WHAT IS THE REMEDY FOR COLD AND ASTHMA!

 

                             THE COMMON COLD

                                 THE COMMON COLD OR ACUTE CORYZA, ALSO TERMED CATARRH, IS QUITE A MILD DISORDER OF SHORT DURATION. IN ITS MORE SEVERE FORM IT IS CALEED INDLUENZA OR "FLU". IT IS A HIGHLY CATOGIOUS CONDITION AND ATTACKS PRODUCE ONLY TEMPORARY IMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE GENERAL LEVEL OF THE BODY'S RESISTANCE IS LOW.

                         CLINICAL FEATURES

                             THE ONSET OF A COLD IS USUALLY SUDDEN WITH A TICKLING SENSATION IN THE NOSE AND BACK OF THE THROAT, ACCOMPANIED BY SNEEZING. THE THROAT OFTEN FEELS DRY AND SORE, AND A COUGH IS OFTEN PRESENT. THE HEAD FEELS "STUFFED-UP". THE EYES SMART AND THERE IS A PROFUSE, WATERY, DISCHARGE. A CHILLING SENSATION IS SUALLY EXPERIENCED IN THE BEGINNING, FOLLOWED BY SLIGHT FEVER. THE SKIN MAY BECOME HOT AND DRY AND THE SUFFERER FEELS THIRST, DRYNESS OF THE TONGUE AND LOSS OF APPETITE. THE URINE MAY BE DARKNED AND OF DECREASED VOLUME, AND THE BOWELS MAY BECOME TEMPORARILY CONSTIPATED.

                        COMPICATION

 

 

1.                             SECONDARY BACTERIAL INFECTION, WHERE THE SECRETIONS BECOME THICK AND PURULENT.
2.                        SINUSITIS, INFECTION IN THE SINUSES WHICH LEADS TO SWELLING, CONGRESTION, OBSTRUCTION AND THICK PURULENT (YELLOW) DISCHARGE.
3.                 MIDDLE EAR INFECTION, (OTITIS MEDIA), CAUSING FEVER, DEAFNESS AND EAR PAIN, AS BACTERIAL INFECTION SPREADS FROM THE NASOPHARYNX UP THE EUSTACHIAN TUBES.
4.                          LOWER RESPIRATORY INFECTION, MAY LEAD TO TRACHEITIS (INFLAMMATION OF TRACHEA), LARYNGITIS (LARYNX),BRONCHITIS (BRONCHI) AND LOBULAR PNEUMONIA, AS SECONDARY BACTERIAL INFECTION DESCENDS DOWN THE BRONCHIAL TREE INTO THE LUNGS.

                                    YOGIC MANAGEMENT 

                               

                              OVEREATING (ESPECIALLY OF THE WRONG FOODS) OFTEN PRECIPITATES OR WORSENS A COLD. A SHORT FAST, ON THE OTHER HAND, IS OFTEN SUFFICIENT TO AVERT AN IMMINENT COLD. AT THE FIRST SIGN OF A COLD OR SORE THROAT, WHICH REPRESENTS A SLIGHT PRANIC IMBALANCE, ONE SHOULD MISS A MEAL, PRACTICE NETI AND KUNJAL KRIYA, AND SOME ENERGIZING PRANAYAMA. THEN TAKE A CUP OF HOT TEA WITH HEATING SPICES (GINGER, PEPPER, CINNAMON) AND REST QUIETLY PERHAPS PERFORMING MOUNA (SILENCE) TO MINIMIZE THE WASTAGE OF ENERGY WHICH IS CAUSED BY TALKING.

                          PROBLEMS OF RECURRENT 

                                      COMMON COLD

                        PEOPLE WHO EXPERIENCE COLD OR CORYZA SEVERAL TIMES A YEAR, ALMOST CERTAINLY HAVE AN IMPAIRMENT OF THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEM. THIS CAN BE DUE TO ANY NUMBER OF FACTORS, INCLUDING FOOD ALLERGIES, VITAMIN AND / OR MINERAL DEFICIENCIES AND, VERY COMMONLY, PROTEIN DEFICIENCY WHICH, IN ITSELF, MAY BE DUE TO INADEQUATE DIETARY INTAKE OR AN INABILITY TO DIGEST, ABSORB OR METABOLIZE THE FOOD.

FURTHER RECOMMENDATION

• A LIGHT NATURAL DIET WITH PLENTY OF FRUIT IS ADVISED, AND FOR WEAKENED PATIENTS, A LIQUID DIET IS BEST. HOT SOUP PREPARED FROM SEASONAL VEGETABLES, SUCH AS CARROT, SPINACH AND TOMATO, CAN BE MADE, TOGETHER WITH CORIANDER LEAVES, CHILLI AND GINGER. FOODS RICH IN VITAMINS C AND A ARE USEFUL.
• STEAM INHALATION FOR TEN MINUTES IS ADVISED IN CASES OF NASAL CONGESTION AND OBSTRUCTION. THIS CLEANS THE HEAD AND EASES THE BREATHING. IN CASES OF COUGH, AND SORE AND INFLAMMED THROAT, GARGLING WITH WARM SALINE WATER IS USEFUL.
• SMOKING IS IRRITATIVE TO THE NASAL MUCOSA AND SHOULD BE DISCONTINUED.
•  REGULAR PRACTICE OF SURYA NAMASKARA TO CAPACITY BUILDS UP RESISTANCE TO COUGHS AND COLDS.

FURTHER RECOMMENDATION

    FOR ASTHMA

 

 

• AS SOON AS AN ATTACK APPEARS TO BE IMMINENT, INSTEAD OF REACHING FOR DRUGS, THE ASTHMATIC SHOULD PERFORM KUNJAL KRIYA OR, IN THE CASE WHERE A MEAL HAS RECENTLY BEEN EATEN, VYAGHRA KRIYA. THIS SHOULD BE FOLLOWED BY NETI AND THE PRACTICE OF ABDOMINAL BREATHING IN SHAVASANA. THIS PROVIDES A MEANS OF MAINTAINING UNION BETWEEN THE MIND AND BREATH, SO THAT AIIENATION OR SEPARATION FROM THE BREATH, WHCIH IS THE BASIC PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE OF THE ASTHMATIC DURING THE ATTACK IS AVOIDED.
• PHYSICAL FITNESS SHOULD BE DEVELOPED AND EXCESS WEIGHT REMOVED, AS IT ACCENTUATES THE RESPIRATORY DIFFICULTIES OF AN ASTHMATIC. SWIMMING PROVIDES EXCELLENT EXERCISE FOR ASTHMATICS. RUNNING AND JOGGING ARE ALSO USEFUL IN MODERATION. NEVER PERFORM THEM COMPETITIVELY, BUT USE THEM AS A MEANS OF DEVELOPING SPONTANEOUS BREATH AND MANTRA AWARENESS.
•  A COLD SHOWER SHOULD BE TAKEN EVERY MORNING, PAYING PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO APPLY COLD WATER TO THE NECK AND SHOULDERS.
•  AN EFFECTIVE REMEDY CAN BE MADE BY LAYING VERY THIN SLICES OF RAW ONION AND GARLIC ON A PLATE AND SPREADING HONEY ON EACH SLICE. COVER WITH AN INVERTED PLATE AND LET IT STAND ALL NIGHT. TAKE A SPOONFUL OF THE RESULTANT SYRUP FOUT TIMES A DAY.