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12 conditions we keep a page for
Ayurvedic treatment for respiratory and breathing disorders
Breathing is the one system where people are most willing to trade a proven treatment for an unproven one, because inhalers feel like dependence and a course of herbs feels like freedom. So the twelve pages below say plainly what a plan at Aksa changes and what it does not. Your prescribed inhalers, antibiotics and TB treatment continue exactly as written — what we work on alongside them is the mucus, the trigger load, the digestion, the fitness and the number of bad days you have in a year.
Long-standing cough, wheeze, allergy and recurrent chest infections are what a plan here is genuinely for. Sudden breathlessness at rest, blue lips, an inability to finish a sentence, oxygen below 92%, coughing blood, or a fever with chest pain is emergency care — go now, and let us know afterwards so the plan can be built around it.
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What we treat under respiratory care
Each of these has its own page — symptoms, the Ayurvedic reading of the condition, what treatment looks like and the questions patients ask before they book.
Allergic Rhinitis
Bouts of sneezing, a runny or blocked nose and watery eyes on exposure to dust, pollen, cold air or strong smells. This is the condition in the group that responds best, and the one most often undertreated for years.
Read this pageSinusitis
Pressure over the forehead, cheeks and around the eyes, thick discharge, reduced smell and a headache that is worse on bending forward. Recurrent episodes are usually a drainage and allergy problem, not a series of antibiotics.
Read this pageChildhood Asthma
Wheeze, cough and chest tightness in children and young adults, often worst at night, on running, or when the weather turns. Managed as a long-term condition, with the preventer inhaler staying exactly where the pulmonologist put it.
Read this pageBronchitis
A cough that outstays the cold, with phlegm, chest heaviness and fatigue. Acute bronchitis is usually viral and settles; a cough running through three winter seasons is a different question and needs spirometry.
Read this pageChronic Laryngitis
Hoarseness, a raw voice, throat clearing and voice fatigue. Reflux, voice strain and post-nasal drip are the common causes — but hoarseness past two to three weeks in a smoker is scoped before it is treated.
Read this pageInfluenza
Fever, body aches, sore throat, dry cough and an exhaustion that often outlasts the fever by a week. Care here is supportive and aimed at recovery; breathlessness, or a fever that returns after settling, is reassessed the same day.
Read this pageCOPD
Persistent breathlessness and cough from years of smoking, biomass smoke or occupational dust. The airway damage is not reversed by anything; the goal is fewer exacerbations, better tolerance and less breathlessness on a normal day.
Read this pageTuberculosis
Cough beyond two to three weeks, fever in the evening, night sweats and weight loss. TB is cured by the four-drug government regimen, free under Nikshay — our role is supportive only, alongside it and never instead of it.
Read this pagePneumonia
Fever with a productive cough, sharp chest pain, fast breathing and low oxygen. This is acute medicine and needs antibiotics, sometimes oxygen and admission. What we handle is the tired, breathless recovery afterwards.
Read this pagePleurisy
A sharp, stabbing pain that worsens exactly when you breathe in, often after an infection. The pain is not the diagnosis — the cause behind it is, and that has to be found before anything is treated.
Read this pagePulmonary Edema
Fluid in the lungs causing sudden air hunger, often with orthopnoea and pink frothy sputum. Almost always a heart problem and an emergency; it is listed here so the distinction is unmistakable.
Read this pagePneumothorax
Air that has leaked into the space around the lung, giving one-sided chest pain and abrupt breathlessness. It is drained or aspirated in an emergency department. Supportive care belongs to the recovery and to the recurrence question.
Read this page
Not sure which page is yours? Browse all 160 conditions or send the report to a physician.
How a breathing plan is built at Aksa
In respiratory medicine the history is worth more than any single test, and the details that matter are boring: how many pillows, how many reliever puffs a week, which room of the house, who smokes in it. Nothing is prescribed before that is on the table.
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You share your details
Name, number, the main complaint, your age, whether you smoke or are exposed to smoke at home, and every inhaler or tablet you are currently on. A care coordinator calls you back, tells you what to bring and books you with the right physician.
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The appointment is confirmed
At the Model Town or Burari clinic, or on a video consultation for an allergy, cough or follow-up question. Bring every report you already have — spirometry, chest X-ray, blood work — with the date on it, and bring the inhalers themselves.
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History, examination and a breathing check
Symptom pattern day and night, triggers, sputum, fevers, weight, night sweats, TB contact, reflux, sinus and allergy background, occupation, incense and mosquito-coil use, childhood wheeze and family history. Then chest auscultation, oxygen saturation, pulse rate and, where the clinic has it, a peak-flow reading.
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A plan, and the tests that settle it
Herbal medicines chosen for your presentation, a written food and routine plan, a trigger-avoidance list for your actual home rather than an ideal one, breathing practice taught as exercise, and the specific tests still outstanding — with what each one would change.
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Reviews on symptoms, not on a course length
Followed with a symptom and reliever-use diary, and repeat spirometry where asthma or COPD is in question. Your chest physician's doses are never changed by us. If a plan is not reducing your bad days by the review date, that is reported and the direction changes.
What the physician reads
- Breathlessness: on walking, on stairs, on bending, lying flat, waking at night gasping
- Cough: dry or productive, the hour it worsens, how much sputum, what colour, any blood in it
- Wheeze and chest tightness, and what reliably brings them on
- How many reliever puffs a week, and how many courses of oral steroids or antibiotics in a year
- Inhaler names, doses, technique, adherence — and whether a spacer is used
- Smoking and vaping: pack-years, quitting attempts, and everyone else who smokes in your home
- The house itself: damp, mould, carpets, pets, incense and dhoop, mosquito coils, cooking fuel and ventilation
- Occupation and exposure — dust, cement, grain, chemicals, soldering, construction
- Nasal symptoms: sneeze bouts, alternate blockage, smell, snoring, mouth breathing, post-nasal drip
- Fever pattern, night sweats, weight loss, and any TB contact in the family, building or workplace
- Childhood history: eczema, wheeze, tonsils and adenoids, school and sports attendance
- Reflux, throat clearing and voice use, especially in teachers and speakers
- Other conditions and medicines — diabetes, thyroid, heart disease, blood pressure, painkillers, beta-blockers
Your reports, in plain language
Respiratory paperwork is unusually readable once you know what each test is actually looking at. Bring the report with its date — a chest X-ray from before your current episode describes a different chest.
- Spirometry with bronchodilator reversibility
- How much air you can blow out and how fast, and whether the narrowing opens after a reliever. It is the test that separates asthma from COPD and from a habit cough, and the reason a diagnosis should not rest on symptoms alone.
- Peak flow readings and diary
- Day-to-day variability in asthma, and whether your control is drifting before you feel it. Cheap, done at home, and far more informative than a single clinic reading.
- Chest X-ray (PA view)
- Pneumonia, fluid or air around the lung, cavitation and fibrosis suggestive of TB, heart size, and masses. Often the first test that changes the entire direction.
- Complete blood count with differential
- Eosinophils point at allergic and asthmatic inflammation, white cells at active infection, haemoglobin at how much oxygen your blood can carry. A normal count does not exclude asthma.
- Total IgE and allergen testing (blood panel or skin prick)
- Which specific allergens are driving rhinitis, allergic cough or asthma — dust mite, pollen, mould, cockroach, pet dander. It converts a vague allergy history into a concrete avoidance list.
- Sputum examination, culture and sensitivity
- Whether a productive cough is bacterial and which antibiotic it is sensitive to. Also the specimen used for AFB smear, GeneXpert/CBNAAT and TB drug-sensitivity when TB is suspected.
- Oxygen saturation, and arterial blood gas when indicated
- How well the lungs are actually exchanging gas. A low saturation is not something to manage at home, and it is the number that decides admission.
- CT thorax / HRCT
- Bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, small cavities, nodules and the detail a X-ray cannot resolve. Ordered when the picture does not fit a simple diagnosis, not routinely.
- Nasal endoscopy and CT sinuses
- Polyps, a deviated septum, enlarged turbinates, and which sinus ostia are blocked. This is what turns recurrent sinusitis from a repeat prescription into a structural question.
- Flexible laryngoscopy (ENT)
- The vocal cords themselves — nodules, reflux changes, and the lesion that must not be missed. Any hoarseness persisting beyond two to three weeks, particularly in a smoker, needs this before any treatment.
- ECG, echocardiogram and NT-proBNP
- Whether the heart is behind the breathlessness, the pleural fluid or the fluid in the lungs. Cardiac causes are common, treatable, and missed when every chest complaint is assumed to be asthma.
- Blood sugar, HbA1c and thyroid profile
- The metabolic background that makes infections recurrent and recovery slow, and the thyroid problem that can present as breathlessness, hoarseness or a goitre pressing on the airway.
None of these is ordered as a package. A test is asked for when the answer would change the plan — and we will tell you which ones you already have that are still valid, instead of making you pay for them twice.
What Ayurveda can do here — and what it cannot
Two claims cause most of the harm in this field: that herbs can replace an inhaler, and that TB can be cured outside the government regimen. Both are false, both have killed people, and the honest version of what we do is here so you can judge any clinic against it — including ours.
What a plan here is for
- Cutting the frequency and severity of allergic rhinitis and sinus flares, and the sneeze-cold-cough cycle that follows them
- Loosening and reducing phlegm, and easing the morning chest heaviness and throat clearing that goes with it
- Fewer symptom days and fewer triggered episodes in well-controlled asthma, by removing the triggers that were never addressed
- Building breath tolerance in COPD and post-infection breathlessness — pacing, breathing practice, nutrition and deconditioning
- Shortening the tired, low-appetite recovery after flu, bronchitis or pneumonia, once the acute treatment has been given
- Supportive care alongside full TB treatment for appetite, weight, energy and the liver — with the regimen itself untouched
- Voice recovery in strain-related and reflux-related hoarseness, after structural causes have been excluded
- A written trigger- and exposure-plan for the home you actually live in: smoke, damp, incense, coils, cooking fumes, pets
- Clear referral timing, including which findings mean you should be with a chest physician, ENT or cardiologist now
What it is not
- It is not the response to an attack. Sudden breathlessness at rest, oxygen below 92%, blue lips, inability to speak in sentences, coughing blood, or fever with chest pain is emergency care — first, always
- Preventer and reliever inhalers are not stopped, reduced or replaced. Inhaled corticosteroids act locally in the airway and are not the dependence they are blamed for; stepping down is your chest physician's decision on spirometry, not ours
- Tuberculosis is cured by the four-drug regimen supplied free under Nikshay. No herbal preparation kills TB, and stopping or diluting treatment breeds drug-resistant disease that is far harder to cure. We support alongside, never instead
- Bacterial pneumonia needs antibiotics, and often oxygen and admission. Viral influenza with breathlessness, low saturation or a high-risk background needs assessment the same day
- Pulmonary oedema is usually a heart problem and pneumothorax is a mechanical one — diuretics, oxygen, aspiration or a chest drain. Neither is treated with oral herbal medicine
- COPD and bronchiectasis damage is not reversed. Honest goals are fewer exacerbations, less breathlessness on a normal day, and better exercise tolerance
- Hoarseness beyond two to three weeks is scoped before it is treated. A laryngeal lesion diagnosed late is the mistake nobody in this field is allowed to make twice
- There is no such thing as lung cleansing, detox or internal purification, and no procedure here reverses airway remodelling. Steam may soothe a blocked nose; it treats nothing
- Nobody at Aksa will ask you to stop a prescribed antibiotic, inhaler, steroid course or TB regimen without the doctor who wrote it involved — and we need the complete medicine list before prescribing anything
If your condition is one where Ayurveda can only support rather than change the outcome — established COPD, bronchiectasis, a post-TB fibrotic lung, cardiac breathlessness — you will hear that at the first sitting, along with who to see and how soon. A respiratory plan earns its place by reducing your bad days, not by promising you a different diagnosis.
Who you actually sit with
B.A.M.S physicians at the two Delhi clinics. Consultation is with one of them, not with a counsellor.
Where you can be seen
Two clinics in Delhi, or a video consultation from anywhere in India.
Burari, Delhi
2nd Floor, PVT. 449, KH. No. 137/5/11, Block B, Sant Nagar, Burari, Delhi – 110084
Open all days
Timings and directionsVideo consultation
Speak to the physician from home, with your reports on screen. Prescribed medicines are delivered across India.
How a video consultation runsFrequently asked questions
No, and I would be wary of any clinic that says yes. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory condition of the airway; it is controlled, and in childhood it is sometimes outgrown, but not cured by a course of anything. What a plan genuinely does is reduce the triggers, the mucus load, the reflux and post-nasal drip, the weight and fitness factors and the number of symptom days in a season — which is a real, measurable benefit. It does that alongside your preventer inhaler, not in place of it. Judge us on your reliever usage and your attack count, not on a promise.
Other treatment categories
The same structure on every category: real pages, written by the physicians who treat them.
Medical disclaimer: this page is educational and is not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Respiratory conditions are managed with your own physician. Do not stop, reduce or replace prescribed inhalers, antibiotics, steroids or tuberculosis treatment. Seek emergency care for breathlessness at rest, blue lips, oxygen saturation below 92%, coughing blood, sudden one-sided chest pain with breathlessness, or confusion with fever.
Bring your inhalers and your reports. Leave with an honest plan.
A consultation with a B.A.M.S physician, a check of your inhaler technique, a plain reading of what your spirometry and X-ray actually say, and a clear answer on what a plan can change in your condition — and what must stay with your chest physician.