https://www.drbriffa.com/dealing-with-asthma-the-natural-way/ A health-focused blog that makes sense of science, and offers accurate, trustworthy and practical advice about all aspects of healthy living. Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.11 https://www.drbriffa.com/dealing-with-asthma-the-natural-way/#comment-196615 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 01:50:58 +0000 http://www.drbriffa.info/2001/06/26/dealing-with-asthma-the-natural-way/#comment-196615 […] There’s a lot of talk about good fats & bad fats, but I think it’s accepted certain fats may cause inflammation in the body. […]

]]> https://www.drbriffa.com/dealing-with-asthma-the-natural-way/#comment-187973 Sun, 19 Dec 2010 15:42:11 +0000 http://www.drbriffa.info/2001/06/26/dealing-with-asthma-the-natural-way/#comment-187973 A relevant but strangely ignored or not generally known fact about asthma is that the change between weak (asthmatic) and strong (healthy) breathing is dependent on abdominal muscle tension. Slackening the muscles here causes abysmally weak and asthmatic breathing. Training the muscles, for example by “abdominal hollowing” (see Web articles) produces an antiasthmatic effect. Abdominal muscle tension plays a prominent part in Asian martial arts. I tend to breathe asthmatically after an evening meal or in pollen-laden air.
So it is fair to assume that there is a natural breathing spectrum with an asthmatic tendency at one end and Ku Fu or Karate breathing at the other end. For a few words on the Japanese version of Asian breathing see http://www.lrz.de/~s3e0101/webserver/webdata/OBT.pdf
Breathing powerfully into my lower abdomen with tensed muscles provides an effective cure for me. But then I’ve always been sceptical about medical wisdom on asthma. Respectively, Richard Friedel

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