Care for Pulmonary Disease
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Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompass-es pathological conditions affecting the organs and tis-sues that make gas exchange possible in higher organ-isms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, alveoli, pleura and pleural cavity, and the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from mild and self-limiting, such as the common cold, to life-threatening as with bac-terial pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, and lung cancer.
STEPS TO BE FOLLOWED
- PADMA ASANA
- LAHARI PRAANAAYAAMAA
- KAPAALABHAATI
- SHOONYAKA KUMBHAKA
- KEVALEE KUMBHAKA
- VAAMAGATI KUMBHAKA
1. PADMA ASANA
HATHA PRADEEPIKAA, UPADESHA 2,
VERSES 31 -33
हठप्रदीपिका उपदेशं २ स्लोक ३१-३३
उत्तानौ चरणौ कृत्वा चोरु संस्थौ प्रयत्नतः ।
ऊरुमध्ये ततोत्थानौ पाणी कृत्वा तु तादृशौ ॥
दृष्टिं विन्यस्य नासाग्रे दन्तमूलं च जिह्वया ।
उत्तप्य चिबुकं वक्षस्युत्ताप्य भवनं शनैः ॥
इदं पद्मासनं प्रोक्तं सर्व व्याधि विनाशनम ।
दुर्लभं येन केनापि धीमता लभ्यते भुवि ॥
Uththanau Charanau Kruthvaa choru-Samsthau
Prayathnathaha |
Oorumadhye Thathoththaanau Paanee Kruthvaa Thu
thaadrushau ||2.31||
Drushtim vinyasya naasaagre Dantamoolam cha jihvayaa |
Uttapya chibukam vakshas Yuttaapya bhavanam
shanaihi ||2.32||
Idham Padmaasanam Proktham Sarva-Vyaadhi-
Vinaashanam |
Durlabham yena kenapi Dheemataa labhyate bhuvi ||2.33||
TRANSLATION
One should with effort place the upward facing feet on the thighs, and place the upward-facing palms between the thighs.
Concentrating on the tip of the nose, keep the tongue pressed on the upper teeth, press the chin on your chest, push the air slowly upward, that is slowly pull the prana upward.
This asana called as Padma asana destroys all diseases, filled with power. Though difficult to be obtained by every-one, some intelligent people learn it.
(See Figure 1 p.91)
TECHNIQUE
- Place the right foot on the left thigh
- Now place the left foot on the right thigh
- Place the hands between the thighs with the palms f facing upwards
- Concentrating on the tip of the nose, keep the tongue pressed on the upper teeth
- Press the chin on your chest, push the air slowly upward
- Exhale slowly
- Do this 3 times and release the chin on your chest and tongue pressed on the upper teeth
IN PADMA ASANA
2 LAHARI PRAANAAYAAMAA
YOGA RAHASYA, 1st CHAPTER, VERSE: 100
TECHNIQUE
- Breath in with short inhalation with one nostril
- Then Breath out with short exhalation with the other nostril
- Do this for 5 minutes
IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT
3. KAPAALABHAATI PRAANAAYAAMAA YOGA RAHASYA, 1st CHAPTER, VERSE: 100
TRANSLATION-cum-TECHNIQUE
- Breath out short and fast as you pull your abdomen in and up.
- Allow the body to inhale by itself
- Do this 51 times
IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT
4. SHOONYAKA KUBHAKA SAURA PURAANA, CHAPTER 12, LINES: 22-24
TRANSLATION
After exhaling one should hold the breath outside without inhaling the air and should contemplate on the internal moon and suck mentally the nectar oozing out of it.
TECHNIQUE
- Exhale completely
- Hold the breath outside as long as you can
- Now visualize moon on the crown of your head
- Visualize nectar oozing out of the moon
- Mentally suck the nectar
- When you cant hold the breath outside, slowly in hale
- Do this 21 times
IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT
5. KEVALEE KUMBHAKA HERANDA SAMHITA, UPADESHA-5, VERSE: 84
हंकारेण बहिर्याति सःकारेण विशेत् पुनः ॥
Ham-Kaarenabahih-Yaati Saha-KaarenaVishetPunaha |
TRANSLATION
One should exhale with the mantra "ham" and inhale with the mantra "saha".
TECHNIQUE
- Inhale through the right nostril along with the inter nal chanting of the mantra 'sam'
- Hold as long as you can judiciously
- While holding the breath, chant internally the man tra 'soham' slowly.
- Exhale through the left nostril with the internal chanting of the mantra 'ham'
- Do this 21 times
6. IN PADMA ASANA, NEXT-
VAAMA GATI KUMBHAКА
HATHA SANKETA CHANDRIKA, CHAPTER 10,
LINE 28
TRANSLATION-cum-TECHNIQUE
- Inhale through both the nostrils
- Hold the breath as long as possible judiciously
- Exhale through both the nostrils.
- Repeat this 21 times
END OF KRIYA