Tips For Cleaner Lungs
Unhealthy habits like smoking make the lungs suffer. These tips, combined with a healthy lifestyle, can help us clean them.
The harmful effects of tobacco on health are recognized. Therefore, these tips to have cleaner lungs are aimed at smokers who have decided to change their habit.
However, they would also help those who suffer recurrent respiratory problems or those who simply want to take care of their lungs and breathe better.
Today we will learn to breathe correctly, make vapors, improve home ventilation or relieve mucus. In this way, we will get a few tips that will help us to complement a good exercise routine and a healthy lifestyle.
Tips to have cleaner lungs
Here are some ideas that could help you get cleaner lungs.
1. Steam for cleaner lungs
Vapors are deep breaths that we take on the vapor of certain medicinal plants.
According to an article published by the Journal of Medicine and Social Sciences , this would be an excellent method to alleviate respiratory diseases since these plants would contain anti-inflammatory and expectorant properties. Therefore, they would also help us in the work of cleaning the lungs.
How are they made?
- First, we boil two liters of water together with some medicinal herbs such as pine, thyme, rosemary, eucalyptus, chamomile or oregano.
- When they have cooked between 5 and 10 minutes, that we see that the aromatic steam gives off, we will remove the casserole from the heat and we will sit in front of it; covering our heads with a towel and leaning over the slightly open casserole (taking care not to burn ourselves with excess steam).
- Finally, we will take deep inhalations through the nose, covering one and the other nostril alternately, and also through the mouth.
2. Remove mucus
It is common for us to wake up in the morning with the sensation of having mucus. However, there are times when this mucus can cause congestion or obstruction of the bronchial tubes.
To avoid this problem we can perform nasal washes with the help of a lotus, as we explain in this article. Especially when the mucus is still in the nasal cavity.
On the other hand, when the mucus is already more internal, the specialists point out that those foods that increase it should be monitored in order to eliminate them from the diet.
In this way, milk and dairy products (especially cows) can be substituted for vegetable drinks; and the flours and all the foods that contain them can be replaced by dextrinated bread, similar to toasted rusks , which would turn out to be much more suitable for these cases.
3. Learn to breathe
Sometimes we don’t breathe properly. This bad habit not only affects the lungs, which get used to working with little capacity, but also makes it difficult for oxygen to reach all parts of the body.
How do we learn to breathe?
According to an article published by the Spanish Journal of Physical Education and Sports , it would be effective to perform exercises such as yoga, meditation or tai chi since these always take into account breathing and, in addition, teach how to do it with different parts of the body as well as the belly, the diaphragm or the chest.
4. Improve night breathing for cleaner lungs
Taking into account that we usually sleep an average of 8 hours (a third of the day), it is also essential to ensure that our bedroom has a healthy air.
How do we get it?
- We must ventilate the room every day and, if we dare, we can leave the window a little open at night as well.
- If we have difficulties to ventilate at least we will try to leave the door ajar.
- We will avoid having plants in the room that rob us of oxygen, except for those that precisely provide it, as happens for example with potus. Having one or two potus in the bedroom will help us renew the air we breathe.
- We will avoid humidity and odors in the room. We can also use electric dehumidifiers or aromatic diffusers.
In conclusion, we can help the body to naturally cleanse the lungs with these remedies but, above all, we always recommend discussing health issues with the doctor. Notwithstanding the foregoing, these tips can serve as a relief and prevention method.
