What are the advantages and disadvantages of abdominal breathing?

Abdominal breathing is a very popular way of breathing. For example, those who sing often must learn this way of breathing. There are many things to pay attention to in abdominal breathing, such as breathing very deeply and slowly. In particular, you must learn to inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth. The following introduces the many advantages and disadvantages of abdominal breathing.

Advantages and disadvantages of abdominal breathing:

Benefits of abdominal breathing:

Benefits of abdominal breathing 1: Improve lung capacity

Abdominal breathing can expand the chest cavity to the maximum extent, allowing the alveoli in the lower lungs to expand and contract, allowing more oxygen to enter the lungs, strengthening the respiratory function, increasing vital capacity, and improving cardiopulmonary function, reducing cardiopulmonary diseases such as coronary heart disease and bronchitis.

Benefit 2 of abdominal breathing: Reduce lung infection

Abdominal breathing can improve cardiopulmonary function, is very helpful for the recovery of senile emphysema and other pulmonary ventilation disorders, and can also reduce lung infections, especially the risk of pneumonia.

Benefit 3 of abdominal breathing: Promote gastrointestinal motility

Due to the regular increase and decrease of abdominal pressure during abdominal breathing, the activity of abdominal organs is enhanced, which improves the blood circulation of the digestive tract, promotes the digestive and absorption function of the digestive tract, promotes intestinal peristalsis, prevents constipation, accelerates the excretion of toxins, and reduces the growth of bacteria in the stomach and intestines. In addition, it is also effective in preventing colon cancer and hemorrhoids.

Benefit 4 of abdominal breathing: It helps in the circulation of qi

There are a large number of meridians passing through the abdomen, and there are dozens of acupoints throughout, especially the Shenque point, which is the navel, which maintains the growth of the fetus. Therefore, strengthening abdominal breathing can promote the circulation of abdominal meridian qi, which is beneficial to the operation of the human meridians, and thus beneficial to the life activities of the whole body.

Benefits of abdominal breathing 5: weight loss

Abdominal breathing helps stimulate gastrointestinal motility and promotes the excretion of waste from the body. If you insist on abdominal breathing every day, it will help eliminate abdominal fat, eliminate abdominal waste, and improve abdominal blood circulation, thereby achieving the effect of weight loss. It can also relax the lines of the chest, shoulders and neck, making the lines of the upper body more beautiful.

Disadvantages of abdominal breathing:

1. Generate Dependence

Generally speaking, the human body is accustomed to breathing with the chest. If you use abdominal breathing for a long time, you will develop a certain dependence, which is not conducive to normal breathing. Therefore, everyone should calm themselves and adopt this breathing method steadily. Before adopting this method, you should understand its disadvantages.

2. Not conducive to the stability of qi and blood

Many people use abdominal breathing when they are exercising. In fact, the human body should not perform abdominal breathing when it is exercising. Generally, the exercise should be performed when the body is still. This will help reduce blood fluctuations and heartbeat fluctuations, thus avoiding causing certain harm to the body and serious damage to the heart organ.

3. Not conducive to the recovery of lung organs

In fact, abdominal breathing is sometimes not very good for the lungs. It will seriously affect the health of the lungs and cannot provide more care for the lungs. Similarly, this way of breathing can easily damage the heart organs, etc.