Treatment of bronchial asthma includes mandatory medical supervision and the use of medications. But today, doctors not only do not deny, but also recommend using traditional medicine recipes in addition to traditional therapy.
When resorting to home treatment, it should be remembered that folk remedies for bronchial asthma cannot serve as an alternative to classical procedures, and should be carried out only after the approval of the attending physician.
What is asthma
Bronchial asthma is a chronic disease that develops in a person at an early age and finally consolidates (or goes into remission) by the age of 14-15. The disease proceeds paroxysmal and can be fatal if you do not stop each individual episode of spasm and constantly do notsupport the body with background therapy.
Asthma attacks follow 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 on inspiration, and seeks to take a sitting position with a forward tilt in order to at least slightly alleviate his condition. Then his breathing quickens, and the breaths take place in the manner of a push, and the exhalations break out lingeringly, sometimes with a whistle and a wheeze.
During an attack, other symptoms of the disease are observed:
- sweating;
- dry, agonizing 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 (mites). It develops gradually and in the initial stages 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 a stressful situation.
- Mixed - pathology occurs due to the impact of adverse external factors (poor ecology, unstable climatic conditions) and difficult living conditions of the object (frequent stress, severe physicallabor, smoking).
Special forms include bronchial asthma, which arose against the background of professional activities associated with the inhalation of harmful substances. Aspirin asthma develops due to intolerance to nonsteroidal drugs, including acetylsalicylic acid.
Features of folk therapy
How to cure bronchial asthma forever with folk remedies? Medications used for asthma require a long course of administration, which negatively affects the state of the liver and the body's immune system. This load can be reduced by resorting to home medicine, however, folk remedies for bronchial asthma have their own advantages and disadvantages:
- exceeding the dosage of drugs made on the basis of fat, herbal ingredients or bee products can lead to a deterioration in the condition and the development of an allergic reaction;
- homemade preparations have a short shelf life, so they must be constantly replaced with freshly prepared ones;
- do-it-yourself medicines cannot be changed in 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 one.
If the disease is the result of an allergy, then first of all you need to eliminate any contact with the irritant, and only then proceed to treatment. Of great importance is the background observance of conditions conducive toto alleviate the condition of the patient:
- shaping modes of sleep, rest, eating;
- regular ventilation of premises both at work and at home;
- following a sparing diet with the exclusion of aggressive foods, alcohol;
- stop smoking, strong coffee and tea.
Experts recommend that asthma patients go to the seas or mountains at least 1-2 times a year. It has been observed that mild climatic conditions in places with high air humidity have a beneficial effect on patients with bronchial asthma and even contribute to their complete cure.
Recipes for healing balms
How to treat bronchial asthma folk remedies? For the preparation of homemade balms and decoctions, a complex of components combined with each other is used, which together form a therapeutic mixture of preventive and therapeutic action.
Folk remedies for bronchial asthma:
- Take 5 tbsp. spoons of all of the above: alcohol, liquid honey, beetroot, lemon, cranberry, black radish and onion juices, aloe leaf pulp, granulated sugar. Mix all ingredients well with a wooden spoon and transfer to a tightly closed jar. It is supposed to drink the finished composition three times a day 15 minutes before meals, 40 ml each.
- In a heated frying pan with 200 g of butter, lightly fry two small, finely chopped onions. In the mixture cooled to 40 degrees, add the same amount of softened butter and 1.5 cups of liquid honey. The resulting paste is transferred to a jar anduse this way: spread 2 teaspoons of the drug on a slice of bread and eat it all half an hour before meals three times a day.
- Take 2 tbsp. spoons: pine buds, rose hips, dry St. John's wort, wormwood, yarrow herb, celandine flowers. Pour 6 cups of cold boiled water into the dry mixture, cover the dishes with a towel and leave for 2 hours. Then the infusion is put on the smallest fire and simmered under the lid for another 2 hours, after which the pan is wrapped for a day. 200 ml of the Befungin preparation, the same amount of fresh aloe juice, vodka and 1 glass of liquid May honey are added to the filtered liquid. The mixture is taken in 2 tbsp. spoons 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 for up 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 range of capabilities to alleviate the condition in any diseases of the respiratory system.
The substance helps well, even if taken in its pure form, but as part 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 obtainedthe 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 amount of badger fat is put in, 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 thick paste with filtered juice of three-year-old aloe, place the medicine in the refrigerator door. It is supposed to take the mixture three times a day before meals, 1 tbsp. spoon.
Usually, children tolerate badger fat well, but experts do not recommend parents to give it to babies under the age of three, and then adhere to the following dosages: from 3 to 6 years old - 1/3 teaspoon, from 6 to 12 years old - 1/2 teaspoon, from 12 years old - 1 teaspoon each.
Benefits of the 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 of age, patients with heart disease and blood vessels, temperature, as well as anyone who has been diagnosed with any tumor diseases. You can’t go to the bath during an exacerbation of asthma - only during remission, which has been going on for at least 1 week.
Therapy can be made more pleasurable and effective by using the power of herbal medicines during boyfriend:
- Dilute 5 drops of eucalyptus oil in 2 tablespoons of alcohol eucalyptus tincture and pour the resulting solution into 12 glassessteep boil. This water should be poured in portions (2-3 glasses each) on hot stones in the steam room.
- Dry in advance or buy coltsfoot flowers at the pharmacy and spread the dried flower in a thick layer on hot stones in the steam room.
- Make a dry mixture of herbs, taken 1 tbsp. spoon: lemon balm, chamomile, clover, thyme, licorice root and coltsfoot. Brew the grass with five liters of boiling water, and sitting in the steam room from time to time sprinkle the hot stones with strained broth.
If the treatment in the bath is carried out correctly - stay in the steam room for 7 minutes in three visits, and drink a cup of herbal decoction between warm-ups - 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 constant heaviness and dryness in the chest almost disappeared.
Hyssop home remedies
One of the best ways to get rid of bronchial asthma with folk remedies, according to experts, is hyssop grass. This tool can be bought at a pharmacy, but the young shoots of a plant that has not yet had time to fade after picking have the highest efficiency.
How to cure bronchial asthma folk remedies with hyssop herb:
- Chop the freshly cut grass (6 teaspoons), put the raw gruel in a thermos and pour 1 liter of boiling water. After an hour, the infusion is filtered, cooled and put in the refrigerator. You need to take the medicine half an hour before meals, 2 times a day, 10 ml. Requiredtake 2 courses of 21 days with a break of one week.
- Pour 6 full teaspoons of dry herbs from the pharmacy into a saucepan, pour them with 2 cups of chilled boiled water and put everything on medium heat until boiling. Then the flame in the burner is reduced to a minimum and the broth is simmered for another 15 minutes under the lid. The cooled and filtered infusion is drunk in three doses over the next day, and do so for the next 3 weeks.
- Take 1 tbsp. spoon of coltsfoot and dry hyssop grass, put 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 in the 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.
Treatment of viburnum
Often among folk remedies for the treatment of bronchial asthma in adults and children there are recipes with viburnum. Here are some of the most effective home remedies based on the berries of this shrub:
- 150 g of fresh berries put in a jar, add a pinch of dry herbs of lemon balm and chamomile, brew everything with two glasses of boiling water. A day later, the strained infusion is taken in a third of a glass in the morning and evening.
- 3 tbsp. crush spoons of fresh berries into a pulp and mix with 300 g of liquid honey. The mixture is taken 1-2 teaspoons after each meal.
- Brew a glass of berries with 1.5 liters of boiling water and simmer for 10 minutes. In a filtered and cooled broth, put 2-3 tbsp. spoons of liquid honey. You need to take the infusion three times a day for a third of a glass.
According to reviews, treatmentbronchial asthma folk remedies with viburnum will be more beneficial if you pick berries in November after the onset of the first night frosts.
Oat based products
Oats are considered a universal medicinal 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 home remedy for asthma using whole grains of oats without the husk:
- Pour 2 cups of cereals into a saucepan and pour them with 2 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 of half a glass in the morning and evening, after warming it up and dissolving it in hot jelly, 1 teaspoon of honey and softened butter.
- Alcohol-containing substances can be added to therapeutic mixtures from the piggy bank of folk remedies for bronchial asthma in adults. Take 5 cups of crushed oats, soak them in 2 liters of hot water, and boil the mixture for 15 minutes. 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 meals.
All homemade preparations with oats must be warmed up to 40-50 ° C before taking.
Propolis for bronchial asthma
To relieve symptoms and treat bronchial asthma, folk remedies are used as a pharmacy 20% tincturepropolis, and a solid natural substance. The simplest method of propolis therapy is to take 7-10 drops of an alcohol solution diluted in 100 ml of warm milk. They drink the medicine three times a day for 50 days, and after a month, if necessary, repeat the course.
Other recipes for folk remedies for bronchial 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. The tincture is poured into a dark bottle and kept for 10 days in a cool place. The 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 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 area.
Children are recommended 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 age of 5. 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 warn against such a "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, butthen she returns again in even more severe form.
The most effective therapy for bronchial asthma becomes when it includes two types of therapy: the main (drug) and auxiliary. As a rule, home remedies for symptomatic relief fit perfectly into the treatment regimen prescribed by the pulmonologist.
