If you are an asthma sufferer, chances are you fear the onset of another attack. After experiencing your first of many attacks, you start wondering if it is possible to cure asthma. Unfortunately, until today, scientists have not yet established if it is possible to cure the said disease.
Asthma is basically an inflammation of the air passages. Once your air passages start to constrict, you will experience the different symptoms like wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing, chest pain and tightness. Asthma treatment is focused upon resolving the inflammation of the air passages. Anti-asthma medications cannot cure asthma because these simply prevent an attack from occurring and exacerbation of symptoms. The said medications are for prevention and control, not cure.
Some people say that certain herbs are possible to cure the said disease. These herbs like angelica, anise, and turmeric are like anti-asthma medications. These address the inflammation and symptoms. These remove the symptoms but not permanently. This is the reason why an herb is not a possible cure to asthma.
Is breathing treatment possible to cure asthma? There are many different breathing exercises used. Examples of these are the Pranayama breathing exercises and Buteyko method. Unfortunately, any of the breathing exercises is not possible to cure asthma. Like herbs and anti-asthma medications, breathing exercises are for control and prevention. Even if you do breathing exercises everyday, you are still at risk of experiencing an attack when you are exposed to an asthma trigger.
These natural ways to treat the said disease are effective although not one of them is possible to cure asthma. The incidence of an attack is lowered if breathing exercises are used in conjunction with anti-asthma medications. Even the use of anti-asthma medications is reduced if these natural remedies are used. But, doctors warn against using breathing exercises and herbs in place of anti-asthma medications. Since anti-asthma medications have sufficient data that establish their safety and effectiveness, asthma sufferers are advised never to stop taking these medications as prescribed.
Once you have asthma, you cannot completely get rid of the symptoms through any form of treatment. This is because once you get exposed to the trigger, you will definitely experience an attack. Therefore, the only way to get rid of the symptoms is by completely avoiding exposure to the trigger.
It is really unfortunate that like cancer, there is no cure for the said disease yet. To date, the only promising possible cure is complete non-exposure to the trigger. No asthma sufferer has done this so far. If you cannot guarantee complete non-exposure to the trigger, you always have to bring your anti-asthma medications with you in case of an asthma attack.