Asthma

Asthma is an allergic condition with paroxysmal attacks of chest distress andshortness

of breath including wheezing and orthopnea. Before the attack, the patient may have
some prodromal symptoms such as itching in throat, sneezing, coughing and chest
distress.

Differential diagnosis: Patients with asthma caused by wind and cold pathogens may
suffer from shortness of breath and chest distress exacerbated by attack of cold, chills,
fever, running nose, pink tongue with white and slippery coating, and floating and
slow pulse. Patients with asthma caused by wind and heat pathogens may suffer from
chest distress, yellow and sticky sputum difficult to spit out, thirst, red tongue with
yellow and greasy coating, and rolling and rapid pulse. Patients
with excessive phlegm may suffer from profuse and sticky sputum difficult to spit out,
chest distress, poor appetite, white and greasy tongue coating, and rolling pulse.
Patients with lung deficiency may suffer from shortness of breath, low and weak
coughing, dry mouth, red tongue, and thready and weak pulse; and patients with
kidney deficiency may suffer from chronic asthma with short inspiration and long
expiration, leanness of body, cold limbs, edema of limbs, difficult urination, heart
palpitations, pale tongue, and deep and thready pulse. Asthma and shortness of breath
in patients with bronchial asthma, asthmatic bronchitis, pneumonia, cardiac asthma,
obstructive emphysema and hysteria in modern medicine may be treated by the
following methods.

Treatment:

Foot massage: Foot massage is applied to larynx, trachea, vocal cord (48), lung and
bronchus (14), lymph nodes (chest, 41), parathyroid gland (13), kidney (22), spleen
(34) and adrenal gland (21) reflecting areas (Fig. 36).
Foot acupuncture:
l) Meridianal acupoints: At Zulinqi (GB 41), Kunlun (BL 60), Zutonggu (BL 66),
Yinbai (SP 1), Yongquan (KI 1) and Rangu (KI 2), the reducing technique is applied
and the needles are retained for 20 minutes. Warm acupuncture may be applied for
patients with wind and cold pathogens, damp pathogens or kidney deficiency.
2) Foot acupoints: At Chest (FA-P 3), Aigen 3 (FA-P 7) and Heart pain (FA-D 8)
acupoints, a moderate twisting stimulation is applied and the needles are retained for
20 minutes. Kidney (FA-P 14) acupoint may be added for patients with kidney
deficiency, and moxibustion after acupuncture is applied to patients with cold
pathogens, turbid phlegm or kidney deficiency.

External application of drugs:
1) Baifan (alum) 30 gm and an adequate amount of wheat flour and vinegar are mixed
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to prepare small cakes for overnight application on the central area of both soles.
2) Baifan (alum) 30 gm is mixed with vinegar to prepare a paste for application once a
day over the central area of both soles.

Foot bath:

Two eggs are boiled in a decoction of the following herbs: Yuxingcao (houttuynia) 60
gm, Zisuzi (perilla fruit) 30 gin, Wuweizi (magnoliavine fruit) 20 gin, Dilong (dry
earthworm) 30 gm and Chenxiang (eagle wood) 10 grn for 30 minutes. The eggs are
then eaten and the decoction is used to soak and wash both feet once a night.





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