BCT # 2 (ASTHAMATIC CONDITION)

Asthma is a syndrome characterized by recurrent episodes of dyspnoea, cough (often nocturnal), sputum and wheeze caused by reversible airway obstruction. There is hyper-responsiveness of the airway to a variety of triggers leading to the obstruction and symptoms. Majority of the cases have a childhood-onset disease. Asthmatics have intermittent airflow obstruction with periods of normal function. Some common precipitants include cold air, exercise, emotion, allergens (house dust mite, pollen, fur), infection, smoking and passive smoking, pollution, etc. Majority also have atopy, and they suffer from atopic dermatitis and/or allergic rhinitis.

Common symptoms include wheezing, dyspnoea and cough which are worse at night. Symptoms vary widely in every individual case and may change with age, season and treatment. The signs found on physical examination are tachypnoea, cyanosis, use of accessory muscles of respiration. Lung examination is positive for wheezing and rhonchi in the entire chest, more prominent in expiration.

Action of Ingredients:

Kali phosphoricum: Asthma; least food aggravates. Shor breath on going upstairs. Nervous asthma. Hay fever, as a prophylactic.

Magnesium phosphoricum: Asthmatic oppression of the chest. Dry, tickling cough. Spasmodic cough with difficulty in lying down.

Natrum muriaticum: Tendency to catch colds, coryzas or hay fever. Constrictive sensation. Shortness of breath, especially on going upstairs. Cough from tickling in the pit of stomach wit asthma or palpitations, worse winter.

Natrum sulphuricum: Humid asthma; rattling in the chest between 4 and 5 am. Constant desire to take deep, long breaths. Asthma in children, as aconstitutional remedy.every fresh cold brings on an attack of asthma.