Asthma is an inflammatory condition of the airway that people normally get affected with. People of all age groups are now getting affected by asthma attacks. It is common among teenagers too. According to facts, 300 million asthma patients are there in the world. And about one-tenth of them live in India. The report published by the community of doctors in India, states that the asthma cases are increasing significantly.

Asthma is a disorder of the respiratory system from multifactorial causes. Some common etiological factors that triggers asthma are given below:

Allergens- Our body is exposed to numerous allergic substances which are known as allergens or antigens. Those allergens or antigens when get inside our body starts developing allergic reaction that leads to constriction of respiratory tubes and results in asthma. In India,  an average of 30 to 40 million people are suffering from asthma. Asthma is a common health problem not only in urban areas, but it is spreading to rural areas too.

Respiratory infection – Respiratory infection like flu sometimes convert to bronchial asthma in some hypersensitive individual. Taking of cold drinks or ice-cream in cold weather sometimes triggers asthmatic complains in some individuals whose bodies are hyper susceptible to allergy. Similarly in many corporate sectors, employees who are working 10 to 12 hours in air conditioned rooms may develop asthma generally due to temperature variation inside and outside the office.

Changes of weather – Any allergic prone individual can get an asthmatic attack due to change of weather. When the summer season changes to rainy season, they develops asthma and similarly in winter season they get frequently attacks of asthma. Some people are so sensitive, even change of climate can trigger asthmatic problem in them.

Homeopathy treatment for asthma – There are a lot of homeopathy medicines which can treat asthma successfully. Homeopathy medicines offer a long lasting cure to the asthmatic condition because it targets the cause of the problem. For example if the person is hypersensitive to any allergens it helps to modify or rectify the hypersensitivity of the immune system of the asthmatic prone person so that whatever he is exposed to does not get allergic reaction. Homeopathic treatment of Asthma requires taking a detail case history of the patient. The case history does not mean the collection of symptoms only of the asthmatic symptoms but all the symptoms of his physical, mental, emotional, temperament, social behaviors, family history, past history that altogether gives an impression of the person’s individuality and the medicines are selected according to that symptoms. It is called constitutional homeopathic treatment.