Energy medicine viewpoint

• Problem – hot or cold type asthma
• Solution - clear the heat, remove the cold, increase oxygen flow, lung exercises

Emotional healing viewpoint

• Problem- smother love. Inability to breathe for one’s self. Feeling stifled. Suppressed crying.
• Solution - create a new thought pattern “It is safe now for me to take charge of my own life. I choose to be free.”

Nutritional view

• Problem – trapped mental and emotional stress; allergies
• Solution - stress reducing techniques such as meditation, breathing exercises, heart math solution; allergy testing

Food as medicine viewpoint

• Apricots -moisten and strengthen the lungs, ease asthma
• Ginkgo biloba – sweet, bitter herb that can be added to soup to help people with asthma
• Kelp - soothes the lungs and eases asthma
• Persimmons – moisten the lungs easing the coughing and wheezing of asthma 
• Walnuts – good for the lungs of asthmatics as they are both warming and calming, which helps ease coughing and wheezing