Lungs Detox at Home | Immediate Relief

how much our lungs are getting affected first of to keep our lungs safe and healthy we should basically know how the lungs work so, we should first understand how the lungs works to keep it safe, healthy and pure how to keep our lungs clean how to save our lungs and keep it healthy and safe I am going to give you 7 tips for it when we breathe in, both the lungs and the muscles surrounding it do some work so we need to know what do they do and how do they work only then we will understand the importance of one single breath the lungs are placed very safely in the chest cavity what is chest cavity our chest region the lungs and the heart, which is situated in between them, so these are the most important organs present in this region so to keep them protected, there is a structure called rib cage which means lot of bones placed, in order to protect our lungs and heart There is a tube present behind our nose That tube is called as Wind Pipe Wind pipe is medically called as Trachea When the center portion of trachea divides into two it is termed as Bronchus or Bronchia so what does the bronchus do their tips end with small sac like structures called as Alveoli sac When we smoke when we inhale and exhale that air the nicotine goes into our lungs completely through the bronchus and immediately creates black patches on the lungs what does that mean that particular part of alveoli that particular spot of the lungs can not fully process the gas exchange it can not do its usual process properly why do people feel very addicted to smoking once they start it that also has a reason nicotine does not mix only with blood but through blood it also reaches the brain the brain has centers called pleasure centers which means that it makes you feel good when you smoke, the nicotine goes through the blood and activates the pleasure center in the brain and it also damages the brain cells as well Pneumonia, that is lung infection or Pleural effusion, referred to as “water on the lungs,” fluid can get collected in the lungs it can cause even more why do you cough when you have infection means if the infection is in our lungs or throat the alveoli will itself try to push the infection out of our body when there is infection, a substance called mucus is produced mucus is produced by our lungs to fight against the infection the mucus fills inside the bronchus and almost covers it so the way shrinks and we feel breathlessness, we cough and find it difficult to breathe to relieve this what should we do Postural Drainage can help us breathe air easily while we are lying down and when you keep the pillow as support you can even sleep on you stomach, but when you keep the pillows your chest region should be down and your hip should be up if you place the pillows accordingly like the way you see in these pictures the mucus can get drained easily why do we ask you to do breathing, what are the positives of doing it how to do it, what is the correct method to do it to keep your lungs healthy Now a days Do any of you know how much our lungs are getting affected what are the reasons 

1. Mainly pollution everywhere there is pollution, air pollution due to vehicles or due to the gases emitted from the industries 

2. Smoking and 

3. Lung issues like Asthma or bronchial asthma or Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) so all these we have heard many times and also with these viral infections which are spending for the past one to two years so everyone today are telling us to take care of our lungs we need to be safe, we need to do breathing exercise or pranayama only if we keep our lungs pure, clean and safe we can lead a healthy life True it is But to keep our lungs healthy and safe we should basically know how the lungs work so, we should first understand how the lungs works to keep it safe, healthy and pure so this video is specifically for that purpose This video contains 3 parts or 3 sections in which the first section is about how our lungs work in the second section, I will explain how the lungs can get affected due to these pollutions the last section is very important, so watch it till the end in the last part, in spite of all these, I will tell you how to keep our lungs safe so watch the full video and know about it Lets go to the first section Now our lungs Most of the organs in our body are single like one brain, one heart or one liver, and so on in a human body only two organs have pairs, one Kidneys and the other lungs why do we have it in pairs probably, God knows even if we misuse and lose one, we can still survive with the other one but our goal should be not to misuse it so let us see about lungs as mentioned earlier, we have two lungs - right side and left side we should know where the lungs are placed in our body we have been learning this since our school days the lungs are placed very safely in the chest cavity What is chest cavity our chest region the lungs and the heart, which is situated in between them, so these are the most important organs present in this region so to keep them protected, there is a structure called rib cage which means lot of bones placed in order to protect our lungs and heart so the pair of lungs - right and left lung and in between them the heart are present inside the rib cage lets see how the lungs are connected to our body Let us start from the Nose There is a tube present behind our nose say like a pipe That tube is called as Wind Pipe Wind pipe is medically called as Trachea there is wide pipe behind the nose which goes through the throat from the throat it should divide into the two lungs say like a tree it divides like the branches of a tree When the center portion of trachea divides into two it is termed as Bronchus or Bronchia when the bronchia fully expands like the tree branches it will form tiny branches called bronchioles what does these bronchioles do their tips end with small sac like structures called as Alveoli what are these for the alveoli sacs are surrounded by the blood vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries so that space is for the good blood and the bad blood to exchange gases now we know about the external and the internal form of the lungs now what we have to know further is when we breathe in, both the lungs and the muscles surrounding it does some work so we need to know what do they do and how do they work only then we will understand the importance of one single breath so, say we breathe in, most of us would know, what do we say when doing breathing exercise properly inhale well and then exhale what happens when we inhale first when we inhale air through our nose when the air goes in through the nose, it will be warm and humidified There are structures called cilia inside the nose what do you mean by cilia cilia are small feather like structures inside our nose when we breathe in the air, the feather will clean the dust particles in the nose itself it will make the air warm and humidify it and send it through the trachea so the air is partially cleaned without dust particles, the oxygen rich air goes in through the trachea then the air passes through the trachea and moves through the bronchus and reaches the alveoli sacs at the same time I had mentioned that the alveoli are surrounded by blood vessels from our heart, the pulmonary arteries will bring the bad blood that is carbon dioxide filled blood to the lungs that blood also surrounds these alveoli sacs then what happens the oxygen rich blood will go into that blood vessel the carbon dioxide from that blood vessels will move into the alveoli sacs now when we exhale, the unwanted carbon dioxide will come out when we properly breathe in oxygen rich air it will go to our lungs and from there the gas exchange happens in the alveoli sac from the alveoli sac it will take the oxygen rich blood and go to the heart from the heart, the oxygen rich blood reaches the other parts of the body again from the heart the carbon dioxide rich blood comes to the lungs and we exhale it out so all these processes happen in just one breath that you inhale and exhale for all these processes, the muscles in our nose, the muscles in our rib cage which is called as intercostal muscles or the diaphragm, a sheet like structure, below the lungs all these muscles help in taking one breath now we will look into the second section what did I say in the second section our lungs is breathing so much for us whereas what are the ways in which we are spoiling the lungs

 1. Smoking How many of us know, what are the problems smoking can cause when we smoke, the air which goes into our lungs reaches the part where the gas exchange happens where a substance called nicotine which is present in the cigarettes will mix into our blood and spread to our entire body why do people feel very addicted to smoking once they start it that also has a reason nicotine does not mix only with blood but through blood it also reaches the brain the brain has centers called pleasure centers which means that it makes you feel good when you smoke, the nicotine goes through the blood and activates the pleasure center in the brain and it also damages the brain cells as well so what happens when the pleasure centers get activated in the brain you feel good about it, you will feel relaxed that is how many get addicted to cigarettes do you think I am talking only about the person who smokes as much as it affects an active smoker it also affects the people surrounding them, it may be their children or elders or whoever be near them so as much as active smoking is injurious to once health, same way passive smoking is also injurious which means people who do not smoke but are present amidst smokers, their lungs also can get affected so it is very important to go into a smoking zone for it, as passive smoking is as bad as active smoking now we know how much our lungs can get affected due to smoking if you see further in this video When we smoke when we inhale and exhale that air the nicotine goes completely into our lungs through the bronchus and immediately creates black patches on the lungs what does that mean that particular part of alveoli that particular spot of the lungs can not fully process the gas exchange it can not do its usual process properly so nicotine can do that much of damage to our lungs apart from smoking, in our day today life, if we have to go outside our house itself the entire air in our country is polluted it can be due to the vehicles or due to the harmful gases emitted by the industries even that air pollution is harmful for our lungs why do I say so is as I said earlier for lungs, the cilia helps in removing the dust particles in the nose itself apart from that there is something present in them called Macrophages What are macrophages? macrophages eats the small dust particles in our nose and lungs but they also have their own limitations to clear the dust particles and pollutants now apart from smoking and pollution now we have heard this many times Viral infections be it normal viral cold or even Covid any infection which is going to affect the lungs how does that affect us when you are talking to another person who is infected without wearing a mask or any other protection the viral infection can spread through air and enter your nose when the other person is talking to you if the virus goes into the nose, obviously if it does not get filtered, and if the virus particle is virulent it can directly go into the lungs through the wide pipe and affect it severely that is how pneumonia, that is lung infection or Pleural effusion, referred to as “water on the lungs,” fluid can get collected in the lungs what is pleural effusion pleural means the covering of the lungs and effusion means fluid collection so pleural effusion or pneumonia or black patches are seen so how do we diagnose them 1. by doing CT scan we can identify 

2. or by doing X-ray we can identify it so all these are the ways in which our lungs can get affected so finally what are we going to see about is now we know how lungs work and the factors that can affect it lastly the most important thing that we are going to see is how to keep our lungs clean how to save our lungs and keep it healthy and safe that is what we are going to see in this third section of the video I am going to give you 7 tips for it If you follow it normally, our lungs will be safe and healthy Tip 1 First thing what we should is many might have heard about steam inhalation it is wrong if you overdo steam inhalation as well you can do steam inhalation either once or twice a week or when you are having nose block, so that it can give you some relief what is steam inhalation the steam will cleanse the nose do you remember the cilia that I had mentioned earlier if there is any infection or any nose block the warm air or the vapour will clear out the pathway basically steam inhalation will give you symptomatic relief you need not do it when you do not have any problem but when you have infection, it is good to do steam inhalation even once or twice a day as well Tip 2 Controlled coughing everyone of us cough, why do we cough when we have infection cough is our body's natural mechanism if the infection is in our lungs or throat the alveoli will itself try to push the infection out of our body the way in which we push out the mucus or infection out of our body is called coughing instead of coughing randomly if it is a controlled cough the benefits of it is so high how do you do controlled coughing? Sit down on a chair with the shoulders relaxed, keeping both feet flat on the floor, fold the arms over the stomach after your muscles tighten use a cloth or tissue paper to cover your mouth and you can cough for two or three times that is called as controlled coughing as that controlled coughing can help in clearing out the air way for you 

Tip 3

Postural Drainage I know this is a big medical term Posture means the position in which we sleep or stand Drainage, what are we going to drain out means whenever we get an infection, or more commonly what everyone has these days are allergies or Asthma or COPD (Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) What happens to our lungs due to these do you remember the bronchioles, structures like the tree branches when there is an infection the natural mechanism of lungs are, the bronchus will shrink when there is infection, a substance called mucus is produced mucus is produced by our lungs to fight against the infection the mucus fills inside the bronchus and almost covers it so the way shrinks and we feel breathlessness, we cough and find it difficult to breathe to relieve this what should we do Postural Drainage can help us breathe air easily while we are lying down when can we do that the best time to do it is before eating if it is post having your food then you can try these postures after minimum of one or two hours you can lay down flat on the bed or if you find it uncomfortable you can turn to your left or right side and when you keep the pillow as support you can even sleep on you stomach, but when you keep the pillows your chest region should be down and your hip should be up if you place the pillows accordingly like the way you see in these pictures make sure that your chest is down and the hip is up so that the mucus can get drained easily and for many patients who get admitted in the ICU for asthma or Covid we do physiotherapy What do we do in physio? Chest Percussion What is Percussion Only trained physiotherapists or doctors or nurses can do it, please do not try it at home We keep our hand like a cup and tap on the chest or back there is a possibility for the mucus to drain.

Tip 4

 Physical activity or exercise Why physical activity is very important all the doctors will tell you to workout for minimum 30 to 45 minutes it has many reasons when you workout, your lung capacity improves how does it improve? your body takes in lot of oxygen and your body will produce very less amount of carbon dioxide so your lung capacity will improve very well it will also help in improving your blood circulation when your blood circulation improves large amount of carbon dioxide will go out easily so your physical activity is very important even for your lungs 

Tip 5

 Many people now a days intend to have green tea instead of normal tea Green tea contains lot of antioxidants what are antioxidants? Antioxidants have anti inflammatory properties anti inflammatory substances like green tea help in fighting against infection by improving our immune system drinking green tea once or twice day is very good for healthy lungs as well 

Tip 6

 The food which you eat daily can help you keep your lungs healthy Turmeric, we use it in all our food Walnuts, they contain lot of antioxidants Cherries and blueberries and also lot of green vegetables, like beans, lentils all these contains immunity boosters and antioxidants 

Tip 7

very important how should our breathing pattern be try practicing this for at least five to ten minutes daily your breathing pattern should be of 1:2 ratio what is this 1:2 first we breathe in which is inhale and then breathe out which is exhale if the duration of your inhaling time is 1 and the duration of your exhaling time should be 2 (twice of inhalation) say if you breathe in for 5 seconds, you should breathe out for 10 seconds which means you should exhale slowly you can breathe in two ways 1. Pursed lip breathing we breath in through nose and when we exhale we do not do it with the mouth open rather by keeping it in such a whistling kind position day to day when you do breathing, you should be concentrating on what I say next 2. Belly Breathing What is belly breathing? Belly means stomach, so obviously you should notice your stomach's movement when you breathe you sit and place both your hands on your stomach, keep your back straight, and when you inhale you should notice your stomach coming out and when you exhale your stomach should go in, also remember the 1:2 breathing the time you take to exhale should be longer than the time you take to inhale so both this belly breathing and the pursed lip breathing is very important after watching this video you would have understood, why doctors tell you to do breathing exercise or pranayama and so on you would have also known what is the correct way of doing it and what are the benefits of it after watching this full video So, I hope this video was really helpful if you have any more doubts regarding lungs or if you have gone through some lung issues and you have recovered means you can share your experience in the comment's section that will be helpful for many people see you all soon in the next video