Re: herbs

[Guest guest]

I love the idea of herbs, but I am concerned about allergies (since I

am an extremely allergic person).

I guess it would be difficult to assess -- but what herbs might be on

the safer side for an allergic person??

d.

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> >

> > Has anyone had any positive results with herbs? If so, what

> herbs?

> >

> > I'm having a very low level of asthma lately, after having had it

> under

> > control for years. If I could get it back under control without

> > resorting to either getting rid of the dog (or, more importantly,

> > walking the dog in the weedy park she likes...) or full-time drug

> use

> > that would be nice.

> >

> > I have had trouble in the past with most of the standard drug-based

> > therapies. Theophylline worked well for me, but I hardly slept at

> all

> > while I was using it. I had severe rebound effects from albuterol;

> > actually inhalers in general irritate my airways and are therefore

> a

> > mixed blessing. Finding a doctor who believes me that albuterol

> isn't

> > a magic cure could take a lot of doctor visits and cost a fortune.

> > I've already had lots of allergy shots, wasted enough time on

> doctors

> > who can't diagnose asthma (even though I've had it for 50 years) if

> I'm

> > not having an attack the day I go see them, and had an exessive

> number

> > of chest X-rays because of doctors intent on looking for new, more

> > interesting problems. I already know what my allergens and other

> > triggers are and watch out for them (with the notable exception of

> > walking the dog).

> >

> > Full-time steroid use might work, but for the moment that would be

> like

> > using a sledgehammer to swat a fly.

> >

> > Any ideas involving harmless herbs?

> >

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