The fight against asthma
Posted on 02/11/2009 by Cathe in Acupuncture , Articles , Physical Medicine , Herbal Medicine , Chinese medicine |
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Asthma is considered a major bronchial irritability, head of bronchospasm and subsequent airway obstruction, a condition characterized by the so-called dyspnoea or air hunger that can get in serious cases to a real acute respiratory failure.
In recent years we have made great strides in educational sense and there are many indications to minimize the risk of asthma attack, starting with the identification of possible allergies with specific immunization, the elimination of the triggering agents such as smoke, smog, the efforts, dust, excessive emotions.
Even the more sophisticated attention and explanations on training in the proper use of life-saving medicines in an emergency in the course of acute episode complicated by acute respiratory failure.
Asthma is the most common chronic childhood disease in Europe, its impact and about 10% of the population and it seems that the phenomenon is progressive and continuous increase. Asthma in children, is found in 70-90% of cases an allergic diathesis, or a hyperexcitability of the immune system against various antigens from respiratory or food such as pollen and dust.
One hypothesis to be reckoned with on the possible causes of hypersensitivity of the immune system could be on the growing use of caesarean section, as well as the reduction of 'breast-feeding, and finally to excessive use of antibiotics, both as a therapeutic act is in' involuntary recruitment mediated by food animal in turn treated with antibiotics. Finally we only now accepted as routine clinical practice in gynecology Prepartum antibiotic treatment to clean the birth canal from possible infectious agents.
In short, children are born with a sterile gut and being subjected to a reduced contact with bacteria may develop a weak and insufficient intestinal flora. The intestinal microflora has recently been regarded as essential to maintaining balance in the body not only with his bowel digestive function but also the immune system that is represented in the gut for almost 80% of the total.
In the adult population but the data are inverted to the form called idiopathic or of bronchospasm in the absence of any individual found by allergy tests and immunoassays. The incidence is much lower at 3%, with less severe forms than the infantile forms. In these cases you can safely say that the cause of the disorder is completely unknown and in most cases worsens with stress mainly emotional.
Among the drugs used to treat the disease are the short and long-acting bronchodilators and anti-inflammatory drugs, which could be defined purely symptomatic drugs, or do not cure the disease but only the symptom.
Chinese Medicine for dyspnea is considered a qi nin or a reversal of the normal circulation of energy, it is said that the lung is unable to spread his energy and if we pay attention to the asthmatic patient is unable to breathe or the walls of the bronchial tubes close above during the expiratory phase that becomes characterized by the typical hiss.
The Chinese Medicine for the lung is directly related to the large intestine as the first organ-gut connection, this means that lung organ connecting the bowel large bowel. The work of correction food, material research animals not treated with antibiotics at all costs, the proper use of antibiotics, the search for non-food substances are irritating to the intestine and finally the use of good probiotic products as preventive work must begin in all mothers, but especially in mothers with allergic diathesis, long before conception and continued particularly if the child was born by caesarean section and not breast-fed.
When asthma in adults are getting is that we need to work on stress, in this case the main organ involved is the liver, in Chinese Medicine it is said that attacks the liver, intestines and indirectly the lung, coupled with his body.
In these cases, treatment with acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine association with and maybe a good diet are usually background which is extremely useful to solve the noise effectively. Recall also that, although the lungs of asthma patients and in all respects a healthy organ, if the disease is not treated may develop later in life becoming a bronchopathy chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or a well-defined organic pathology.
So even if the disorder in adults is more mild and not dangerous, it is worth looking a little further than your nose and think more thoroughly, acting not only on the disorder itself but on the totality of the individual and possible future disease bronchitis.
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