Alternative Treatments for Asthma
Sonia Jones ND from The Haven Spa and Alternative Treatment Clinic, Boquete, Panama
Acupuncture and asthma
Research shows that acupuncture is very effective on all sorts of respiratory diseases including asthma. The World Health Organization listed forty diseases that were known to help with acupuncture, asthma is on the list.
Acupuncturists treat a person with asthma, they don’t treat the asthma. They consider all aspects of the person and their lifestyle.
The Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine (China) in June 1990 reported that the Scientists at the department of acupuncture, Second Municipal People’s Hospital, Kaifeng City Henan Province, China studied nearly 200 patients who where suffering from asthma. All where treated with acupuncture – the effective rate was 98.9%, the rate of clinical remission dropped and an improvement of 76.5%. This was the case basically what ever the age of the patient or the duration of the disease. Those who received the most treatment experienced a better long-term prognosis.
It is generally noted that acupuncture treatments improve symptoms, and medication dependency gradually reduces. There have many such reports and research.
Generally speaking it takes several treatments, observations so significantly marked improvements in about 15 treatments and then after that treatments are continued but less often. It is thought that people should have approximately two treatments a week for about 3 months. The maintenance program after that might be once a month depending on the individual.
What if the idea of acupuncture sends you into a panic?
Reflexology is a treatment without needles.
Reflexology, is well known is many parts of the world and research has revealed it benefits asthma suffers. Like acupuncture, reflexology has stood the test of time it too is also thousands of years old, and extremely difficult to fully explain like acupuncture. It can help balance and normalize organs and tissues of the body, through the nervous system, strengthening and normalizing the lung and bronchial tissue.
Of-course, if conventional medicine is working for you and you are happy with your treatment and progress that is great. But a number of the population, are finding conventional medication is not working for them, it is not improving their quality of life. These are the people we generally see at the clinic – where a number of modalities are used to help this person to a better state of health, with acupuncture or reflexology, advice on nutrition, herbs and lifestyles.
Our mission and aim is to improve your symptoms and enhance every aspect of your life to make you healthier. To make life a good experience.
Many Western trained practitioners like to denigrate certain alternative therapies and in some cases I would join them, however acupuncture has stood the test of time and most acupuncturist are very skilled professionals.
Many times they site the fact that it could be placebo effect, but this is also a yard stick for measuring the success of conventional medicine.