If you are suffering from asthma, chances are you've tried a whole host of natural cures. Most of these remedies have probably been in the form of some type of drugs that your doctor has prescribed for you. However, there are several asthma natural cures that maybe you haven't tried. These cures include adjusting your diet and practicing a breathing technique.

What You Eat Affects Your Asthma

Did you know that what you eat or don't eat could have positive or negative effects on your asthma? There are some foods that you might be allergic to that could trigger an asthma attack and then there are some foods that are just naturally bad for your asthma because they make you more susceptible to an attack.

However, there are also some foods that are good for you and will help stop your asthma or lessen an asthma attack. Many of these foods contain minerals that act as anti-histamines. Anti-histamine helps stop swelling in the body. This includes swelling of the bronchial tubes, which is what happens during an asthma attack.

Good and Bad Foods for your Asthma

Most of the foods that are bad for you are bad because you have some type of allergy to those foods. Maybe the foods cause your bronchial tubes to swell, maybe it produces extra mucus, or maybe it has some other effect that triggers an attack.

Unfortunately what foods cause a negative reaction is usually unique to you and your situation. Therefore, you have to figure out which foods might be causing your asthma attacks. The best way to begin to figure this out is to keep a food diary of everything you eat and then to also keep a diary of when you feel good and when you don't. Then compare the two and see if any foods jump out at you.

As for good foods, these are foods that are high in magnesium content or in antioxidants.

Some of the foods that are high in magnesium include fish, legumes, and pumpkin seeds whereas foods that are high in antioxidants include dark green leafy vegetables, spinach, and apricots.

Breathing Techniques

Over the past several years, asthmatics have found that they can dramatically improve their asthma by learning how to breathe correctly. They also learn to control their asthma attacks by breathing through them.

There are a few different breathing techniques that work quite well. Probably the most well known method is the Buteyko Method. While this method does work very well, it is also quite difficult to learn. There are other methods that produce the same results but are easier to learn.

The Two Broad Categories of Asthma Home Remedies

There are many different asthma home remedies that are "out there" right now. Some of these remedies work quite well, while others don't work so well. For the most part, two broad categories of effective home remedies are diet and breathing techniques.