Translated from Greek, the word "asthma" means"suffocation", it is also called "dyspnea", coming from the bronchi. Bronchi and bronchioles resemble a tree with branches extending from the trachea. Bronchioles are called vessels with a diameter reaching tenths of a millimeter. How to cure bronchial asthma?

What is bronchial asthma?

If you have been diagnosed with bronchial asthma, you should notdespair, because it can be cured if you use complex treatment. Bronchi and bronchioles are the air-conducting zone. In the respiratory bronchioles there are alveolar passages responsible for gas exchange. Blood is saturated with oxygen through the air that moves through the bronchioles. The smallest bronchioles are pores-filters for air, where it is heated, cleared of excess particles. The inner surface of the bronchi is covered with cells with cilia, which, together with mucus, prevent harmful particles, do not allow them to penetrate the internal filter of the bronchi and the lungs and direct them to the pharynx, protect the bronchi from chemical burns. The presence of antimicrobial substances helps protect the bronchi from viruses, prevents the development of infection. The mucociliary mechanism of the mucous membrane cleans the air so that a person can breathe normally. Muscles (smooth muscles) regulate the air flow. When contracting, the muscles cause a spasm (compression) of the bronchial tree, which prevents various particles from entering the lungs and reduces air pollution. With asthma, the lumen of the bronchial tree decreases, the air flow decreases and exhalation becomes difficult. The patency of the smallest bronchi and bronchioles may be impaired. When an asthma attack occurs, the body begins to defend itself from the effects of aggressive factors. If a healthy person goes out into the cold from a warm room, then the temperature of the inhaled air immediately changes. The bronchi will begin to narrow with a reduction in the lumen between the walls. If dust gets into the respiratory tract, the secreted sputum will absorb it and remove it back, without damaging the alveoli and preventing the ingress of a foreign body. In asthmatics, the body will react to external changes with greater force. Much more sputum will be secreted. It is thicker in composition and contains a larger number of epithelial tissue cells (eosinophil), which make the sputum glassy. This makes it difficult to remove it from the respiratory tract and interferes with the exhalation of air.

Types of asthma and medications for treatment

Asthma is divided into:

• on atopic (allergic);
• infectious-dependent (due to viral infections, chronic bronchitis or repeated pneumonia);
• asthma of physical effort (when an attack of asthma occurs after physical exertion);
• dyshormonal (with menopause);
• psychogenic (due to prolonged psycho-emotional overstrain or mental shock).

Asthma is characterized by paroxysmal coughing andshortness of breath, up to suffocation. At the same time, glassy sputum comes off. Before this, mucus is abundantly released from the nose with sneezing and coughing. With asthma, a short inhalation and an extended exhalation are characteristic. Attacks often occur at night or in the morning, the body temperature rises. It is necessary to undergo an examination so that the doctor can prescribe a comprehensive treatment, which can last a long time. If the attack drags on and is not relieved by asthma medications, only an ambulance will help. It is convenient to use medicinal forms in the form of aerosols for inhalation. Attacks are relieved with Berodul, Ipratropium bromide (Atrovent), Orciprenaline, Salbutamol (Salamol, Ventolin), Fenoterol hydrobromide (Berotek), Formoterol (Foradil). Showing patience and following all recommendations, taking only those medications prescribed by the doctor, you can get rid of asthma forever. To stop and prevent attacks, medications are used only when necessary or in short courses. Drugs that are taken constantly will not relieve an attack that has begun, but will reduce the readiness of the bronchi to spasm. These drugs are prescribed for long-term or constant use. Most often, the doctor prescribes hormonal drugs. Glucocorticoids in aerosols (Beclamethazone, Budesonide, Fluticasone propionate, Flixotide) are inhaled. Alternative medicine believes that asthma can occur due to a chronic decrease in energy potential. It is difficult to inhale, which lasts longer than an easier exhalation. An asthma attack begins due to hyperventilation, oxidative stress and resulting spasms of small vessels of the extremities, congestion in the central venous system and sweating of blood plasma through the porous membranes of the alveolar capillaries.

Treatment of asthma with essential oils

The complex treatment includes drugs frommedicinal herbs and essential oils. To say "no" to asthma, it is recommended to take up to 3 drops of pure essential oil orally for a month. Treatment with essential oils should be supervised by a doctor. You can add them to any vegetable oil (1 tbsp.) or honey, moisten a piece of bread and put it in mashed bread, swallow and wash down with water. You will get a delicious tea for asthma if you mix essential oil (8-10 drops) and dry tea leaves in a 200 ml teapot. The mixture should be infused for 3-5 days, after which boiling water is poured into the teapot. The effect of such a medicine has a beneficial effect on the bronchi and the general condition of the patient. Anti-asthmatic essential oils are: cypress, eucalyptus, lavender, lemon, mint and rosemary, pine and bergamot. It is necessary to do an allergy test beforehand. Only a doctor can do this. These oils are added to baths (up to 12 drops), used for rubbing the chest, added to massage oil. It is useful to perform massage and activate biologically active points. It will become easier to breathe, and asthma will be curable if you use aroma burners or aroma lamps and add essential oils at 2 drops per 5 m³. Aromatize bed linen with fingers lubricated with essential oil. Wrapping with wet aromatized sheets helps during attacks. Cover yourself with dry blankets on top, put on a shirt or robe and rest for about an hour. It is useful to take a course of breathing exercises according to the method of K. P. Buteyko, a course of paradoxical breathing according to the system of A. N. Strelnikova, learn to perform economical breathing. For economical breathing, you need to relax the muscles of the body and inhale air without noise, without straining, make a thin stream through the nose, slowly expanding the chest and abdomen. Exhalation is voluntary without pause, the same time is spent as for inhalation. Breathing should be calm, peaceful and focused.

Useful recommendations for the treatment of asthma

To avoid allergies -"provocateurs" of an asthma attack, the attending physician may advise to stay away from dust collectors: fur coats, carpets, canopies, curtains. All kinds of soft toys, figurines and books should be kept on glass shelves. Pets, pillows and mattresses made of down and feathers, wool and wadded blankets are excluded, it is recommended to use synthetic ones. They are very airy and maintain the humidity regime. Bed linen should be made of natural material that does not cause allergies, does not attract dust and has no odor. Bed linen should be washed more often so that bed mites do not accumulate. Five-minute wash in water at a temperature of + 25˚C is the most effective and simple way to combat allergens. Asthma treatment will be successful if you dry bed linen in direct sunlight in the summer and freeze it outside in the winter. Those who do daily wet cleaning, using vacuum cleaners with a dust collector with thick walls and a valve system, or with aqua and nonaqua filters, do not have asthma. Special antiallergenic additives are used for washing vacuum cleaners. Asthma can be overcome with a three-phase breathing course. It trains the respiratory system and develops control over the muscles that carry out the breathing process. Three-phase breathing is based on the use of resistance of the stream, which is exhaled through the mouth while simultaneously pronouncing hissing combinations of sounds. It is necessary to focus on the pause before inhalation after exhalation.

Bronchial asthma in choleric and sanguine

Treatment of asthma is carried out in accordance withthe patient's temperament. A choleric person ("bile") constantly feels dryness in the nose and bronchi, sometimes has sinusitis and acute frontal sinusitis. Therefore, choleric people should not rinse their nose, even if the doctor advises it. Rinsing can cause an allergy or nosebleeds, and a fever will appear. Choleric people are recommended the following treatment with folk methods. Before taking medications, it is necessary to cleanse the large intestine with a decoction of buckthorn bark. You need to say "yes" to hirudotherapy and blood purification with a decoction of burdock or dandelion root, and "no" to hot and spicy dishes, salty and fatty foods, citrus fruits, sour fruits, tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants and fermented foods. Treatment is carried out with clay compresses on the chest and a tasty medicine from elecampane or licorice root powder mixed with honey. You need to take the remedy (1 tbsp.) in your mouth and suck it for a long time. Choleric people will be cured of asthma if they start wearing healing minerals. Medallions made of tiger's eye, sunstone, lapis lazuli, carnelian will relieve irritation in the throat and nose. There are no drilled holes on the healing medallions. A leather cord is threaded through a glued ring. Treatment with herbal infusion has a beneficial effect. Mix calendula and chamomile flowers, anise fruits, peppermint leaves, marsh wild rosemary, plantain, coltsfoot, licorice roots, and elecampane in equal proportions by weight. The collection (1 tbsp.) is steamed in a thermos (250 ml) with boiling water. After infusion (2-3 hours), drink 50 ml three times a day after meals. Sanguine people ("blood") constantly complain of hyperemia. The doctor notes increased blood filling of one or another area in the peripheral vascular system. The patient often has a fever with dry mouth and throat, burning in the chest, bitterness in the mouth due to the discharge of sputum with an unpleasant taste, he wants to drink, he often suffers from bronchitis and acute respiratory infections, so the doctor will prescribe treatment to relieve symptoms. There are no contraindications for such a composition of herbs for infusion: mix in equal parts by weight anise fruits, fennel, flax seeds, thyme. For steaming 1 tbsp. of the mixture, boiling water (250 ml) is needed. After 15-20 minutes of infusion under the lid, everything is filtered and the infusion is taken warm three times a day, 50 ml. Treatment is carried out with sedatives and relaxants. They wear medallions made of lapis lazuli.

Bronchial asthma in phlegmatic and melancholic

Phlegmatic people ("mucus") do not need to oftenbe in the cold. The mucus will become thick and will be difficult to remove from the body. The disease manifests itself as sticky saliva, swelling, heaviness in the head, jumps in blood pressure, apathy and loss of appetite, inflammation of the tonsils and frontal sinuses, filling the lungs with moisture, which causes hoarse sounds, the appearance of transparent or white sputum. Shortness of breath, cough with vomiting, and a blue face appear. The doctor will prescribe treatment to strengthen the lymphatic system and treat problems in the throat and frontal sinuses. Treatment is carried out with the help of therapeutic vomiting, carried out every day (two weeks) in the morning. For this purpose, drink tea (3 tbsp.) of licorice and wash it down with water with sea salt (1 tsp. per 0.5 l). Filling the stomach, mechanically induce vomiting. Contraindicated for hypertensive and hypotensive patients, those with diaphragmatic hernia, ulcerative, cardiovascular diseases, the elderly and children. You should not overeat or sleep too much, so as not to provoke an asthma attack. You need to cleanse the body by taking flaxseed oil (1 teaspoon) up to 3 times a day, eat dry food, excluding cow's milk and cottage cheese, starch, unripe and sour fruits, sugar and cucumbers, watermelons and wheat. Often the doctor recommends stopping and preventing an attack with passive inhalations through the nose and active exhalations with effort. At first, you need to breathe at a slow pace, then gradually increase the speed, making 30 exhalations and minute breaks. It is useful to inhale wormwood smoke and rub the chest with rough gloves, carefully rubbing in a little sea salt or soda. It is necessary to wear a medallion made of tiger's eye and put a warm compress with sea salt and clay on the chest (it is forbidden to heat). It is useful to infuse (3 hours) mullein flowers (5 pcs. per 1 cup of boiling water) and drink warm 1/3 cup three times a day before meals. Melancholics ("black bile") have the hardest time with asthma attacks. They are always bothered by external irritants: traffic jams, loud sounds, unpleasant odors, lack of sleep. They sweat little, quickly get excited and tired. The disease manifests itself in wheezing and coughing. They often suffer from constipation, anxiety and the need for warm drinks due to constant thirst and dry mouth. The doctor may prescribe treatment with cleansing microclysters (in the morning and at night) with warmed sesame oil or a decoction of calamus, fennel or ginger with sea salt (1 teaspoon per 1 liter of decoction). You should wear a medallion made of a sunstone, drink tea or hot milk with mullein flowers. You should not eat raw food, peas, beans, legumes, or fermentation products. You can eat warm, fatty and moist food, sour juices from lemon, dogwood, melon, pumpkin and watermelon, goat's milk, grape juice mixed with aloe juice and sesame oil (1 teaspoon).

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