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What is COPD? It is:

"Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease" (COPD), also known as chronic obstructive airway diseases (COAD). It is a group of diseases characterized by the pathological limitation of airflow in the airway that is not fully reversible. It refers to an obstruction of airflow, which results in air becoming trapped in the lungs. COPD is the umbrella term for chronic bronchitis, emphysema and a range of other lung disorders. It is most often due to tobacco smoking, but can be due to other airborne irritants such as solvents, as well as congenital conditions such as alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency. It is the 4th leading cause of death in the U.S." (Wikipedia)

COPD Causes

Cigarette smoking or exposure to tobacco smoke is the primary cause of COPD disease. While COPD only occurs in 15% of cigarette smokers, tobacco use accounts for as much as 90% of the risk for the development of this disease. Secondhand smoke or environmental tobacco smoke also increase the risk of respiratory infections, and can result in a decrease in lung function one of the major causes of COPD symptoms.

People with COPD disease experience a more rapid decline in what is called forced expiatory volume or FEV. FEV is the maximum volume of air that can be exhaled within a specified time period, starting from maximal inhalation. A subscript indicates the time period in seconds. For example, FEV is the maximum volume of air that can be exhaled within 1 second. A decline in FEV causes a person to become short of breath and to have difficulty in breathing, a major reason for requiring COPD oxygen.

Air pollution

It is not clear if air pollution causes COPD. However, if it does, the effect is small when compared to cigarette smoking. The use of solid fuels for cooking and heating may cause high levels of indoor air pollution, which may then lead to the development of COPD disease.

Airway hyperresponsiveness

Some patients who develop COPD disease have airway hyperresponsiveness, a condition in which their airways overreact to airborne irritants, such as secondhand smoke and air pollution.

The role of airway hyperresponsiveness as a risk factor for COPD in people who smoke is unclear. However, according to one hypothesis, patients who have airway hyperreactivity and who smoke, are at an increased risk of COPD and an accelerated rate of decreased lung function.

Any occupation in which the local environment is polluted with harmful gases and particulates, increases the risk of developing of COPD symptoms. In addition, there is evidence that cadmium and silica also increase the risk of COPD. This is especially true if the subject smokes. Occupations most likely to transform it's workers into COPD patients include coal miners, construction workers who handle cement, metal workers, grain handlers, cotton workers, and workers in paper mills. However, the effect of smoking far outweighs any influences from the work place.

No matter the cause of COPD, it is rapidly healed by the elemental miracle, as you can see from the testimonial on the home page. Another disease for which I can't imagine someone wanting to deviate from this one simple remedy. Especially with it's added ability to destroy any and all pathogens. Still there are other natural remedies that can be used as a COPD treatment, so why not incorporate several into a quick healing regimen?

• Hydrogen Peroxide is an amazing remedy for so many ailments, including as a natural COPD treatment. Many people prefer to inhale it for this disease. Simply put a 3% solution in a nebulizer and inhale it or drink it. H2O2 baths are effective as well. www.dfwx.com/h2o2.htm has food grade hydrogen peroxide for sale, and plenty of details on how to use it for internal health.
   
• MSM is an excellent COPD treatment for helping to strip accumulated bio-films from the lungs. Start with 1 tsp. 3 times a day with plenty of water. Gradually increase to 1 Tbsp. 3 times a day, mixed in plenty of water.
   
• DMSO mixed fifty percent with water in a nebulizer, is reported to be very effective COPD treatment for reducing build ups in the lungs which helps to greatly reduce COPD symptoms.
   
• Colloidal Silver is reported to be very helpful for COPD patients, especially in those suffering from chest infections. Patients claim that by using it in their nebulizer as soon as their sputum changes from clear to yellow, it keeps the infection from advancing any further.
   
• Virgin Coconut Oil is reported to be a big help to those with COPD. Simply by taking a tsp. or two with meals, or in tea or room temperature juice, it's said to thin the mucous making it easy to cough up, and it opens the nasal passages as well.
   
• Thyme is very beneficial as a simple tea that you just sip, for those suffering from COPD symptoms. It is helpful for many COPD symptoms, including upper respiratory infections.
   
• Turmeric is a very effective home remedy for bronchitis, one of the main contributors of COPD symptoms. Half a teaspoon of turmeric powder should be administered with half a glass of milk, two or three times daily. Or take it in capsules. It acts best when taken on an empty stomach.

Other herbs that can be used as a natural COPD treatment, are Garlic, Licorice, Indian Tobacco (Labelia), and Marshmallow. Probably the best expectorant, which will loosen the mucus and make it easier to cough up is Eucalyptus. A great way to avoid having to use COPD oxygen, is to add a few drops of the essential oil of Eucalyptus to a humidifier, and just breathe in the air, especially when your having trouble breathing. Many COPD patients swear by this simple technique.

The Elemental Miracle along with a few of these other remedies should put you well on your way to relief from COPD. As serious as it is, COPD is naturally healed everyday, although it does require time and patience. Of course quitting smoking is standard, but no matter, follow these remedies, and do some research on your own. All of these remedies fit well within COPD guidelines. This is holistic health at it's best, as what does conventional medicine have to offer for COPD? Really.

Asthma is a disease that affects the breathing passages of the lungs (bronchioles). Asthma is caused by chronic (ongoing, long-term) inflammation of these passages. This makes the breathing passages, or airways of the person with asthma highly sensitive to various "triggers," despite the use of even the best of asthma drugs.

• When the inflammation is "triggered" by any number of external and internal factors, the passages swell and fill with mucus.
   
• Muscles within the breathing passages contract (bronchospasm), causing even further narrowing of the airways.
   
• This narrowing makes it difficult for air to be breathed out (exhaled) from the lungs.
   
• This resistance to exhaling leads to the typical symptoms of an asthma attack. ( wheezing, asthma cough, etc.)

Because asthma causes resistance, or obstruction to exhaled air, it is called an obstructive lung disease. The medical term for such lung conditions is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD. COPD is actually a group of diseases that includes not only asthma but also chronic bronchitis and emphysema.

Like any other chronic disease, asthma is a condition you live with every day of your life. You can have an attack any time you are exposed to one of your triggers. Unlike other chronic obstructive lung diseases, asthma is reversible.

• To date there is no known asthma cure, but it can be controlled.
   
• You have a better chance of controlling your asthma if it is diagnosed early and asthma treatments are begun right away.
   
• With the proper treatment for asthma those with the disease can have fewer and less severe attacks.
   
• Without asthma treatments, they will have more frequent and more severe asthma attacks and can even die.
   

Asthma is a very common disease in the United States, where more than 17 million people are affected. A third of these are children. Asthma affects all races and is slightly more common in African Americans than in other races.

• Asthma affects all ages, although it is more common in younger people. The frequency and severity of asthma attacks tend to decrease as a person ages.
   
• Asthma is the most common chronic disease of children.
   

Some effects of asthma on society:

• Many people are forced to make compromises in their lifestyle to accommodate their disease.
   
• Asthma is a major cause of absence at work and school and a major reason of lost productivity.
   
• Asthma is one of the most common reasons for emergency department visits and hospitalization.
   
• Asthma costs the U.S. economy nearly $13 billion each year.
   
• Approximately 5,000 people die of asthma each year in the U.S.
   

Asthma Causes

The exact cause of asthma is not known. What all people with asthma have in common is chronic airway inflammation and excessive airway sensitivity to various triggers. Each person with asthma has his or her own unique set of triggers. Most triggers cause attacks in some people with asthma and not in others. Common triggers of asthma attacks are:

• exposure to tobacco or wood smoke
   
• breathing polluted air
   
• breathing in allergy-causing substances (allergens) such as molds, dust, or animal dander
   
• exposure to cold, dry weather
   
• exposure to airway irritants at the workplace
   
• inhaling other respiratory irritants such as perfumes or cleaning products
   
• an upper respiratory infection such as a cold, flu, sinusitis or bronchitis
   
• physical exertion or exercise
   
• emotional excitement or stress
   
• reflex of stomach acid known as gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD
   
• sulfites, an additive to some foods and wine
   
• In some, not all, women, asthma symptoms are closely tied to the menstrual cycle
   

Risk factors for developing asthma

• hey fever (allergic rhinitis) and other allergies are the single biggest risk factor
   
• eczema another type of allergy affecting the skin
   
• genetic predisposition: a parent, brother, or sister also has asthma
   

Asthma Symptoms

When the breathing passages become irritated or infected, an attack is triggered. The attack may come on suddenly or develop slowly over several days or hours. The main symptoms that signal an attack are:

• wheezing
   
• breathlessness
   
• chest tightness
   
• coughing
   
• difficulty speaking
   

Symptoms may occur during the day or at night. Wheezing is the most common symptom of an asthma attack.

• Wheezing is a musical, whistling, or hissing sound with breathing.
   
• Wheezes are most often heard during exhalation, but they can occur during breathing in (inhaling).
   
• Not all asthmatics wheeze, and not all people who wheeze are asthmatics.
   

Current guidelines for the care of people with asthma include classifying the severity of asthma symptoms, as follows:

• Mild intermittent: This includes attacks no more than twice a week and nighttime attacks no more than twice a month. Attacks last no more than a few hours to days. Severity of attacks varies, but there are no symptoms between attacks.
   
• Mild persistent: This includes attacks more than twice a week, but not every day, and nighttime symptoms more than twice a month. Attacks are sometimes severe enough to interrupt regular activities.
   
• Moderate persistent: This includes daily attacks and nighttime symptoms more than once a week. More severe attacks occur at least twice a week and may last for days. Attacks require daily use of quick-relief (rescue) medication and changes in daily activities.
   
• Severe persistent: This includes frequent severe attacks, continual daytime symptoms, and frequent nighttime symptoms. Symptoms require limits on daily activities.
   

Just because a person has mild or moderate asthma does not mean that he or she cannot have a severe attack. The severity of asthma can change over time, either for better or for worse, with or without the use of asthma drugs.

Asthma attacks are ultimately triggered by an overly stressed immune system. To include the elemental miracle as just another one of the many asthma treatments, does not do it justice. The elemental miracle is not only an asthma cure, but it also smooths out the stressed alveoli damaged in the airways, making breathing much easier at all times, and asthma attacks and the need for asthma drugs, a thing of the past.

Honey is one of the most common asthma remedies. It has long been known, that if a jug of honey is held under the nose of an asthma patient and they inhale the air that comes into contact with it, they will immediately start breathing easier and deeper.

Among fruits, figs have proved to be very valuable in the realm of asthma remedies. They give comfort to asthmatics by draining off the phlegm. Three or four dry figs should be cleaned thoroughly with warm water and soaked overnight.

Lemon is another fruit included as one of the more effective natural asthma treatments. The juice of one lemon, diluted in a glass of water and taken with meals, will bring good results

A teaspoon of fresh ginger juice, mixed with a cup of fenugreek decoction, and honey to taste, acts as an excellent expectorant in cases of asthma cough. The decoction of fenugreek can be made by mixing one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds in a cupful of water. This old standby in the world of natural asthma remedies, should be taken once in the morning and once in the evening.

Garlic is another of the premier natural asthma remedies. Ten garlic cloves, boiled in 30 ml of milk, make an excellent alternative to asthma drugs, for those in the early stages of asthma. This mixture should he taken once daily by the patient. Steaming ginger tea with two minced garlic cloves in it, can also help with asthma cough and wheezing. Most effective when taken in the morning and evening.