The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-05-08
THE DIAPHRAGM IS A BOOST
 FIR PUMP

 FIR PUMP
 The monograph on Belly Breath ing available on request If you in. close stamped envelope bearing your address, gives instructions for natural breathing and explains some of the benefits derived from the exercise, but does not touch up- on the booster pump action of the diaphragm which Is so important In many cases of circulatory fail- ure associated with heart and are terial disease.
 Here I shall say simply that with each imitation, inhalation, inspira- ton or drawing in of air consider able blood is sucked" from more distant veins into the large trunk veins (venae cavae) near the heart, due to the change of pressure poe tenial. The blood thus sucked back toward the heart thru the vlens is prevented from flowing back into the small veins again during the interval between inspirations by the action Of the valves in the veins, valves which permit blood to flow urimpeded toward the heart but prevent or impede its backflow.
 If the breathing Is shallow, as in fainting, shock, prostration from severe or prolonged illness or en- feeblement of age, this natural aid to circulation Is lacking. That Is one cause of poor circulation.
 If the natural breathing is inter fered with or inhibited or deranged by wrong concepts of "deep breath- ing' or silly notions of the anatomy and physiology of the diaphragm, the aid of the booster pump iS largely lost. That is another cause, q common cause, of poor circula- ton.
 This booster pump action of na- tural breathing is augmented by the increase of pressure in the ab- domen when the diaphragm con- tracts (inspiration), the pressure forcing blood in the great vein (vena cnva) to flow along into the thoracic part of the great vein and on into the right side of the heart which then pumps In into the lungs for oxygenation. Of course the same effect applies to oil of the veins in the abdomen, but not to tho blood in the arteries, for the blood in the arteries is under high pressure and the arteries are thick walled.
 Belly breathing tends to lower high blood pressure and keep 1t down. It gives the liver and bile apparatus q kind of natural mas sage. It helps restless, sleepless persons to get relaxed and fall asleep.
 Any one with heart trouble, If able or allowed to be up and about, derives considerable benefit from the regular practice of belly breathing--six to twelve inflations three or four times daily.
 This same natural breathing ex- ercise regularly done night and morning has corrected menstrual pain in thousands of cases.
 pr. s. AdolphuS Knopf. disting- uished tuberculosis authority, pre-. scribed this natural breathing OK. ercise as an adjunct to tho general treatment Of chronic arthritis.
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 Right Medicine Wrongly Used
 Following your suggestion had potassium chloride put up in cap. Sules, five grain strength, and found it quite effective in stopping my out-of- season or year-around "hay- fever". But ufter taking each cap. sule I had terrific cramps in stom- ach and had to stop taking them.
 lJ. B.
 Answer-You disrosarded my sug. gestion. I have repeatedly warned against taking 1t in such form. Each dose should Dc dissolved in q glass. ful of water, and never should pow. der, tablets or capsules be swallow