By way of yoga breathing exercises can help people with mild asthma and may help reduce the use of low-dose inhalers in wheezing attacks.
This has been evidenced from research Respiratory Medicine Unit, City University, Nottingham, calls for more studies of ways to improve the control of breathing which they say has been ignored by Western medicine.
While yoga practitioners have long believed in the benefits of pranayama breathing exercises for asthma sufferers, it is difficult to learn formally. But, using a Pink City lung - a device that sets the breathing slow and users can mimic pranayama breathing exercises - it is possible to measure the effects of controlled breathing in hospital trials.
Two simulated pranayama exercises were tested: slow deep breathing and breathing out for twice as long to breathe in.
In asthma, the airways become restricted making breathing difficult. It is increasing in the UK, with more than three million children and adults are affected, and was responsible for 2,000 deaths each year.
The doctor uses a standard clinical test for measuring the volume of patients were able to blow air in one second and to test their airway irritability. After yoga, air ducts twice as irritability,
Although people with asthma should not stop their medication, they will have to experiment with breathing exercises