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The intensity of the attacks was, at times, so severe that I had given up all hopes of survival. But fortunately, with God's grace and with nature cure methods, I have had no trouble for the last two decades or more. Since there are so many people suffering from asthma, it might be helpful for many to know about my experiments with the disease.</div> <bR> <div> Asthma is a very debilitating disease. Strictly speaking, it is not even a disease but a physical and a biochemical weakness of the human body and hence there is no effective or permanent cure. It is for the patient alone who has to do something about it.</div> <bR> <div> Asthma gets triggered all the more due to allergy to various things. I used to get Asthma attacks often due to fumes of burning sulphur or burning of Diwali crackers. Once as the then Director of Sugar, I was on my inspection tour of the Shriram Cooperative Sugar Factory at Phalton (District Satara, Maharashtra). I suddenly got chocked-up and had to literally run out of the premises to get some relief. None of the officers who were with me sensed any smell. I then asked them to look for some leakage of sulphur. On closer examination, they did find some slight leakage of sulphur fumes as sulphur is used to refine thesugarcane juice while making sugar. Sometimes even the first fumes of lighting match-sticks or agarbattis may also give trouble. Hence, Asthma patients should keep away from such smells. Those persons who are constantly facing passive smoking may also get Asthma. In my case, my father was a heavy smoker. That could have been the reason why I got Asthma. Besides, we used to have kerosene lamps with open flame in our village home before we got the electricity. The smoke and the smells of kerosene and of oil paints while painting the house also used to trouble and such smells should also be avoided. During Diwali Festival, owing to the bursting of crackers, the whole atmosphere is full of cracker-smells that can give a lot of trouble to Asthma patients in particular. So also, house dust, road dust, building construction dust, particularly when the air is full of cement dust particles, the smoke of burning garbage, rubber tyres, plastics, etc. should also be avoided. Exposure to the morning redness of the eastern sky before sunrise, the cold breeze in the early mornings that is full of pollen, smells and fragrances of various kinds or all combined might also affect Asthma patients. That could be the reason why the Osho (formerly Bhagwan Rajneesh) shunned all artificial perfumes that are much worse for the Asthma patient. Asthma patients might do well if they slept late and got up late in the mornings to avoid these complications. An early dinner and sleeping late also might help them as the food would get partially digested making the stomach lighter. Cloudy weather does affect most Asthma patients. Hence dry climate is preferable but one must protect oneself from the cool breezes of such dry places. So also over-exertion that makes one feel out-of-breath, even for a short duration should better be avoided. Slow and steady should be the rule while doing exercise or even while having a long walk or doing any other things. Make breathing rhythmic to the work. Just look at the labourers who haul big loads by synchronized chanting of some song, mantra or a slogan while they are hauling the load together.</div> <bR> <div> <B>EATING HABITS:</B></div> <div>  </div> <div> Avoid sticky and constipating foods such as milled or highly polished rice, maida or refined wheat flour, white bread and potatoes or products made therefrom such as biscuits, French fries, etc. unless you are taking those items along with a lot of food containing fibre or roughage. Salads, cucumbers, carrots, tomatoes and the like contain a lot of rougphage. So also, adding lemon juice to food (although good in many other ways) makes the stomach sticky. Some patients might find the same effect by taking curds. Of course, taking fresh curds in small quantities, if you are also consuming plenty of vegetables or fruit in the same meal may be harmless or may even be good. However, butter milk is better provided it does not contain too much salt as total intake of salt has also to be watched. Excessive salt intake might trigger other complications such as high blood pressure, osteoporosis (brittle bones) and obesity that may lead to cardiological problems, heart attack or the like. Oils, including polyunsaturated and spices should also be used to the minimum. To increase fibre content, leafy vegetables and soft stalks of certain vegetables can be added. Cook the vegetables with their skins wherever possible provided they are cleaned properly to remove any residues of chemical fertilizers and/or insecticides. Organic farm produce is better. Eat plenty of green vegetables of all kinds unless some are specifically forbidden for you due to any specific health problems. Gawar (Cluster Beans), Bhindi ( Ladies Fingers), Padwal, Dudhi (Bottle Gourd), tondali, French and other beans, tomatoes, methi (Fenugreek Leaves), pumpkin, raw bananas and other seasonal vegetables preferably those grown locally in the area where one is residing most of the time, are all good. Besides, they give you plenty of edible fibre that no other fibre can match.  Do not sleep immediately after eating a heavy meal. Give a couple of hours after meals to go to bed. If possible, go out for a leisurely walk or do some active work (but not too brisk or tiring so as to make</div> <div> you out of breath). Even in the evenings, eat a little early, three or four hours before going to bed. Heart patients in particular, should go for walks before and not after meals, because just before meal time, your stomach is the lightest and you feel energetic to walk or work, as the case may be. Also try to keep about three hours gap ( hours is better) between any two meals i.e. between tea, breakfast, lunch dinner or supper. Milk at bedtime may not suit many an Asthma patient. Avoid hyperacidity by consuming proper kind of food as mentioned herein above. Do not stuff yourself with just one kind of dish or the one that you like the most or that may be tasting too good to prompt you for over-eating. Always eat in moderation and take other dishes also along with too tasty or too tempting ones, especially take more of those having plenty of vegetables, salads and fibrous food. In case you get acidity or a burning sensation in the throat or stomach, then suck one small soda mint tablet slowly together with occasional sipping of water in between to make it more effective. Do not rush for specialized medicines containing too much of soda-bicarb or Aluminium and magnesium derivatives, etc. </div> <bR> <div> <B>PHYSICAL EXERCISE:</B> </div> <bR> <div> Pranayaam (yogic breathing) is very good and helpful in many ways. So also synchronized breathing while walking is also very helpful. I had extended this idea of synchronized breathing even while going for a walk with good results. One can start with inhaling for two steps, retaining it for two steps and exhaling smoothly during the next two steps. If you are new to 'pranayaam', start practicing it for half a furlong or say for 100 meter distance of walking and then slowly increasing the distance so covered over the next few days in convenient stages to reach the goal of half a mile or a kilometer or more. The longer the distance, the better, provided, your health permits and you don't force yourself doing it. Surya-namaskaars (an Indian exercise giving all round health benefit) performed in the correct manner with rhythmic breathing is a very good exercise. But that should be done on an empty stomach. After some practice, you will yourself would come to know the rhythm as to when it is more comfortable to inhale and when to exhale doing Surya-namaskaars or while walking. You will also start noticing if the rhythm is followed or is broken due to disturbances or distractions in your thought current. Hence do the Surya-namaskaars or walking slowly inhaling or exhaling at points when you feel more comfortable. Surya-namaskaars may not suit those having backache. Hence, they may take to walking or some other similar exercise not involving bending forward or twisting the body as that might cancel the good effect of ATBSNR exercises. Preferably, backache patients might do ATBSNR as and when they feel like but they must compulsorily do ATBSNR before getting up after sleep or even before getting up after any afternoon or evening nap. Such exercises performed in the correct manner with rhythmic breathing are very helpful in the long run, as rhythmic breathing would then become a way of life for you. After some practice, you would yourself come to know the rhythm as to when it is comfortable to inhale and when to exhale while your exercise or do any thing else. You will also start noticing if the rhythm is followed or is broken due to disturbances or distractions in your thought current. Hence, do the exercises slowly inhaling or exhaling at points when you feel more comfortable. Even doing the exercises, do not think that you are doing an exercise. You can adjust your movements a bit slowly so as not to feel tiresome or breathless at any time. Heart patients should consult their doctor whether their physical condition would permit the exercises that you may decide to do. Always do the exercises on empty stomach, either early morning after morning ablutions or before eating any meal because that is the time your stomach is the lightest. Regular Walks: After meals, a little walk as you may</div> <div> feel comfortable with, is fine as that might lighten the stomach (except for heart patients). Or else, you may just relax for some time reading a newspaper or a good book to allow some time to pass before you take a nap. But, after dinner do not go to sleep immediately. The longer you take time before going to bed in the night, the better you would feel in the long run. Hence, the heart patients should preferably have their walks before meals as explained above and should not go to sleep or lie down after meals for a couple of hours at least.</div> <div> Mental and psychological factors: Do not lose temper under any circumstances as, even without you, the world would continue. You would only hurt yourself, besides creating unpleasantness for others who may be even your near and dear ones. In a calm and composed manner, things are always done better. Pride and Prejudice: Do not hurt the feelings of others unnecessarily as telepathy throws them back to you or between you two persons concerned and it complicates and intensifies bad feelings. Meditation: Whatever faith one may follow, one must do mental concentration or meditation because it has been scientifically proved that most human ailments have psychological origins.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Controlling and/or Curing Asthma.</B></div> <bR> <div> The above-mentioned guidelines on controlling and curing asthma are from my personal experience. Some doctors may not agree, and yet contrary to popular opinion, Asthma can be completely cured. Since I myself had suffered from asthma for around 30 years incapacitating me for weeks together and troubling me almost every night after dinner till late in the night. Yet I got completely cured by following simple changes in my diet and exercise pattern as has been explained above. Now I don't suffer from it any more for the last two decades or more. Hence, it should be possible for asthma patients to cure themselves with simple changes in their lifestyle, diet and exercise. Here are my experiments with asthma so that other patients may be encouraged to try to cure themselves too, instead of giving up hope.</div> <bR> <div> <B>TO SUM UP: </B></div> <bR> <div> 1. Keep away from smoke and fumes that trouble you such as the smoke coming out of fireworks, burning of rubber tyres, garbage and dust clouds when streets are swept and the like. Sometimes inhaling of certain agarbattis (incense sticks) or strong kitchen smells might give trouble.</div> <bR> <div> 2. Avoid going for walks when chilly winds are blowing. Protect yourself properly from cold weather. Morning air is full of pollen, hence it should better</div> <div> be avoided. Some perfumes too might give trouble. </div> <bR> <div> 3. Take dinner three or four hours earlier to your bedtime. Getting up a little late might enable you to avoid the morning chill full of pollen.</div> <bR> <div> 4. Don't over exert to be out of breath. Slow and steady should be the rule while walking or exercising.</div> <bR> <div> 5. Avoid sticky and constipating food. Eat plenty of salads and semi-cooked vegetables. Breakfast should contain mainly of seasonal fruits. Milk too may not suit many patients. So take light tea or coffee. Highly polished rice, 'maida' (refined wheat flour), potatoes and curds or yogurt are constipating.</div> <bR> <div> 6. Avoid hyperacidity by drinking plenty of water to produce about two liters of urine in 24 hours irrespective of the season to keep the kidneys well</div> <div> flushed.</div> <bR> <div> 7. Practice 'pranayaam' (rhythmic yogic practice of breathing) daily and also have synchronized breathing while walking. Start inhaling for two steps, retaining for two steps and exhaling for two steps. After some practice increase to three steps and then four steps if possible but always adjust the count to suit you, that is, for some people, retaining the breath and/or inhaling may be for a step less or so, as one may find comfortable While exercising also, breathe rhythmically. Walking is the best.</div> <bR> <div> 8. Keep yourself composed and don't lose temper.</div> <bR> <div> 9. Do not hurt others physically or mentally as the guilt feelings would give you tension and the hurt would bounce back to you.</div> <bR> <div> 10. Meditation is a good idea. Practice 'fusion yoga' in which the mind, body and the soul merge in meditation. That can be done if you practice ATBSNR with rhythmic breathing and chanting any holy words or mantra that may go well with each step of those exercises. As for example, each of the ATBSNR exercise has three steps that blend with any mantra having three words like "Om Namah Shivaya" for Hindus"; "Allah-O-Akbar" for Muslims; "Bole So Nihaal; Sat Shree Akaal" for Sikhs or "Hale-lue-yah" or any other similar words of Christians and any other faiths.</div> <bR> <div> 11. To sum up, simple food therapy, water therapy and physiotherapy as explained above will rid you of most diseases including asthma.</div> <bR> <div> <B>May God Bless You!</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>