homoeopathic remedy prescribed by the homoeopath
is able to stimulate the patient’s systems and cure the patient as a whole.
