Nostril-Breathing Versus Mouth-Breathing

Humankind boasts two methods of breathing - through the mouth or through the nasal tubes. However there is a huge and vital difference - only one method ensures health and strength. The other brings disease and weakness. It should go without saying that we should all avoid mouth breathing.

Let’s look at the reasons:

• Many contagious diseases are contracted by the habit of mouth-breathing.
• The only protective apparatus, filter or dust catcher for the respiratory organs is situated in our nostrils.
• When breath is taken through the mouth, there is nothing from mouth to lungs to strain the air or to catch the dust or the foreign matter in the air.
• This leaves the respiratory system unprotected and admits cold air to the organs which can cause them damage.
• By allowing cold air, dust and impurities in through the mouth, no protection is afforded to the respiratory system which leaves the system open to disease.
• The refining, filtering and straining apparatus of the nostrils renders the air fit to reach the delicate organs of the throat and the lungs. It is important to understand that the air is not fit to reach these organs until it has passed through nature’s refining process.
• The impurities which are stopped and retained by the sieves and mucous membrane of the nostrils are thrown out again by the expelled breath and sneezing which violently ejects the unwanted matter.
• We should no more breathe through our mouths than attempt to take food through our noses.