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2005-11-25

Asthma, Indians and Breathing

George Catlin an American artist traveled thousands of miles from 1830 to 1836 following the trail of the Lewis and Clark expedition. Catlin visited 50 Indian tribes living west of the Mississippi River from present day North Dakota to Oklahoma.

During his years of association with Indian , he concluded that one of the main causes of ailments affecting civilized peoples is their habit of breathing through the mouth.

The Indian child, he observed was never allowed to sleep with its mouth open. The mother always pressed the baby’s lips together as soon as it fell asleep, to form a lasting habit. So, when the child grew, sleeping or waking, it kept its mouth shut. Mr. Catlin claimed this habit was the reason why native races of North and South America used to enjoy such good physical perfection and escape so many of the diseases of civilized communities. Among millions of natives, he never saw or heard of a hunchback or crooked spine, or an idiot or lunatic and premature death was also uncommon.

“Perfect sleep”  he said, “Cannot be obtained with the mouth open”. Contrast the natural repose of the Indian child, educated to keep its lips closed, with the uncomfortable slumbers of the child of civilization, with its little mouth wide open and gasping for breath. The firmly shut mouth, too, promotes good looks, for whoever saw an open mouth that was attractive?

So, what does all this have to do with Asthma?

Plenty…breathing is important for asthma control and overall health.  It is plain that nostrils are for breathing, and are the natural outlet of the lungs. The sides of the air passages are lined with hairs which, to some degree, prevent ingress of noxious matters. You are healthier if you breathe through the nose. 

It should also be noted that, by drawing our breath only through the nostrils, the air is warmed by contact with the membranes before it reaches the lungs, and so inflammation and congestion of these organs are avoided.

Some other strategies for Asthma:

Alfalfa Tea (Medicago sativa):  will relieve the difficult breathing of a person suffering from asthma
Honeycomb:  Chew a piece of honeycomb to relieve the stuffy feeling of allergy and to help breathing.
Hops: Lying on a small pillow filled with Hops (Humulus spp.) will one breathe more easily.
Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) will relieve symptoms of asthma
Jimson Weed: Smoke the leaves of jimson weed or stramonium (Datura stramonium) to relieve asthma.
Jimson Weed(Datura stramonium and Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)  The symptoms of asthma are relieved by smoking a mixture of these leaves, The leaves are dried, crumbled, mixed and smoked in a pipe several times a day and just before retiring.
Mullein (Verbascum thapsus): Leaves are made into a tea which is drunk for asthma and into a poultice which is applied to the chest for breathing problems.

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Did you know the following celebrities have asthma? Beethoven, was also deaf as well as having asthma; Olympic Gold Medalist Jeanette Bolden and Nancy Hogshead both have asthma, as well as double Gold Medalsit Jackie Joyner-Kersey; Writer Truman Capote had asthma as well as suffering from epilepsy; US Presidents suffering with ashtma include:  30th Calvin Coolidge,  35th  John F Kennedy, 8th Martin VanBuren, 28th Woodrow Wilson; Olympic Gold & Silver Medalist Bruce Davidson, Baseball Hall of Fame Pitcher Bob Gibson, Che Guevera S. American Revolutionaly Leader,and NFL Football Player Art Monk all have asthma.


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