Kaua’i asthma sufferers have new options for treatment, using the latest advances in Energy Medicine (EM), said one Kaua’i health professional. EM is one of the new focused areas of research at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for
Kaua’i asthma sufferers have new options for treatment, using the latest advances in Energy Medicine (EM), said one Kaua’i health professional.
EM is one of the new focused areas of research at the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
The NIH states that more than 14 million people in the U.S. have this lung disease. Asthma makes the airways in the lungs inflamed and swollen. Medications are the standard treatment.
Many asthma sufferers experience drug side effects which preclude pharmaceutical therapy, or they no longer respond to drug’s effects, said Joel Holt of the Kaua’i Center for Holistic Medicine and Research in Kapa’a.
EM appears to benefit asthma sufferers by different means than drugs.
Dr. Andrew Weil, dean of the University of Arizona School of Medicine and outspoken proponent of alternative and complementary medicine, recommends, “In general, take as little (asthma) medication as you can. Drugs tend to be suppressive in nature, which perpetuates asthma and reduces the chance that it will disappear on its own.”
EM can be applied without interfering with drug effects, and can lessen drug side effects, Holt said.
Kaua’i resident Cassie Sargent, 19, suffered from asthma since the age of four. “I had been on inhalers and medications for so many years that the medicine wasn’t working well,” she said.
“I am amazed that I can now breathe and work in the summer heat, (normally) my worst time of year,” she said.
“This is the first year I’ve been able to do this without my usual medicine, all after a single (EM) treatment.”
For information on Energy Medicine and asthma, please contact the Kaua’i Center for Holistic Medicine and Research, 823-0994.
