3 Medicines for Asthma

Ipecac- This is very effective remedy for asthma, especially to the spasmodic variety where the symptoms are great weight and anxiety about the chest; sudden wheezing, dysponoea, threatening suffocation aggravated by motion; the cough causes gagging and vomiting. The cough is constant, the chest seems full of phlegm, yet none is expectorated, and the extremities are covered with cold perspiration.

Arsenic Alb- The symptoms of asthma aggravates just after midnight in arsenic patients; the patient is anxious and restless, he cannot lie down for the fear of suffocation. There is anxiety and general sweat, and burning pain and soreness of chest. It is especially the remedy if the disease is chronic and the dyspnoea is dry & habitual. There is thirst for small quantity of water in short intervals. The asthma of arsenic is accompanied by great debility and burning in the chest, and is especially useful in anemic persons.

Natrum Sulph- Its general symptoms are worse on change to damp weather; moist asthma with a great deal of rattling in the chest; looseness of bowels after each attack; the attacks generally comes on 4 or 5 O’clock in the morning with cough with copious greenish expectoration; good medicine for asthma of hay fever; another symptom of natrum sulph which is characteristic is that the patient must sit up and hold the chest with the hands during the attack.