Q.Case Study 2: Raman, a student of class X, has Asthma due to which he is unable to participate in sports activities. He has requested his yoga teacher at school for assistance. The Yoga teacher has advised him to practise certain asanas. a. Write down the name of any four asanas which could be done for asthma?
b. Which pranayama is most effective in this disease?
c. Draw a stick diagram of any two asanas for preventing asthma.

Raman's teacher would draw from this unit's own 3.3 Asthma asana list, which names eleven poses and two pranayama. …

a. Four asanas for asthma (from this unit's own 3.3 list): Urdhvahastottanasana (explicitly lists "asthma control" among its benefits by stretching the chest); Bhujangasana (opens the chest via a backward bend); Ushtrasana ("helpful for asthmatic people"); and Matsyasana (gives "relief from respiratory disorders"). Any four from the unit's eleven-item asthma list would be correct.

b. Most effective pranayama: the asthma section's own designated pranayama is Anulom-Vilom (alternate nostril breathing), placed at 3.3.11 specifically within this disease section. Separately, Kapalabhati's benefits list claims it "cures sinusitus, asthma, and hair loss," but its own precautions elsewhere state that asthma patients should avoid it -- a genuine contradiction in the source text, so Anulom-Vilom is the safer, better-supported recommendation for Raman specifically. …