Basti for heart and lungs
Uro basti: warm oil treatment for heart and lung problems
This treatment relieves chest pain and tachycardia, treats bronchitis and bronchial asthma, nourishes the organs, and clears all the channels in the lungs and heart and prevents them drying out. It opens the heart chakra, releasing blocked emotions and sadness and helping emotions be expressed. It improves the functioning of the three forms of Vata that function in the chest and the form of Kapha that controls the lungs. The chest area is massaged with warm oil, heat is applied, then a warm oil bath is placed on it for 20 minutes. A minimum of three is advised. 45 minutes.
Contraindications: vomiting, diarrhoea, pleurisy, emphysema, lung cancer, metastasis in lungs, atrophy in lungs, hypertrophy of heart, congestive cardiac failure, pericarditis (inflamed heart lining), children up to seven.
