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Yoga is a Scientific Way to Health

Acute Diseases

Appetite Loss and Non-stop Eating

Blood Circulation Centre and Lungs

Purify Blood and Breathing

Chronic Diseases

Yogic Diet and Fasting

Functions of Digestive Organs

Diseases and Suggested Asanas

Glands and Their Functions

Heart Diseases and Yoga

Yogic Massage

Yoga as Science

Brain and Nervous System

Spinal Cord

Structure of Human Body

Technique and Principles of Fasting

Cleaning Teeth and Bathing

Yoga for Treatment of Diseases

Vertebral Column (Spine)

Purify Blood and Breathing

Lungs, kidneys, skin, liver, spleen and many other glands help in the process of the purification of blood. Lungs throw out three types of wastes from the body: (i) Carbon dioxide, (ii) impurities in gas form and (iii) water vapor. They take in only one thing and that is oxygen.

Breathing

The process of inhaling air by the lungs through the nose and then exhaling it out is called breathing. One should always breathe through nose and not through the mouth. Unlike the mouth nostrils have the arrangement of filtering and warming the air before it goes to the lungs. This prevents many impurities from entering the lungs.

Generally, a normal human being breathes 16 to 20 times per minute. In the childhood, the number of breaths in a minute is greater. Breathing rate increases when we undertake physical work like running, jumping and playing. The rate of breathing is greater during the day time than at night-and so it is while standing than lying down.

There are 16 to 18 Crore pores in lungs, giving it properties like a sponge, where blood is soaked and stored for a while, before cleaning by Oxygen inhaled through respiratory system. If we inhale more oxygen it can reach remotest pores in lungs, ensuring maximum quality of purified blood, resulting in increased flow of blood stream, pumped by heart, to all parts of the body. With the help of various yogic postures we expel toxins from the body and bring control over the body. Daily routine of yogic postures we activate four toxin expelling mechanism viz Nose, Skin, Urinary & Excreta tract, are activated. Thus toxins do not accumulate in the body giving feeling of well being and mental relaxation.