Asthma

The Ayurvedic treatment for Asthma disease includes :

(a) Vardhman Pippali : Take one Pippali boiled in milk on the first day and increase the dose till reached thirty fruits or early till intolerable. After reaching the maximum dose, start reducing one fruit each day till reached to one Pippali per day. This treatment of Vardhman Pippali is effective but may cause heartburn in some case. Note : In the markt, another type of Pippali imported from Malaysia, called ‘big Pippali’, is also available, it is brown in colour. Do not use the brown one but use Pippali, which is small, and blackish green in colour.
(b) Make a mixture of equal quantities of coarse powder of Mulathi, Pippali, Vasaka, Somavalli, Kantkari, and Kuth. Boil 5 gm powder in 200 ml water and give three times a day.
(c) Make a mixture of equal quantities of Vasaka leaves, Somavalli, Kalmi Shora, Khurasani Ajwain and Kuth. Ignite the mixture to produce smoke. Do not allow it to burn. Inhale the smoke directly otherwise make a cigarette of the mixture and smoke.
(d) Pulverize equal quantities of Vasaka, Kantkari, Shoynka, Mulathi and Kutaki. Make decoction of one spoon of powder in 200 ml of water, filter and use. It gives relief in breathless, cough and wheezing. It is valuable in preventing reoccurrence of acute attack of asthma.
(e) Make a decoction of 5 gm Triphala in 500 ml of water. Clean throat and nasal passage with this decoction, and apply ghee or almond oil in the nasal passage as deep as possible. Repeat this treatment in the morning.

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