Unblock the Nose Naturally in 2-3 min (Breathing Exercise)
This simple breathing exercise (remedy and solution) to unblock the nose was developed by Russian doctors practicing the Buteyko method. Around 200 MDs taught it to hundreds of their patients with mouth breathing. Most patients, according to clinical experience of these doctors, could clear their nose and resume their nasal breathing in about one-two minutes naturally. This remedy also works for people with chronic nose problem and symptoms of fatigue. The exercise can be applied during nights as well (see below).
What to do
Pinch your nose and walk fast with your nose pinched and your mouth closed all the time. You likely will be able to make around 20-30 steps. While walking, you should hold your breath until a strong urge to breathe. Then sit down with your spine totally straight and focus on your breath. After you release your nose, resume your usual breathing (not big one) and keep the mouth closed. Hence, instead of taking a big inhalation, take a smaller inhale and then relax all muscles for exhalation, especially upper chest and other respiratory muscles. Make another (smaller) inhale and again relax. With each inhalation, practice this reduced or shallow breathing while remaining relaxed. Your purpose is to maintain air hunger for about 2-3 min with total relaxation of body muscles. The breathing can be frequent during this reduced breathing or shallow breathing but this is OK.
If later your breathing becomes heavy, your nose will get blocked again. Then you can repeat this exercise.
Steps to follow during sleep (at night)
Lie on your left side or chest and relax all bodily muscles. Pinch your nose and follow the above instructions related to breath holding and reduced breathing so that to get a quick relief.
Breathing patterns and blocked nose (sinusitis)
Our automatic breath pattern has powerful effects on cell oxygenation and blood supply to all tissues. For example, mouth breathing affects hundreds of physiological processes and reactions in the human body. Sleeping on one's back makes breathing almost 2 times bigger (in terms of minute ventilation) reducing body oxygenation and leading to mouth breathing, sleep apArticles-unblock-the-nose.phpnea, anxiety, panic attacks, headaches, and other problems.
34 medical research studies measured breathing rates (minute ventilation) in the sick people and found that their main problem was breathing too much air at rest. Overbreathing (or hyperventilation) or breathing more than the norm REDUCES body oxygen content due to vasoconstriction (less blood supply for all vital organs due to CO2 deficiency) and the suppressed Bohr effect (less oxygen released in tissues by red blood cells due to the same cause: low CO2).
If you retrain your automatic breath pattern, so that after your usual exhalation, you can easily hold your breath for 20 or more s (no stress at all) 24/7, your problems with sinusitis or rhinitis (blocked nose) will disappear. The detailed description of this special breath-holding time test, as well as typical results for different groups of people, can be found on this web page: Measuring the CP (Control Pause).
Hence, the ultimate remedy to the problem with a blocked nose is to acquire normal breathing parameters 24/7 so that to maintain good body oxygenation all the time. Thus, breathing retraining is necessary. More info about breathing retraining methods and techniques is provided on web pages of this webArticles-unblock-the-nose.phpsite.
There are many lifestyle factors that have a profound effect on our body oxygenation and basal breathing pattern. For example, mouth breathing can reduce body oxygention almost two times. These factors can make our breathing heavier (deeper and faster) or lighter (shallower and slower) depending on choices we made.