Natural Remedies for Asthma | Effective Home Treatments

From the Book: Miracle Medicine Foods by Rex Adams, p. 21-22,37-43. 1977

In 1948, after years of research, scientists firmly established garlic's "penicillin power, " by isolating various substances in it.

Alliin, the first substance isolated, was effective against the germs that cause salmonella poisoning, dysentery, and the staphylococci germs that cause skin boils and running sores. It was also effective against the streptococci germs that cause scarlet fever, sepsis, diphtheria, erysipelas, inflammation of the lining of the heart (rheumatic fever). Alicin, the other garlic ingredient, fights conjunctivitis (eye infection), putrefaction (food decay in stomach and intestines), typhoid, cholera and TB. But the big point to remember is that garlic is able to combat some germs even penicillin won't touch, like baccillus paratyphoid-A, which creates confusing symptoms like dysentery, "fake influenza, " rheumatism, or kidney complications. Garlic vapors halt germs at a distance of 20 cm! Its germ-killing power remains in the bloodstream for 10 hours!

During World War II, thousands of tons of garlic were purchased by the British government for treating wounds. It had been reported that not one case of septic poisoning or gangrene occurred among those treated! Around this time Albert Schweitzer reportedly used it against typhus, cholera and leprosy. In Malmo, Sweden, during a polio epidemic, out of 1,204 children who took it, not a single case occured. A Japanese doctor reports its effect against gonorrhea!

The only warnings I have ever seen in print with regard to garlic are that it should be cooked** (?)—or diluted—for people with weak constitutions, avoided by those with an allergy to sulfur, and not placed directly on open wounds without being diluted first. The Russians used special containers filled with ground garlic placed directly over an infected wound—even in amputation cases. The vapors alone killed any germs, and soldiers' wounds were cleaned quickly and efficiently!

**This book was written in 1977. Fast forward 50 years and thru laboratory testing we now know that cooking garlic destroys 90% of it's medical value. I suggest steeping garlic in cool water to achieve infusion.

Garlic is reportedly the oldest, safest, and surest remedy for asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory ailments. For centuries, the Chinese, Greeks, and Egyptians all claimed that garlic cured infections of the respiratory tract. Dioscorides, a Greek physician who accompanied the Roman soldiers as their official doctor, in the 2nd century, specified garlic for all lung disorders. Pliny, the 1st century Roman naturalist, maintained that garlic cured consumption (TB). Down through the ages, garlic's reputation as an aid to breathing has persisted.

And this is because of garlic's proven antiseptic, germicidal powers. Grated garlic placed near the most vicious germs will kill them all in 5 minutes! Typhoid, cholera, polio, TB—even leprosy and gonorrhea—have all been stopped dead in their tracks by garlic! Against garlic, cold, flu, virus and allergy germs don't stand a chance!

In addition, the ethers of garlic are so potent and penetrating they dissolve mucus in the sinuses, bronchial tubes, and lungs. As one woman stated: "It was from an herb book that I learned about the wonders of garlic, and cleared up pneumonia congestion in my lungs when antibiotics failed." It is truly Poor Man's Penicillin!

NINETY PERCENT RELIEF REPORTED.

Among the best results that Messegue, the great French herbalist, has achieved are cases of asthma, bronchitis, and other respiratory ailments. Messegue, himself, does not care much for statistics. But one of Messegue's colleagues spent countless hours tabulating the results of Messegue's treatments. For respiratory ailments, the record shows —

Source: *Of Men and Plants by Maurice Messegue, Ibid.

The cure—which involves garlic—was learned from Messegue's father, Camille. "He was successful in his treatment of asthma*" states Messegue, "which in those days could be traced to simpler causes… Nowadays, air, water and food are polluted by chemicals which we then breathe or swallow. My father used to treat asthma with foot-baths. He would drop what he called his macerations into three or four liters of water, and his patients would soak their feet in this for quite a time."(Messegue, Op, cit.)

Why the feet?" you ask. Why not? It doesn't really matter how you take garlic—its penetrative powers are so strong that even when applied to the soles of the feet its odor is exhaled by the lungs, within an hour!

BASIC PREPARATIONS.

(Reprinted with permission of Macmillan Publishing Co., from Of Men and Plants by Maurice Messegue Copyright © 1972 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd. Copyright © 1973 by Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc.)

For allergies, asthma, bronchitis, and emphysema, Messegue uses garlic—in large doses—in combination with other herbs and spices, all available without prescription at most health stores and herbal pharmacies. These applications are for external use only (foot baths, hand soaks, hip compresses) and are not to be eaten, or taken internally. All of Messegue's treatments include the following basic preparations.

Dried roots should be crushed; semi-fresh roots should be grated. Fresh plants should be chopped. Garlic should be crushed. He warns the user to follow the exact dosages given, otherwise the plants give undesirable, and sometimes disagreeable effects.

For foot and hand-baths, boil two quarts of water and allowed to stand for five minutes. Add to this 1/2 pint of crushed or chopped plants and let "macerate" for four or five hours, protected from dust. Then pour into a clean bottle (never use a metal container, he says). The resultant preparation can be used for eight days, without boiling or adding more water.

ALLERGIES

Garlic (one crushed head)

Single seed hawthorn (blossom—-one handful)

Greater celandine (flowers and stems, if possible semi-

fresh—one handful)

Couch-grass (roots—one handful)

Common broom (flowers—one handful)

Sage (leaves—one handful)

Linden (blossom—one handful)

Use in foot and hand-baths.

ASTHMA

Garlic (one large crushed head)

Corn poppy (flowers and capsules—one handful)

Lavender (flowers—one handful)

Ground-ivy (leaves—one handful)

Parsley (leaves—one handful)

Sage (flowers—one handful)

Thyme (flowers—one handful)

Use in foot and hand baths. Messegue advises that since asthma stems from a variety of allergies, you should follow your doctor's advice. While this preparation can bring relief during an attack, it is not necessarily a cure.

BRONCHIAL DISEASES

Garlic (One large crushed head)

Borage (flowers and leaves—one handful)

Cabbage (fresh leaves—one handful) or

Corn poppy (flowers and capsules—one handful)

Watercress (fresh flowers—one bunch)

Sage (flowers—one handful)

Sweet violet (flowers—one handful)

Use in foot and hand baths. In cases of bronchial and pulmonary catarrh, the treatment is the same as above.

EMPHYSEMA

Garlic (one large crushed head)

Single seed hawthorn (blossom—one handful)

Ground-ivy (leaves—one handful)

Sage (flowers and leaves—one handful)

Thyme (leaves—one handful)

Use in foot and hand baths.

REPORTED RESULTS.

On a lecture tour in Morocco, Messegue was challenged by one of the doctors at a medical convention, and offered to treat an asthma patient deemed incurable. The patient was to accompany Messegue back to France—where he would be treated at Messegue's expense—and then returned to be examined by a panel of doctors.

The patient was a hairdresser, Narcose Murciano, father of five children, who was suffering from such severe chronic asthma that work had become impossible. His acute attacks were so serious that the last one had nearly killed him. His case was desperate.

The man was, in fact, so incredibly ill that Messegue thought he was dying. His skin had lost all its elasticity—it stuck together when pinched. "The journey, to France was a nightmare, " Messegue recalls. "The poor wretch had to be so careful not to waste any of what life he still had left that he made not the slightest movement. He even kept his eyes shut.

COMPLETELY CURED.

Two months later I took him back to Casablanca, completely cured, " says Messegue, "and he has had no more attacks to this day... Since then the doctors in Morocco have sent me every asthmatic who has failed to respond to traditional treatment.

CURED IN FIVE DAYS.

In another case a Mr. Peyrot gave this testimony: "I had consulted more than twelve French and Swiss medical practitioners, all capable men, but none of them was able to relieve my attacks of asthma. I was suffocating day and night, and Maurice Messegue cured me in five days.

DOCTOR ADMITS CURE.

Dr. Kreps, a surgeon and professor at Basel University, states: "... it is my duty to tell you that this man (Messegue) cured my own wife, who had always suffered from chronic asthma, against which we were powerless."

HOW GARLIC WORKS TO CUT PHLEGM, AND FIGHT INFECTION.

Here is another testimonial. One of Messegue's patients, a Mr. Glenna, from the southern part of France, states: "I kept getting lung abscesses: as fast as one would heal, another would return The doctors had more than given me up. The last two doctors had told me there was no hope and my wife was already preparing to go into mourning when her sister, who lives in Nice, told her that Mr. Messegue was performing miracles with his plants. I believe in herbs, myself. He gave me poultices and foot-baths, and my doctor in Menton had to admit that I was cured."