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The Buteyko Breathing Technique is gaining popularity as people with many sicknesses, who begin using the therapy, notice changes in their health in just a few days.

If you don’t know what it is, you are not alone. Many people like I have heard of breathing therapy but didn’t realize that it could have such an impact on a variety of health problems.

In fact, did you know it is now recognized as an effective treatment for asthma and has been included in the British Guidelines on the Management of Asthma?

Training of the technique was being offered at Coventry University in England with the help of the Buteyko Breathing Association in April 2009 to help treat people with asthma, so reported The Nursing Times.

The courses run for six days to educate health care professionals how to administer the technique, and help asthmatic patients learn how to control their breathing during an attack.

This is a great step forward in support of natural methods of controlling the malady, but one nurse who was trained by Alexander Stalmatski, an associate of Dr Buteyko, is concerned and said that this training …