Asthma has been quite a serious respiratory problem for decades. It restricts the airways into the lungs, making breathing difficult. In UK alone, more than three million children and adults suffer from asthma, with no less than 2,000 deaths annually. This is worsened by the fact that most Western medications do not improve the breathing control. That is why some researchers, including those from the Respiratory Medicine Unit, City University, Nottingham, turn their hope into yoga.
Yoga breathing exercises help relieving mild asthma symptoms and reduce the usage of low-dose drug inhalers in wheezing attacks. By regularly exercising pranayama breathing, as believed by yoga practitioners for hundreds of years, one can be liberated from his asthmatic problems.
However, it needs to be studied formally. And now, using a device called Pink City lung that imposes slow breathing and mimics pranayama breathing exercises, it is possible to estimate the effects of controlled breathing.
The doctors tested two simulated pranayama exercises, one is slow deep breathing and the other is breathing out for twice as long as breathing in. They then used standard clinical tests to measure the volume of air the participants were able to blow out in a second. The irritability of their airways was tested as well. The result was promising: after yoga, their airways were two times less irritable.
Breath controlling exercise is worth a shot for asthma patients, while their regular medication continues.
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i have been suffering from Asthma ever since i was little kid. i can only manage it by taking medicines and some food supplements.
Have you tried yoga techniques, there are numerous breathing exercises (Pranayaam) which helps in controlling your breathing and thereby better control over your lungs, ultimately gives relief to your asthma condition, but of course, consult your physician before embarking on practising Yoga.