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måndag 19 oktober 2009

Alternative Asthma Treatment Without Medications

By Jonathan Park

Modern medicine has worked towards developing of possible cures, preventions, and treatments for various illnesses. It is based primarily on extensive research and evidence. The more popularly used medicinal fact-based approach is often called "conventional medicine" while any other approach is tagged as "alternative medicine". But with all the advancements of science, a cure is hardly obtained. As the saying goes, there isn't even a cure for the common cold.

In the world of asthma, modern medicine ahs created controller and rescue medications for asthma attacks. Bronchodilators are used for rescue medicines due to its quick suppression of asthma symptoms, and have been the most popular form of asthma treatment since the invention of the inhalers in the mid 1900s. Alternative treatments range from relevant anti-inflammatory drugs, to oriental medicine such as acupuncture, herbals, and yoga-based breathing techniques.

Breathing techniques, breathing exercises, or proper breathing methods are said to alleviate asthma symptoms without the need for medication. The Buteyko breathing method is a proven technique of breathing to successfully reverse asthma symptoms. Various clinical studies have declared the Buteyko breathing method as 96% efficient in treating asthma.

The Buteyko breathing method was also developed in the 1960s by the late Russian doctor, Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko. He noticed that an ill person almost always over-breathes. He thought it possible to reverse the illness by controlling breathing. The Buteyko method was adapted in Russian hospitals and has helped a lot of asthmatics. It allegedly spread after a foreigner was subjected to that treatment in a Russian hospital and preached it in his homeland.

When the Buteyko method was adapted in the west, it has adapted and changed. Techniques vary across countries. But the core principles of Buteyko Method remain the same. The principles include reduced breathing, nasal breathing, and relaxed breathing. Overall, the Buteyko Method is about breathing correctly to alleviate asthma since we normally over-breathes when we are ill. While the relationship between illnesses and over-breathing remains unclear, the Buteyko method does work and has been accepted as an alternative asthma treatment.

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