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To: Drew Williams who wrote (1873)	7/14/2000 10:35:46 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 12232

*OT asthma* Drew, change your diet and environment! Go to where you are not allergic to whatever is irritating your lungs. Throw out your house-mite infested carpet [that's about all I need to do for clear lungs and no hayfever]. Get clean air! Then, change to a diet of water, rice, cabbage, carrots and fish [assuming those don't irritate you, which they probably don't] and little else for a while, see if you breathe easily, then add stuff very gradually. I lived with asthma for three decades, unnecessarily I now know. NZ has a very high rate of asthma, I think due to wool carpets. Maoris have very high asthma rates and I bet it's not because they are Maori but because they are generally poorer so generally have older carpets - when you don't have a lot of money, you make do with older things. House mites are about the most common ashthma cause. I had an injection once to get me breathing after a specially bad episode - it worked amazingly, in seconds going from nearly suffocating to clear breathing. But I prefer to be free of it than have treatment for it. I first figured out I don't have to have asthma when we went travelling and I had four years with no hay fever and no asthma. The instant we arrived back in NZ, sneezing started. Immune systems seem to be very tricky things. Just some thoughts which might help hunt down your attackers and internal chemistry problems. Good luck, Mqurice PS: Another way is to change your parents, but that's usually too hard. Maybe there is a consolation = people with sensitive lungs don't inhale cigarette smoke and other carcinogens so much [because they can't stand muck in their lungs]. Also, maybe they have supersensitive, over-reactive immune systems so get less cancer [I have no idea whether that's true] because their immune system goes berserk at the slightest provocation. Like most things about people, our chemistry is a balance between conflicting demands. A bit like sickle-cell DNA is great for avoiding malaria, but a real downer in malaria-free areas where half the children have sickle-cell anaemia with no compensating advantage for their siblings. Any Quacks out there who have the real oil? I suppose asking It[tm] would be a good move.