Yoga for Asthma

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.