Asthma: The Complete Guide to Integrative Therapies

by Jonathan Brostoff and Linda Gamlin

A comprehensive program to help asthma sufferers identify their triggers, make changes in their environment, diet, and lifestyle, and reduce their dependence on drugs. - Evaluates the full range of therapies, including acupuncture, herbalism, massage, yoga, and breathing exercises, as well as standard pharmaceuticals. - By the authors of the bestselling Food Allergies and Food Intolerance . - Provides special advice for parents with asthmatic children...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892819324
• ISBN13: 9780892819324
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Healing Arts Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This book is a life saver!!

I am an allergy sufferer who recently developed asthma and anaphalyxis (a severe life threatening condition where your airway may be come obstructed and your blood pressure dramatically drops). After suffering 7 anaphalactic episodes in a week and a half (which required calling 911 and one hospital admission) I decided to pick up this book. My doctors couldn't figure out the trigger for these episodes, but this book had the answers. After reading the chapter that deals with food allergies that trigger asthma and anaphalyxis, we discovered that some of the foods I had eaten had sulfur dioxide as a preservative. I knew I was allergic to sulfa drugs, but it never occurred to me to look for sulfur in foods. I have become an avid label reader since. This book also offers insight on avoiding and removing asthma triggers, as well as how to recognize and treat an on-set of an asthma attack. I can't say enough good things for this book. Do yourself and your doctor a favor--get this book!!

Surveys and evaluates all manner of asthma therapies

Jonathan Brostoff, M.D. and biochemist Linda Gamlin bring together their extensive expertise on evolutionary biology, the immune system, integrative medicine, and allergies therapies to present the non-specialist general reader with a clear, accessible, comprehensive guide to all aspects of on of today's most common and widespread health problems in Asthma: The Complete Guide To Integrative Therapies. This exhaustive tome surveys and evaluates all manner of asthma therapies ranging from common pharmaceuticals to alternative medicine approaches. The authors include a step-by-step program to help asthma sufferers identify triggers and make healthful changes. Special advice is provided parents with asthmatic children for the purpose of helping families insure those children live happier, healthier lives. Of special note is the information provided expectant parents with asthma to reduce their risk of their unborn child in acquiring this respiratory affliction. Asthma: The Complete Guide To Integrative Therapies is simply the best guide currently available to asthmatics and their families.