Ayurveda tips for asthma :for healthy rainy season

Ayurveda for asthma treatment :

Due to modern faulty lifestyle, uncontrolled pollution and rapid industrialization, allergy, allergens, bronchial asthma has become common among children, adult and aged people. Ayurvedic herbal supplement, natural remedy and dietary treatments are good for the disorder. This disease comes in the paroxysm of dyspnoea and during the attack; the patient goes in extreme agony, perceives darkness, feels thirst and become motionless. On account of frequent coughing and expectorant, the patient faints and remains in extreme distress till phlegm is cough out.

Herbal tea made up of Trchyspermum, (Ajwain), Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi), pepper, and ginger is useful natural expectorant for it.
Panchakarma is very useful for asthmatic patients.
Vasa, an Indian herb, control bronchitis, a boon and known for cough remedy.
Turmeric, a bronchial herb, is highly useful for the chronic condition taken with milk.
Glycyrrhiza glabra (Yashtimadhu), soothe the trachea and prevent airways obstruction.
Herbs like albezia lebbeck, clove is useful for bronchitis.
For natural cure of the condition and to get some relief, rub brown mustard oil on the chest.
Massage with sesame oil on the chest is a very useful alternative treatment.
To minimize congestion and reduce breathlessness, drink some pepper + 1 teaspoon honey + little onion juice. It is one of the natural ayurveda remedies.
More intake of fluid should be taken if one suffered with dryness of it.

To reduce asthmatic trigger, grind 2-3 gram of nagar and Bharangi, take this medicine mixture thrice a day with lukewarm water.
To ease the severity of bronchitis, take a mixture of Sitopladi Churna + liquorices+ borax powder and honey, thrice a day.
Chewing of the fruit chebulic myroblan at night allay asthmatic attack.
Powdered of bay berry bark an effective remedy for bronchial patients.
Garlic reduces the asthmatic severity.
Ginger can be used for bronchial asthma for its expectorant properties.

Diet for Asthma :

Chew your food properly and eat slowly with relax mind. To avoid over-fullness on chest, always eat less than your capacity and avoid imbalanced diet. If diet changes as per complementary and alternative medicine, there is a greater chance to bring relief in asthma. One should take diet as per COPD guidelines. Children are also at greater risk of the condition because some foods are the biggest trigger of asthma attack among children. Children with obesity are prone to it, so diet, weight loss regime and fitness is must here to reduce cholesterol.

Green leafy vegetable, fresh fruits and herbs are quite effective for the condition due to its antioxidant features.
Onion contains ‘quercetin’, an anti-inflammatory compound and considered as most effective remedy.
Hot pungent may make breathing easier by opening air passage.
Predominately vegetarian diet is the good option for the patients.
The therapeutic aspects of Tulsi can’t be ignored.
Nasal acuteness can be minimized by taking turmeric along with honey.
Eating of ginger and black pepper is advisable.
Take more and more lukewarm water.
Asthmatic diet should contain of limited quantity of diet and laghu aahar (light diet ) according to ayurveda.

Foods not for asthma :

Avoid sugar, rice, pickles, ice cream, cold drinks, curds etc. as all those help in phlegm(Cough ) formation.
Spicy and pungent foods should also be avoided.
Foods like cider, wine, beer and cheese may provoke asthma attack.
Allergen foods that are responsible for it are meat, eggs, fish, shellfish, milk, chocolate, food preservatives etc.

Asthma prevention and precautions :

There are so many ways to control and prevent asthma. First of all, your surrounding should be neat and clean. It is a wise decision to keep himself away from asthmatic triggers like pollutants, dust, smoke, medications, pollen etc. Foods such as rice, sugar, lentils and fried one should be skipped as these items helps to form phlegm.