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natur The exact cause of asthma is not known but it can be triggered by allergies, air pollution, respiratory infections, emotions, weather conditions, sulfites in food and certain medications. Common symptoms include coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath and chest tightness.

Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the air passages that carry air from the nasal area and mouth to lungs and vice versa. When a person suffers from asthma, he/she finds it difficult to breathe in outside air and thus, feel suffocated and congested. One does not have to have asthma as an official diagnosis to have and feel difficulty with one's breathing. Our breathing is the most consistent barometer of our wellbeing telling us how we are feeling on a moment to moment basis. Our breathing tracks heart rate variability (HRV) with both being perfect mirrors of stress.

Asthma can occur in people of all age groups, from a 2-year old kid to a 50-year old man. Since, airways become swollen during asthma, muscles around them get tightened, which causes less air to flow to lungs. Asthma is a disease that does not have a permanent cure if one follows the western pharmaceutical paradigm. Symptoms and adversity can be suppressed with drug treatments and procedures, but can flare up at any point and any day no matter how many medicines are taken. Thus for cures to be found a person has to go deep into themselves and their emotions as well as other habits of life (like breathing) to reach a level where inflammation and crisis in the airways becomes rare or non-existent.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long-term poor airflow instead of the crisis then back to normalization patterns that happens with asthmatics. The main symptoms include shortness of breath and cough with sputum production. COPD typically worsens over time. Eventually walking upstairs or carrying things will be difficult. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are older terms used for different types of COPD.

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Dealing with Grief, Sadness and Loss

Grief and sadness are the two main emotions that affect the lungs and this is a big problem for many asthma sufferers who usually have an emotional component to their medical situation. Chinese physician Emma Suttie wrote, I have been dealing with a lot of grief lately. This is usually the way it goes. A patient comes in who is suffering with loss. Perhaps it is the breakup of a relationship, the loss of a pet or the death of a loved one. There is nothing more devastating to us than loss. It hurts the heart, and leaves us with an emptiness that is difficult to fill. It is something that everyone on the planet will have to deal with many times in their lives, so I thought that I would talk about some of the ways that it can be made a little easier, less painful, and with minimal suffering in the context of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

The lungs main task is respiration. There is the physical component of breathing and an energetic function, which forms energy from air, and helps to distribute it throughout the body. The lungs also work with the kidney to regulate water metabolism. The lungs are also important in the immune system and resistance to viruses and bacteria.

Symptoms of lung imbalances in Chinese medicine include: Shortness of breath and shallow breathing, sweating, fatigue, cough, frequent cold and flu, allergies, asthma, and other lung conditions. Dry skin. Depression and crying.

Setting Boundaries and Dividing the Line between Oxygen and CO2

The Lung’s task is that of making a boundary between the inner and the outer world. The lungs are actually an extension of the skin. The skin is like an outer lung and the pores are seen as the ‘doors of Qi’. The skin also breathes and exchanges substances with the outer environment. It’s healthy functioning is seen as an aspect of Lung function.

The immediate cause of an asthmatic attack is tightening of the muscular bands that regulate the size of the bronchial tubes. These muscles are controlled by nerves, but what triggers the nerves to make airways constrict inappropriately is not clear. The triggers for asthma can be primarily allergic or primarily emotional or induced by exercise or respiratory infection, or it can occur with no obvious causes. It is now being considered an inflammatory disorder. (For all of these reasons taking sodium bicarbonate with lemon (which turns it into CO2) is a fantastic and prime treatment for asthma as it relaxes the blood vessels, decreases inflammation and calms the nerves through pH regulation.)

Breathing Problems

The most vital and obvious material that the Lung takes in and controls is oxygen; but it also has everything to do with carbon dioxide levels in the blood, which is controlled by our breathing rate. Across the boundary of the lungs oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide is excreted. Of course the faster we breathe the more CO2 we throw off the less oxygen our cells receive in the end.

The faster we breathe the more inflammation we will have in general and along the air channels. The lower our CO2 levels go (faster we breathe) the more constricted the blood vessels will be (the higher our blood pressure will be) the closer we become to the possibility of our next Asthma attack. THE MAIN TREATMENT FOR ASTHMA IS BREATHING RETRAINING.

The lungs are nourished by breathing. The best way to amplify Lung energy is to take plenty of fresh air, develop the physical capacity of the lungs through exercise such as swimming, and to consciously bring awareness into the breath. A few minutes each day of relaxed breathing, learning to breathe with the diaphragm and relaxing the muscles of the chest and shoulders, can be very effective at building the power of the Lung.

That said using and training with a simple breathing device called the Breathslim will take one miles further and even then we are just touching the surface of how we can breathe our way back to health. When it comes to breathing we can create any miracle we want if we are truly serious and ready to be miraculous in our discipline. Asthma and COPD patients will know their asthma is changing when they affect changes in their breathing.

Simplest diagnosis is to count how many times a minute you are breathing. This is not so simple to do for you will notice the second you start paying attention to the breath it changes so try not to change too much when you count and count several times and at different times. For an Asthmatic not to be conscious of their breathing is dangerous and could lead to their death. What stands between life and death at every moment of life is the next breath. Quick rule of thumb… Twelve breaths or over and you are in unhealthy territory, and as you approach twenty you are approaching cancer. Training and breathing at eight breaths a minute and below brings you to a new land of lung physiology—meaning it brings an asthmatic to healing and health.

Sunshine Heals

One way doctors create asthmatics, besides with their vaccines, is to keep people out of the sun. Asthmatic children with low blood vitamin D levels may have a greater risk of suffering severe asthma attacks. A study followed more than 1,000 children with asthma for four years, and found those with vitamin-D insufficiency at the outset were more likely to have an asthma attack that required a trip to the hospital. Another research team found that 86 percent of the children in the study with asthma had insufficient levels of vitamin D, while only 19 percent of non-asthmatics had these low levels.

Drink Plenty of Water

Dehydration of course causes inflammation the last thing asthmatic patients want. The Water Cure is a simple free method works for everyone to a point but that point is important for every patient. We just cannot afford to allow ourselves to be dehydrated and yet so many people are.

Acupuncture

Nothing works as well for asthmatics as acupuncture. When crisis hits having needles around and knowing how to use them is more than helpful. Same goes for acupressure and Shiatsu, knowing where to touch or massage helps enormously in crisis situations as it does as a long-term treatment approach. One of the main reasons acupuncture works so well for Asthma is that it addresses both the physical and energetic levels simultaneously and instantly.

Negative response to emotional stress can cause an asthma attack. Some natural relaxation remedies like deep abdominal breathing, progressive muscle relaxation, guided imagery, and biofeedback can help relieve stress.

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