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Asthma can be acute or chronic. The common symptoms are chest tightening, wheezing, difficulty in breathing and coughing. The main reason of asthma is still unknown. Asthma attack can be triggered by allergens, viral illness and emotional stress. In most cases, doctors suggest to take inhaler. But you can just try these home remedies to control asthma attack.

Organic Foods That Can Help You to Get Relief:

1. Ginger: Ginger is being used as medicine for years. According to a study, mixing ginger with medicine of asthma, isoproterenol can enhance its bronchodilation effects, which helps the cells of your lungs to relax. This helps to open the respiratory passages.

How to Use:

• You can include it into your daily cooking.
• Add it in boiling water. Then add tea, strain the ginger, drink ginger tea. It is tasty as well as healthy too!
• Boil fenugreek powder in water, mix honey and ginger to it. Drink it once or twice on a daily basis. It will detoxify your lungs.
• Peel off the skin. Slice it and simply chew it with salt.
• Make some ginger juice. Mix it with pomegranate juice and honey. Drink the solution everyday.

Honey: Honey has anti-inflammatory,anti-allergic properties which help you to get relief from asthma by soothing inflamed membrane. It helps to get rid of the phlegm in your throat and thus clears the respiratory system.

How to use:

• Honey and cinnamon both are enriched with anti-oxidants.Mix organic cinnamon paste and honey. Stir it well. Drink it twice or thrice on a daily basis.
• Alternatively, you can mix the honey-cinnamon paste into water and drink it before going to bed to get a nice good night sleep.
• Soak fenugreek seed overnight in water and mix equal quantity of ginger juice and honey.Drink the solution everyday.
• You can take one teaspoon of raw honey whenever possible.

Lemon: Vitamin-c deficiency is a common thing among people who are suffering from asthma attack. It also has vitamins and anti-oxidants. Rather than taking supplements, eat lemon as a whole fruit.

How to use:

Add lemon juice with honey. Drink it in empty stomach. It will help not only asthma, but also other beauty problems too.

Mustard Oil: Mustard oil  works as wonder for asthma patients. It helps to improve blood circulation, which leads to get relief in asthma attacks.

How to use:

• Boil mustard oil for some minutes.When it becomes lukewarm, add a little camphor. Rub the mixture on your chest, palm of hands and feet before going to bed to get effective relief.

Figs: Fig has a high level of sugar and glycemic index. It is rich with antioxidants, which will help you to control asthma.

How to use:

• Boil figs with water.Drink the mixture twice a day.
• Take some dry figs.Soak it overnight with water.Drink the water and eat the fig for some months.

Lavender Oil: You can treat asthma with aromatherapy also. Lavender oil has an anti-inflammatory property that prevents allergic airway inflammation.

How to use:

• You can mix some drops of lavender oil with water and take the steam.
• Put some drops of lavender oil on a handkerchief. Take the smell whole day.

Turmeric: The herb can effectively deal with asthma since it has curcuminoids. It can clear the airways and thus keeps the respiratory system clear of phlegm.

How to use:

Take lukewarm milk and add turmeric powder in it.Drink it every before going to sleep.

• Burn the turmeric red hot and inhale the smell.It works as an expectorant.
• Mix turmeric powder, black pepper powder and mustard oil.Make a paste.Lick it in the morning.

Ajwain: Not only indigestion, our very own ajwain or carom seed can help to control asthma too.It works as a bronchodilator and helps to dilute the bronchial tubes of our lung.

How to use:

• Make a mixture by hitting ajwain with jaggery powder. Eat it for some month.

• Drink buttermilk by mixing it with half teaspoon of ajwain to get faster relief.

Also you can try organic medicine too. It has mix of herbs which helps to treat asthma.

These are some remedies that helped most of the people with asthma. Since the reason of asthma is still unknown, so you should try trial and error method to get relief from asthma. If you are allergic to any of the foods mentioned above, do not try it.

These are remedies, not treatment. So you should not stop taking medicines that your doctor has prescribed. It can make your asthma condition worse.