Science has worked towards developing of possible cures, preventions, and treatments for various illnesses. There are tons of medicines for each ailment out there. Modern medicine is developed through extensive research and evidence, which contributes to its popularity of use. This fact-based approach is often called “conventional medicine”. Any other approach is branded as “alternative medicine”. But even with all the advancements in science and technology, there is, technically, no cure for anything. As the saying goes, there isn’t even a cure for the common cold.

Modern medicine has created controller and rescue medications for asthma attacks. Bronchodilators are used as rescue medications and have been the most popular form of asthma treatment since the invention of inhalers in the 1950s. Alternative treatments range from relevant anti-inflammatory drugs, to oriental practices such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, and yoga-influenced breathing techniques.

Breathing techniques, also known as breathing exercises and proper or correct breathing, are known to alleviate asthma symptoms without the help of the usual bronchodilators. The Buteyko method defies the laws of science and facts but has proven its worth and is now declared by various clinical studies as 96% efficient in treating asthma.

The Buteyko breathing method was also developed in the 1960s by the late Russian doctor, Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko. He noticed that an ill person almost always over-breathes. He thought it possible to reverse the illness by controlling breathing. The Buteyko method was adapted in Russian hospitals and has helped a lot of asthmatics. It allegedly spread after a foreigner was subjected to that treatment in a Russian hospital and preached it in his homeland.

When the Buteyko method was adapted in the west, it has adapted and changed. Techniques vary across countries. But the core principles of Buteyko Method remain the same. The principles include reduced breathing, nasal breathing, and relaxed breathing. Overall, the Buteyko Method is about breathing correctly to alleviate asthma since we normally over-breathes when we are ill. While the relationship between illnesses and over-breathing remains unclear, the Buteyko method does work and has been accepted as an alternative asthma treatment.

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