Recent advances in asthma control

One aspect to highlight is the need for quick attention by specialists. Any delay in addressing asthma attacks in all ages, could mean a worsening of the disease process.

The information here provided on the use of medicinal plants and products derived from them, in asthmatics does not attempt to promote self treatments, but to support physicians and patients about the potential of medicinal plants.

There is scientific evidence showing an increasingly blunt about the effectiveness of chemicals in plants of different mechanisms for the development of asthma attacks. Leukotriene antagonists and prostaglandins synthesis, substances that interfere with the recipients of allergens that trigger allergic reactions, plant substances that diminish the hyper-reactivity of the bronchial epithelium and a few more shares.

These findings not only demonstrate the existence of evidence for the traditional use of many plants, but should be the starting point for the industrial development of products based on medicinal plants. For many countries this can mean at least a technological independence and a reduction in costs of health care.

For example, it is demonstrated that quercetin, present in great amounts in the onion skin (Allium cepa), has a potent anti-inflammatory activity, through several inflammation processes, including these that highlights the regulation of T
lymphocytes, important in the body immune responses.