Creation of Volitional Elimination of Deep Breathing method (method VEDB or Buteyko method)
Buteyko received a scientific laboratory under his management in Novosibirsk academic town. It was in 1960. He made a very rare apparatus – a combine complexator. That combine saved many, many sick people. It registered a great number of parameters of human health: composition of inhaled and exhaled air, not only electrocardiogram but also ballistocardiogram of the heart. The combine registered content of carbonic acid (CO2) in inhaled and exhaled air. It registered content of oxygen in blood haemoglobin. Konstantin Pavlovich laid the patient on a special couch and asked him to breathe more deeply. The combine immediately registered worsening of the patient's state. An asthmatic received a fit of asthma. A heart patient received an attack of stenocardia, etc. Buteyko asked his patient to breathe not deeply, to diminish the depth of his breathing, and the state of the patient noticeably improved. Practice said that Buteyko's discovery is a real great discovery! And not practice only said about that. Buteyko worked six years in the Moscow medical library. He worked in that library from 1952 up to 1958, up to his departure to Siberia. He read many medical books on the theme of breathing. Very many books. And he understood suddenly that many scientists in vain gave first place for main health to the air! Konstantin Pavlovich understood that the first place for main health must be given to carbonic acid (CO2)!! It was strange on the face of it. But it was truth! He read many scientific books. But one of them staggered him especially. It was the book of two famous English scientists – "Respiration" by J.G. Priestley (second edition 1935). That book was printed in the USSR only one time, in 1937. The famous English physiologists wrote a big capital labour, in 440 pages! The whole book said about the fact that exactly carbonic acid (CO2) is in the first place for the human organism. Haldane and Priestley did not say it straight. They simply gave facts… They showed that a man loses his consciousness after two minutes of deep breathing, for example (page 69 in the Russian edition). Not every man certainly. Some man loses consciousness after six or eight minutes… That book gave the last proofs to Buteyko in theoretical plan. Deep breathing washes carbonic acid (CO2) from the human organism. And the man loses consciousness… Therefore carbonic acid (CO2) is a more important gas for the organism than oxygen. Deep breathing gives much oxygen in human blood, but that fact does not save a man from fainting. Haldane and Priestley understood that fact very well. But they did not dare to say that straight. Because all world science says the contrary. Buteyko's combine complexator proved that world science made a mistake…
Deep Breathing Illnesses Discovery demanded its practical applying now. Konstantin Pavlovich began to create his Volitional Elimination of Deep Breathing method (VEDB method). It was necessary to teach people to breathe shallowly. In what pose is it better to make? In lying pose, or sitting pose? All these questions demanded answer. Buteyko worked a long time in that direction. The sitting variant rendered the most acceptable. Right carriage, position of legs, state of your stomach, direction of your look – all played a very important role. But the most important was the other. The most important role in recovery of a sick man played good knowledge of the Deep Breathing Illnesses Discovery theory. Knowledge of the Verigo-Bohr law in the first time! Russian scientist professor Verigo proved in 108 year that haemoglobin of human blood badly gives oxygen to the cells if there is a little carbonic acid in the human blood! Grandson of Niels Bohr confirmed that law in 1922. You breathe deeply. You receive much atmospheric oxygen in your blood. But that oxygen does not reach your cells. Because deep breathing washed your carbonic acid from your organism to the atmosphere!
All physicians say about the use of oxygen for the human organism. But they do not understand that deep breathing prevents getting of oxygen from the blood into cells, which sit in hungry oxygen starvation. Your cells choke from oxygen insufficiency by deep breathing! The Verigo-Bohr law is the main foundation stone in the Deep Breathing Illnesses Discovery theory. Remember that law very, very well! And the second theoretical fact which every sick man must know is the table of atmosphere evolution. Look at that table, please. All physicians say about the use of oxygen for the human organism. All physicians say about that. But this table says the contrary. The human cell demands 7% carbonic acid (CO2) for its good existence. And that same human cell demands only 2% of oxygen for its good existence too! Earth atmosphere had 40–90% carbonic acid (CO2) when life was conceived on it. The living cell felt itself very good in that period. But Earth covered by green vegetation took up almost all atmospheric carbonic acid. Look at the table, please. There are only 0.03% carbonic acid (CO2) in Earth atmosphere now! The human cell cannot live well in such conditions. The human cell demands 7% carbonic acid as before.
And what about oxygen? The human cell demands only 2% of oxygen for its good existence. But Earth atmosphere has 21% of oxygen now! Look at the table, please… So, we have enough oxygen. But we need carbonic acid. Where may we take it? Not from Earth atmosphere. There is not enough carbonic acid (only 0.03%). Carbonic acid is produced in human cells. We eat every day. Carbon (C) lies in the base of our food. That carbon (C) joins with oxygen (O2) in the cells of the human organism. CO2 is received as a result of that. And our cells produce 7–8% of carbonic acid (CO2). But that CO2 goes into the alveoli of our lungs. A healthy man must have 6.5% CO2 in his lungs. But the physicians teach us to breathe deeply… You make a deep breath and a deep expiration follows… That deep expiration washes away your precious carbonic acid (CO2) into the atmosphere. The CO2 content in your lungs begins to go down. 6.5% CO2 – you are a healthy man. 5% CO2 – frontier line between health and illness. You have approximately 3.7% CO2 because you have your terrible illnesses. Death comes below 3.5% CO2… Remember that table, please! The table of atmosphere evolution is the second cornerstone of Buteyko theory. The CO2 content in your organism can be defined by the help of a gas analyser. But that apparatus is very expensive. Konstantin Pavlovich created a cheaper way to define the CO2 content in your organism. This way is the way to define your control pause. Control pause is a delay of your breathing after a usual expiration up to the smallest wish to take a breath. Up to a small wish. It is very important. A small wish. If it is a big wish (your mouth will be opened by that!) – it is not a control pause. It is a maximum pause. Look at the following Buteyko table. That table shows that the state of your organism is very good if your control pause is 60 seconds. Your lung's CO2 is 6.5% then.
The state of your organism is good enough if your control pause is 30 seconds. Your lung's CO2 (carbon dioxide) is 5% then. The state of your organism is very good if your control pause is 5 seconds. Your lung's CO2 (carbon dioxide) is only 3.5%… Death comes if your lung's CO2 is lower than 3.5%. The majority of you, our dear readers, have a control pause of 7 seconds on average. Therefore you have your terrible illnesses: asthma, allergy, eczema, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, diathesis, heart illnesses, hypertension, hypotension, vegetovascular dystonia, heart ischemia, stenocardia, cardiac arrhythmias, diabetes mellitus, women's illnesses (menstrual cycle disturbances, pregnancy toxicosis, pathological climacterium (menopause), cervical erosion, fibromyomas, fibrotic mastopathy, sterility, impotence, threatened abortions), radiculitis, osteochondrosis, metabolic polyarthritis, pyelonephritis, nocturnal cystitis, poor eyesight, etc. Dear readers! Control pause is a very approximate quantity. Only a good Buteyko methodist can define your approximate exact value. You have approximately 3.7% CO2 in your lungs if you have your terrible illnesses. Academician Buteyko created the VEDB method. Volitional Elimination of Deep Breathing method. And the table of lung's ventilation criteria is the third cornerstone of his great Deep Breathing Illnesses Discovery! Yes!
It is very important to know how you must sit in the Buteyko method. How your legs, your hands must be disposed. Your head, your eyes, your mouth, your stomach. It is very important. But no disposition gives you real health if you do not know very, very well those three cornerstones of Buteyko's theory: the first stone – Verigo-Bohr law, second stone – the table of atmosphere evolution, the third stone – the table of lung's ventilation criteria. Those three cornerstones may give real health to you. Because only those three cornerstones give you a clear understanding of the real cause of your terrible illness. Your cell can be healthy only with 6.5% CO2 content in your lungs. You have only 3.7%. What health can there be with such a low content of CO2? What health? Three cornerstones – these are the laws of physiology!! No tablets can help you in such a case. No tablets! No operations! You have 3.7% CO2, therefore you breathe in 27 litres of atmospheric air every minute of your life! But the norm is only 3 litres for a woman and 5 litres for a man… How can you be healthy with that wild hyperventilation? Tell me, please – how? You can know that truth very simply. Take 40 or 50 very, very deep breaths! You will feel very badly by that. Your head, your heart will feel very badly. What is the answer? Deep breathing is the real cause of your terrible illness. How can you cure your illnesses? By means of tablets? No! By means of operation? No. By means of the VEDB method only!! "I can buy a gas balloon (balloon with CO2)," you may say… Yes! You may buy a gas balloon. But it cannot save you. You must work carbon dioxide yourself. Why can pig insulin not help a diabetic man really? Why are diabetic patients afraid of pig insulin? Because only their own insulin is very useful to them. Buteyko VEDB method can give you your own CO2. Your own CO2! Remember that, please.