Alternative medicine is gaining more and more followers and admirers who zealously defend it from attacks by servants of official doctrines. It is difficult today to judge who is right and who is wrong, given the huge number of theories in alternative medicine, which sometimes contradict each other. Be that as it may, today we will tell you about how a doctor from Novosibirsk, Konstantin Buteyko, developed a special theory that had not been voiced by anyone before. This theory is related to breathing and human health.

Deep breathing according to Buteyko is one of the most important evils that a person inflicts on his body day after day, hour after hour. This doctor noticed a pattern - deep and frequent breathing for a certain time leads to a terrible condition: dizziness, nausea, flickering or darkening in the eyes. In especially severe cases, hyperventilation can cause you to faint. To verify the veracity of this observation, you can repeat Buteyko’s experiment at home and right now - within thirty seconds, take thirty quick and deep breaths (and exhalations, of course). Already on the fifteenth (or even on the tenth) you will feel unpleasant dizziness.

Noticing this pattern, Konstantin Buteyko began to conduct research to discover its causes. The conclusions he came to are very ambiguous and come into slight conflict with official medicine. However, we present the main results of Buteyko’s experiments and research:

1. The balance of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the body is extremely important. Under no circumstances should there be an excess of one and a deficiency of the other.
2. Carbon dioxide in the blood is as important as oxygen. The reason for feeling unwell after hyperventilation lies precisely in this – the body does not have enough carbon dioxide.
3. Deep breathing harms the body by causing it to lack carbon dioxide.

What were Buteyko's conclusions based on? First of all, of course, on feeling unwell person with hyperventilation. The doctor was looking for reasons and explanations for this, and then he began to analyze the blood of healthy and chronically ill people. Buteyko found that patients have significantly less carbon dioxide in their blood than healthy people. It is worth noting that the doctor selected for research people with disorders of the most different systems body - digestive and gastrointestinal tract (ulcers, gastritis), respiratory (asthma), even musculoskeletal. All studies have indicated that a lack of carbon dioxide in the blood occurs precisely when a person has some kind of chronic disorder.

During further research It turned out that an excess of oxygen (which is observed in most people on the planet) led to the fact that the body experiences, paradoxically, a lack of this very oxygen. This is due to the fact that when cells are excessively saturated with this gas, vasoconstriction occurs, spasms of the bronchi, intestines, biliary tract and many other organs of the human body. As a result, metabolism is disrupted, and oxygen can no longer be absorbed in sufficient quantities. It turns out that when people breathe deeply, they develop a deficiency of both oxygen and carbon dioxide.

After analyzing his findings, the doctor came to create his own treatment system - using the correct sequence of inhalations and exhalations, namely shallow breathing. We'll talk about it today. We will look at the effectiveness of this method, its effect on various diseases, as well as exercises with detailed instructions.

The technique developed by a Novosibirsk doctor requires serious effort on the part of the patient. You will need considerable self-control and willpower to practice shallow breathing according to Buteyko. After all, breathing is such a familiar and natural process, that it is difficult to think about its “correctness” or “wrongness”. And yet, the technique will require you to monitor the awareness of your actions every minute. Of course, you can start with a daily practice of fifteen minutes, but if you want to achieve serious results and get rid of the disease once and for all, you will have to control your breathing constantly - until it becomes natural and familiar to you.

Who can benefit from Buteyko breathing?

The Novosibirsk doctor’s technique, as her followers claim, is almost a panacea for all diseases, but is it so?

Of course no. However, the Buteyko technique really has positive influence on the course of some diseases - mainly cardiovascular and respiratory. First of all, shallow breathing helps asthmatics varying degrees severity and hypertension.

Currently, a clinic has been opened in Novosibirsk, which provides treatment using this method. According to its founders and employees, patients who are brought to the clinic after a heart attack or stroke, after just a few days of classes, jog and lead a very active lifestyle. fresh air.

It is difficult to judge the recovery of people with ulcers or gastritis, but this system helps asthmatics. Buteyko came to the conclusion that shallow breathing would be beneficial for those suffering from bronchial asthma, based on the fact that when an asthmatic is choking and trying to gasp for air, it only gets worse. But when he holds his breath for a while, his condition immediately improves dramatically.

The clear advantage of the technique is its safety. Unlike most other methods of alternative medicine, the Buteyko breathing technique cannot cause harm as healthy body, and the patient. Incorrect training will not harm you either; even if you misunderstood the instructions and did the exercises incorrectly, there will be no negative impact from them. It can be said that Alternative medicine associated with breathing is the safest for human body(except for extremely extreme methods, of course).

How to determine the level of health of the body

According to the method of the Novosibirsk doctor, determining the level of health of your own body is quite simple - you need to hold your breath. In extremely severe and advanced cases, a person will not be able to breathe for only 5-10 seconds. If available chronic diseases moderate severity – up to thirty seconds. Those who manage to hold their breath for a minute or more can boast of an ideal state of the body. Holding your breath for two minutes is considered a sign of extreme endurance of the body.

If you do not have the opportunity to visit a clinic and undergo a course of treatment under the supervision of specialists, you can easily do it yourself - for this you will not need any special equipment or expensive medications.

Breathing exercises according to Buteyko

Officially, this method is called voluntary elimination of deep breathing (VLDB). In addition to the breathing exercises itself, the treatment system includes several more points:

• complete cessation of smoking and drinking alcohol;
• hardening water treatments;
• moderate physical activity(exercise, jogging);
• eating low-fat foods.

The purpose of this technique is to force a person to rebuild his usual breathing, making it shallow and superficial. This will lead to the saturation of cells and blood not only with oxygen, but also with carbon dioxide, necessary for the proper functioning of the body.

All exercises are divided into two main groups:

• eliminating hyperventilation with just breathing techniques;
• combination of breathing techniques with physical exercises.

Buteyko believed that incorrect, too deep breathing becomes the cause of such common pathologies as bronchial asthma, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and others.

The fact is that taking a deep breath and, accordingly, exhaling leads to a decrease in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood. This, in turn, causes a shift in the acid-base balance and metabolic disorders in cells, as well as spasm of the bronchi and blood vessels - the body strives to “retain” carbon dioxide by any means.

Spasmed vessels do not deliver enough oxygen to tissues, which leads to oxygen starvation and the feeling of patients that they need to breathe deeper - this closes a vicious circle.

According to Buteyko, you need to breathe, on the contrary, superficially and easily, while relaxing, only this will lead to the restoration of metabolic processes, cleansing the body and improving the condition. Here his theory intersects with the practice of yoga, whose adherents also believe that excess oxygen is harmful, but at the same time they suggest breathing deeply and rarely.

The method of volitional elimination of Buteyko deep breathing (VLDB) helps with bronchopulmonary diseases, pneumonia, bronchial asthma, COPD, allergies, angina and other heart diseases, migraines, gastrointestinal colic, hypertension. It is less effective for atherosclerosis and other organic lesions when the changes are irreversible.

Buteyko method: exercises

The VLGD method is aimed at teaching the patient shallow breathing, which increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood. Before starting the exercises, the patient must undergo medical examination, including assessment of pulmonary function.

Mastering the method takes place under the supervision of a VLHD instructor, since the patient cannot always correctly assess his breathing on his own. Assessment of breathing and monitoring of the effectiveness of exercises is carried out using such an indicator as a control pause. The control pause is measured after a calm exhalation until the desire to inhale, but so that you do not have to breathe through your mouth to restore breathing. The norm is 60 seconds or more. Less than 60 seconds means carbon dioxide deficiency and too deep breathing. The heart rate is also measured, which normally should be less than 60 at rest.

When performing exercises, the patient fills out a diary, where he notes the date and time of exercise, control pauses (before, after training and every 5 minutes), heart rate, and well-being. The exercises are performed on an empty stomach, breathing is done only through the nose and silently.

Exercises:

1. Breathing at the tops of the lungs: 5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds pause - maximum relaxation. Repeat 10 times
2. Breathing with the stomach and chest: 7.5 seconds - inhale, 7.5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. Repeat 10 times
3. Acupressure nose at the moment of maximum breath holding. 1 time
4. Breathe with the right, then the left half of the nose. 10 times
5. Abdominal retraction - 7.5 seconds, with a full inhalation. Then maximum exhalation - 7.5 seconds, pause - 5 seconds. Repeat 10 times
6. Maximum ventilation of the lungs - 12 maximum deep breaths and exhalations for 1 minute (5 seconds per inhalation and exhalation). Immediately after this, you need to perform a maximum breath hold while exhaling to the limit (1 time)
7. Rare breathing(breathing by levels)

First level

For 1 minute: 5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause (4 breathing cycles).

Second level

For 2 minutes: 5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - pause, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause (3 breathing cycles per minute).

Third level

For 3 minutes: 7.5 seconds - inhale, 7.5 seconds - pause, 7.5 seconds - exhale, after a pause of 5 seconds (2 breathing cycles per minute).

Fourth level

For 4 minutes: 10 seconds - inhale, 10 seconds - pause, 10 seconds - exhale, 10 seconds - pause (it is advisable to eventually increase to 1 breath per minute).

8. Double breath holding.

Maximum breath holding on exhalation, then on inhalation. Execute 1 time.

9. Maximum breath holding while sitting (3-10 times).

Maximum breath holding while walking in place (3-10 times).

Maximum breath holding during squats (3-10 times).

10. Shallow breathing (3-10 minutes)

Sitting in a comfortable position and relaxing as much as possible, perform chest breathing, gradually reducing the volume of inhalation and exhalation until breathing becomes “invisible” and very light, at the level of the nasopharynx.

Buteyko method: cleansing reaction

During training (after 2-8 weeks), a so-called cleansing reaction occurs - a deterioration in the condition with an increase in sputum production, increased or onset of pain, diarrhea, the temperature may rise, and the underlying disease may worsen. This is a predictable reaction, which Buteyko urged not to be afraid of and considered good sign restructuring of metabolic processes on the path to recovery.

At first, exercises are performed twice a day, morning and evening, then, as the control pause increases, the frequency of training decreases, but the duration, on the contrary, can increase.

After a significant increase in the control pause and improvement in well-being, it is recommended to go through the test again. full examination to assess objective health indicators.

Disadvantages of the Buteyko method

It remains to add that the opinions of doctors about the Buteyko method are quite contradictory. While supporters of the method cite many examples of cures for bronchial asthma, its opponents believe that any voluntary control of breathing is harmful to the body, since the respiratory center may lose its automatic mode of operation, which can lead to complete cessation of breathing.

Reducing breathing should be done through physical activity and increasing endurance by training the body, and not through working directly with breathing.

Objective data also indicate that after long-term training using the Buteyko method, a decrease in pulmonary parameters (vital capacity, etc.) may occur.

Buteyko believed that deep breaths and long exhalations, which were previously considered beneficial, “wash out” carbon dioxide (CO 2) from the lungs, whereas for normal operation body in the lung air should be 6-7% carbon dioxide and 1-2% oxygen. Atmospheric air, on the contrary, contains 0.03% carbon dioxide and 20% oxygen. Frequent and deep breathing leads to the fact that the composition of the air in the lungs is close to atmospheric, and this is fraught with many ailments. For example, the first person who managed to defeat hypertension using the VLHD method was Buteyko himself.

Before starting treatment, the patient tries to reduce the depth and frequency of breathing during an attack. If this helps, then the method is suitable. The essence of further exercises is that the patient gradually learns to hold his breath as he exhales. A common person able to easily hold his breath for about 15 seconds. The goal of the exercises is to increase the pause to a minute. The patient simply trains to hold his breath, gradually increasing the pause. Over time, this becomes a habit.

The method is effective for asthma, lung diseases and respiratory tract(bronchitis, rhinitis, tracheitis), angina pectoris and other diseases of the cardiovascular system.

For treatment to be as effective as possible, the patient must change their lifestyle. Buteyko's followers prefer vegetarian food. since animal food provokes deep breathing, increased heart rate after eating, and also excess weight which prevents you from breathing easily and freely. Supporters of the VLGD method do a lot of gymnastics, sleep no more than six to seven hours a day and on hard beds.

Gymnastics according to Buteyko: step-by-step instructions

On January 27, 1923, the famous Russian physiologist Konstantin Buteyko was born, who developed special breathing exercises that help patients with various diseases reduce the dose of necessary medications, completely recover or significantly improve their condition.

Buteyko believed that incorrect, too deep breathing becomes the cause of such common pathologies as bronchial asthma, hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and others.

The fact is that taking a deep breath and, accordingly, exhaling leads to a decrease in the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood. This, in turn, causes a shift in the acid-base balance and metabolic disorders in cells, as well as spasm of the bronchi and blood vessels - the body strives to “retain” carbon dioxide by any means.

Spasmed vessels do not deliver enough oxygen to the tissues, which leads to oxygen starvation and the feeling that patients need to breathe deeper - this is how a vicious circle closes.

According to Buteyko, you need to breathe, on the contrary, superficially and easily, while relaxing, only this will lead to the restoration of metabolic processes, cleansing the body and improving the condition. Here his theory intersects with the practice of yoga, whose adherents also believe that excess oxygen is harmful, but at the same time they suggest breathing deeply and rarely.

The Buteyko method of volitional elimination of deep breathing (VLDB) helps with bronchopulmonary diseases, pneumonia, bronchial asthma, COPD, allergies, angina pectoris and other heart diseases, migraines, gastrointestinal colic, hypertension. It is less effective for atherosclerosis and other organic lesions, when the changes are irreversible.

Buteyko method: exercises

The VLGD method is aimed at teaching the patient shallow breathing, which increases the concentration of carbon dioxide in the blood. Before starting exercise, the patient must undergo a medical examination, including an assessment of pulmonary function.

Mastering the method takes place under the supervision of a VLHD instructor, since the patient cannot always correctly assess his breathing on his own. Assessment of breathing and monitoring of the effectiveness of exercises is carried out using such an indicator as a control pause. The control pause is measured after a calm exhalation until the desire to inhale, but so that you do not have to breathe through your mouth to restore breathing. The norm is 60 seconds or more. Less than 60 seconds means carbon dioxide deficiency and too deep breathing. The heart rate is also measured, which normally should be less than 60 at rest.

When performing exercises, the patient fills out a diary, where he notes the date and time of exercise, control pauses (before, after training and every 5 minutes), heart rate, and well-being. The exercises are performed on an empty stomach, breathing is done only through the nose and silently.

1. Breathing at the tops of the lungs: 5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds pause - maximum relaxation. Repeat 10 times
2. Breathing with the stomach and chest: 7.5 seconds - inhale, 7.5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. Repeat 10 times
3. Acupressure of the nose at the moment of maximum breath holding. 1 time
4. Breathe with the right, then the left half of the nose. 10 times
5. Abdominal retraction - 7.5 seconds, with a full inhalation. Then maximum exhalation - 7.5 seconds, pause - 5 seconds. Repeat 10 times
6. Maximum ventilation of the lungs - 12 maximum deep breaths and exhalations for 1 minute (5 seconds per inhalation and exhalation). Immediately after this, you need to perform a maximum breath hold while exhaling to the limit (1 time)
7. Rare breathing (breathing by levels)

First level

For 1 minute: 5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause (4 breathing cycles).

Second level

For 2 minutes: 5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - pause, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause (3 breathing cycles per minute).

Third level

For 3 minutes: 7.5 seconds - inhale, 7.5 seconds - pause, 7.5 seconds - exhale, after a pause of 5 seconds (2 breathing cycles per minute).

Fourth level

For 4 minutes: 10 seconds - inhale, 10 seconds - pause, 10 seconds - exhale, 10 seconds - pause (it is advisable to eventually increase to 1 breath per minute).

8. Double breath holding.

Maximum breath holding on exhalation, then on inhalation. Execute 1 time.

9. Maximum breath holding while sitting (3-10 times).

Maximum breath holding while walking in place (3-10 times).

Maximum breath holding during squats (3-10 times).

10. Shallow breathing (3-10 minutes)

Sitting in a comfortable position and relaxing as much as possible, perform chest breathing, gradually reducing the volume of inhalation and exhalation until breathing becomes “invisible” and very light, at the level of the nasopharynx.

Buteyko method: cleansing reaction

During training (after 2-8 weeks), a so-called cleansing reaction occurs - a deterioration in the condition with an increase in sputum production, increased or onset of pain, diarrhea, the temperature may rise, and the underlying disease may worsen. This is a predictable reaction, which Buteyko urged not to be afraid of and considered a good sign of a restructuring of metabolic processes on the path to recovery.

At first, exercises are performed twice a day, morning and evening, then, as the control pause increases, the frequency of training decreases, but the duration, on the contrary, can increase.

After a significant increase in the control pause and improvement in well-being, it is recommended to undergo a full examination again to assess objective health indicators.

Disadvantages of the Buteyko method

It remains to add that the opinions of doctors about the Buteyko method are quite contradictory. While supporters of the method cite many examples of cures for bronchial asthma, its opponents believe that any voluntary control of breathing is harmful to the body, since the respiratory center may lose its automatic mode of operation, which can lead to complete cessation of breathing.

Reducing breathing should be done through physical activity and increasing endurance by training the body, and not through working directly with breathing.

Objective data also indicate that after long-term training using the Buteyko method, a decrease in pulmonary parameters (vital capacity, etc.) may occur.

Buteyko method. normal breathing -

The essence of the treatment of hypertension, diabetes, asthma (and about a hundred other major diseases of civilization) Buteyko method so simple and obvious that in order not to understand it, you need to make a very big effort:

1. Deep breathing unnecessarily flushes the most healing CO 2 from the patient’s body. It should be normally 6.5%, but you only have 3.76%. Below 3% death occurs.

2. Once carbon dioxide is excessively removed from the body, the blood arteries begin to narrow and spasm (including the bronchioles of the lungs spasm, preventing inhalation) in order to delay the leakage of carbon dioxide. Well, if the hose with water (or blood) is pinched, what will happen? The pressure will rise. And air will not enter the spasmodic alveoli of the lungs.

3. m Buteyko method- brings your deep breathing back to normal. Excessive CO 2 leakage is stopped. The arteries stop spasming and the pressure normalizes. Hypertension disappears.

Buteyko exercise set

Breathing exercises according to Buteyko.

A set of exercises.

Introductory part

The object that allows a person to breathe shallowly is the diaphragm. K.P. Buteyko formulated the essence of his method as reducing the depth of breathing by relaxing the diaphragm.

Correct breathing according to Buteyko cannot be seen or heard, only through the nose. The inhalation is so small that neither the chest nor the stomach sway. Breathing is very shallow. the air descends approximately to the collarbones, and carbon dioxide “stands” below. It’s as if you are sniffing a substance unknown to you, possibly a poisonous one. In this case, inhalation lasts 2-3 seconds, exhalation 3-4 seconds, and then a pause of 3-4 seconds, the volume of inhaled air, the less, the better.

And so let's start with the exercises. Sit on a chair, relax, look just above your eye line. Relax your diaphragm (breathing should be shallow); a feeling of lack of air appears in your chest. Stay in this state for 10-15 minutes. If the urge to breathe intensifies, slightly increase the depth of your breathing. At the same time, breathe as if from the very tops of your lungs. At proper training Warmth will definitely appear first, then it will become hot, after 5-7 minutes perspiration may appear with any desire to breathe - fight only by relaxing the diaphragm.

After training, come out of this state without deepening your breathing.

After training, MP should be 1-2 seconds more.

Calculation of the level of CO 2 in the body: with a pause of 15 seconds, carbon dioxide is 4-4.5%, with a norm of 6.5%, your pause should be 60 seconds. It follows from this that 60:15 = 4. That is, you breathe 4 times deeper than normal.

All exercises must be performed with breathing through the nose and without noise. Before and after performing the complex, control measurements are performed: MP - maximum pause, pulse. Normally, for adults, MP is satisfactory - 30 seconds. good - 60 sec. excellent - 90 sec. The pulse is satisfactory - 70 beats/min. good - 60 beats/min. excellent - 50 beats/min. For children of middle and high school age, MP is normally 1/3 less, pulse is 10 beats/min. more. For children of preschool and primary school age, the MP is 2/3 less, the pulse is 20 beats/min. more.

Complex breathing exercises K.P. Buteyko. aimed at developing the necessary breathing, as well as developing a person’s ability to hold his breath, both during inhalation and exhalation, both at rest and during physical activity.

1. The upper parts of the lungs work:

5 seconds inhale, 5 seconds exhale, relaxing the chest muscles; 5 seconds pause, do not breathe, be in maximum relaxation. 10 times. (2.5 minutes)

2. Full breathing. Diaphragmatic and chest breathing together.

7.5 seconds – inhale, starting with diaphragmatic breathing and ending with chest breathing; 7.5 seconds – exhale, starting from the upper parts of the lungs and ending with the lower parts of the lungs, i.e. diaphragm; 5 seconds – pause. 10 times. (3.5 minutes)

3. Acupressure of the points of the nose at a maximum pause. 1 time.

4. Full breathing through the right, then the left half of the nose. 10 times.

5. Abdominal retraction.

Within 7.5 seconds – full breath, 7.5 seconds - maximum exhalation, 5 seconds - pause, keeping the abdominal muscles retracted. 10 times. (3.5 minutes)

6. Maximum ventilation (MVL).

We perform 12 quick maximum inhalations and exhalations, i.e. 2.5 seconds - inhale, 2.5 seconds - exhale, for 1 minute. After MVL we immediately perform a maximum pause (MP) on exhalation, to the limit. MVL is performed 1 time.

7. Rare breathing. (By levels)

First level:

1-5 seconds – inhale, 5 seconds – exhale, 5 seconds – pause. That works out to 4 breaths per minute. Perform for 1 minute, then, without stopping breathing, perform the following levels.

Second level:

2-5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - hold your breath after inhalation, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. That works out to 3 breaths per minute. Runs for 2 minutes

T third level:

3-7.5 seconds - inhale, 7.5 seconds - hold your breath after inhalation, 7.5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. This works out to be 2 breaths per minute. Runs for 3 minutes.

Fourth level:

4-10 seconds - inhale, 10 seconds - hold your breath after inhalation, 10 seconds - exhale, 10 seconds - pause. That works out to 1.5 breaths per minute. Runs for 4 minutes. And so on, who can stand it for how long. Bring the norm to 1 breath per minute.

8. Double breath holding.

First, the MP is performed on exhalation, then the maximum delay on inhalation. 1 time.

9. MP while sitting 3-10 times, MP while walking in place 3-10 times, MP while running in place 3-10 times, MP while squatting. 3-10 times.

10. Shallow breathing.

Sitting in a comfortable position for maximum relaxation, perform chest breathing. Gradually reduce the volume of inhalation and exhalation - to invisible breathing or breathing at the level of the nasopharynx. During such breathing, a slight shortness of air will appear first, then a medium shortness or even a strong one, indicating that the exercise is being performed correctly. Stay on shallow breathing for 3 to 10 minutes.

Be sure to perform all exercises with breathing through your nose and without noise. Before and after the complex, control measurements of MP and pulse are carried out,

It is advisable to perform a set of exercises on an empty stomach.

At the final stage of breathing exercises according to the method of K.P. Buteyko, a cleansing reaction of the entire body occurs. It is impossible to predict when the reaction will begin. It happens after a few tens of minutes, and after several months of classes. There may be several of them, or there may be none at all.

On the eve of cleansing, there is a sharp increase in CP (sometimes by 3-5 seconds), and during cleansing there is a drop in it, because the accumulated CO 2 during cleansing is spent on restructuring all body systems: intestines, liver, lungs, cardiovascular, nervous , musculoskeletal. Although CP falls during cleaning, on average it does not fall below the initial level at the beginning of classes. The duration of the reaction usually ranges from a few minutes to three weeks.

There is no need to be afraid of the reaction. She should be happy because her body is recovering. If it hurt where it didn’t hurt before, then you simply didn’t feel it, but the illness was there. It is better not to take medications, but if you do not decide to give them up, then at least half the amount or less than usual. Seriously ill patients need monitoring (diabetes requires constant laboratory monitoring).

The following stages of the purification reaction are identified: correspond to CP - 10,20,30,40,60 seconds.

1. Milestone 10 seconds. What lies on the surface is removed from the body. Most often, nasal discharge, drooling, loose stool, frequent urination, thirst, sweat, coated tongue, phlegm. If you have had problems with your kidneys before bladder, pain may appear. There may be a flu-like condition: chills, fever, purulent discharge from the eyes, nose. weakness or aches throughout the body. Appetite is reduced or disappears altogether. Thirst torments and terrible dryness appears in the mouth, nose, and nasopharynx.

2. Milestone 20 seconds. The nose, lungs, intestines, skin will react (itching), the joints become painful, the spine hurts, all the ex-ones will get sick postoperative scars, fractures, places former injuries, the sites of former injections will itch, all infiltrates will resolve after injections that were ever given to you. Partially affected metabolic processes: eczema worsens, headaches may appear. Copious sputum is produced. If you have had sinusitis, frontal sinusitis, or your nose has been operated on, there may be discharge from the nose. a large number of pus, plugs, often with blood. The sense of smell and taste will be restored. Stool disorders and vomiting may occur. Some people stay on CP for 10-20 seconds for six months or more, because their body is too polluted. And in order to cleanse yourself, you need to constantly be in the VLGD method. In pulmonary patients, during cleaning, the temperature rises to 41 degrees, but it does not last for days, it jumps up and down. Don't lower the temperature! It is better to use vinegar wraps (for children only). Sputum can occur not only in pulmonary patients, but also in hypertensive patients. There may be hemoptysis. This is the rejection of lung tissue destroyed by bronchoscopy and your annoying old cough. It takes 2-3 years to completely rebuild the lungs. Massage helps with the adjustment. The liver and heart are massaged only when jogging or jumping rope. Acute emphysema goes away in 1-2 weeks. According to X-ray data, you will get positive dynamics in the lungs. Pictures should be taken before the VLGD session and then every six months.

If there is dry sputum, you need to put cups, mustard plasters, massage, increase fluid intake (hot salted water). Go to the sauna (dry steam) if the pulse is not higher than 70 and there are no cardiac manifestations.

If you have any skin disorders, be sure to visit the bathhouse, do not use soap, just rinse and rub yourself with castor oil after the bath.

Hypertensive patients and angina pectoris can start going to the bathhouse only after achieving a stable CP within 30-40 seconds and a pulse no higher than 70. Patients with coronary disease hearts, you need to take validol for heart failure and during cleansing. Hypertensive patients may experience nosebleeds. Do not swab your nose, but place a bath of water in it, put cold compress on the bridge of the nose.

There is discharge from the nose longer than from the lungs. There is no need to rinse your nose with medications, you can

Use lightly salted water. drawing it in and out through each nostril in turn.

3. Milestone 30 seconds. With CP, the nervous system reacts for 30 seconds, the person cries for no reason, becomes easily excitable and irritable. Depression and aversion to practicing the VLHD method may occur. This is the so-called psychological cleansing.

In patients with skin diseases, cleansing manifests itself in the form of itching and rashes, which will disappear on their own without the use of ointments and medications, but subject to persistent practice of the VLHD method. In patients with thyrotoxicosis - sobbing, tears, in hypertensive patients, the pressure jumps up and down.

4. Milestone 30-40 seconds. The cleaning is very drastic. blood vessels, metabolism, intestines, kidneys are rebuilt, neoplasms are resolved, blood pressure is normalized. A hypertensive person after reaching 40 seconds is no longer hypertensive. All cardiovascular pathologies disappear with a stable CP of 42-44 seconds. An asthmatic will say goodbye to asthma at 22-24 seconds CP. There is a restructuring of everyone endocrine functions and systems: menstrual cycle thyroid gland, pituitary gland, adrenal glands, genitourinary area. Mastopathy worsens, pain appears and menstrual irregularities are possible. When mastopathy appears, no additional actions are needed. Erosion and toxicosis go away. People lose excess weight. Very thin people also lose weight, but after cleansing they gain normal weight, restoring the missing forms, but with clean, healthy cells.

All metabolic disorders, polyarthritis, osteochondrosis give 40 seconds of wild pain at the CP. Sand appears in the urine. Gallstones pass from the gallstones and bladder. At the moment of walking the stone, you need to train hard, move, jump, dance, since with physical activity the CO 2 content increases. The channels expand and the stone will pass without pain.

Hemorrhoids are cleaned, there may be bleeding and purulent discharge. Disappears varicose veins veins An ulcer patient experiences short-term pain, vomiting, and feces with mucus. There may be intestinal colic, cramping pain in the abdomen, urination also becomes more frequent and stool disorders appear. There is no need to rush to surgical interventions, no need to use any painkillers. Try to get rid of all symptoms by intensive training using the VLGD method.

Sleep is normalized. The need for sleep will be reduced to 4-5 hours a day.

5. Milestone 60 seconds. Everything that was not cleaned up at the previous stages of cleansing is cleaned up. Here it is recommended to provoke a recovery reaction with some kind of cold in combination with a violation of the rules of life (usually in nutrition). At this time, a huge amount of sputum can be released, and the deepest parts of the lungs are cleansed.

Sometimes during the recovery reaction there is a break in the voice. This may be from a previous cough, bronchoscopy. By the way, asthma can begin with loss of voice. The first attack of suffocation is

laryngospasms, laryngeal edema. After the recovery reaction, the voice is restored.

The heart will hurt, even if there were no complaints about it before. Urine during cleaning is brick-red, cloudy, with sediment, mucus, foul-smelling bloody discharge, with the smell of medicine. Patients with osteochondrosis leak a huge amount of salts, their urine is white and foamy. The saliva of such patients is very unpleasant and should be spat into a jar. There may be uterine bleeding.

The mirror of reaction is language. Normally, it should be pink, moist, clean, without furrows or cracks. Yellow plaque– the liver is cleansed, white – the gastrointestinal tract. Dry – lack of water in the body. When the tongue is coated, the patient has an aversion to food; under no circumstances should he be forced to eat. You need to drink a lot of water at this time to remove all toxins from the body. You can tell by the language whether it is cleaning or colds. As soon as the tongue becomes pink, clean, and moist, this means recovery reactions at this point. If your pulse is more than 100 beats during the cleaning period, do not reach for your inhaler. It is better to help yourself within 1-2 days by taking the hormonal medicine that helped you before - about half of that maximum dose that you have ever taken. Then, gradually training your breathing, stop taking the hormone. Don't be intimidated by the reception hormonal drug– it reduces breathing, which is good. And this is the most harmless of all medications taken by asthmatics.

To make the cleaning period easier, follow these steps:

1. Do not give up the method; in case of low degree of self-suffocation, practice relaxation reduction of breathing. The main task is not to lose breath, to hold on, not to give up the positions gained from deep breathing.

2. Take a hot shower, a sitz bath (only your thighs in the water), or visit the sauna. This is all for chills, if there is no temperature and the heart allows.

3. Drink more hot salted water. Do not forget to take regular table salt. Often weakness is due to lack of salt. This salt has nothing to do with the deposition of “salts” in the spine.

4. Do not eat forcibly, do not distract the body from its own work - cleansing.

5. You can put jars, mustard plasters, do a massage.

6. Do not lie down under any circumstances: sit or move around the room, but better outside, in the fresh air. While brushing, take honey, tooth powder (rinsed). white clay - 1 teaspoon 3 times a day. They will transit through the intestines and collect all the poisons.

7. If during cleaning there are severe cramping pains in the intestines or stabbing pains in the heart, then you need to help yourself with validol and intensively practice breathing.

8. Add 2-3 drops of potassium iodide solution to your food per day.

9. Try to suppress your cough with shallow breathing. Without coughing, phlegm comes out easier.

10. If your intestines are not working well, do an enema or take a laxative (sodium or magnesium sulfate, senna leaf, buckthorn bark, joster).

11. The lungs require warmth during adjustment, so do not overcool during this time, wear a vest. Don't be in a draft. However, do not overheat - you should not bundle up either. Thermal procedures and chest massage are useful.

12. If cleaning occurs in the form of an unbridled cough, then do distracting water procedures - warming up your hands and feet in such a hot water as much as you can tolerate. You can massage the collar area.

13. Don't eat sugar, it's better to switch to dried fruits. Grapes and tomatoes are bad for a diseased liver.

14. If they appear purulent conjunctivitis(purulent discharge from the eyes), then rinse your eyes strong solution green tea, lightly salted.

15. While cleaning, carefully monitor the condition of your mouth, constantly rinse it with herbal infusion; your tongue must be cleared of plaque with a spoon.

GREAT GOOD LUCK, SUCCESS AND GREAT HEALTH TO ALL!

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Buteyko method

Introduction
Spirit-soul-breath

The sages have always said: in order to know God, a person must first of all... learn to breathe! Or rather, improve your breathing. Only in this case will a person be able to confidently control not only his words and emotions, but also his health and even his destiny.

Therefore, in the history of mankind, the process of breathing and conscious work with it has been given attention by all religious traditions and systems of spiritual practices without exception.

Thus, the Torah tells how God breathed life into Adam, thereby reviving him. It also says that the breath returns to God after the death of a person.

In many cultures around the world, the concepts of breathing are also key. Indeed, in many languages ​​the words “spirit”, “soul” and “breath” have a common origin. People have long identified breathing as the main property of all living and animate things.

In Chinese philosophy, one of the main categories of “qi” is defined as “air”, “breath”, “energy”. The ancient Chinese believed that “qi” permeates everything in this world and connects everything with each other.

In Indian medicine, the concept of “prana” literally means “life”, “breath” in Sanskrit. And yogis are sure that “prana” permeates the entire Universe.

And from ancient Greek mythology, the word “psyche”, which translates as “soul”, “breath”, migrated to the arsenal of world philosophy, psychology and medicine.

The breathing practices themselves originated many thousands of years ago in the East: in India - Pranayama, in China - Qi Gong, in Central Asia - the Sufi system of exercises, in Tibet - the breathing practices of Vajrayana Buddhism. All these eastern teachings penetrated to the West only in the twentieth century. And in the 21st century they became a vital necessity.

The fact is that modern civilization has changed people a lot. And first of all, we changed because we forgot how to breathe correctly. You have to pay a very high price for comfort. After all, our health depends on how we breathe.

Diseases of civilization

Even 300 years ago, when medicine was not developed, sick people were “culled” by natural selection. And most people barely lived to adulthood without leaving sick offspring.

In these conditions, only a small part of the diseases was determined by genetic defects, but most of the diseases were a consequence of conditions and lifestyle. It was only after antibiotics were introduced that serious infections were eradicated. There are fewer people dying. And live longer. But life has changed.

The first fruits of civilization are the appearance of a huge number of harmful products, due to which the human body began to become clogged with toxic concentrates, chemical carcinogens, new refined food products and alcohol. Human genes were not adapted to such changes. And natural selection stopped working because medicine worked well.

And then new ones appeared chronic diseases, shortening life. Scientists called them “diseases of civilization.” They develop initially unnoticed by humans, as they accumulate harmful effects external and internal environment. The person is not yet sick, but he is no longer healthy. But he could have been healthy if he had started taking the necessary measures in a timely manner. Prevention is of particular importance in the fight against “diseases of civilization.”

And one of the most important preventive measures is the ability to breathe correctly. Experts assure: breathing is a reliable barometer of the state of the human body. Even by how often and deeply we breathe, we can make an accurate diagnosis of any ailment and prescribe treatment. And in the end, cure not only the body, but also the head. According to scientists, breathing is closely related not only to the state of health, but also to the state of consciousness.

Maybe breathing not only holds the soul in the body, but also decides its fate?

Basic instinct

What does it mean to breathe correctly? A strange question at first glance. After all, each of us takes almost 20,000 inhalations and exhalations every day. And we don’t think at all about how we do it. Otherwise, the same tragedy would have happened to us as to the hedgehog from the joke. Remember? A hedgehog ran through the forest, forgot how to breathe, and died. Breathe! This basic instinct was laid in us by nature. A person is considered born when he takes his first breath. And the dead - when he takes his last breath. And between the beginning and the end there is only a series of breaths. It’s the same with our smaller brothers.

But everyone breathes differently. For example, jellyfish have the simplest form of breathing. Oxygen dissolved in water is absorbed through their skin, and dissolved carbon dioxide is expelled through the same route. And on the abdomen of insects there are many small holes. Each of these pores is the entrance to a tube called the trachea. It functions in the same way as a human breathing tube, or windpipe! Thus, insects breathe the same way as we do, with the only difference being that they may have hundreds of respiratory tubes located on their abdomen.

And the breathing rate, that is, how often we inhale air, largely depends on the size of the creature itself. The larger the animal, the slower it breathes. For example, an elephant inhales about 10 times per minute, and a mouse about 200. And it turns out that life expectancy is directly related to the frequency of breathing: an elephant lives longer than a mouse. And turtles breathe very slowly and live a very long time.

The average person inhales 16 times per minute. But maybe less often – 6–8 breaths per minute. Or maybe more often - up to 20 times per minute. Depending on the circumstances. Moreover: young children breathe 20-30 times per minute, and infants - 40-60 times!

Doctors have been thinking about the mystery of uneven human breathing for a long time. The first information and tips on proper breathing were found already on Chinese jade inscriptions that date back to the 6th century BC. Ancient sayings teach: “When breathing, you need to do the following: hold your breath, it accumulates, if it accumulates, it spreads further, if it spreads further, it goes down, becomes calm, if it becomes calm, it strengthens. If you release it, it grows; when it has grown, you need to squeeze it again. If you squeeze it, it will reach the top of your head. There it presses on the head, presses down. The one who follows this method lives, and the one who does the opposite will die.”

Buteyko's revolutionary discovery

Konstantin Buteyko (1923–2003), scientist, physiologist, clinician, committed revolutionary discovery in medecine. He argued that people breathe incorrectly - very deeply. And it is precisely because of this that people often get seriously ill.

The scientist found that, contrary to popular belief, deep, frequent breathing (and we were always taught: “Breathe deeper!”) does not contribute to oxygen saturation. Sick people inhale more air, which leads - as paradoxically as it sounds - to a decrease in the level of oxygen in the body's cells. The fact is that the cause of the development of diseases is hyperventilation (this is intense breathing that exceeds the body’s need for oxygen. – Author.). That is, when deep breaths the amount of oxygen received by a person does not increase, but carbon dioxide becomes less. And its lack leads to the appearance serious illnesses. For example, the lung volume of a healthy person is 5 liters, and that of a patient with bronchial asthma is about 10–15 liters.

According to Buteyko, excessive removal of carbon dioxide from the body leads to spasms of the bronchi and blood vessels of the brain, limbs, intestines, and bile ducts. The vessels narrow, which means less oxygen reaches the cells. Biochemical reactions in cells change, metabolism is disrupted. Thus, chronic “overeating” of oxygen leads to oxygen deficiency.

Konstantin Buteyko argued: the deeper the breathing, the more seriously ill a person is. The more shallow his breathing, the healthier and more resilient he is. Therefore, Buteyko breathing exercises are a system for healing the body. It is aimed at limiting deep breathing and is called the “volitional elimination of deep breathing (VLD) method,” which allows you to get rid of hyperventilation.

“Chest breathing leads to the fact that we inhale too much air, and our blood vessels narrow,” wrote Buteyko. “Healthy breathing is slow, no more than 16 breaths per minute, through the nose, and also quiet and easy.” An important rule is to breathe only through your nose. Because only the nose is equipped with a complex air filtration and heating system. The nose is only for breathing, and the mouth is for eating.

When breathing through the mouth, the air that enters the lungs is not moistened, is not purified from microscopic dust and everything else, which leads to various diseases and negative phenomena in the respiratory tract:

Respiratory function of the nasal sinuses decreases;

Memory disorder;

The composition of the blood changes (the amount of hemoglobin, calcium, sugar drops; the acid-base balance is disturbed);

Changes in physical development;

Disturbed development of the facial skeleton;

Functions are impaired nervous system (headache, nervous tic, irritability, urinary incontinence, night fears);

Frequent development of tonsillitis, bronchitis, pneumonia;

There is a hearing disorder;

Vision is impaired;

Digestion worsens;

Decrease protective properties respiratory tract in case of infection.

This is an approximate list of diseases and disorders that may occur due to oral breathing disorders.

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WHAT DOES THE NOSE DO

The beginning of the respiratory tract is nasal cavity. She performs a series essential functions during the breathing process. Firstly, the nose is the first barrier to entry into the lungs from environment substances harmful to the body. The hairs of the nostrils trap dust particles, microorganisms and other substances that enter the nose when inhaling.

Secondly, cold air, passing through the nasal passages, is warmed by heat blood vessels. Thanks to this, already warmed air enters the lungs. In addition, in the nasal cavity, the inhaled air is moistened, and nasal mucus, thanks to local immunity, fights harmful microorganisms and viruses.

In children, in comparison with adults, the nasal cavity has a number of distinctive features. The nasal passages are narrow, and the nasal mucosa is abundantly supplied with small blood vessels, which is why children often experience rhinitis. To prevent this from happening, children from an early age must be taught proper breathing through the nose.

It is with diseases of the nasal cavity (chronic runny nose, adenoids, deviated nasal septum, etc.) that many lung diseases and respiratory dysfunction begin.

The nose is the first and most important boundary line between the “inner world” of our body and the aggressive external environment. As cold air passes through the nasal passages, it is moistened by nasal mucus and warmed by the warmth of the blood vessels. Hairs growing on the mucous membrane of the nostrils and nasal mucus trap dust particles, protecting the bronchi and lungs from contamination. With every breath, the nose bravely enters into the fight against dangerous components of the air, disinfecting air flow. Faced with a viral attack (and today science knows 200 respiratory viruses), the nose tries to resist it with its own means - it produces a huge amount of mucus, which washes away harmful agents. In the absence of infection, about 500 ml of mucus and fluid are formed in the nose per day, and during illness - much more. That is why a person with a runny nose should increase their daily fluid intake by at least 1.5–2 liters.

In general, a runny nose is a signal that you are being “attacked.” At this moment, you need to act very energetically to stop the further spread of the infection. Otherwise, “harmless” sniffling may become a precursor to more serious problems with health.

SO KONSTANTIN BUTEYKO SAID:

“The paradox is that when a choking asthmatic greedily swallows air, he only aggravates his condition. I want to breathe even more, my lungs work like a blacksmith’s bellows, my heart beats like a motor at full speed, and there is increasingly not enough oxygen. You just have to hold your breath and relief comes instantly. A protective reaction is triggered: without waiting for the next breath, the body reacts to the delay by dilating blood vessels in order to deliver as much blood as possible to the organs and provide them with maximum oxygen. Normal breathing is not only an inhalation for the next portion of oxygen, but also a reasonable pause on exhalation, necessary to save carbon dioxide, which we rush to get rid of, considering it harmful.”

There were constant suffocations. The severe attack lasted for two days.

She was cured using the Buteyko method.

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The essence of the method

The scientist experimentally proved that in the blood healthy people there is much more carbon dioxide than in patients with, say, bronchial asthma, colitis, stomach ulcers, or those who have had a heart attack or stroke. Therefore, in order to save a person from an illness, it is only necessary to teach him to save carbon dioxide in his body. What allows you to do this is NOT DEEP, but SUPERFICIAL breathing.

To saturate the blood with carbon dioxide, which is very little in the surrounding air, you need to regulate your breathing, making it shallow, and the pauses between breaths longer.

The advantages of breathing exercises according to Buteyko are the ability to perform exercises anywhere and anytime: at home, while walking, at work and even in transport. In addition, it is quite simple and suitable for all age groups, from children from 4 years old to the most elderly people.

The essence of treatment is to gradually reduce the depth of breathing. As the breath-hold lengthens, the blood and tissues become increasingly saturated with oxygen and carbon dioxide and are restored acid-base balance, metabolic processes are normalized, stronger immune defense. And the disease recedes.

Diagnosis: chronic obstructive bronchitis with an asthmatic component, chronic adnexitis, thyrotoxicosis. Complaints on a daily basis paroxysmal cough in the morning, ending with an attack of suffocation, difficulty breathing when walking quickly. The initial depth of breathing exceeded the norm by 20 times.

From the first day of practicing the Buteyko method, the need for medications disappeared. By the end of the month of training, the depth of breathing exceeded the norm by 6 times, there were no attacks of suffocation or coughing.

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Why is carbon dioxide important for humans?

Quotes from lectures, articles, books by Konstantin Buteyko:

“...The toxic effect of deep breathing or hyperventilation was discovered back in 1871 by the Dutch scientist De Costa. The disease is called “hyperventilation syndrome” or the initial stage of deep breathing, which accelerates the death of patients. In 1909, the famous physiologist D. Henderson conducted numerous experiments on animals and experimentally proved that deep breathing is fatal to a living organism. The cause of death of experimental animals in all cases was carbon dioxide deficiency, in which excess oxygen becomes toxic.” But people have forgotten about these discoveries, and we often hear calls to breathe deeply.

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“...A few words about the origins: life on Earth arose about 3-4 billion years ago. At that time, the earth’s atmosphere consisted mainly of carbon dioxide, and there was almost no oxygen in the air, and that’s when life arose on Earth. All living beings, living cells were built from carbon dioxide in the air, just as they are built now.

The only source of life on earth is carbon dioxide; plants feed on it using the energy of the sun. Metabolism took place for billions of years in an atmosphere where the carbon dioxide content was very high. Then, when plants appeared, they and algae ate almost all the carbon dioxide and formed coal reserves. Now in our atmosphere there is more than 20% oxygen, and carbon dioxide is already 0.03%. And if this 0.03% disappears, the plants will have nothing to eat. They will die. And all life on Earth will die. This is absolutely certain: a plant placed under a glass bell without carbon dioxide dies immediately.”

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“We were quite lucky: with one blow we knocked down more than a hundred of the most frequent illnesses nervous system, lungs, blood vessels, metabolism, gastrointestinal tract etc. It turned out that these hundred-plus diseases are directly or indirectly related to deep breathing. Death of 30% of the population modern society comes from deep breathing."

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“...We prove that we are right instantly. If they can’t relieve a hypertensive crisis for weeks, then we can relieve it in a few minutes.”

“Chronic pneumonia in children, which lasts 10–15 years, can be eliminated by reducing breathing after a year and a half. Cholesterol stains, deposits in patients with sclerosis on the eyelids, which were previously removed with a knife, but they grew again, are resolved using our method of reducing breathing in 2-3 weeks.”

“We have proven beyond doubt the reversal of atherosclerosis.”

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“We have established a general law: the deeper the breathing, the more seriously ill a person is and the faster the death, the less (shallow breathing) - the more healthy, hardy and durable he is. Carbon dioxide is important in all this. She does everything. The more it is in the body, the healthier it is.”

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“The fact that carbon dioxide is important for our body is confirmed by embryology. The latest data suggests that for 9 months all of us were in seemingly terrible conditions: we had 3-4 times less oxygen in our blood than now, and 2 times more carbon dioxide. And it turns out that these terrible conditions are what are needed to create man.”

“Now accurate research shows that the cells of our brain, heart, kidneys need an average of 7% carbon dioxide and 2% oxygen, and the air contains 230 times less carbon dioxide and 10 times more oxygen, which means it has become TOXIC for us!”

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“And it is especially poisonous for a newborn who has not yet adapted to it. You have to be amazed folk wisdom, forcing parents to immediately swaddle their newborns tightly, and in the east to fasten their arms and chest with ropes to a board. And our grandmothers swaddled us tightly, then covered us with a rather thick canopy. The child slept and survived normally. Gradually the baby was accustomed to this toxic air environment.”

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“...We now understand what carbon dioxide is - it is the most valuable product on earth, the only source of life, health, wisdom, vigor, beauty, etc. When a person learns to retain carbon dioxide in himself, his mental performance sharply increases, and the excitation of the nervous system decreases . Our Deep Breathing Elimination Method (DEB) treats only one disease – deep breathing. But this disease creates 90% of all diseases.”

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“...Now, as a result of enormous research and experimental work, the actual effect of oxygen is well known. It turns out that if mice begin to breathe pure oxygen, they die within 10–12 days. There are many experiments with people breathing oxygen - the lungs are damaged and pneumonia begins from oxygen. And we treat pneumonia with oxygen. If mice are placed under pressure in oxygen, where the concentration of molecules is even greater, at 60 atmospheres of pressure they die in 40 minutes. Obviously for our body optimal level oxygen is about 10–14%, but not 21%, and this is approximately at an altitude of 3–4 thousand meters above sea level.

Now it’s clear why the percentage of centenarians is higher in the mountains; the fact is undeniable - there is less oxygen there. If you take sick people to the mountains, it turns out that they feel better there. Moreover, they also have the least incidence of angina pectoris, schizophrenia, asthma, heart attack, and hypertension. If you take such patients there, an environment with a lower percentage of oxygen is more optimal for them.”

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“...Our blood comes into contact with the air of the lungs, and the air of the lungs contains 6.5% carbon dioxide and about 12% oxygen, that is, exactly the optimum that is needed. By increasing or decreasing our breathing, we can disrupt this optimum. Deep and frequent breathing leads to loss of carbon dioxide in the lungs, and this is the cause of serious disorders in the body.”

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“A deficiency of CO 2 (carbon dioxide) causes a shift in the internal environment of the body towards the alkaline side and thereby disrupts metabolism, which, in particular, is expressed in the appearance allergic reactions, a tendency to colds, overgrowth of bone tissue (colloquially referred to as salt deposition), etc., up to the development of tumors.”

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“We consider it proven that deep breathing causes epilepsy, neurasthenia, severe insomnia, headaches, migraines, tinnitus, irritability, a sharp decline mental and physical disability, memory impairment, decreased concentration, disturbance of the peripheral nervous system, cholecystitis, chronic runny nose, chronic inflammation lungs, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pneumosclerosis, tuberculosis more often occurs in deep breathers, because their body is weakened. Further: dilation of the veins of the nose, veins in the legs, hemorrhoids, which now have their own theory, obesity, metabolic disorders, a whole range of disorders of the genital organs in men and women, then toxicosis of pregnancy, miscarriages, complications during childbirth.”

“Deep breathing contributes to the flu, gives rise to rheumatism, chronic inflammatory foci, inflammation of the tonsils, as a rule, occurs in deep breathers. Chronic tonsillitis is a very dangerous infection, no less dangerous than tuberculosis. These infections deepen breathing and damage the body even more. Salt deposition (gout) also occurs from deep breathing, wen on the body, any infiltrates, even brittle nails, dry skin, hair loss - all these are, as a rule, the results of deep breathing. These processes are still not treated, not prevented and have no theory.”

Breathing is very shallow, the air descends approximately to the collarbones, and carbon dioxide “stands” below.

To saturate the blood with carbon dioxide, of which there is very little in the surrounding air, you need regulate your breathing, making it superficial, and pauses between breaths - longer.

The principle of proper breathing is simple-have to do shallow shallow breath, V within 2-3 seconds, then exhale for 3-4 seconds and try to increase the pause between breaths. At this time, the human body rests, also for stimulation of the trigeminal nerve, During pauses, you need to look up and not be afraid of the feeling of lack of air that arises.

When you start practicing using such a system, you need to be prepared for the unpleasant sensations that arise in the first stages of the exercises. There may be fear, aversion to exercise, exacerbation of illnesses and a feeling of pain, and symptoms such as loss of appetite, increased breathing and attacks of shortness of breath are also possible. The main thing is not to stop exercising and then, after a while, recovery will begin and the unpleasant sensations will go away.

Method and exercises according to the Buteyko method

A set of breathing exercises by K.P. Buteyko, aimed at development of proper breathing, as well as on the development of human ability hold breath, both during inhalation and exhalation, both at rest and during physical activity.

1. The upper parts of the lungs work:
5 seconds inhale, 5 seconds exhale, relaxing the chest muscles; 5 seconds pause, do not breathe, be in maximum relaxation. 10 times. (2.5 minutes)

2. Full breathing. Diaphragmatic and chest breathing together.
7.5 seconds - inhale, starting with diaphragmatic breathing and ending with chest breathing; 7.5 seconds - exhale, starting from the upper parts of the lungs and ending with the lower parts of the lungs, i.e. diaphragm; 5 seconds - pause. 10 times. (3.5 minutes)

3. Acupressure of the points of the nose at a maximum pause. 1 time .

4. Full breath through the right, then the left half of the nose. 10 times.

5. Abdominal retraction.
For 7.5 seconds - full inhalation, 7.5 seconds - maximum exhalation, 5 seconds - pause, keeping the abdominal muscles retracted. 10 times. (3.5 minutes)

6. Maximum ventilation (MVV).
We perform 12 quick maximum inhalations and exhalations, i.e. 2.5 seconds - inhale, 2.5 seconds - exhale, for 1 minute. After MVL we immediately perform a maximum pause (MP) on exhalation, to the limit. MVL is performed 1 time.

7. Rare breathing. (By levels)
First level:
1-5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. That works out to 4 breaths per minute. Perform for 1 minute, then, without stopping breathing, perform the following levels.
Second level:
2-5 seconds - inhale, 5 seconds - hold your breath after inhalation, 5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. That works out to 3 breaths per minute. Runs for 2 minutes
Third level:
3-7.5 seconds - inhale, 7.5 seconds - hold your breath after inhalation, 7.5 seconds - exhale, 5 seconds - pause. This works out to be 2 breaths per minute. Runs for 3 minutes.
Fourth level:
4-10 seconds - inhale, 10 seconds - hold your breath after inhalation, 10 seconds - exhale, 10 seconds - pause. That works out to 1.5 breaths per minute. Runs for 4 minutes. And so on, who can stand it for how long. Bring the norm to 1 breath per minute.

8. Double breath holding.
First, the MP is performed on exhalation, then the maximum delay on inhalation. 1 time.

9. MP while sitting 3-10 times, MP while walking in place 3-10 times, MP while running in place 3-10 times, MP while squatting. 3-10 times.

10. Shallow breathing.
Sitting in a comfortable position for maximum relaxation, perform chest breathing. Gradually reduce the volume of inhalation and exhalation - to invisible breathing or breathing at the level of the nasopharynx. During such breathing, a slight shortness of air will appear first, then a medium shortness or even a strong one, indicating that the exercise is being performed correctly. Stay on shallow breathing for 3 to 10 minutes.

Be sure to perform all exercises with breathing through the nose and without noise. Before performing the complex and after it, control measurements of MP and pulse,

It is advisable to perform a set of exercises on an empty stomach.

At the final stage of classes breathing according to the method of K.P. Buteyko is happening whole body cleansing reaction. It is impossible to predict when the reaction will begin. It happens after a few tens of minutes, and after several months of classes. There may be several of them, or there may be none at all.

Several exercises using the Buteyko method

Buteyko method. Gymnastics according to Buteyko begins with a gradual decrease in the depth of breathing. In the limit, the inhalation depth should be zero. Reduce depth inhalation using the Buteyko method should be done within 5 minutes. Then take a control pause.Repeat the cycle of breathing exercises 5 times. This cycle must be carried out six times a day - at 0am, 4am, 8am, 12pm, 4pm and 8pm. Based on the control pause indicators, the arithmetic mean of the indicators is calculated. The average training indicator using the Buteyko method is recorded in a notebook and the dynamics of the indicators are monitored.

Recommended therapeutic course of exercises for treatment. The exercise is performed by inhaling and exhaling 64 times, every day for 64 days, then a break for 64 days. Afterwards, apply these exercises as usual.

The reason for the development of these pathological conditions, according to Buteyko, is hyperventilation, causing lack of CO2 in the blood. This occurs due to increased tone smooth muscles, airway spasm and tissue respiration disorders.

About the author of breathing exercises

Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko born in 1923, and in 1952 graduated with honors from the First Moscow Medical Institute named after Sechenov. In the year he graduated from the institute, he learned about his very rare and fatal diagnosis: hypertension in a malignant form. The 29-year-old doctor had no more than two years to live.

It just turned out that in 1989, Konstantin Pavlovich swam with pleasure in the waves of the Yenisei. How is this possible?

Correct breathing - what is it?

First of all, correct breathing extremely important for people suffering from severe hypertension or bronchial asthma. The fact is that with these diseases a person has to breathe in a certain way, namely very deeply. A deep breath followed by