Best Home Remedies for Asthma

Home Remedies for Asthma

1) Ginger

Ginger is a well-known natural treatment for various ailments including asthma. Researchers have found that it can help reduce airway inflammation and inhibit airway contraction.

Plus, studies indicate that it has compounds that may enhance the muscle relaxant effects of certain asthma drugs.

Mix equal quantities of ginger juice, pomegranate juice and honey. Consume one tablespoon of this mixture two or three times a day.

• Alternatively, you can mix one teaspoon of ground ginger in one and a half cups of water and take one tablespoon of this mixture at bedtime.
• Cut one inch of ginger into small pieces and add it to a pot of boiling water. Let it steep for five minutes, allow it to cool down and then drink it.
• To detoxify your lungs, prepare a fenugreek decoction by boiling one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds in a cup of water and mixing one teaspoon each of ginger juice and honey in it. Drink this solution every morning and evening.
• You can also eat raw ginger mixed with salt.

2 )Black Tea Or Coffee 

Caffeine present in coffee helps asthma. Besides, it clears your air passage and makes way for air to enter and exit easily through those passages. If you are not a coffee person, you can opt for black tea. But, make sure that you consume not more than 3 cups in a day.

3) Mustard Oil

When having an asthma attack, massaging with mustard oil can help clear the respiratory passagesand restore normal breathing.

1.   Heat some mustard oil with a little camphor.

2.   Transfer it in a bowl and when it is comfortably warm, gently rub it on the chest and upper back and massage.

3.   Do this several times a day until the symptoms subside.

4) Figs

  

The nutritional properties of figs promote respiratory health and help drain phlegm and alleviate breathing difficulties.

Wash three dried figs and soak them in a cup of water overnight.

In the morning, eat the soaked figs and drink the fig water on an empty stomach.

Continue this home treatment for a couple of months.il with a little camphor.

Transfer it in a bowl and when it is comfortably warm, gently rub it on the chest and upper back and massage.

Do this several times a day until the symptoms subside.

 5)Eucalyptus Oil

 

 Eucalyptus essential oil can really lend a hand in keeping the asthma at bay and relieving from the existing one. Put a few drops of eucalyptus essential oil in a cup of boiling water and take its steam as it will help in opening up the nasal passages and air passages, so that air can pass through easily.