Dr Blackie has treated at least sixty cases of asthma with varying success over the years and here she discusses a series of cases divided into children, adults with a family history and adults without a family history. Among the children's cases is a seven year old girl with a history of bronchitis since infancy and asthma since the age of five. She was initially proscribed Tuberculinum bovinum 200 on which she improved for four months but subsequently her condition worsened and repeat prescriptions of the remedy were not effective, however Spongia tosta 6 was administered in 6 doses at two-hourly intervals and helped to keep wheezing at night in check. Over the next two years, Arsenicum album, Carbo vegetabilis, Sambucus, Ipecacuanha, and Antimonium tartaricum were prescribed with varying success but the patient had still not overcome her asthma to a degree which would be regarded as successful. Then, after a particularly bad attack, Natrum sulphuricum 10M was prescribed on the basis of the symptoms of breathlessness, holding on to her chest at intervals and sensation of a lack of air in the chest, and this prescription was very effective, giving almost complete relief for two winters. Dr Blackie discusses a further three cases of children who were treated with Tuberculinum bovinum, Psorinum, Thuja occidentalis, Pulsatilla, Sambucus and Phosphoric acid. She goes on to discuss adults with a family history of asthma for whom Kalium sulphuratum and Carbo vegetabilis were effective, and adults without any family history or any allergic condition for whom Phosphorus and Cactus grandiflorus worked well.

Dr Bodman discusses in detail three remedies which he has found to be useful in the treatment of asthma - Ipecacuanha, Phosphorus and Pulsatilla - and refers to some of the masters of homoeopathy in describing their drug pictures. He describes Ipecacuanha as the remedy for the attack of sudden onset - the Type I of hypersensitivity in asthma, whereas Phosphorus is related to Type III hypersensitivity where the reaction is delayed. The author has used Pulsatilla in acute attacks as well as as a constitutional remedy during the intervals between attacks. He illustrates Pulsatilla's wide range of action by relating the case of a patient who developed asthma after using a washing powder and was cured by Pulsatilla 30. A similar outbreak of asthma among the workers of a washing powder factory had been investigated and the asthma was shown to be of both the immediate and delayed hypersensitivity types.

The author present a clinical case of 3 years old child having frequent cough and cold : constipation and asthma. Aggravation in rainy season and change of weather. She had chicken pox. Throughout the pregnancy her mother had dreams of water especially when she became depressed. Considering the rubrics of dreams of water, the author prescribed only one drug valeriana 30. On follow up, she has not had a single attack of asthma up until the present time.