Asthma
Intrinsic comes on in later life
Extrinsic-comes on in childhood
o Allergy mediated
o Ususal suspects
o Hdm
o Pollens
o Variable ffrom day to day
o Made worse with exercise
o Made worse with infection
o ? emotional component
May not be worse just feel that way
Allopathic or Conventional treatments is by
• Antihistamines
• mast cell stabalisers (Leucotrine receptor antagonists)
• beta agonist sprays
• theophylines
• inhaled steroids
• oral steroids
• Immunosupppresive drugs
as with all treatment be aware with what you are doing
• all our homoeopathic belief means nothing compared to the safety of our patient
• “ primo no nocare – above all, do no harm”
• suggest that keep on medication
• may cautiously move up the conventional hierarchy to medication less damaging to the the vital force
• use homoeopathy as an adjunct
Constitutional treatment
look at whole person
constitution rather than illness specific
• if treat the illness alone drive the weakness of the vital force to more serious organs
o eg asthma may become better but suffer psychological problem.
• There are dangers if medication stopped abruptly of the patient going into status asthmaticus
• If use high potencies may precipitate a proving
• Suggest look at precipitating causes
o Early allopathic intervention with antibiotics
Homeopathic treatment of Asthma
acute asthma
Periodic or seasonal Asthma
Acute asthma
• New onset or isolated case
• Precipitated by either
o allergy or
o infection
if on no allopathic medicines we can expect a clear constitutiuonal picture and a complete case should be taken to find the modalities
o If stable enough can be treated with homoeopathy alone
o Expect a result in 2-3 hours
However if lasted for more than 2-3 days it may take half a day to show improvement
Severe cases the remedy must be repeated within 2-4 hours
Expect a response within the first few minutes and certainly within the first few hours always assuming your remedy is correct.
Periodic or seasonal asthma
More complicated as often using allopathic medicines
More likely to be a constitutional problem
Response is more likely to be sluggish because we are dealing with a deeper process- with the makings of a chronic disease
Evaluation of complete case for constitutiuonal treatments
Only if compelling acute picture jumps out without there being a strong constitutional picture should acute remedy be used.
Further episodes may occur depending on
o Season
o Emotions
o allopathic medicines medication taken.
We need to compare previous episodes to this one in terms of
o Severity of attack
o Precipitating factors
o conventional or allopathic treatments used prior to this attack
o Modalities
Allergic asthma
Following intense work
Loss of sleep
Pollens
Chemical pollutants
Excess
o alcohol
o stimulants
digestive complaint
wornings worse
cold dry weather
winter
We should hesitate to repeat the remedy if
further attack or minor flair up but still acting at a deeper level eg emotional
possible a low potency twice daily for 3-4 days.
Modalities for asthmatic cases
Better or worse
Cold air
Inside or out
Emotions
Psychological response to illness
Panic
Lying
Time of day
Weather
Exposure
Food
Dust
Concomitant
Skin disease
Hay fever
Nature of expectoration
Post nasal drip
Cough
Sinusitis
Some constitutional Homeopathic Constitutional Remedies associated with asthma
kalibich
nuxvomica
pulsatilla