Buteyko breathing method for asthma treatment?

[Eva_Luna]

Has anyone besides me ever heard of eucapnic breathing? It’s apparently a special method of training people to breathe, used in treating asthma. It was invented by a Russian named Buteyko. He was either a genius or a crackpot (or both), and claimed a super-high success rate in reducing the number of attacks asthmatics have.

I haven’t been able to identify anyone in the U.S. who knows anything about this method. Since I’m asthmatic and hate taking drugs for it, this prospect is obviously of great interest to me. Any concrete info you can provide on effectiveness or practitioners would be great.

[the_duke_69]

Asthma is one condition which responds with dramatic results when the Hyperventilation which accompanies this condition is controlled. The Buteyko method of breathing states that asthma is largely a response to Hyperventilation and teaches asthmatics how to reduce ventilation levels and raise CO2 to initially control symptoms and later to change the underlying immune system and inflammatory condition in asthma. A recent research trial in Australia on the Buteyko method showed that asthmatics were able to reduce their bronchodilator intake by 90% and steroids by 30% with no deterioration in symptom score and improved quality of life scores when using the Buteyko breathing method.19

Cite:
http://www.positivehealth.com/permit/Articles/Asthma/courtny40.htm

There is more on the site…I also have asthma and have tried this. I could not keep the disapline needed for it. hope this helps

[handsomeharry]

isn’t this the one that-hold on, i can;t remember which actor it is-either the actor who played paulie in ‘goodfellas’ or danny aiello. one of them do some kind of breathing method to control asthma. i think that they were on donahue about 10 yrs ago talking about it.