The definitive guide to the causes of asthma and the range of therapies that alleviate symptoms – and even reverse the problem. It provides a critique of drugs and conventional therapies, along with the many alternatives treatments that claim to help, including nutritional and body-mind therapis that can help.
Contents:
Chapter One: What Is Asthma?
An explanation of the condition, the forms it can take and some common misconceptions
6 Chapter Two: What Causes Asthma?
Asthma is a complex condition. This chapter looks at some of the potential causes and triggers that may set off asthma from the earliest days of life, and scours the current research
18 Chapter Three: Conventional Treatment
Despite greater diagnostic skills, better identification of causes of the disease and ever whizzier drug cocktails to treat it, one of the biggest medical failures of recent years is conventional treatment for asthma. This chapter explains why
31 Chapter Four: Alternative Medicine
There are therapies that have evidence of helping asthma sufferers—from homoeopathy and herbs to immunotherapy
37 Chapter Five: Nutrition
This looks at whether nutritional therapies and supplements can make a difference for asthma sufferers; there’s even a formulated asthma 'diet'
44 Chapter Six: Body and Mind
Regular gentle aerobic exercise like swimming or walking can reduce asthma symptoms. Acupuncture is probably the most tested alternative treatment for asthma but, as always, a positive mental attitude can have a beneficial effect on your asthma. The best studied mind-over-matter discipline is hypnosis. Yoga can also be used to improve lung function
