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Chronic Asthma

We have compiled 7 questions about chronic asthma — Can herbal treatment reduce inhaler use in bronchial asthma · Can bronchiectasis be treated at a Korean medicine clinic · How does Korean medicine treat chronic bronchitis and COPD

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Chronic Asthma

Q. Bronchial asthma — can I reduce inhaler use with herbal treatment?

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Yes, herbs reducing bronchial hypersensitivity and inflammation can gradually lower inhaler frequency. Don't stop on your own; taper in stages.

📝 Detailed Answer

There is something to say first of all. Please do not reduce or stop your inhaler on your own.

Asthma inhalers are of two kinds. The controller (steroid class) is medication used daily to lower airway inflammation, and the reliever is medication used during an attack. If you stop the daily controller, airway inflammation progresses even though things look fine on the surface.

What Korean medicine treatment does is not to replace that but to help in the direction of reducing the frequency of attacks and making you suffer less worsening after a cold. We look together at whole-body conditions such as stamina, digestion and sleep.

Adjusting the inhaler dose is judged at a respiratory medicine clinic, looking at lung function tests and symptoms. It is not a part for us to decide. Discussing it with them after you have improved is the order.

Hyo-seop Kim

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Hyo-seop Kim

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