A Lancaster daughter's search for a medical treatment to ease the suffering of her mother ended with a miracle cure.

Wendy Haddock studied the Russian "Buteyko" method of helping asthmatics breathe. And her mother, Betty Glover, experienced a miracle cure, lost a stone and a half in weight, and never had to resort to drugs again. Wendy explained of how she helped her mum: "I decided to train in July 1997. Mum had been finding her long term chest condition increasingly difficult to deal with. Daily medication with chest infections were the order of the day, and I had always been frustrated that I was unable to do anything to relieve her condition."

"Trying this was something of a last resort, and neither of us were expecting the results she got which were surprising and very gratifying. Mum took one puff of Ventolin during the first week of training, and although she kept it with her at all times she has not needed it again."

"In three months she was off her steroids and nine months later she had lost a stone and a half in weight and was feeling better than she had in years. Since then I have witnessed many others undergo the same process."

The treatment was pioneered in the 1950s by Russian professor Konstantin Buteyko. Wendy is running a series of workshops for sufferers at Dacralands Clinic in Skerton, and advises anyone who consults her to talk to their doctor. She acknowledges that many doctors are sceptical of a new treatment.

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