1. Your current asthma treatment should at least dramatically reduce your asthma symptoms if not eliminate them completely. Why settle for anything less?

2. Your current asthma treatment should eliminate your asthma symptoms without causing any annoying or even dangerous side effects. After all, you are using this treatment to get healthier. Why would you want to risk getting something worse than your asthma?

3. Your current asthma treatment should not be too expensive. And we are not just talking about the cost of the treatment. What about the doctor and emergency room visits that you still go to because your treatment isn't working very well? And what about the missed days of work or school? Add these into the cost of this treatment also.

4. Your current asthma treatment should only be temporary. If this treatment doesn't have a reasonable point in time when you will be able to stop it, what is the whole point of the treatment to begin with?

5. Your current asthma treatment should heal the damage done to your lungs and airways once it stops you from having any more asthma attacks. After all, don't you want to be completely healthy again?

Prescription asthma medications are the treatment of choice for most doctors. So let's compare that treatment to the five things on our list.

1. Prescription asthma medications do not eliminate your asthma symptoms. In fact most people need to be on two different types of meds to get some partial relief from their symptoms.

2. All prescription asthma medications have side effects, many of them dangerous and some of them even increase your chance of death.

3. Anybody taking these meds knows how expensive they are and the price keeps going up. And since they don't eliminate your symptoms you still spend time at your doctor's office along with some emergency room visits thrown in.

4. When prescription meds are your treatment of choice, you will have to take them for the rest of your life. They make no attempt to cure your asthma and and your symptoms will come right back if you stop taking them.

5. These meds don't cure your asthma so no healing of your lungs and airways can take place. In fact, the damage will continue to get worse from your continuing asthma attacks.

So if your current asthma treatment is prescription medications, it failed every one of the five items on our list.

If your current asthma treatment is not meeting those five items on that list, then you might want to consider one of the natural asthma cures that so many people have switched to. The majority of these people are now living a life free of asthma symptoms or are well on their way to being there.