Yoga in sinusitis
Yoga’s for the old maa , I ain’t doing it.
One won’t be surprised when one hears a teenager say these words out
loud. Well , it’s time this absurd convention needs
to be stopped. One of the most common illness, sinusitis, can be very well
cured with this magical exercise. Here’s how-
Most of the
yoga techniques, like kapalbhaarti, aalo-vilom , have a basic functioning
mechanism, which essentially target one’s airway. The
focused inspirational and expirational efforts drives out the bacterial load in
your sinuses which is the original cause of sinusitis.
The various
aasnas practiced in yoga too, have quite a significance in relief of the sinus
tension. Most of the aasnas focus on manipulating the body’s position in such a way that all the fluid in the sinus
causing sinusitis is drained out via the nose, by gravity. That’s how yoga works, simple! Isn’t it?
Conventions
discipline a man to, sort of, * Live by the rules *. It is the need of the hour
that these conventions are broken. Like yoga being a practice of the old, there
are other apparent conventions which need to be now molded. One of them being,
yoga is an exercise for mental health only. That statement holds truth in it’s entire existence except just that last word. Yoga
essentially does provide significant mental health, but that’s not just about it. There’s a lot more
to it. Sinusitis is one of the common conditions on which yoga has been
reinforced and effectively proven it’s worth ,
amongst the other innumerable non-mental health benefits. It has now been
advocated globally to practice yoga, under second line medical therapy. With
the advent of antibiotic resistance, a lot many patients are found today, who
don’t respond to antibiotics and their sinusitis seems to be just
incurable. For such resistant patients and for cancelling the development of
this unfortunate resistance, yoga has primely been reinforced in the western countries
too. Learning from Indians, the world has now known the benefits of this
unmatched exercise and has started exploiting it to the fullest.
Some
commonly advocated yoga aasans are
- The
Plow pose
- The Bow pose
- -The Headstand
- -The Bridge pose
- -The Camel pose
All these
aasnas basically improve the drainage of the sinusitic fluid and relieve one of
pain. The practitioner himself experiences betterment of the excruciating pain
and breathing efficiency too. Plus given the ease it has, there shall soon come
a day when yoga will become the pioneer of treatment of minor medical ailments.
Kids would no longer refer to it as an exercise of the aged. Indian methodology
of treatment will soon gain prime importance in medical field, on a global
level.
