Testimonials

“Since starting the Buteyko course my asthma has improved. I have been able to reduce my medication but the improvement was not noticeable for 3 – 4 weeks. Patience and perseverance are required!”

“I have found the course helpful, supportive and interesting”.

“Since starting the course I have been able to exercise without Ventolin!”

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Buteyko Trials and Results

Australia

Buteyko's method has reached over 8,000 asthmatics with a claimed success rate of more than 90%. These results were subsequently validated. Buteyko's featured positively in scores of newspaper articles, current affair television programs and radio interviews. The trials (one "open" in Melbourne and one "randomised controlled" in Brisbane) showed Buteyko's method to provide unprecedented positive results for asthmatics.

Australian Doctor (7 April 1995), a medical journal, carried on its front page "DOCTORS GASP AT BUTEYKO SUCCESS" and went on to report "Buteyko breathing hypoventilation exercises in patients with asthma reduced beta agonist use by 90% and improved symptoms, according to preliminary results of a randomised, controlled trial in Brisbane". The Medical Journal of Australia (Volume 162) reported "the open trial of the Buteyko method clearly showed unprecedented broad spectrum improvement in the short-term and medium-term, a dynamic breakthrough".

One of Australia's foremost asthma authorities, Professor Charles Mitchell of the University of Queensland, was reported to say after the initial controlled trials, "they feel much better and use much less bronchodilators - this is terrific". Initially doctors were sceptical but in time scores supported Buteyko's method.

"As a medical doctor and naturopath I am impressed and surprised at the effectiveness of this natural approach". Dr. Paul Ameisan MBBS, MD, Dac, ND; Sydney.

"I have experienced the Buteyko breathing technique both personally and professionally and found it to be a very effective treatment for asthma and I'm certain you will be impressed. Give the treatment a trial".
Dr. Kevin Treacy. MBBS; The Gold Coast.

Russia

Official approval from the Ministry of Health. Buteyko’s method proved so successful that it received a special order from the Ministry of Health (Number 591 on 30 April 1985 by SI Burenkov, Minister for Health). The Chair of the Childhood Diseases Centre at the First Moscow Institute, after rigorous clinical approbation, concluded that "Buteyko’s method proved to be very efficient in the complex treatment of bronchial asthma and helps to decrease the number and severity of attacks, at the same time reducing medication or completely revoking the need to take the mediation". Further tests were duly carried out. Approximately 100,000 patients with asthma (being treated with drugs) have completed the course over 6 years. Of the original 100,000 approximately 92,000 do not take medication at all today.

Click here to view the results of the Approbation of the 'BBL' Method in the Department of Children's Diseases in the First Moscow Medical Institute of E. M. Sechenov

 

If Buteyko’s Method is so successful, why isn’t it general practice?

It is hoped that when more doctors see the research and trial data they will join the growing numbers of doctors who endorse and recommend this drug-free method. It is hoped that one day the Buteyko Method will be available on the NHS.