Re: Current Asthma Treatment makes asthma worse?

Try this simple experiment (not exercise!).

Place your hands on your abdomen to feel tension or relaxation of abdominal wall muscles.

Try breathing with your muscles completely relaxed. You can't breathe in deeply. Breathing is extremely shallow and unsatisfying.

This means that muscle tension and (most probably) abdominal pressure controls and is essential for taking a deep breath. Research of Dr. Gwen Skloot has shown that a key feature of asthma is the failure to take a deep breath and so relax lung airways.

So there is a natural corrective mechanism for overcoming constriction of lung airways and the statements of asthma specialists that only drugs can help are to be doubted.

Moreover using asthma sprays and other asthma drugs will tend to weaken natural curative mechanisms.

One remedy is to use Yoga or other Oriental breath therapies designed to increase intra-abdominal pressure.

Regards, Richard Friedel, 82319 Starnberg, Germany
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