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Asthma can be caused even due to dust particles, smoke and nervous disorders. The children suffer from asthma when kapha is accumulated in lungs or respiratory tracts. The kapha blocks the tracts and the child complains of breathlessness, palpitation increases and the child starts gasping for breath.
Nature is capable of fighting out all the types of diseases and can cure it permanently. The asthma patients can get rid of this disease with the help of herbal treatment. Following are a few of natural ways of curing asthma
- Take 100 gm dried pomegranate seeds, 50 gm each of black pepper, dry ginger powder, Pipal, cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom and make a powder. Add equal quantity unrefined sugar and take two to three grams twice with honey for curing cough, heart disease, and respiratory problems. It is the best medicine, which increases digestive fire, helps in digestion and is purgative.
- Pure neem seed oil cures asthma permanently. If 50 to 60 drops enter the body then chronic asthma is cured within weeks. Add ten drops of neem seeds on betel leaf and eat it, repeat it five to six time daily. This medicine cures asthma within three months permanently
- Grind six-gram black pepper and 50 gm swallowwort flowers cloves, make pea sized pills and take one or two pills with hot water once daily in the morning for relief.
- Collect the white acidic substance present on the swallowwort leaves, wrap it in five to ten grams of jaggery and make pills and swallow. This removes phlegm.
- Dry old swallowwort roots in shade and burn it in some uninhabited place and collect the ash. Separate the coal and keep one or two gm in honey or betel leaf and eat it for relief.
- Apply Kathha and lime mixed with water on one swallowwort leaf, on the other leaf apply ghee made with cow milk and join the two leaves. Prepare such leaves and place in an earthen pot and burn. This is very beneficial in case of painful respiration. Sieve the powder and place in a clean jar. Add 10 to 30 gm in ghee, wheat chapatti or rice and eat it to strengthen the people with phlegmatic nature. This medicine cures all types of kapha related problems and intestinal germs.
- Prepare quath with 10 - 20 gm of Adoosa, turmeric, coriander, Giloy, Pipal, dry ginger powder and Raingani. Add onegram black pepper powder and take it thrice daily to cure all types of respiratory dis eases.
- Soak five-gram linseeds in 50 gm water for 12 hours and drink this water later. This is very beneficial to cure all types of respiratory diseases.
- Grind five-gram linseeds and boil in water. Add 20 gm sugar candy (replace with honey during winters) and take it twice daily for relief in cough and breathlessness.
- Keep pomegranate skin in mouth and suck its juice for relief.
- Take two to five gram marigold flowers seeds powder and add 10 gm sugar and one spoon curd. Take it thrice daily to calm down asthma and cough.
- Take five-gram turmeric and drink five gulps of lukewarm water to cure asthma.
- Mix one cup each of turnip juice, carrot juice, and cabbage juice and take it for some days.
This article is extracted from Yog Sandesh magezine of Divya Yoga Mandir Trust. Many other natural herbs are listed in the article that help in Asthma. You can subscribe to Yog Sandesh and read more such articles.