Buteyko Method of Breath Training

"I would like to emphasise that I describe medicine generally following two directions - one direction is the so called official western, and the other eastern, in particular the Tibetan medicine or "Judd-shi".

"It has transpired that the truth is on the side of the eastern medicine, which has always stated that diseases occur as a result of the disturbed breathing."

"As I was developing my theory and method, I also had to expand my thinking on the theory of medicine, as basically the western medicine has never had any fundamental theories attached to it. Western medicine, as we know it, has nothing but the blind empiricism, wandering in search of chance substances which might help the diseased. Today a medical practitioner is not searching for the reasons of a patient's disease in order to cure him, but for a magic potion to help him in some unknown fashion. If the eastern medicine (in particular Judd-shi) begins not from the disease, but from drawing first of all a picture of the tree of life, followed by a picture of the tree of the disease (which is very much like the tree of life, except distorted), then the western medicine's theory of life has not only no foundation at all, it has no theory behind it"

Professor Konstantin Buteyko

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