ONE LUNG CLEANSER A DAY, KEEPS ANY PULMONARY DISORDER AWAY

We have all known that maintaining the health of our lungs should be a foremost priority. Since ages, lung cleansing techniques have been helpful for people who smoke, have pulmonary disorders, and who are exposed to air pollution. This exposure often leads to some severe conditions that affect the respiratory system such as asthma, wheezing, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and cystic fibrosis. So what good a body is to you, if its respiratory system is barely functional?

How to keep your lungs clean?

Although lungs are self-cleaning organs that cleanse and heal themselves, provided they have minimal exposure to air pollution. It is very vital to keep the lungs healthy since they are primarily responsible for our overall body health.

Whether it is chest congestion, mucus, dry cough or even phlegm, you may use specific cleansing techniques that open up the lungs airways, improve their functioning capacity and reduce pulmonary inflammation. Let’s take a look at the ways with which we can keep the lungs clean and reduce the effects of pollution and smoke in the lungs:

1. Steam Inhalation:

Steam inhalation is a technique that involves inhaling water vapor to open the airways of our lungs and help the lungs drain mucus.

People with pulmonary disorders or with various lung health conditions may find breathing tough in cold or dry air. Sometimes the weather can parch the airways of the lungs and restrict the oxygen flow.

Inhaling steam on the other hand, improves the breathing and adds moisture to the air. This helps provide instant relief to the mucus inside the airways and makes way for easy breathing.

A recent small study involving 16 male patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), a lung related condition, discovered that steam therapy did lead to lower heart and respiratory disorders.

2. Controlled coughing

Coughing is our body’s natural mechanism to expel the toxins trapped in the mucus. Controlled coughing loosens excess mucus in the lungs, sending it up through the airways.

3. Exercise:

Physical exercise increases our body’s breathing, pumping a strong supply of oxygen to the muscles, improving blood circulation, eventually making it more efficient for the body to remove excess carbon dioxide and use more oxygen.

Although doing exercise is generally recommended as the basic principle towards cleansing the body, it gets difficult for people with severe lung and other respiratory disorders to exercise. These people should consult a pulmonary specialist before deciding on a regular exercise regime, particularly those with chronic lung conditions such as COPD, cystic fibrosis, or asthma.

4. Regular Green tea intake

Green tea is by far the best antioxidants that help reduce any inflammation in the lungs and protects the lung tissue from the smoke inhalation.

A recent study involving more than 1,000 adults suggested that people who drank at least 2 cups of green tea per day had better lung function as opposed to those who drank none.

5. Anti-inflammatory foods

Inflammation of the airways in the lungs is very common with people who smoke and are exposed to air pollution.

Having anti-inflammatory foods for cleansing our lungs can noticeably reduce symptoms like poor lungs’ health, difficulty in breathing and chest congestion.

Basic foods that help reduce inflammation include:

• Turmeric
• Leafy green vegetables
• Cherries
• Blueberries
• Olives
• Walnuts
• Beans
• Lentils

SUMMARY

In nutshell, good health for lungs is not only vital for breathing, in fact for all our organs to function properly. Regular check-up with the medical practitioner should also be a priority given the massive exposure everybody has towards air pollution and smoking toxins

Regular intake of green tea and anti-inflammatory foods may also cleanse the lungs of any clear infections and support clean breathing