which pranayamas are better for high blood pressure and heart patients?

Question

Both the pranayamas - kapalbhati and bhastrika are not recommended for high blood pressure and heart patients. If these patients want to have same benefits of kapalbhati and bhastrika, which pranayamas should they practice, inspite of high blood pressure and heart ailments.

Answer 1

The effects of these kapalbhati and bhastrika pranayamas are because of pumping of the abdominal organs and induction of fast breathing pumping the heart fast and therefore, patients with high blood pressure and heart ailments are suggested to avoid these pranayamas. Other pranayamas does not include use of abdominal organs and neither fast breathing and hence, do not cause such benefits of toning of abdominal organs, detoxification and oxygenation of cells / tissues simultaneously. 

But you can have these benefits by practising the following:

1. Savitri Pranayama
2. Naadhi Shuddhi Pranayama
3. Uddiyana Bandha
4. Udara-Sakti-Vikasaka (9 exercises under Suksham Vyayama)
5. Nauli

I hope that the above exercises will help you.