Generally, mammals use abdominal breathing. Its advantages are that it can give full play to the function of heart and lung cells, increase vital capacity, enhance heart function and increase the power of digestive system, thus enhancing and activating its function, which is conducive to eliminating the accumulation of intestinal toxins and the release of internal stress during abdominal breathing. However, humans only use abdominal breathing when they are fetuses and babies. From the time they learn to walk, they change to local chest breathing. Due to the change of breathing mode, most lung cells are idle for a long time and lose their activity, which makes their vital capacity smaller, thus affecting people's life and potential. Most long-lived animals breathe on their bellies. Such as turtles and snakes. Turtles breathe with their bellies, while snakes walk with their bellies, so they live a long life. Why is abdominal breathing so relevant to life? Because all organs except the heart, brain and lungs are hidden in the abdominal cavity. Including the digestive system, hematopoietic system, reproductive system, secret urine system, endocrine system and lymphatic system, and there are a lot of blood vessels and nerves, so the abdominal cavity is very important. However, after human beings walk upright, chest breathing is dominant, and abdominal breathing begins to degenerate, which weakens abdominal movement, leading to easy accumulation of waste and slow blood flow. In severe cases, it will also affect the blood supply to the brain due to blood flow stenosis in the abdominal cavity. Therefore, it is very important to strengthen abdominal breathing and promote abdominal movement.
The advantage of abdominal breathing is that through the change of abdominal pressure, the volume of chest cavity is increased, the negative pressure of chest cavity is increased, the pressure of superior and inferior vena cava is reduced, and the blood return is accelerated. Due to the regular increase or decrease of abdominal pressure, the activities of abdominal internal organs are strengthened, thus improving the blood circulation of the digestive tract, promoting the digestion and absorption function of the digestive tract, promoting intestinal peristalsis, preventing constipation, accelerating the discharge of toxins, reducing autotoxicity and achieving the purpose of delaying aging. Because the intestinal system is the main channel for temporarily storing waste after human food metabolism, the number of bacteria in feces is amazing. The retention of feces not only accelerates the reproduction of bacteria, but also increases the absorption of intestinal toxins. Abdominal qigong is the most effective laxative, so anti-aging is of great significance. In addition, it is also effective in preventing colon cancer and hemorrhoids.
In addition, abdominal breathing also includes pelvic exercise, that is, while breathing hard in the abdomen, it is combined with anal contraction and relaxation and abdominal contraction and lifting, with the aim of promoting pelvic blood flow, because the organs in the pelvic cavity are related to endocrine system and genitourinary system, which can not be ignored.