AsthmaASTHMA THE STRANGLER

They call me the Strangler. I keep more than a million Americans - a third of them children - gasping for breath.

I'm Asthma. Never mind the first name. That nickname, "The Strangler", suits me better.

Human stranglers grasp their victims by the neck. How coarse! I'm much more subtle. I squeeze my victims' bronchial tubes to cut off the supply of air to their lungs.

Business is good. Every day there are more people to prey on. I thrive when my very presence in a human body is blamed on allergies, when my victims turn to drugs and medicines for relief.

But there's one serious threat to my future operations. More and more of my victims are seeking out Doctors of Chiropractic medicine, who, instead of treating my symptoms, locate and correct my cause.

They've got my modus operandi figured out.

If you want all the technical details, ask a chiropractor. His/her years in college taught him/her all those big words.

Simply, I work like this:

Nerves supply energy to the muscular bands in the bronchial tubes.

So I irritate those nerves, and they cause the muscles to contract.

Don't you agree that my technique is more sophisticated than grabbing somebody by the throat and choking?

My weakness is my vulnerability to chiropractic, the science dealing with the nervous system.

Chiropractors are trained to locate impairments of nerve functions and to correct them.

They go right back to my point of attack. They look for what they call subluxation of vertebrae, usually in the upper thoracic region, which might be "pinching" a nerve, causing irritation. To you or me, that's a slight dislocation of vertebrae between the shoulders. That's the exit point of nerves leading to the bronchial tube.

And that signals my exit too.


The Doctor of Chiropractic will adjust the spine to bring quick relief and to remove the basic cause of asthma.

Then, with the cause gone, the healing forces of nature take over.

And I have to move on to another victim.

If all my victims turned to chiropractors for treatment, I'd lose my nickname.

Instead of "The Strangler", I'd become "The Strangled".

Only Nature Heals ... Chiropractic Proves It!​Asthma

"Discover the Benefits of Chiropractic" Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation, 1973. Litho in U.S.A
Authorised Redistribution; J. Howard Morley D.C. Dip. N.B.C.E. Doctors of Chiropractic. U.S.A