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This
article follows the ideas of Bernoville, Vannier etc in France.
It is stated that an asthmatic is an intoxicated subject, who
seeks, by means of a violent and spasmodic crisis, to elimiated
the toxins which oppress him. These crises are met with in some
patients whose nervous systems are in a state of exaggerated
excitability. Treatment of asthma must be chronic, and will
be 1) Symptomatic 2) Constitutional 3) Causal. Symptomatic treatment
will relieve but will not cure and then more deeply-acting remedies
must be used after the attack. Constitutional treatment needs
patients to be divided into three types - oxygenoids, hydrogenoids
and carbo-nitrogenoids. Remedies are given for each type. Causal
treatment may require Lueticum, Tuberculinum, Medorrhinum, Psorinum
and autotherapy. Other factors such as diet, climate or surgery
could be considered also.
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