Asthma (Was RE: new member- questions)

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> Hello all-

 

 

Hi Rob,

 

 

Welcome to our happy little list Make yourself right at home!

 

 

> I am a part time herbalist who is just starting to immerse myself in

the

> wonderful world of essential oils.

 

It is a wonderful world ... It usually smells good too (although some of

misinformation out there about Aromatherapy in general stinks

 

> My question is on the topic of asthma. My sister has severe asthma.

I put

> her through a 30 day total body cleanse and she did well on this.

Having

> asthma for 14 years, she definitely needs more than this but we are

making

> progress. Anyways I had her start with eucalyptus essential oil

through

> steam inhalation. This gives her decent relief from her asthma and

often

> prevents her from having to use her inhaler. I am wondering what

other oils

> should she be using for this and what kind of delivery methods she

should be

> using....a couple of others I was thinking of adding would be

lavender, tea

> tree and lemon. She actually woke up today and her lungs were very

painful

> and sore. I am attributing this to a positive healing reaction

because she

> has been using the eucalyptus for about 3 weeks. She also takes

lobelia

> daily, which helps a bit.

 

John Kercher wrote an article about using EO's for asthma. I'll try to

track it down.

 

I know my holistic Anthroposophic MD likes lobelia for asthma issues

(the topic came up one day when we were discussing how ephedra was

getting banned and I mentioned something about asthma and ephedra and he

said he liked lobelia for that better for a variety of reasons)

 

> I have read a lot of websites and some say steam inhalation is good

for

> asthma and some say to avoid completely....

 

I'm not sure about the benefits of using steam inhalation for

asthmatics, but it could very well be one of those individual things -

good for some, very bad for others ... Also, to use EO's, one certainly

doesn't need to use steam. Sniffing it right out of the bottle or

sniffing a few drops on a tissue is quite effective.

 

> any insight you guys can share would be much appreciated.

 

I'll look for Kercher's article, and hopefully the folks here with more

knowledge and experience with the subject will be able to give some more

input

 

> thanks,

> Rob

 

*Smile*

Chris (list mom)

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