Bronchial Asthma

Therapeutics

Dr. JOHn Paul

   
drjohnpaulbhms@yahoo.com
 Episodal
• Cuts short, attacks of asthma when given in
2x or 3x or, prevents it developing at night
if given at bed time
Merc bin iod
• Removes temporary obstruction to the
oxidation of the blood by stimulating
respiratory centers. Want of breath during
exertion. 1x or Q
Aspidosperma
• Asthma, 10-30 gtt every ten minutes for
a few doses
   
Passiflora
• Powdered …….. 10 gr on tongue, said to arrest
an attack of asthma
Alumen
• Three grains on the back of the tongue will
relieve attack of asthmatic breathing.
Iodoforum
• Can inspire but cannot expire
Meph, Samb,
Chlorine
• Indicated after arsenic. Acts best in
corpulent & stout people. Lowest potencies
during the attack. Stop with improvement
to  prevent the return  of aggravation
Blatta Orient
• Dyspnoea with palpitation, < exertion or
by ascending a few steps
Amm-
c
• Asthma worse foggy weather and
relieved by profuse perspiration
Hyper
• Asthma when talking with contraction in
the throat
Dros
• Chronic asthma in summer, wheezing
and
  rattling  
• Asthma on shore, dyspnoea cannot
inspire deep enough, as if breathing
thro’ sponge, danger of suffocation from
mucus in larynx
Bromium
• Child awakens suddenly, nearly
suffocated, face livid, turns blue, gasps
for breath, sits up in bed. But attacks get
repeated
Samb
• Asthmatic symptoms in haemorrhoidal
subjects
   
• Useful in various forms of asthma.
Excited by sense of mucus rattling
in the chest & < drafts of air
Silphium
• Asthma with nightly dysuria. 15 drops
doses to promote expectoration in
bronchitis and bronchial asthma in old
people
Solidago
   
• Best remedy in the first stage of both asthma
and whooping cough, before the stage when
the mucus is present.
"Suffocating cough, whereby the child
becomes quite stiff and blue in the face.“
Violent degree of dyspnoea, with wheezing
and great weight and anxiety about the
precordia
Ipecac
• Nausea, vomiting and dyspepsia are the
general indications that point to the use of this
remedy, in asthma and gastric affections
• Dyspnoea from constriction of chest;
worse,
  any exertion. better
  by rapid
• Suffocative feeling, asthmatic
paroxysms, spasmodic cough, seems as if
each spell would terminate life. Mucous rales
through upper part of chest. Patient wants
to bathe in ice-cold water
Meph
• Asthma with fullness in stomach, morning or
after eating
Nux vom
• Asthma; relieved by stool. For asthmatic
complaints; worse from inhaling any dust.
“Will-o'-the-wisp” like character of its
subjective symptoms and its physometric
property
  are special features
 
 Mental weakness

Thoughts Arg-nit

Anxiety Asthma

Prediction Common symptoms

   
Insecurity

Common symptoms
Asthma

Desires company

Ars-alb Reassurance & support

Anxiety of health

Fear of being alone

Restlessness
   
Dogmatic, principled, anxious

sensitive
Hyper-responsiveness

Desires company

Kali carb 3 AM

   
 Grief

Hysteria

Oversensitive`

Asthma

Natrum Mur
   
 Position
• Dyspnoea where patient can breathe
only by standing up
Cann sat
• Asthma, must bend head back and sit
up
Hep sulph
• Asthma relieved by sitting up or
bending forward or by rocking
Kali carb
• Asthma relieved by lying on face and
protruding the tongue
    Med
• Asthmatic breathing, must sit or bend
forward, springs out of bed at night,
especially after 12, unable to lie down
for fear of suffocation
Ars alb
• Asthmatic conditions on lying down at
night with spasmodic cough, after first
sleep
Aralia Racemosa
• Asthma, with profuse tenacious
expectoration, which relieves. STOPS
BREATHING
 
WHEN FALLING
 
ASLEEP,
CANNOT BREATHE WHEN LYING DOWN.
• Asthma with dyspnoea, worse sitting up;
better, lying down and keeping arms
spread wide apart.
Psorinum
MUCUS
• Asthma with coryza & mucus secretions
relieved by expectoration
Eriodyctyon
• Powerful antiseptic, stimulating
expectorant, an efficient diaphoretic.
Asthma with great dyspnoea &
palpitation.
  Bronchorrhoea.
 
 Ailments From
• From exhaustive diseases, from measles
or pertussis in childhood
Desire to be fanned constantly
Asthma in aged people with blue skin
Carboveg
• From suppressed eruptions
Hepar,
Psor
• From sea air, dry to wet weather,
dampness
Desire to take deep breath in dampness
   
Humid asthma, in children
• Asthma from suppressed foot-sweat
Oleum ani
• Asthma from anger
Cham
• Asthma beginning with coryza.
Asthmatic constriction in the evening
Naja
• Asthma alternates with nettle rash
Calad
• Spasmodic asthma alternating with
spasmodic vomiting
Cup m
   
• Rose cold asthma ALLERGIC
Sang-n
• Millers asthma
Arum drac, Guarea, Nat ars,
Pothos
• Miners asthma
Cardus mar, Nat
ars
• Inflammation through respiratory tract
causing asthma, chest pains, etc; worse
drafts. Use 6 to 30th potency
Succinic acid
• Asthma
   
due to susceptibility of the proteid
 Spasmodic
• Spasm of epiglottis, larynx stopped so
that no air can enter inside only
Dyspnoea, sense of constriction, can
inhale but cannot exhale
Medorrhinum
• Indicated in asthma to relieve spasm of
glottis
• Constriction with suffocation. Inspiration
free with obstructed expiration
Chlorum