Pride of Britain Awards 2002: Jill McGowan

Winner 2002: Jill McGowan

(...)

Although she was sceptical, Jill decided to try the technique and was amazed with the results. In fact, she was so impressed that she was to sell her house to fund research into it.

She says: "At that time I was taking medication seven or eight times a day. I went along for the course, and after 24 hours I never touched an inhaler again."

Jill, who lives in Glasgow, was astonished to find that the treatment was not available on the NHS, so she applied to universities for grants to allow her to fund a pilot study.

When they turned her down she took a decision that sums up her selflessness. She sold her house and used the £55,000 proceeds to pay for the study herself.

Jill says: "Both my daughters had left home and I had a three-bedroom detached villa with lots of grounds to look after. For me not to carry it forward meant I would not have been true to myself."

The study resulted in a 96 per cent success rate, and, buoyed by this, Jill set up the Buteyko Institute Trust. It launched a two-year clinical study last

April in which 600 asthma sufferers are now trying the technique.

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Yoga-space: Buteyko by Dean Rees-Evans

Yoga-space: Buteyko by Dean Rees-Evans:

" In Russia today all medical doctors are taught Professor Buteyko’s theory and method as part of their medical training. The method is taught to patients for the alleviation of a variety of chronic medical conditions listing up to at least 150.

The Buteyko Practitioners in Russia work along side the medical doctors to teach the method to the doctor’s patients and monitor their progress as the patient comes to a fuller understanding of the exercises they are taught. Given the time restraints on most doctors, this system works well as the teaching of the method is time consuming and initially labour intensive, as it is imperative that the patient has a full understanding of what they are doing with the exercises before they can progress alone.

Buteyko’s theory is that at least 90% of the world’s population hyperventilates[1] to some degree; this causes a deficit in the levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the system, which in turn leads to less oxygen (O2) being released by the haemoglobin to the cells and tissue of the body, the Bohr Effect[2]. The central organs of the body begin to become starved of oxygen and soon begin to suffer; this in turn can lead to many chronic medical conditions.

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSU enrollment is up 2.7 percent

Er is genoeg geld beschikbaar voor onderzoek! maar wie beslist waar dat geld naar toe gaat?!

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSU enrollment is up 2.7 percent: "Latino center gets grant for asthma

SAN MARCOS – The National Latino Research Center has received a $420,000 grant to fight asthma.

The center at California State University San Marcos will provide technical assistance, training, policy development and other help to groups fighting asthma triggers. The three-year grant is from the California Endowment.

One in 10 California children suffers from asthma, affecting nearly 1.2 million youths in the state and costing $480 million a year in hospital stays, according to the center. Since 2002, the Community Action to Fight Asthma network, funded by the California Endowment, has helped shape public policies that affect the environmental conditions that could trigger asthma in children.

The research center works with Southern California hospitals, clinics, schools, housing rights groups, community advocates and parents of children with asthma to try to reduce possible asthma triggers, including poor indoor and outdoor air quality at schools, emissions from diesel exhaust on streets and conditions including mold, roaches, and chipped and peeling paint in the home.

For more information call the center at (760) 750-3503.

– Elena Gaona"

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSU enrollment is up 2.7 percent

Er is genoeg geld beschikbaar voor onderzoek! maar wie beslist waar dat geld naar toe gaat?!

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Education -- CSU enrollment is up 2.7 percent: "Latino center gets grant for asthma

SAN MARCOS – The National Latino Research Center has received a $420,000 grant to fight asthma.

The center at California State University San Marcos will provide technical assistance, training, policy development and other help to groups fighting asthma triggers. The three-year grant is from the California Endowment.

One in 10 California children suffers from asthma, affecting nearly 1.2 million youths in the state and costing $480 million a year in hospital stays, according to the center. Since 2002, the Community Action to Fight Asthma network, funded by the California Endowment, has helped shape public policies that affect the environmental conditions that could trigger asthma in children.

The research center works with Southern California hospitals, clinics, schools, housing rights groups, community advocates and parents of children with asthma to try to reduce possible asthma triggers, including poor indoor and outdoor air quality at schools, emissions from diesel exhaust on streets and conditions including mold, roaches, and chipped and peeling paint in the home.

For more information call the center at (760) 750-3503.

– Elena Gaona"

Ringing Radiance: INTRO TO BUTEYKO BREATHING

Ringing Radiance: INTRO TO BUTEYKO BREATHING: "INTRO TO BUTEYKO BREATHING
A Russian doctor named Konstantin Buteyko discovered this therapeutic breathing technique in 1952, and since then it has had a long history of safe use, correcting a myriad of problems related to hyperventilation.

This can include such conditions as asthma, emphysema, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, any condition related to stress, sleep disorders, all kinds of respiratory disorders, all kinds of nervous and immune system disorders, chronic fatigue, cardiovascular disorders, migraine, high blood pressure, etc.

Apparently something like 98% of us hyperventilate; not just people who have asthma or are having a panic attack, but everyone who can't hold their breath for 60 seconds comfortably!"

Ringing Radiance: BUTEYKO METHOD BREATHING

Ringing Radiance: BUTEYKO METHOD BREATHING: "BUTEYKO METHOD BREATHING
Buteyko Method Breathing
By Larry Wall

In the short run to resolve the panic attacks, I suggest you begin practicing the Buteyko Method. I've worked with plenty of students up here at the University who've experienced panic attacks (as well as private practice patients), and they resolve quite quickly using Buteyko's Method.

Without going into detail at the moment because of lack of time, I understand panic attacks from the inside out, having experienced them extensively in college after suffering pleurisy for a winter back then. What you need to practice is holding your breath exhaled in a relaxed fashion. "

Asthma Foundation of India

Asthma Foundation of India: " Several million people worldwide are affected by Asthma. While considerable progress has been made towards controlling and managing this ailment, substantial efforts are required to understand the causes and develop cures.
Asthma is a major public health problem in India. It is estimated that 10% of the population i.e. approximately 100 million people suffer from asthma causing morbidity resulting in loss of productive days and in extreme situations mortality. Environmental pollution in urban areas further aggravates the problem. Asthma affects all age groups, male and female and all income groups.
The Asthma Foundation of India is a step towards effective control of this health hazard. AFI seeks to increase awareness of asthma and to improve the quality of health care available to treat asthma. AFI is a part of the Global campaign against Asthma.
The Foundation was incorporated in April 1998, as a not-for-profit organisation under the aegis of Dr. Raj B. Singh, Apollo Hospitals and Mr. T. Shankar, CEO, Management Solutions.
A group of founder members have come together to form the Board of Trustees. The Foundation is registered under sec. 80G of the Income Tax Act.A unique feature of the foundation is that both medical and non-medical persons will take an active part in the foundation at all levels. The membership is open to all Indian citizens."

Asthma

Asthma-blog:

Asthma

THE FIRST-HAND BUTEYKO METHOD

Editor’s Foreword
The Buteyko Method has long been the talk of the town. Numerous publications express an extreme variety of opinions ranging from utter denial to cordial acclaim. Our decision was to give floor to experienced practitioners of the Method and a direct K.P. Buteyko’s stalwarts, Ms Marina Buteyko, Master of Medicine, Head Physician of “Buteyko Company Ltd” (Voronezh, Russia) and Mr Vladimir Buteyko, General Director of “Buteyko Company Ltd”.


Marina Buteyko, Vladimir Buteyko
THE FIRST-HAND BUTEYKO METHOD
Few recovery methods have been less erroneously publicized. Despite that, the Buteyko Method continues to steadily spread in Russia and outside (in 2002 it was even discussed in British parliament). That is caused by numerous instances of true recovery from asthma, allergies and other diseases still deemed “incurable” owing to correction of breathing. At that, as is well known, most medicines can only grant temporary relief.

So, do we dump medicines?
Not at all! The Buteyko Method is simply based on a different prescriptions and dosage principles! For non-hormonal symptomatic medicines, one of a such principles is the Principle of the Minimum, i.e. the principle of first visible influence on symptom intensity. In other words, the dosage must be reduce to minimum and only allow to suffer the symptom or prevent the attack of an illness from further development.

How can we correct breathing?
Please be really attentive here. The rules discovered by K.P. Buteyko prove that direct control of respiratory movements (inhale/exhale/pause amplitude and/or duration) is extremely dangerous. This means that almost all known methods of “respiratory gymnastics” have nothing to do with the Buteyko Method and may turn to be quite hazardous. The Buteyko Method reduces breathing only by means of relaxation. Sometimes the Buteyko Method is thought of as “the breath-holding technique”. In actual fact, the Buteyko Method uses breath-holding only for special purposes so, as to produce the minimum impact on correction of breathing.

Well then, is the Buteyko Method some sort of training?
Not always. Sometimes, simple "nasal breathing only and flat refusal of coughing" perfectly suffices. As a result, the person who tried all possible medicines and suffered from bronchitis for years on end recovers completely in just a week or two. The essence of the Buteyko Method training is the three rules. First, try to always (not only during training) breathe with nose, even if it is “stuffed”. Give it a try, and you’ll see how it gets gradually “un-stuffed”. Second, equalize and reduce breathing by relaxation. There are lots of ways to do so, but you may try your own ones based on observations of your breathing. Third, in no way go too far. In other words, you reduce breath till slight air hunger. You can know you’re doing right if you don’t want to breathe more after training. In addition to training, help to breathing with breath-reducing factors and, on the other hand, avoid breath-increasing factors for total recovery and prophylaxis. Almost all our actions and environment can be grouped as such factors.

These are some breath-increasing factors:
- majority of drugs;
- ecology: household chemical goods, synthetic exhausts, etc.;
- overeating (especially of proteins);
- hypodynamia (lack of physical load);
- immorality: avarice, malice, immoderate pleasures, etc.

Now see some breath-reducing factors:
- eating restrictions (fasting),
- optimum physical loads, physical labor;
- tempering;
- attention;
- ascetic factors: rigid bed, hard furniture, cool temperature in the rooms, restricted pleasures, etc.;
- high morality, aspiration to spiritual values.

How can we identify the extent of incorrect breathing?
By measuring "the control pause" and pulse. All known publications describe measuring of the control pause quite vaguely. Below is a clearer description:
The control pause should be preferably measured in standard conditions, after a 10 minute breath-equalizing rest.

Sit conveniently. Take a beautiful, correct posture, spread out your shoulders. The stomach will straighten up. Inhale normally, relax the stomach. Involuntary exhalation will come out by itself. As the exhalation is finished, note the position of the second hand visually and hold breath. During the time of measuring, do not follow the hand, just focus on a spot in front of you or shut your eyes. Do not breathe in until it gets difficult, i.e. until diaphragm's "push" up. Simultaneously, stomach and neck muscles get push too: patients normally describe this condition as a "push in the throat". Read of the second hand's position at the "push" point, and continue breathing. Do not inhale deeper than prior to breath-holding.

Thus measured pairs of stable values "control pause - pulse" determine the stage of your disease by the following rule:
- longer than 40 sec with the pulse below 70 - healthy.
- from 20 sec (pulse 80) to 40 sec - first stage.
- from 10 sec (pulse 90) to 20 sec - second stage.
- shorter than 10 sec - third stage.

Stability of values is the "repeatability" of such values within the range corresponding to a specific stage of the disease during at least several days.
Can the Buteyko Method be imitated with the help of devices and/or air mixes?
The rules and laws researched by K.P. Buteyko prove it is impossible. The authors of such devices and/or mixes should have own explanation why they are necessary. Use of K.P Buteyko’s name for marketing of such mixes and/or devices is frauds and deceit of consumers.

What are the safety requirements to using the Buteyko Method?
The Buteyko Method cannot be applied, if the patient has diseases true recovery from which is hazardous for health or life, e.g. thrombosis.
Self-healing is counter-indicated to:
1. Persons with the 3-d stage deep breath disease.
2. Persons taking hormonal preparations.

For the other sick persons, an integral self-healing safety requirement is correct measuring of the control pause.
Persons with the 2nd stage of disease of deep breath may independently resort to the Buteyko Method in order to only stabilize the disease. To do so, do not allow the control pause values approach the stage-determining limits for more than 2 sec. The control pause must be measured maximum four times a day.

Rumors have it, the Buteyko Method gives you terrible "unpleasant states". Is that right?
Yes, it is. "unpleasant states" or "sanogenesis reactions" occur. However, they can be successfully overcome with, provided you are advised by a qualified Buteyko practitioner. Those reactions are inevitable exacerbations of symptoms which are to be "suffered through" on the way to true recovery since the diseases are chronic.
When do we best turn for practitioner's advice on the Buteyko Method?
Apparently, you should turn to the Buteyko practitioners when you feel signs of your disease. It is necessary to show you that your actions and your health interrelate.

Editor’s Comments
Doctors are always cautious with the word “recovery”. Traditional medical history confirms chronic diseases are barely healable, but successfully controllable. On the other hand, the article has something to say about healthy life-styles, overcoming bad habits and features. There is no denial that acting on the inner world and mind beneficially affects healing. However, in real life there is no place for miracles… Well, what if there is? What if there are disease-impact factors the official medicine is unaware of? At any rate, we are far from unsubstantially denying any method aimed at recovery of health. But we remind you: beware and beware! Do not refuse from prescribed drugs only because someone promised healing, such experiments only too often end dramatically. The Buteyko Method helps some people, has no effect on others, and yet aggravates the disease in some other instances.
We have already written on these pages that the results of local applications of the Buteyko Method was tested in Great Britain. True, dyspnea went down, hormones and bronchodilators became less necessary. Nevertheless the signs of allergic inflammation in bronchi remained, which meant that bronchi were still ready for spasms at any instant.
There may be a time when healing methods will alter the nature of the Man to deliver us all from trouble. Well, there’s something to live for. Yet…

Asthma treatment Buteyko asthma management asthma drugs information

Asthma treatment Buteyko asthma management asthma drugs information: "Asthma is a 21st century epidemic

* 150 million asthma sufferers worldwide

* 5.1 million asthmatics in the UK

* 1 in 8 children and 1 in 13 adults suffer from asthma in the UK

* UK has the highest incidence of childhood asthma in the world

* Every 4 minutes in the UK a child suffering asthma is admitted to hospital

* Cost of asthma to the UK is estimated to be £2 billion every year"

Astma : Hoe vaak komt astma voor en hoeveel mensen sterven eraan? - Nationaal Kompas Volksgezondheid

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Voor astma 6.410 ziekenhuisopnamen in 2004

In 2004 hebben 6.410 ziekenhuisopnamen met astma (ICD-9 code 493) als hoofdontslagdiagnose plaatsgevonden: 3.118 opnamen voor mannen en 3.292 voor vrouwen. Een ziekenhuisopname kan nodig zijn bij zeer ernstige astmatische aanvallen, waarbij de patiënt onvoldoende op medicatie reageert. Daarbij worden medicijnen toegediend, vaak via een infuus of verneveling, en zonodig zuurstof.


Sterfte

76 sterfgevallen door astma in 2004

In 2004 stierven 33 mannen en 43 vrouwen (0,4 per 100.000 mannen en 0, 5 per 100.000 vrouwen) aan astma (CBS Doodsoorzakenstatistiek).

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Astma - Nationaal Kompas Volksgezondheid

Dutch information site about astma:

Astma - Nationaal Kompas Volksgezondheid

USSR MINISTRY OF HEALTH ORDER N 591

USSR MINISTRY OF HEALTH ORDER N 591: "USSR MINISTRY OF HEALTH

ORDER
April 30, 1985

N 591


Moscow

ABOUT THE ACTIONS FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF THE METHOD OF CONSCIOUS REGULATION OF THE DEPTH OF BREATHING IN THE TREATMENT OF BRONCHIAL ASTHMA


In recent years, methods of drug-free therapy have vastly penetrated into bronchial asthma treatment. The efficiency of the modified voluntary breathing depth reduction method (the Certificate of Authorship for Innovation N 1067640 of September 15, 1983 'Haemohypocarbia Therapy Method' granted to K. P. Buteyko) for bronchial asthma therapy in children and adults, as combined with regular medication and physiotherapeutic techniques, has been experimentally confirmed in several science and research institutes.


Therefore, in order to induce the further development of drug-free bronchial asthma therapy methods and initiate use of the voluntary breathing depth adjustment method in medicine, I hereby command:


1. The USSR Ministry of Health 1st Moscow Medical Institute named after I. M. Sechenov (Mr. V. I. Petrov) shall continue research of the voluntary breathing depth reduction method for bronchial asthma therapy in children and adults, execute the Practices for doctors, and deliver the latter in good manner for the USSR Ministry of Health approval by December 1, 1985.
2. The USSR Ministry of Health CSRI of Tuberculosis (Mr. A. G."

Asthma treatment Buteyko asthma management Clinical Trials UK funded by the national asthma campaign

Asthma treatment Buteyko asthma management Clinical Trials UK funded by the national asthma campaign: "Buteyko UK trial funded by National Asthma Campaign (now Asthma UK)

Lifesource taught Buteyko breathing exercises in the first UK clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of Buteyko and yogic pranayama breathing as asthma treatments.

Science in its ideal form would remain open to reality, no matter what it would prefer that reality to be. However, the researchers, led by Professor Anne Tattersfield at the University of Nottingham's Division of Respiratory Medicine at the City Hospital, reported the Buteyko group’s reduction in bronchodilators in a way that was difficult to interpret. "

Asthma treatment Buteyko asthma management Clinical Trials UK funded by the national asthma campaign

Asthma treatment Buteyko asthma management Clinical Trials UK funded by the national asthma campaign: "Buteyko UK trial funded by National Asthma Campaign (now Asthma UK)

Lifesource taught Buteyko breathing exercises in the first UK clinical trial to investigate the efficacy of Buteyko and yogic pranayama breathing as asthma treatments.

Science in its ideal form would remain open to reality, no matter what it would prefer that reality to be. However, the researchers, led by Professor Anne Tattersfield at the University of Nottingham's Division of Respiratory Medicine at the City Hospital, reported the Buteyko group’s reduction in bronchodilators in a way that was difficult to interpret. "

BBC NEWS | Health | Drug size 'key' to asthma treatment

What a waste of time!!!

BBC NEWS | Health | Drug size 'key' to asthma treatment

Catalyst: Asthma - an alternative treatment - ABC TV Science

Catalyst: Asthma - an alternative treatment - ABC TV Science: "After years of promoting asthma drugs for the pharmaceutical giant Glaxo, a product manager jumps ship and begins promoting non-drug treatment - an extraordinary defection.

After finding the Buteyko breathing technique subdued his own chronic asthma, the manager resigned from the drug company and set up his own Buteyko clinic.

Guest reporter, the Australian Financial Review's Ray Moynihan, asks why there has been so little research into alternatives to drug treatment of asthma, and examines the research so far into the radical breathing technique."

Buteyko theory rus-eng.pdf (application/pdf-object)

This link is for them who do not fear a little scientific touched language, it is absolutely readable!:

Buteyko theory rus-eng.pdf (application/pdf-object)

Official site about the Buteyko Method (VDBE). Bronchial asthma, allergy, bronchitis and other diseases treatment

Official site about the Buteyko Method (VDBE). Bronchial asthma, allergy, bronchitis and other diseases treatment

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