Amrita Bindu, an Ayurvedic medicine, has been shown to be an antioxidant inducer and to combat free-radical-mediated tissue damage studied in rats. Amrita Bindu is a salt-spice herbal mixture. It was tested as a supplement to therapy for a period of 12 months in 36 children suffering from asthma, a chronic inflammatory disease with excessive free-radical generation in the lungs and blood cells. The patients were followed up by monitoring their clinical conditions, therapeutic doses of anti-asthmatic drugs, free-radical generation, lipid peroxidation and antioxidants in blood. At the end of 3 months of Amrita Bindu supplementation, the patients had stopped all anti-asthmatic medications and were free from attacks of asthma.