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Cure for Asthma
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| Sunday, December 7, 2008 |
Yoga breathing exercises could help patients with mild asthma in May and help reduce their use of low-dose drug inhalers in wheezing attacks.
Researchers at the Unit of Respiratory Medicine, City University, Nottingham, call for more studies ways to improve breathing, which they say have been largely ignored by Western medicine.
Although Yoga practitioners have long believed in the benefits of pranayama breathing exercises for asthma, which was previously difficult to study. But, using a Pink City lung - a device that slow breathing imposed on the user and is able to simulate pranayama breathing exercises - it was possible to measure the effects of breathing in a hospital test controlled.
Two simulation exercises pranayama were tested: breathing slow and deep breathing for twice as long as breathing in.
In asthma, airways limited making breathing difficult. It is increasingly in the UK, with more than three million children and adults affected, and are responsible for 2000 deaths per year.
Doctors have used the clinical standard for measuring the volume of air patients were able to blow into a second test and the irritability of their airways. After yoga, their airways are two times less irritable,
Although asthma patients should not stop their medication, they should experiment with breathing exercises. |
posted by neptunus @ 10:25 PM
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