Chinese medicine views childhood asthma as a sign that the body’s natural balance—especially the Lung, Kidney and Spleen systems—has been disrupted. This imbalance can make a child more sensitive to triggers like seasonal changes, viral illnesses, allergens, or emotional stress. When the lungs aren’t working at full strength or when the body is struggling to transform fluids properly, symptoms like wheezing, coughing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath can appear. Rather than simply suppressing symptoms, Chinese medicine works to strengthen the child’s overall resilience and address the underlying patterns contributing to asthma.
At Golden Crane Acupuncture, we use gentle pediatric acupuncture, herbal medicine, and additional supportive techniques to help reduce inflammation, calm the airways, and support healthy lung function. Treatments focus on improving breathing, reducing the frequency and intensity of flare-ups, and helping the body recover more quickly after colds or allergies. Whether your child experiences mild, occasional asthma or more persistent symptoms, we create a personalized treatment plan to support their comfort, confidence, and long-term respiratory health—so they can breathe easier and feel more at ease in their daily life.
Childhood Asthma
I brought my child for acupuncture, he’s 10 and we’ve been struggling with his asthma since he was 2. Nothing was helping and all his specialist kept doing was giving him more and more steroids. They wanted to put him on a biological med that I was not happy about or willing to put him on.
I finally brought him to Dr.Collin and he’s made huge improvements ! He was needing to use his rescue inhaler and a nebulizer treatment almost everyday. He would wake up wheezing and nothing seemed to help. After the FIRST week of treatment he went down to only needing his rescue inhaler once or twice and no nebulizer treatments at all anymore. The improvement he’s made has been incredible almost unbelievable since we’ve struggled for years to get his asthma under control. This year has been by far the worst for him needing steroids what seemed almost every month. Now after a couple of weeks of treatment he barely needs his rescue inhaler unless he’s in the cold and the wheezing resolves itself where before he would have an asthmatic episode for days and it felt almost impossible to get the inflammation down. I am super impressed and surprised at how much the acupuncture and cupping has helped my son and impressed at how fast it worked! I am very grateful that I found Dr.Collin, his treatments have been life changing for my son.
-A. Garcia