Asthma (Bronchial Dyspnoea)

Asthma is a chronic disease that is characterized by repeated attacks of breathlessness and difficulty breathing. This occurs due to inflammation and narrowing of the bronchi, which leads to a decrease in air flow in the lungs. Asthma attacks can last from a few seconds to several hours or even days. They are expressed as follows: tightness in the chest, difficulty breathing, fear, often a cough with a large amount of very viscous sputum, as well as stabbing, boring, burning pains radiating to the shoulder.

The disease is difficult to cure, but if proper measures are taken, such a patient can live for decades. It is important to know how to help yourself or your loved ones during an asthma attack.

During an attack, the patient must be freed from the tight dress and given an influx of fresh air. Hands and feet can be immersed in hot water or mustard plasters placed on them. Rub the heart area with a rag soaked in cold water with vinegar and salt (if there is no pulmonary disease), rub the patient’s temples with cologne. If it is possible to get ether, then moisten a handkerchief with it (away from a candle or a burning lamp, so that the ether does not flare up) and apply it to your nose. A massage of the upper body from the head down to the top of the chest and back also eases the severity of the attack. You can massage with talcum powder or even something oily.

During an attack, you can use the following remedy: boil potatoes until soft, put them hot in a bowl, sit down, put the bowl in front of you, cover your head with a blanket and breathe in the steam. At the same time, drink very hot lingonberry tea all the time (take leaves and berries for tea, either fresh or dry). When it becomes easier to breathe, immediately go to bed and cover yourself well. When using this remedy, asthma attacks become less frequent and easier. In case of a mild attack, you can limit yourself to drinking very hot lingonberry tea.

Folk remedies are also good, such as:

1. Drink two glasses of fresh bovine blood every day for a month, then intermittently.

2. Drink a cup of nettle leaf infusion daily. For the broth, take one teaspoon with the top of dry leaves per glass of boiling water, let it boil once, then leave for 15-20 minutes, strain and drink a cup three times a day.

3. Take licorice root tincture. To do this, take 1 tablespoon of crushed licorice root and pour a glass of boiling water. Then it is infused for 30 minutes and filtered. Take 1 tablespoon of tincture three times a day.

4. Take tincture of yarrow herb. To do this, take 1 tablespoon of crushed yarrow herb and pour a glass of boiling water. Then it is infused for 30 minutes and filtered. Take 1 tablespoon of tincture three times a day.

It is important to remember that folk remedies cannot replace prescribed treatment by a doctor and should be used only after consultation with him.