Before the advent of global pharmaceutical companies, people had to find "natural" ways to deal with their asthma. Although asthma is increasingly on the rise and was relatively rare in years past, nonetheless, you can still use these alternative treatments to help control your asthma if taking drugs is either not an option for you because of allergic reaction or because you want to find a more natural way to control your asthma. It is perhaps startling to realize that drug companies are in the business of making money.

Therefore, whether you believe in conspiracy theories or not, it may, in fact, be the drug companies' goal to keep us in prescriptions and therefore stay profitable. In addition, although most doctors will say "no" if you ask them whether or not there are alternative treatments for your asthma, in fact, remember that they, too, are helped financially by the drug companies' profitability.

Alternative therapies for asthma exist and have been around for many years. Some of these include the Buteyko method, acupuncture, chiropractic theory and homeopathy. They have been used for thousands of years and still have a place in today's therapeutic remedies for asthma. Perhaps the best health care practitioner to talk about this with is someone called a naturopath. A naturopath has medical training in allopathic traditions, but also is versed in herbal and other alternative therapies, so that he or she will be able to tell you if, in fact, alternative therapy can help you control your asthma without turning to drugs as a matter of course, at least for the most part.