Relating to remedies or treatments that help relieve or prevent asthma attacks and breathing difficulties.
From Greek 'anti-' (against) + 'asthma' (difficult breathing, from 'aazein' to pant), meaning something that opposes asthmatic symptoms.
Before inhalers were invented in the 1950s, people with asthma would use antasthmatic remedies like tinctures of stramonium leaf or steam inhalation — the word itself is older than modern asthma treatments.
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