Henry Hyde Salter discusses D. stramonium as a treatment for asthma in his 19th-century work On Asthma: its Pathology and Treatment. Smoking of herbs, including D. stramonium, was thought to provide relief for asthmatics since antiquity and into the early 20th century. The use of smoking D. stramonium to treat asthma would later wane following new understandings of asthma as an allergic inflammatory reaction, and developments in pharmacology that provided more effective treatments.
Henry Hyde Salter discusses D. stramonium as a treatment for asthma in his 19th-century: work On Asthma: its Pathology and Treatment. Smoking of herbs, including D. stra?monium, was :thought to provide relief for asthmatics since antiquity and into the early 20th century. The use of smoking D. stramonium to treat asthma would later wane following new understandings of asthma as an allergic inflammatory reaction, and developments in pharmacology that provided more effective tr?eatments.