Homeopathic Asthma Treatment

Asthma is a serious disease and is growing at an alarming rate. The US alone accounts for as many as fifteen million asthmatic patients! This disorder cost the nations exchequer a whopping six billion dollars in the year 1990. Apart from this, Asthma accounted for the loss of eight hundred and fifty million US dollars of man-hours in the same year. This amount has been steadily increasing since then and today it has just doubled. But money is not the concern of asthmatics as much as the quality of their life is.

The father of modern medicine, Sir William Oslar, once said that asthmatics don’t die of asthma, they just pant into old age. However, that was a very long time ago. Modern research and medicine has brought to light to the sufferers of asthma. There may be a cure in the making, if not already one that has been tried and tested all over the world.

In the year 1990, researchers in the university of Glasgow, the largest medical school of Europe, carried out some experiments with homeopathy. Though the number of asthmatic patients was very small (just two dozen), the results were very heartening for asthmatics and doctors all over the world. The patients were given relatively small doses of substances to which they were most allergic to; this provided significant relief to the afflicted individuals from their asthma symptoms. The researchers called this process, “"homeopathic immunotherapy.”

Call it what one may, one point was proven: that homeopathy does have a cure for asthma. Homeopathic asthma treatment involves triggering the immune system by inducing a trigger that causes asthma attacks in the individual. Because of the microscopic quantity of the trigger, or allergen, there is no serious reaction from the body. However, the immune system develops antibodies in the millions and this ensures the individual is protected from the asthma-triggering agent for longer periods.