Speleotherapy

Speleotherapy (Greek σπήλαιον spḗlaion "cave") is a proposed respiratory therapy involving breathing inside a cave.[1]

A 2001 Cochrane summary concluded that as no trials had been done, there is no evidence to determine whether breathing air inside a cave is useful in treating asthma.[1]

There are claims of improvements in the breathing of miners in Roman and medieval times. Modern use of this therapy started in Germany by Karl Hermann Spannagel.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Beamon, S; et al. "Speleotherapy for asthma". Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2): CD001741. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD001741. PMID 11406004.
  2. ↑ Josef Cáp; Pavel Slavik; Ladislav Pecen (2007), Stanovení endogenního kortizolu u dìtí (PDF) (in Czech), archived from the original (PDF) on 18 July 2011
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