Asthma, Homoeopathy and CADAVIZ: Integrating Respiratory Anatomy with Homeopathic Approaches

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory airway disorder characterized by variable airflow obstruction, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and recurrent respiratory symptoms that significantly affect quality of life across all age groups. Although conventional therapies such as bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids remain central to asthma management, their adverse effects and incomplete symptom control often impose an additional therapeutic burden. These limitations underscore the need for complementary, individualized approaches that address underlying mechanisms while minimizing long-term side effects.

This narrative review explores homeopathic principles of asthma care through detailed symptom interpretation and patient-centered reasoning, integrated with modern anatomical and physiological understanding. To enhance conceptual clarity, CADAVIZ, a virtual dissection table, is utilized to provide immersive three-dimensional visualization of the respiratory system. Layer-by-layer anatomical dissection and dynamic physiological simulations enable precise mapping of asthma pathology onto airway structures, including bronchial smooth muscle, mucosa, and alveolar units.

By correlating clinical manifestations such as bronchospasm, mucus retention, and ventilation–perfusion imbalance with their anatomical substrates, the review illustrates how individualized homeopathic symptom patterns align with respiratory physiology. Although current clinical evidence for homeopathy in asthma remains limited and methodologically heterogeneous, this integrative framework offers educational value and supports anatomically informed clinical reasoning. The combined use of digital visualization and individualized therapeutic interpretation may enhance understanding, teaching, and future research in complementary asthma care.