Asthma is a long term condition affecting children and adults where air passages in lungs narrow due to inflammation and tightening of muscles around respiratory airway making it difficult to breathe. Common symptoms include shortness of breath, pain in chest, wheezing sounds during breathing, trouble sleeping. Symptoms are intermittent and often worsen at night. Triggering of symptoms and intensity of attack vary from person to person like exposure to cold, dust, smoke, fumes, tree pollen, perfumes.
Asthma is caused due to imbalanced Kapha and Pitta dosha with symptoms like wheezing, coughing, fever and irritability. Vitiated Kapha increases in the body lodges in the lungs and alveoli resulting in blockages and improper oxygen supply.
