Best Alternative For Healing Asthma
Rates of asthma are increasing.  Fifty years ago the idea that you could become breathless because of an allergen would have been weird, stranger still would have been the requirement for hospitalisation.

You could argue that because there were no medications available people just died from asthma.  Or that pollutants and various food additives are the culprits.  Whatever the reason (always best to figure out if something makes a condition worse) asthma is an expensive problem.

Costs of Asthma in the US (ref. National Institutes of Health Data Fact Sheet, 1999)

The cost of asthma in 1998 was estimated to be $11.3 billion.  Direct costs accounted for $7.5 billion and indirect costs were $3.8 billion. Hospitalizations accounted for the single largest portion of the cost.

Costly and uncomfortable but if no specific cause is known we have no option but to keep medicating…. don’t we?

There is something out there I have been hearing really good things about.  It’s called the Buteyko Method, named after Prof. K P Buteyko of Russia.

Working with under guidance it is possible to reduce or eliminate symptoms of asthma with this alternative healing technique over time.

Excellent news for asthmatics everywhere.

Compared with the annoyance of constant medication (not to mention the vulnerability that goes with it) as well as the cost a few lessons in breathing is a small price to pay.  Now for the weird sounding bit….

K P Buteyko answers a question from Alina Vasiljina, MD in Global Asthma Crisis:

“We consider that an asthma attack is an attempt to reduce the airflow passing
through the lungs in order to reduce CO2 loss. Our method is based on the
elimination of “deep breathing”. To be more precise, it is based on the
elimination of excessive ventilation of the lungs with respect to the
ventilation necessary for metabolism.”

Sounds like an alternative point of view there but actually we need a certain level of CO2 in the air we breath.  The Buteyko method helps in self healing by getting the patient to exercise his or her breathing in such a way that the CO2 intake is normalised (normally focus is on oxygen intake).

I haven’t tried this yet myself, and as they say the proof is in the pudding.  We need an alternative to medicine.  Healing options should be explored by the mainstream medical community.

Blessings,

Keri Eagan
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