Symptoms of Asthma
A person coping with asthma may experience following
symptoms.
- Whistling
or hissing sound at the time of exhaling
- Running
nose or itchy throat is accompanied by the attack
- More
difficulty in exhaling than inhaling
Causes of Asthma
A person may get affected with asthma due to the following causes.
Allergy – The
most common cause of asthma is allergy. It can be allergy from food, dust, body
sprays, perfumes, weather, drugs and many more. Dust allergy is the commonest
of all.
Heredity –
Researches have proved that almost 75% of the asthma patients have inherited
the problem. It can be from one or both the parents suffering from this
disease.
Combination of Different
Reasons – Some of the asthmatic patients get attacks due to combination of
factors like allergy, pollution, infections etc. Smokes and chemical fumes also
trigger the attacks of asthma in many people.
Treating Asthma with
Yoga Therapy
Various tests have proved that yoga is the best way to treat
asthma as this has no side effects and only positive impact on the overall
health of the patient. Although there are drugs and medicines, but it is
advisable that these should be taken in severe conditions only. If you are
suffering from asthmatic symptoms or anyone in your family suffers from this,
you should take complete precautionary measures.
Practicing yoga asanas and pranayamas have proved that asthmatic
people had fewer attacks than they used to have before. After a considerable
amount of time, these patients depicted more positive results. Simple breathing
exercises and pranayamas help a lot. It is always good to practice yoga in
empty stomach and have some patience to get complete recovery.
Yoga Asanas
Beneficial for Asthma Patients
Have a quick look at the yoga asanas which are beneficial
for coping with asthma. However, consult your doctor and yoga expert before
practicing these yoga
asanas.
The best thing about yoga asanas is that it helps cure and
prevent the disease from occurring. Yoga asanas and pranayamas reduce the
attacks of asthma in the patients. The regular practice of yoga open up lungs
and more fresh air is inhaled. It helps relax and strengthen the muscles of the
lungs.
Pranayama specially has dramatic effect on asthma. Deep and
relaxed breathing is associated with pranayama and this helps the person get
more oxygen which further improves the cells in the body. It relaxes the
muscles and soothes the person as well. It cleans the air passage and makes
breathing easy and normal for the patient. Kapalabhati pranayama helps in
dropping mucus clogging.
Asthma causes discomfort but it is known to take the death
toll provided timely care is not taken of the patient. Pollution and heredity
are two main causes of asthma and therefore the increase in the number of
patients has been observed in past 3 – 4 decades throughout the world. Yoga
helps you get relief from stress and any kind of emotional turmoil also that is
too one of the causes behind asthma attacks.
