Review Article
Year: 2021 | Month: March | Volume: 8 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 107-129
An Attempt to Reverse Bio-Engineer Asthma by Homeopathic Tinctures: A Review
Nealratan Agarwala
Dr Agarwala Medical, 21 Rabindra Sarani Liluah Howrah - 711204, WB, India.
ABSTRACT
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease condition characterized by a reversible obstruction of the airway, the airway hyper responsiveness (AHR), infiltration of the inflammatory cells, hyper secretion of mucus, and remodeling of the airway. It affects almost 300 million individuals worldwide, with the prevalence ranging from 1% to 18% of the population in different countries. A variety of the immune cells, structure cells in the lung, chemokines, cytokines, adhesion molecules, and the signaling pathways, all of which contributes to the asthmatic pathogenesis. Although standardized therapeutics such as inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) in combination with long acting β2 agonist (LABA) have been used to control asthma symptoms, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) including Homeopathy is still common all over the world. A survey involving 7685 individuals, aged 55 or older with asthma was recently performed in USA, and it showed that adult asthmatic population was frequently using Homeopathy including CAM with as much as 40% using some or other type of CAM.
Based on these facts that CAM including Homeopathy is widely used in asthma control, increasing basic or clinical studies have been conducted to investigate the molecular mechanisms or clinical applications of Homeopathic medicines for asthma therapy. Given the fact that asthma pathogenesis is very complex, the roles and effective targets of these Homeopathic medicines in asthma therapy are also very complicated.
In general, basic researches are all trying to separate effective monomers from the Homeopathic tinctures for asthma study, while most clinical researches still only focus on their efficacy for the patients using an intact traditional formula. We will shed a light on the major achievements of them, respectively, in this manuscript.
Keywords: Asthma, Homeopathy, Natural, Plants, Tincture, Protocol, Inflammation, Airway remodeling.
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