----- Original Message ----- From: Vilik Rapheles <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, 25 July 1999 16:32 Subject: CS>IVAN!!!! Buteyko
> Ivan, > > I read the Buteyko info with great fascination. (BTW I am not the one > with the asthma...I am researching for a friend.) > > A scattering of thoughts I would love you to respond to. > > **There is an institute that works with brain-damaged children...one of > the exercises is breathing into a paper bag to increase carbon dioxide. Is > Buteyko anything like that? How would increasing carbon dioxide help brain > damage? Buteyko is something like that, it would seem, but uses concious controll to reprogram breathing reponse. As for brain damage, well this is very interesting! I suggest you read the the following article at least. It talks of very good responses for all sorts of disorders and recovery protocols using O2 plus 7 or 8% CO2. I would think that an investigation into Hyperbaric O2 plus CO2 treatment might be justified, where HBO treatments are currently used. From: http://www.wt.com.au/~pkolb/henders.htm Catatonia.---Finally, mention may be made of the extraordinary observations reported by the late A.S. Lovenhart, in which he found that inhalation of carbon dioxide to cases of catatonia induced a temporary restoration of intelligence and mental responsiveness. The simplest explanation of the results in these cases is attained by postulating an habitual contraction of blood-vessels in the brain of the catatonic patient, similar to that in the heart and limbs of the cases discussed in the previous section. If this view is correct, the beneficial effects of the inhalation are due to improvement in the circulation in the brain under the influence of carbon dioxide upon the finer blood vessels. ...Another natural, but very obstructive misconception is that oxygen and carbon dioxide are so far antagonistic that in blood a gain of one necessarily involves a corresponding loss of the other. On the contrary, although each tends to raise the pressure and thus promote the diffusion of the other, the 2 gases are held and transported in the blood by different means; oxygen is carried by the hemoglobin in the corpuscles, while carbon dioxide is combined with alkali in the plasma. A sample of blood may be high both gases, or low in both gases. Moreover, under clinical conditions low oxygen and low carbon dioxide-anoxemia and acapnia-generally occur together. Each of these abnormal states tends to induce and intensify the other. Therapeutic increase of carbon dioxide, by inhalation of this gas diluted in air, if often the effective means of improving the oxygenation of the blood and tissues. Under such conditions of acute deprivation of oxygen as those in carbon monoxide asphyxia, the body suffers from an excessive elimination of carbon dioxide: and the restoration of carbon dioxide is in itself helpful. In a drowned man or a non-breathing newborn child, the deprivation of oxygen does not cause and excess of carbon dioxide. On the contrary, in the absence of oxygen, lactic acid and other primary decomposition products of the tissues acannot be converted into carbon dioxide; for that conversion oxygen is necessary. The saying of Miescher, quoted at the end of a previous section, has therefore, a depth of truth and breadth of application greater than he could possibly have realized... From: http://buteyko.com/media/healthy_breathing.html A number of psychological and personal growth therapies use breathing to effect the psyche. The reason for this is that breathing effects emotion as much as emotion effects breathing. Our anxiety makes us breathe more rapidly and our rapid breathing keeps us in a state of metabolic imbalance where CO2 levels are too low and oxygen utilisation is poor. Low levels of carbon dioxide make our nervous system more excitable. Our brain wave patterns change. reflecting low levels oxygen up- take due to low levels of CO2. Depression has been shown to be associated with low brain oxygen and subsequent brain wave changes... ...Epilepsy-like brain wave patterns are produced by hyperventilation'. in the past, people were made to hyperventilate to see if they had epilepsy. The onset of epileptic attacks is associated with the drop in brain oxygen that is associated with lowered levels of CO2. > **Wm Campbell Douglass (or Douglass Campbell?) talks about EWOT or > Exercise With Oxygen Therapy. You hook yourself up to an oxygen tank and > exercise for 20 minutes. He claims it is very good for one. I finally got > the whole thing together, the oxygen tank, etc, and did it. And I felt > AWFUL. I only tried it a few times. > > **In Germany cancer patients exercise with ionized oxygen with very good > results. There is a book out about it...big expensive book...anybody know > the title? > > **An exercise program called Oxycise uses very deep breathing combined > with stretches and isometrics. I've done it off and on...and I read the > letters that come in...people claim to loose weight and feel great. In the > Oxycise book it says that the weight loss occurs because of increased > carbon dioxide. Sorry I can't really comment on the first two reigimes, but I do believe that the claims made by the Oxycise people would be true, the increased CO2 that is, I don't know about the weight loss ;-) > **Has Buteyko helped any diseases other than those of the lungs? It was first developed to treat high blood pressure and was found to help in other disorders, including Athsma and allergy problems. It would seem that keeping the correct amount of CO2 in the lungs and its complimentary blood pH regulation, helps in overall good health. > **How would this fit in with the fact that some people have gotten > better using antibiotics? It may be that, as mentioned in the first article, that an appropriate O2 - CO2 mix in the lungs will actually help to eliminate pulminary infection, in addition to halting the tendency for the airways to constrict. > **I get asthma only around cats. How would this relate? You could be allergic to cat 'something', and the stress of this reaction causes you to breath deeper and faster, leading to a constriction of the airways as a physiological reaction the expiration of too much CO2 > Very very fascinated and looking forward to hearing what you have to say! > > ~^^V^^~ Hope it fulfills expectations! I am very new to this information, and am yet to slot it in with the rest of the brain flood. Best wishes to your friend. 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