Alternative Medicine For Asthma
Buteyko breathing for asthma.(ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE)Walsh, Nancy History of Use
In the 1950s, Ukrainian physician Konstantin Buteyko (1923-2003) developed the technique of breath retraining that bears his name. Based on his observations of patients in the respiratory clinic at the First Medical Institute in Moscow, Dr. Buteyko formulated the hypothesis that asthma results from hyperventilation, or overbreathing, and that symptoms can be reversed by shallow breathing. He believed that deep breathing removes excess carbon dioxide from the body, and that this results in excess alkalinity in tissues and blood, as well as spasms in the smooth ...
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