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.

Read the Results of the 1981 Trial by K. P. Buteyko and V. A. Genina