Effect of Root Heal Therapy (RHT) on Asthma: A Quincy Experiment
Abstract
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of the airways that affects people of all ages. It may manifest as severe attacks, which can require urgent health care. It causes limitations in daily activities, loss of school and work days, lung function impairment, reduced quality of life, and an adverse socioeconomic burden. There is no cure of asthma, once it is diagnosed it can be managed by a good treatment plan, so that patient can live a better quality of life with the disease. This present study was planned to compare the effect of traditional treatment alone and in combination with Root Heal Therapy on asthma cases. A Quincy experiment was conducted on 60 patients of Asthma, who were taking treatment from a physician working in Jaipuriya Hospital, Jaipur. Out of these 60 asthama patients who were receiving traditional treatment, 30 patients were given this RHT along with traditional treatment. Baseline status of asthma and Asthma Quality of life Questionnaire (AQLQ) was assessed. These cases were followed for 18 months, again they were assessed as per AQLQ. Changes in status of asthma in both the group over this period were compared with Chi-square test and Unpaired 't' test. It was found that significantly more cases were benefited with this RHT in the form of number of spells of asthma, duration of illness due to asthma, mean days of activity loss and proportion of cases needed hospitalization during last one year. Pulmonary Function test were also better in experimental group than control group. Although mean number of eosinofills decrease was also found higher in experimental group but it was not found significant. It is concluded that Quality of life of these asthma cases were significantly improved on physical, emotional, social and occupational domains of life in cases with RHT than the cases only on traditional treatment.
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Introduction
Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of airways that affects people of all ages and imposes a substantial burden on patients, their families, and the community.1 The burden of asthma is immense, with more than 300 million individuals currently suffering from asthma worldwide, about a tenth of those living in India. 1,2 Prevalence of asthma varied from 3-38% in children and 2-12% in adults, 3 being the commonest chronic disorder among children. It may manifest as severe attacks, which can require urgent health care. It causes limitations in daily activities, loss of school and work days, lung function impairment, reduced quality of life, and an adverse socioeconomic burden. About 15 million disability-adjusted life years are lost annually due to asthma, which represents 1% of the total global disease burden.1 There are about 489,000 deaths attributable to asthma annually4 and the majority of deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, particularly Oceania, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.5
Conclusion
It was concluded from this study that not only quality of life was significantly improved but pulmonary functions were also significantly improved with Root Heal Therapy. And total number of asthma spells and number of timed hospitalization due to asthma was also decreased significantly with Root Heal Therapy.
So Root Heal therapy should be tried to better manage asthma cases along with traditional treatment. Further studies are invited to know whether it has some role in tearing out the disease with its root.