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How to treat asthma with water
28th January 2006
I've been getting back into water therapy again.
Now, when I say this, you can forget the image of me lowering myself into a hot bath, clutching a single malt and a copy of a Rugby World…
That's for poor Lara to witness.
No, this all came about because a friend of mine, who has asthma, challenged me to find something 'genuinely weird, useful and interesting' that they could try to relieve their problems.
Weird, useful, and interesting?
That's hardly a challenge for an information obsessive like myself.
And there's no better source for the unexpected than 'The Complete Book of Water Healing.' I spent last night reading the chapter and here's what Dian Dinin Buchman, PhD. Has to say...
ASTHMA,
by Dian Dinnin Buchman
From The Complete Book of Water Healing
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Children:
Add 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to a cup of warm water. Sponge the child with this solution, starting with the back and the chest. Expose only one part of the body at a time. Completely envelop the child in the light flannel blanket and put him to bed under light covers. The blanket 'compress' will help the body produce warmth, and the cramp will lessen. Follow these procedures for a week following the attack.
Adults:
Drink hot water and lemon juice each morning. Inhale steam and use tepid, fan shower sprays, directed to the areas below the ribs, to the pit of the stomach (midline), to the midline of the back, and the sides of the chest.
During an attack
Many water treatments will ease the constricting spasm. A herbal vapour tent will relieve the problem, but an even more effective treatment is a series of water treatments that act to draw blood away from the troubled area into another region of the body.
Several applications will accomplish this rerouting of the blood.
Apply an ice compress to the back of the head. Also, take a hot footbath. Add mustard powder for additional effect.
Immerse hands in hot water for several seconds.
Apply a hot moist compress, an apple cider vinegar compress, or a hot hayflower compress over the entire bronchial area. When the compress loses its heat, wash the body with bricks sectional spongings. Replace the cloths ever 15 minutes, or whenever cool.
If you cannot lie down for the chest application, apply the hot vinegar compress on the stomach and walk around. As soon as the warmth is generate in the stomach, it warms the chest and diverts the blood downwards.
A hot enema is another procedure which is especially advised for asthma sufferers who have intestinal and kidney complications. Use the enema every half an hour until the spasms stop.
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LONG RANGE PREVENTIVE WATER THERAPY
Cold treading:
To strengthen and harden the body, walk in cold water up the ankles or calves.
Vapour head bath:
A steam vapour head bath in a warm, no-draft room has an important 'dissolving' effect. Pour a quart or so of boiling water over any of these: bruised fennel seeds, linden flowers, sage leaves, elder flowers, yarrow or nettle. Place the pot on a table, and improvise a tent around your head and the pot with an umbrella or towel.
Close your eyes and breath with your mouth open. Do not let any air in. Perspiration will flow in about 5 minutes.
In an emergency, this technique may be used every day for a week. At other times, use only twice a week.
Half bath in tepid water:
Ten minute half baths with tepid water (80 degrees F) have a tonic effect on the system. Was first with tepid water, then sponge the upper back with cold water 3 times. Between each cold sponging, massage the chest and arms with a dry washcloth.
Breathing exercise:
This deep exhalation exercise is excellent: blow a feather or a small piece of paper across a wide table by exhaling deeply. The breathing in between exhalation should be normal. Repeat 10 times a day.
GENERAL THERAPY
Asthma attacks are terrifying both to the sufferer and his or her family, and anxiety about an attack can aggravate another one.
There are several causes of attack. One type is initiated by insensitivity to pollen, moulds, animal danders, lint, or insecticide. Another is caused by an infection in the nose, sinus, or lower lungs, and such attacks can be set off by changes in temperature, humidity, exposure to chemical, paint or wax fumes.
Others are caused by exhaustion, changes in endocrine, balance during puberty, menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. Many attacks are triggered by emotional stress.
Asthma sufferers should avoid the allergens they are sensitive to, and try not to become fatigued.
Water Healing
Fascinating stuff, eh?
As for me, well I know what will help me breath more easily today...
Yep, it's time for me to go and do some “wheelies” on my new bike. Who cares what the neighbours say?
Or that the local kids call me “Squeezy Rider”?
Yours, as ever,
Ray Collins
The Good Life Letter
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