Definitions for cardiac asthma, bronchitic asthma, and acute and chronic bronchial asthma are given. Attacks of acute or episodal bronchial asthma occur suddenly and end suddenly. Also the whole episode runs for only a few years, frequently in young people. This condition can be taken as an active phase of roused up latent psora. Treatment is with acute remedies and anti-psoric remedies such as Sulphur, Psorinum or Graphites. Chronic bronchial asthma patients have a more or less constant wheeze with occasional paroxysms, cough and frequent recurrent attacks of bronchitis. Antisycotic remedies such as Kali sulphuricum, Medorrhinum, Sepia and nosodes, mainly Bacillinum, should be considered. Etiological factors that are often met with in episodal bronchial asthma are psoric skin eruptions and various nervous manifestations of psoric origin. In all other types of asthma etiological factors that are often found are sycosis or psora-sycosis in the form of warts, psoriasis, eczema, neoplasms, rheumatism, mucopurulent discharges and forms of mental aberrations. Only occasionally is there evidence of syphilitic miasm.

The author practices in Jerusalem where allergies are frequent. She avoids prolonged use of conventional asthma drugs, especially B2 agonists. She uses allergy avoidance, dietary restrictions such as no chocolate or red colorants and sometimes cow's milk, physiotherapy to aid movement of bronchial mucus, clearing out of the nasal cavities and homoeopathy. She finds that homoeopathic drugs are much more effective in respiratory disease than conventional medicines. She prescribes on physical and etiological symptoms. She prescribes Ipecuanha 7CH most frequently, which permits rapid reduction in dosage of B2 agonists. In a double-blind study it was shown that immediately after taking Ipecuanha 7CH there is usually a small bronchiospasm detected by functional respiratory tests.

This is not at all harmful and can be explained in 2 ways, whereas some conventional drugs are beneficial to start with but later provoke a bronchial constriction with a not negligible risk of death.

This paper was presented at All India Conference of Federation of Homoeopathic Physician, Calcutta on 14th 15th January 1984. There are successful practitioners of Homoeopathy who treat asthma on the lines of Keynote prescription with anti-sycotic remedies like Nat. Sulph.;Thuja and Medorrhinum. Unless this type of prescription on thetotality of symptoms, the diseases cannot be cured according to homoeopathic definition of the word. The author pointed out an experiment which was done on an isolated frog's heart perfured with saline solution containing a small quantity of combination powder . He urged the teaching staff of homoeopathic colleges to repeat this experiments and report the results. The author has reviewed the various papers on asthma written by well known renowned Homoeopathic and allopathic physicians