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Speleotherapy

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Speleotherapy is an alternative medicine respiratory therapy that involves breathing inside subterranean environments, such as a cave.

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Asthma, Conditions
Source Speleotherapy (Wikipedia)
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Speleotherapy (Wikipedia)
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speleotherapy, lead section
    Speleotherapy (Greek σπήλαιον spḗlaion "cave") is an alternative medicine respiratory therapy involving breathing inside subterranean environments, such as a cave.
  • Treats: Asthma, Article text, use for
    Svetozar Dluholucky, M.D., speleotherapy is "a natural way of treating asthma and allergies, which it would be a sin not to use." He has conducted research in Bystrianska Cave since 1974, according to which there has been a fivefold decrease in respiratory diseases and asthma in the children studied.
  • In Group: Alternative Health Practices and Devices, Introduction
    Speleotherapy (Greek σπήλαιον spḗlaion "cave") is an alternative medicine respiratory therapy involving breathing inside subterranean environments, such as a cave.
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