Freedom from asthma
Subtitle: Buteyko's revolutionary treatment
By: Alexander Stalmatski with Brigid McConville ; with a foreword by Konstantin Buteyko
Contributors: McConville, Brigid
Series: Hale Clinic health library; Hale Clinic health library
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781856262682
Subjects: Asthma; Popular works; Treatment
Description: The first clinical trial of the controversial Buteyko Technique, conducted in Australia, showed that 90 per cent of asthma sufferers were able significantly to reduce their dependence on medication. This book explains the physiology behind the theory and describes how the Buteyko method works.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-172) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Konstantin Buteyko; title: 1. Introducing Buteyko: the man and his method; title: 2. Success with Buteyko; title: 3. The Buteyko view of asthma; title: 4. You and your asthma; title: 5. A Buteyko workshop; title: 6. Getting the best out of drug treatments; title: 7. Asthma and sport; title: 8. Asthma and your nose; title: 9. Asthma at night; title: 10. Asthma and allergy; title: 11. Asthma and diet; title: 12. Asthma and your child.; title: Appendix one: Theoretical understanding behind the Buteyko technique; title: Appendix two: The results of the approbation of the BBL method in the Department of Children's Diseases in the First Moscow Medical Institute of E. M. Sechenov; title: Appendix three: A summary of the Astralian Buteyko asthma trial; title: Glossary.