Numerous forms of yoga have been scientifically shown to handle and perhaps even "cure" several persistent diseases. Ten useful videos on Yoga and alternative healing are at <a href="http://www.alternativehealthtreatments.org>yoga</a>. Also over 450 informational and instructional videos on 48 different alternative healing treatments are viewable at <a href="http://www.alternativehealthtreatments.org>alternative health</a>. Listed below are various health issues that have been proved scientifically to be improved by yoga.
Asthma: Yoga breathing exercises might aid sufferers of mild asthma and may help reduce their use of low-dose drug inhalers in wheezing attacks. Researchers from the Respiratory Medicine Unit, City University, Nottingham, call for additional studies of ways of improving breathing mastery which they say have been largely unheeded by Western medicine. although yoga practitioners have long believed in the benefits of pranayama breathing exercises for asthmatics, this has been tough to examine formally. But, using a Pink City lung - a machine that imposes gradual breathing on the user and can mimic pranayama breathing exercises - it was achievable to assess the effects of controlled breathing in a hospital test. Two simulated pranayama exercises were tested: slow deep breathing and breathing out for twice as long as breathing in. In asthma, the airways become restricted making breathing difficult. It is increasing in the UK, with more than three million children and adults affected, and are responsible for 2,000 deaths annually. The doctors used standard clinical tests to quantify the volume of air patients were able to blow out in a second and to test the irritability of their airways. After yoga, their airways were two times less irritable.
(more...)