Q: Do you have any information on bronchial asthma treatments? My mother has used numerous resources, including steroids, but nothing seems to be helping so we decided to refer to alternative resources. - Mila, New York |
A: I am very confident in saying that Tibetan medicine can be one of the most effective alternate medicine sources for asthma. The cause of bronchial asthma, according to Tibetan medicine, is indigestion, accumulation of phlegm and Badkan energy, and excessive mucous, which causes restrictions and problems in breathing. There are five different types of asthma according to Tibetan medicine -Trentsek, Munchen, Ook che, Chenpo and Gyen jung. The symptoms are commonly pain around the rib cage and heart.
Through my senior doctors and my own clinical experience, there are some good Tibetan herbal formulas and they are very beneficial if you can also control your diet. The diets are usually avoiding salty, fatty, deep fried food, massaging around throat and chest and always spit the mucous or the phlegm out when coughing. Drink more warm liquids especially in the morning, do breathing exercises around dawn, use honey in place of any sweets and avoid chocolate. Take more fresh vegetables than meat.
Cinnamon and Piper nigrum, cardamon and giving massage on the T-4 and T-5 are
very beneficial. Formulated herbs like Ligun 11, Agar 15, Gundum 7, Lishi 6, Lokun,
Pangyen 15 and Chugang 25 are some of the herbs very beneficial in treating Asthma.
- Dr. Namgyal