A robust asthma theory
- From: "s3e0101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <s3e0101@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 Mar 2007 00:36:54 -0700
I generally take a mainstream view of medicine, but the following
material seems to be scientific and just a word to the wise.
The theory of Dr. Greenfield Sluder of St. Paul about asthma being a
symptom of nose damage (JAMA 1919 559-561,) can be tested, backed by
the following reasoning.
If the nose is put out of action by a chemical or anesthetic (Sluder
speaks of an asthma reflex) and this causes asthma on an reflex basis,
then uncoupling the nose to temporarily cut it out of the respiratory
system would also favor asthma, if the nose is held then there should
be some asthma-relevant effect on breathing.
This does seem to be the case: holding one's nose in an experiment
while mouth breathing inhibits the taking of a deep breath by reflex
action and the inability to take a deep breath is a key symptom of
asthma (research on by Dr. Gwen Skloot and others), as is generally
known. Skloot showed that, failing the taking of a deep breath, a
healthy person like an asthmatic in a provocation test, but reflexes
do not seem to have gotten attention in this line of research
The "deep inspiration enabling reflex" stemming from the nose would
seem be due to a gentle impingement of air flow on the nose mucous
membrane. Obviously, scarcely any pressure can be involved seeing that
in the experiment the mouth is wide open and not partially closed to
force flow through the nose.
Therefore gentle impingement of air on healthy nose tissues during an
inhale should unlock the asthmatic's chest by reflex action.
Furthermore an empathetic approach to the situation in an attack of
asthma seems legitimate here. The victim's frantic efforts to take a
deep breath may be interpreted as an intelligent attempt to open up
his airways like for an athletic exertion which is foiled by some
fault in the deep breath mechanism and not primarily due to airway
constriction.
This possible interpretation of an attack seems to be completely
ignored by the medical world but might well be a more civilized and
intelligent approach.
All this points to the use of yoga breathing techniques as being more
scientific for asthma treatment. See the controversial Yogi Ramdev -
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-386913693756370208&q=ramdev&hl=en,
more especially alternate nostril breathing (nadi shodanna) and
Bhastrika. These techniques are generally recommended for asthma.
The fact that yoga breathing is so hyped by him to cure so many
diseases seems irrelevant here, if they methods themselves are
demonstrated correctly.
All this amounts to a legitimation of yoga and other eastern breathing
methods rather than of pulmonology expressly based on fluid mechanics
and not on reflexes. Regards, Richard Friedel 00491709026830
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