Soothing Asthma Technique

A brief Into to the background of the technique

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1. Soothing Asthma Technique Emergency First Aid, Care for Self or others experiencing breathing difficulty
2. Dr. Prof. Elaine A. Hunter Lifetime Member Medicina Alternativa Sri Lanka Member King Buddhadasa Fellowship-- FRCP (Fellow Royal Complementary Practioners)
3. In February, 2011 I attended the funeral of Tim, Cut down in the prime of life, 38 years old, By a severe asthma attack. There was no one there to help him. In addition he was far from any hospital or emergency room. This was in south central Kentucky.
4. This presentation is dedicated to Tim as a memorial. He probably could have saved himself from dying if he had known this simple first aid technique for asthma with hope that it will saves lives in the future. It saved mine 4 times. More on that later.
5. Do you know of people who died from acute asthma attack? Do people usually have an asthma attack in a doctor's office? In the emergency room? Or elsewhere?
6. A report released this year by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services shows rates of adult and childhood asthma in Kentucky are higher than the national average.
7. Allow me to introduce:
8. Some powerful first aid/care of the self for the new Millennium
9. A simple technique easy to learn easy to do for emergency first aid/care of the self or others experiencing breathing difficulties.
10. It is a no-needle method of auricular therapy/reflexololgy (ear acupuncture/acupressure), highly effective and quick acting.
11.  No special equipment is needed.  Many people know of CPR  This is not CPR. It is far easier to learn, to do and should become widely known for use in emergency situations.  It can be taught to children.
12. Change of diet required? No, this is a separate issue. Better housekeeping required? No, this is a separate issue, also.
13. First though let's talk about Auricular therapy Ears are easy to access and look a bit like sea shells. Nearly everybody has them! Ears are abundantly supplied with nerves to the rest of the body.
15. Auricular Therapy is mostly used as acupuncture, electro-therapy or cold (red) laser therapy to well-established points in the ear. It is used in a way that both locates where the problem is and uses that point for relief.
16. Example: if someone has pain in the sciatic region, there is a point for that and the point will be very tender to pressure (acupressure) or an electro-detector/stimulator. I've used this point on myself and it worked very well and quickly.
17. Definitely a “No-Pain-No-Gain” situation. But, the small pain in the ear compared to the big pain in the back?
18. On the internet one can find many references to auricular therapy. One especially good one is Terry Oleson's book, now in its third edition. Plus his very thorough charts. An early researcher/publisher on the subject in the Western world is Paul Nogier, a Frenchman.
19. Acupressure can be used to obtain rapid satisfactory results. There are several ear point I call one-point wonders in the ear and the point for Soothing Asthma Technique is one of them.
20. I have used this technique with complete confidence on myself multiple times. It did indeed work rapidly to relieve my unprecedented severe attacks around the age of 57. I've had no attacks since then (12 years) and have had no other treatment for it.