How I heal...asthma
May 24, 2020
4 minutes
The standard treatment for asthma is drugs—perhaps just a steroid inhaler to relieve symptoms if you’re lucky, or a combination of inhalers, pills and even injections if you’re not.
But for naturopath Alison Waring, the key to beating asthma is far more natural and has to do with something we do constantly without a second thought: breathing.
An asthma sufferer herself, Alison is an advanced practitioner of the Buteyko breathing technique (BBT), a method of breathing retraining she uses to overcome her own symptoms as well as help others with asthma and other chronic conditions.
First developed by Russian doctor Konstantin Buteyko in the 1950s, Buteyko breathing is now a popular nondrug
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