Following are the major asthma symptoms:

- Choked lungs

- Improper breathing

- Congested chest

- Cough

- Inflammation in chest

- Breathing with sound of a whistle

- Thick mucus formation

Don't for Asthma

- Do not eat fried and spicy foods.

- Try to avoid curds and buttermilk as they take long to digest.

- Avoid fruits with high sugar content such as bananas, guavas, apples, etc.

- Do not smoke as for an asthmatic patient, smoking is almost like sounding the death-knell.

- Do not eat foods that are difficult to digest. These include animal products, milk products and pulses.

- Avoid perfumes, deodorants, aftershaves and air fresheners as these can exacerbate the bronchial asthma problem.

- Fish and other sea foods are also a major cause of asthma. Check whether your asthma is due to any marine product. If yes, then avoid that food entirely.

Home Remedies for Asthma

* The patient should perspire through steam bath, hot footbath, hot hipbath and sunbath as this will stimulate the skin and relieve congested lungs.

* The patient should be given garlic cloves boiled in thirty grams of milk daily. Good Home Remedy for asthma.

* Steaming ginger tea with minced garlic cloves should be given twice a day (morning and evening). This asthma remedy is good natural remedy for asthma.

* A teaspoonful of turmeric powder with a glass of milk 2-3 times a day is recommended. It is highly beneficial when taken empty stomach. This remedy is also considered as good home remedies for asthma.

* During the attack mustard oil mixed with little camphor should be massaged over the back of the chest. Effective Home Remedy for asthma.

* The patient should also be made to inhale steam from boiling water mixed with ajwain (caraway seeds). This is one of the simplest asthma treatment.

* 1-2 teaspoonfuls of Spiegel seed with warm water twice a day helps in minimizing asthma attacks and this is considered as effective asthma remedy.

* Take fresh dry grapes with seeds and soak them in 150 grams of water at night. Remove the seeds in the morning and chew them slowly, one by one. In the remaining water add a little sugar and drink it. In a month the lungs will be strengthened and poisonous wastes will be removed from the body.

* Regular chewing of fennel helps expel infected mucous from the chest. Thus, helps in preventing asthma attacks.

* Grind some turmeric (use old turmeric for better results). Mix one teaspoonful of this powder with one tablespoonful of honey (again, the honey must be as old as possible). This is to be taken orally. This recipe is believed to work even when all other methods fail.