While playing Holi, while applying gulal or color on the face, some of its particles can reach the throat and lungs. Although our body itself works to clean it, but many times the particles of gulal get accumulated in the throat and lungs through the respiratory tract.
When dust or particles of something reach inside the body, the immune system takes the help of mucus and cough to remove this waste. With which some other symptoms may also appear. Such as feeling of something stuck in the throat, heaviness-pain in the chest, dry cough, cough with phlegm, pain in the throat, etc.
According to the WHO, in asthma, the airway of the patient shrinks and the situation can become dangerous if dust, pollen or any other kind of particles gets trapped in it. Because of which there is a lot of difficulty in breathing and there can be a risk of death of the patient.
How to clean lungs and throat?
If you want to clean the throat and lungs, then you can take the help of yoga. A study published on NCBI says that by doing some pranayama, things trapped inside can come out and the airway can be relaxed. Due to which the throat and lungs will be cleaned from inside.
Kapalbhati Pranayama Steps
- First of all, sit in Sukhasana and straighten the spine.
- Keep your palms on the knees by turning towards the sky.
- Now take a deep breath from the stomach.
- After this, while exhaling completely, move the stomach inwards.
- After exhaling completely, relax the stomach and fill the breath inside.
- Inhale and exhale like this 20 times and complete one round of Kapalbhati Pranayama.
- After this, close your eyes and rest for some time and then complete the next two rounds.
Bhastrika Pranayama Steps
- Sit in Vajrasana or Sukhasana and keep the spine straight.
- Now make fists with both the palms and keep them in the air equal to the shoulders.
- After this, take a deep breath as much as possible and open the fists by taking the hands straight above the head.
- Now bringing the hands again equal to the shoulders, close the fists and exhale with a little force.
- Complete one round by doing this 20 times and rest.
- Similarly you have to do 2 more rounds.
Who should not do this Pranayama?
Both these pranayamas transmit high energy in the body, which affects blood pressure and heart. That's why people who are heart patients or are troubled by the problem of high and low BP, they must take expert advice before doing these pranayama.
