Hi all, I have been treated for asthma for the last 35 years and like the visitors to this site am looking for an alternative. I've recently learned that salbutamol, trade name Ventolin(TM), not only smoothes the bronchial muscle and thereby allowing greater oxygen* throughput, also cause hypersensitivity of the airwaves, meaning you're ...

Lynne McTaggart's recent blog post suggests that conventional medicine's approach to asthma is all wrong.  Research findings have made it quite apparent that the steroids usually prescribed for asthma sufferers are likely to do more harm than good (see the Asthma Factsheet for more).  But did you know just how much evidence ...

The gold-standard treatment for asthma rests on the assumption that asthma is an inflammation. Consequently, doctors usually treat it with steroids, the main drug for inflammation. Indeed, by the mid-1990s, steroid use for asthma had more than tripled in the US to 41.4 per cent. So convinced is medicine that its model of asthma as local ...

Conventional treatments for asthma are not only inadequate, they are also dangerous (see the WDDTY Asthma Factsheet for more).  Here are 11 safer ways of treating the symptoms and causes of asthma. Selenium Scientific evidence suggests that asthma is linked to reduced circulatory levels of the antioxidant mineral selenium. Vitamin ...

Doctors and medicine are part of the current scientific zeitgeist to reduce things down to their smallest component part.  That way, they think they can really understand things.So, the greatest achievement for any doctor is to become a specialist - someone who knows more about a particular function, organ or part of an organ than any of his ...