By now everyone knows that corona virus targets the respiratory system,hence patient feels breathlessness, shortness of breath and restlessness.In some cases,oxygen level reach below the saturation point,so it is highly essential to enhance our breathing capacity and so the oxygen level. Here are certain ways to enhance the oxygen level naturally.
1. Proning: With increasing cases,few hospitals are facing defiency of oxygen tanks.By now most of us aware how to increase the oxygen level naturally by proning.This proning technique is being simplify by lots of people but we have to understand this technique correctly.So lets understand how to do proning.
In this Proning technique,lie down on your stomach,take one pillow at upper chest that is around here,take another pillow below your hips,not on your stomach,don’t press your stomach,your diagphram will not move otherwise,below hips and third pillow below your knee,till lower part of your knees.So these are the certain areas where you have to put pillow.Some people need more pillow at the hip region,carry on,some at leg region,carry on.Depending upon your comfort,but this is how you are supposed to lie down.
In this position you can lie down from half an hour to 2 hours easily, so lie down in this position and take simple,easy breathing.This position helps increasing blood circulation to your lung and really helps in oxygen absorption.In this position,you can relax your head on your hand ,what we call as Makrasana in yoga,this is one part in proning.
2. The Second Part Is Lying On The Sides Belly Down Position: one should definitely on the side, taking the support of your arm below your head, this is called as Dhradhasana Position in yoga.So lie down on the sides,fold your hands,let your head rest on your hands and lie down in a relaxed way, your legs can be a bit folded,need not be straight. Lie down comfortably in this position,in Dhradhasana position.
Dhradhasana should be done both sides, lie down to the right side for 30 mins to 2 hours and then lie down on the left side for 30 mins to 2 hours.This is really the best position to sleep during normal conditions also.These postures can help effected patients to improve their oxygen level naturally and also keep the alveolar unit open,but understand this is only an aid,if the condition is severe,proper medical aid is required and understand ,those who are not infected should also practice all these things because it will increase their lung capacity.Apart from all those,a normal person can do more of all these other exercises which we have mentioned.
3. Breathing Exercises: All the inhaling and retention kind of pranayams,work wonders to improve your breathing capacity and so the oxygen level.Here are some excellent breathing practice, everybody should do these regularly.Equal breathing, try and see that you inhale slowly and exhaly slowly fully and make your breath equal,develop more awareness about this breathing.
Do this,atleast 30 rounds a day.We have 3 sets of muscles,diagphram,intercoastal and clavicular. Now when you inhale fully and exhale fully you involving all the 3 sets of muscles equally.
Second breathing exercise is clavicular breathing-bring your arms here at the shoulder level,inhale and bring your chest upwards,push your chest up and breathe out and relax your chest relax your shoulders.So this type of a activity and breathing equally would help improvising your clavicular breathing.Third area is intercostal muscle area,so try and keep your both hand on the side and breathe in and enlarge your ribs from the side and breathe out and engage your ribs from the side.This activity of rib would help you to increase the capacity of intercostal muscle by which you can boost the oxygen level.
Other pranayama is the exercise of diaphragm, so do this diaphragmatic breathing,where you are lying down your legs should closer to your body and while inhaling bring your abdomen little up and while exhaling push the abdomen little down, inhale stomach up exhale stomach down,go on doing this very easily atleast 30 rounds 2-3 times in a day. So here,you have used all these 3 sets of muscles,first you have to developed  these muscles and you have to use these for a complete inhalation and exhalation,this should be done regularly.
Another breathing technique is Kumbhaka,where you are inhaling and then holding your breath,stopping your breath for sometime,so this holding of breath really helps in opening up all the alveolar units in our lungs,by which it ease in increasing the oxygen level into the blood.
The last exercise could be Kapalbhati, this kapalbhati really helps removing the toxins from the respiratory tract,its an excellent kriya. Lower the toxin more would be the oxygen absorption,so here try and sit quietly,start inhaling and exhaling,first understand that you have to suck the air from nostril strongly and release the air firmly,so it should be this sort of a activity 30 rounds and then taking a long breathe in ,it’s a excellent technique and it should be followed by everybody.
4. Iron Rich Food To Improve Your Hemeoglobin Level: Spinach and all such leafy vegetables,then comes beans pulses legumes , beet and even food like raisins apricots pomeogranate these things should get place in your food. Less salt in your body could help oxygen level at kidney and blood.Another thing is drink sufficient water,whenever you are thirsty drink water.
5. Chest Expansion Techniques: We should open up our chest and here are certain asanas which we should do regularly.
First, wall stretch, go to the wall, expand your arms on the side and go closer to the wall, pressure it out, when you do this activity at the wall, it should expand your chest.
Second asana would be Adhomukhaswanasana, Third is Yastikasana, Forth Trikonasana. These asanas will keep all the muscles involved in the respiration flexible.If the chest muscles are flexible and stretched it will help the chest in free and easy inhalation and exhalation and thereby increase the oxygen intake.
Follow all these tips and it can help keeps your lung in good condition and what will happen,it would improve your oxygen level, And above all keep your mind free from worry,so try and see that your mind is relaxed from stress tension worry anxiety,see that you think positive ,see that you remain  cheerful and go ahead with your journey,let there be any problems,problems come to go,they never remain,it will go away,nature is there to help us and not to destroy us,have belief do your duty towards yourself and towards society and learn to live successfully.
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