Exercise yoga is a hard physical training, which usually makes people sweat all over; Therapeutic yoga focuses on techniques such as breathing and meditation, which can calm people, increase vital capacity and reduce stress.
Of course, the research in this area in the United States is not as good as that in India, the birthplace of yoga, but some well-known doctors in the United States have begun to observe the efficacy of yoga, and the National Institutes of Health is also sponsoring research on the efficacy of yoga in insomnia, multiple sclerosis and other diseases.
Wade, an expert in sports medicine in new york Special Surgery Hospital, studied 50 patients with back spur. Half of them take anti-inflammatory drugs every day, while the other half take no drugs at all. However, they do 15 minutes of mixed yoga and pilates exercise three days a week-70% yoga and 30% pilates exercise. The latter is mainly mild elasticity and muscle exercise named after the founder Pilates.
Patients who participated in the second group of experiments paid special attention to avoiding certain sitting or bending postures, so as not to aggravate back pain.
Three months later, there was a striking difference in the effect: 80% patients in the yoga group said that their back pain was reduced by at least half, while only 44% patients in the drug treatment group achieved the same effect.
In addition, during the three-month experiment, 12% of the patients in the yoga group suffered back injury again. More than half of the patients in the drug treatment group were injured again.
Vidantan, an allergy expert at Colorado State University, studied 17 adult asthma patients and found that although yoga could not improve the lung function of patients, patients who received yoga treatment did not need respirators, and their quality of life improved more than those who did not receive yoga treatment.
Kreiger, director of the Department of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Center for Alternative Medicine of Minnesota State University, recently published a research report to discuss the benefits of yoga for heart patients.
She said that research shows that yoga can reduce stress, lower blood pressure and enhance the endurance of the heart. She saw that the medical profession was facing a "great change" because people's ideas changed and they would ask for "alternative therapy" to see if it was good for their diseases.
Yoga not only improves physical illness, but also has a positive effect on mental illness. According to the research report published in the journal of psychotherapy CNSSpectrums, 22 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder were divided into two groups. One group practiced standard meditation every day, and the other group focused on Kundalini yoga-eyes staring at the tip of the nose, mouth slightly open, tip of the tongue against the upper jaw, and then breathing through the nose for at least six minutes.
After three months, 40% of the yoga group improved their condition, while only 14% of the ordinary meditation group improved. Then, both groups received yoga therapy. After one year, the average condition improved by 70%.
A western scientist once said: Emotional stress, such as worry, fear, insecurity, high blood pressure, asthma, etc. , will produce a chemical in the body, into the blood circulation. If the pressure lasts for a long time, it will cause considerable losses to important organs and tissues. It can be seen that everything in daily life has a very obvious impact on our bodies. Work pressure, busy life, heavy schoolwork, etc. Will do harm to our bodies to a certain extent, but through stretching, twisting and deep rest and relaxation in various poses of yoga, we can compress the glands in the body and keep them in balance without hurting our bodies.
People usually breathe very shallow and can only inflate the middle or upper part of the lung, but the largest part of the lung, the lung floor, has not moved, so there is old precipitated air at the lung floor. The deposited air is easy to breed bacteria, such as colds, asthma and lung diseases, which is why this is the case. Therefore, yoga pays attention to slow and long-term breathing, so that the bottom of the lungs can also be inflated, thus expelling the air deposited in the body. Therefore, we can know that people who practice yoga regularly are less susceptible to infection and healthier than the average person.
The bones in the body are connected by joints, so the joints must exercise frequently and bear great wear resistance and tension, so the bones should not only exercise properly, but also bear the weight of the body, which shows the importance of joints to us. Arthritis or gout is a common disease in China, which is caused by the gradual disappearance of cushions in joints and more and more friction between bones, resulting in stiffness of leg bones and arm bones. For people with poor posture, insufficient exercise, indigestion or excessive meat, joints will also be seriously damaged, leading to premature aging. Moreover, we can rotate all joints by practicing yoga, making them soft and elastic and reducing the friction between bones, so practicing yoga often can reduce the occurrence of arthritis or gout.
Sometimes when doing yoga posture, you will hear the sound of bone fracture, which is a good phenomenon that some harmful chemicals accumulated around the joints are decomposing (it may also be the sound that bones, muscles and ligaments participate in bones). People's posture is not good, because the body is aging, the ligaments (bones, muscle bands) are tight, the body is getting more and more stiff, and sometimes it is very painful. The pain and stiffness of their backs, necks and shoulders hinder the normal transmission of energy along the spinal canal, so they often feel exhausted. A layer of yellow fat accumulates on the arterial wall of people, which will make blood vessels hard and fragile. Vascular sclerosis leads to high blood pressure, which is easy to turn into heart disease. When it breaks, it will cause internal bleeding. Rupture occurs in the brain, which is brain congestion. In the heart, it is called a heart attack.
Through the twisting, stretching and bending of yoga, ligaments and tendons are gradually elongated, avoiding the pain of nerve compression. Torsional stretching can also stretch blood vessels, strengthen the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and make them not easy to rupture. Such as shoulder-back, wheeled, and body-bottom inversion, increase the blood flow into the brain, promote blood circulation, and make the spirit more awake and sharp.
Nerve plexus stimulates endocrine glands and produces different hormones, which flow into the blood and affect all organs. The plexuses are controlled by endocrine glands. When the function of endocrine gland is normal, the gland function is normal, and when the function of endocrine gland is abnormal, it will cause physical and mental diseases. Yoga is to control the endocrine glands in the body and let them function normally, so that too much or too little will not affect the operation of our internal organs.
During exercise, the sugar in the blood changes chemically, and the sugar becomes lactic acid and combines with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide and water. Carbon dioxide becomes waste gas and is excreted, and water is excreted in the form of sweat. If there is not enough oxygen in the blood to combine with lactic acid, lactic acid will accumulate in muscles, leading to so-called cramps. When we learn yoga coffee, because it pays attention to slow and long breathing, the oxygen content in our blood will also increase, so lactic acid will not accumulate in muscles, and there will be no cramps.