Most doctors employ the usual medical treatments of bronchodilators, inhaled steroids, and allergy-modifying medicines such as antihistamines. A bronchodilator is used for rapid relief and inhaled steroids are used daily to prevent and reduce attacks. For significant attacks, both oral and intravenous steroids are used. Thank goodness we have these medications, but fortunately, yes, the Environmental Medicine approach can often reduce or eliminate the need for medications to relieve asthma. An Environmental Medicine physician takes a careful life history to evaluate for every probable trigger in the diet, workplace, and home environment. Then testing is performed, including comprehensive allergy testing. Breathing tests may be utilized during allergy testing to help confirm the effect of triggers. Each inhalant, food, or chemical is tested individually at our Center, so patients can often see for themselves the effects of different substances on their breathing capacity. Sometimes patients will report a mild asthma flare during testing, which to their surprise is rapidly relieved by the administration of the individual’s neutralizing dose for that trigger. Individualized allergy extracts to desensitize and neutralize each patient to their triggers are part of our extremely effective treatment program for asthma. We also teach patients, when necessary, how to do food elimination and food rotation diets, to further identify and manage food triggers. The combination of allergy desensitization extracts, dietary guidelines, and specific oral nutritional supplements or Chinese herbal therapies has dramatically reduced many patients’ asthma. The use of Chinese herbal therapies is based on solid research: in a recent Chinese hospital study, a formula of Chinese herbs proved to be equal in effect to steroids for calming acute asthma flares but without the side effects inherent with steroids.