Yoga For Controlling Asthma

20 October, 2009 No Comment

Controlling asthma requires discipline and patience. You have to be persistent in your approach and instant results may not be possible all the time. Asthma requires a lot of time to develop and it also takes time to come under control. You will find many people who had been suffering asthma attacks more often, but were able to bring them down to a large extent. The only requirement is right knowledge and positive attitude.

There are some alternate therapies that have proved to be effective in controlling asthma. They may not be taken as a full-fledged treatment but can be taken along with the regular treatment.

The idea is to nullify the side effects of allopathic treatment and also to enhance the efficacy of the same. Once you feel that you have reduced the intensity of the disease to an extent where you can handle it with alternate therapies only, you can limit your intake of tablets and other medicines.

Here we are going to discuss about some tips that can be useful in minimizing the impact of asthma attack, and can save you from falling into unwanted situations.

For instance, an asthma patient is supposed to keep his nose clean and have to prevent exposure from dust pollution. If you are going to a place such as a construction site, or going out in a dusty weather, you should wear a mask covering your nose and mouth.

You can practice yoga for keeping your nose clean. There is an exercise under which you have pass plain water across your nostrils. You have to keep your head downwards and pour water from one nostril in a way that it comes out from the other one smoothly.

You have to breathe from your mouth in this case. This act seems to be very technical but is very simple, once you learn the right technique. It cleans your nose passage in a very effective manner. You can add salt to the plain lukewarm water to enhance the effect. The best part is that it is a purely natural way of cleaning up respiration passage.

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