VINE'S BLOG: REMEDIES TO REDUCE LUNG PROBLEMS-ASTHMA

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AYURVEDIC recipes for LUNGS PROBLEM - ASTHMA

Kapha prakruti people will get Asthma attack if they move out without keeping in mind the seasonal changes. Moving in cool air, foggy weather, taking cold water, ice creams etc will lead to increase of phlegm causing dammu, cough, palpitations and other respiratory problems.

Recipe No.1:
Yoga and Praanaayaam:

Warm mustard oil and apply to chest, backbone, throat, face and gently massage. Then perform some of the exercises/praanaayaams as mentioned below:

i) Stretch your hands forward and move them to the sides while breathing in. While breathing out come back to the original position. Phlegm will start melting and normal breathing starts.

ii) Stretch your hands forward, move them up while breathing in and move the arms to down position while breathing out.

iii) Rotate each hand clockwise and anti clockwise.
iv) Bhujangasanam
v) Ujjayee Praanaayaam
vi) Vega Bhastrika
vii) Suryabedhana Praanaayaam
viii) Linga Mudra
ix) Spell out 'Yam' beejakshara in the morning and evening 7 or 11 times.

Recipe No.2:
Karakkaya : 100 gm
Taanikaaya : 100 gm
Usirikaya : 100 gm
Pippali : 50 gm
Fry them separately and make powder. Mix all the above powders in order and sieve and store.
Take 1/4 sp. powder with 1 sp honey in morning and evening half an hour before food.
Benefits:
Dust allergy, respiratory problems, asthma will be cleared within 30 days.

Recipe No.3:
Tulasi Tea:
Tulasi leaves : 10 Nos
Black pepper : 10 Nos.
Ginger : 2 gm

Pound all the contents together, mix in 2 cups water and boil on SIM till 1 cup water remains. Add candy sugar, filter and drink the tea in bearable hot condition two times a day and do not eat food till one hour or take bath within one hour.

Benefits:
Allergy, snoring, heavy breathing, phlegm, sneezing etc. problems will be eliminated.

Recipe No.4:
Chest care for Asthma persons:

Accumulation of impure air in lungs and heart are harmful. Due to continuous cough, the muscles of chest loosen and get hanging.

Banyan tree bark : 1 kg

Soak the bark pieces in 4 kg water for 2 days. Stir now and then and close it with lid. Boil the contents till 1 kg water remains and filter the kashaayam. Add 1 kg sesame oil to the above Kashaayam and boil once again till oil remains. Filter the oil and store in a bottle.

Apply the oil to chest and back portions.
Benefits:
The chest muscles which have got loosened will become tight and chest becomes strong.

Recipe No.5:
Asthma in children:
i) 2 drops ginger juice with 4 drops honey (For children below 5 years)
ii) Add mudda karpooram to coconut oil, boil it and gently stir. When the camphor melts in oil, filter and store. Apply the oil to chest. Breathing problems subside and deep sleep prevails. Phlegm also melts. (For children 5 to 8 years old)
iii) For children of 8 to 16 years, apply the oil as above and ask them to perform Suryanamaskaras.

Recipe No.6:

Wash raavi fruits (peepal tree fruits), dry them and pound them to powder. Sieve the powder and add equal quantity of candy sugar and store.

For 1 year children : 1 to 2 pinches with honey
For 5 to 10 years old children : 1/4 spoon with honey.
Benefits:

Removes phlegm from lungs. Brain power increases by 1000 times for children. Life span increases. Can be taken by children and elders even if there is no Asthma problem. They will not be attacked by Asthma in entire life and remain healthy.

Recipe No.7:
Allam Pakam:
Allam rasam : 400 gm
Old jaggery : 70 gm
Methi powder : 5 gm
Dalchin powder : 5 gm
Sonthi powder : 5 gm
Pippali powder : 5 gm
Pepper powder : 5 gm
Elachi powder : 5 gm
Cloves powder : 5 gm
Naga kesaralu powder : 5 gm
Akupatri (biryani leaf) powder : 5 gm
Add 70 gm jaggery to ginger juice and boil it till tender paak is obtained. Add all the powders and boil again. Then store it in a bottle.
Elders : 10 gm
Children : about 1/4 sp to 1/2 spoon as per age.
Take 1+1 time one hour before food for 40 to 60 days.
Benefits:

Indigestion, constipation, lack of appetite, cat's wheezing (pilli kootalu), phlegm in throat, cold, watery eyes, watery mouth, cough, dammu, palpitation, sores in throat, voice clarity, Asthma, all respiratory problems, nose problems, head problems due to vaata get cleared.

Recipe No.8:
Uttareni seeds : 25 gm (powder)
Pepper powder ; 50 gm (Fry and make powder)
Nalla tumma banka : 25 gm

Soak the nalla tumma banka in water and add the above two powders. Grind to paste. Make small balls of pea nut size and dry them in shade. Take 1 pill 3 times a day with warm water half an hour before food. For children 1/2 pill can be given with honey.

Benefits:
Dammu, cough, Asthma, heaving, all respiratory problems are eliminated.

Recipe No.9:

Take one bucket hot water and one bucket cold water. Drink one glass warm water and place your feet in hot water bucket for 15 min. Wrap one cold cloth (after twisting out excess water) on head and cover entire body with a blanket. After 15 min place the legs in cold water for 2 min. only and remove.

Benefits:
Heavy breathing or palpitations are relieved.

Recipe No.10:
Wash 100 gm tella maddi chettu beradu (bark of Arjuna tree)
Dry and make powder.

Fast on Full moon day from morning. Only warm water to be taken. Prepare paayasam with naatu cow's milk, rice and candy sugar and keep it in moon light. At 4.00 A.M. early in the morning add 1 tsp maddi chekka powder and eat paayasam sufficiently. Do not sleep till 12 o clock (A.N.) the following day.

Observe this for 3 full moon days, old asthma (however old it is) will be eliminated.

Recipe No.11:

Place chekkarakeli pieces in a vessel and pour cow's urine till they submerge. Crush the chekkarakeli pieces and take early in the morning. Do this for 20 to 40 days. Asthma problem will be removed completely.

Recipe No.12:
Asthma in children:
Apply warm sesame oil to chest, back and throat.

Apply steam with boiled water in which turmeric and salt are added. Dip a cotton cloth in the water, squeeze and foment on back. Melt 2 camphor pieces in 3 spoons coconut oil or sesame oil and apply the oil to chest and throat.

Pour 2 drops sesame oil in the nostrils.

Also place feet in hot water for 10 min after drinking water, wrapping a wet cloth round the head. Then place feet in cold water for 2 min.

Asthma in children is eliminated.

Recipe No.13:
Pippali powder : 50 gm (Fry and make powder)
Saindhavalavanam : 50 gm
Old jaggery : 150 gm
Mix all the three, pound and store powder. Take 10 gm two times a day. Chew it and take inside.
Benefits:
Phlegm melts and Asthmatic symptoms are relieved.

Recipe No.14:
Cow's milk : 400 gm
Sesame Oil : 100 gm
Atimadhuram powder : 10 gm

Mix all the above and boil on SIM flame till oil remains. Place in dropper bottle and put 4 drops in both nostrils in warm condition two times a day.

Benefits:
Asthma and Tb problems will be relieved within 40 days.

Recipe No.15:
Betel leaves : 2 Nos. (Remove central stem )

Clean them with cloth. Put 3 pinches turmeric on the leaves, wrap like a killi ( paan) keep it on one sides of cheek and suck the juice gradually Later bite slowly and eat the paan.

Precautions:

Spit out the first and second juice emitted by paan and from third time onwards it can be swallowed. Avoid cold items, ice creams etc.

Benefits:
Difficulty in breathing, fever, phlegm gets eliminated.

Recipe No.16:
Sweet butter milk : 1 glass
candy sugar/Saindhavalavanam: 5 gm
Lemon juice : 1 sp
Vibhuti : 2 pinches.
(Vibhuti: Burn cow dung cakes, make powder, add cow's milk, dry the powder and the powder so obtained is Vibhuti)
Pachcha karpuram/Bheemaseni karpuram: 1 pinch
Jeera : 1/4 spoon (Fry and make powder)
Dalchin powder : 2 pinches (Fry and make powder)
Elaichi : 1 pinch (Fry and make powder)

Badam seed powder : 1 No (Soak badanm for 12 hours in warm water and peel the top skin, dry it and make powder).

Jaaji kaya powder :1 pinch

Sieve all the above powders and add to the above. To be taken in morning and evening before food. Candy sugar or saindhavalavanam can be used.

Benefits:
Asthma and other respiratory problems are eliminated.