“Asthma is a nondesire to complete oneself, the nondesire to breathe. The mother didn’t want the child – the brain signals this to the ovum. Milk reinforces asthma. It’s good to get the child in a junior acting class. Break the pattern by acting.”

According to “Find Hay Fever May Be Induced by Unhappiness,” Science News Letter, Sept. 25, 1948 …

“Allergies such as asthma may represent attempts to gain sympathy or they express hostility and mask a feeling of guilt or anxiety. Sometimes they can be cured by getting rid of hostility. This is the conclusion of Drs. Hyman Miller and Dorothy W. Baruch, both of Beverly Hills, Calif., who made a special study of 22 asthma patients [21 showed improvement]. One 18-year-old girl who suffered from hay fever said, ‘My whole life is stopped up like my nose.’ ‘If you don’t get my mother back, I’ll cough,’ cried a five-year-old asthma patient when he saw her driving away in a car. ‘I’ll get asthma. Then she’ll have to come back.’”