Buteyko Method

Dr.Konstantin Buteyko (1923-2003) is the inventor of the therapy, free from drugs, for bronchial asthma, known today as the “Buteyko Method”.

He is a doctor-scientist Ukrainian by birth and discovered and demonstrated that the main cause of the bronchiospasm in bronchial asthma is the CO2 deficiency (carbon dioxide) in the pulmonary alveoli, caused by hyperventilation (S.I.C syndrome from chronic hyperventilation).

He was the first person to describe this mechanism in the Sixty’s during the period in which was the director of the laboratory of diagnostic of the Institute of Experimental Biology and Medicines, Novosibirsk USSR. The understanding and the acquaintance of this mechanism was the base for the development of the Buteyko Method, which resolves not only asthma but also all those illnesses relative to hyperventilation like chronic bronchitis, rhinitis, allergies, hypertension, anxiety, bulimia, headaches, circolatory problems….

The technique consists in the execution of simple exercises that aim to correct a wrong breathing model therefore a respiratory re-training that it induces you to improve and to diminish the number of breathing actions in a minute. Many studies and searches have confirmed the validity of the therapeutic program and in Russia, England and Australia it is proposed as method in order to eliminate asthma definitively eliminating the use of drugs.

….” God made breath so that it could be the thin tie between body and spirit…. The secret of the Cosmic Conscience is intimately tied to the mastery of the breath.”

Paramhansa Yogananda

Link:
http://www.buteyko.com/