ADDRESS TO THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE CONFERENCE
BAIKAL READINGS 1:
FASTING THERAPY AND TRADITIONAL
MEDICINE
Esteemed colleagues,
In compliance with the Resolution of the Republican scientific-and-practical
conference (Ulan-Ude) hosted in 2000 on the topic Fasting Therapy
in Treatment of Internal Diseases: Prospects for Introduction of the
Therapy into the System of Public Health Care and Sanatroium-and-Resort
Treatment, we are organising the Baikal Readings1, hopeful
that, provided their success, meetings under this motto will be held
on a regular basis.
At the above-mentioned conference discussions on results
of fasting therapy application in the health system in Zabaikalye
have revealed its sufficient high efficacy in treatment and bodily
health enhancement. This work is still under way, and medical experience
and insights need to be regularly discussed. Within the Readings'
topics ideas on mobilization of protective-and-adjustive and adaptive
mechanisms in the human body will continue to be evolved for its therapy
and health improvement. In this aspect, the many-century experience
of folk medicine has not been claimed, therefore, we are extending
the scope of topics of the Readings, including issues on traditional
medicine.
To be frank, here in Republic of Buryatia we are particularly
pleased at the extension of topics in this direction. It is due to
the fact that in Zabaikalye we have been engaged in studies of traditional
(synonymous to folk) medicine, which has its own unique ethnic traits
in Buryatia. In our Republic such institutions, like the Buryat Science
Center of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences
and the Center of Oriental Medicine under the Republic of Buryatia
Health Ministry, have been successfully operating; along with licensed
medical doctors belonging to contemporary orthodox medicine, there
is a rather abundant group of folk physicians (emchi-lamas), trained
and skilled in unique therapies of traditional Tibetan medicine, also
providing therapeutic and health improvement services to the local
population. So, the local community is susceptive to natural (traditional)
therapies and health enhancement. However, potentialities
and prospects of traditional medical therapies and techniques have
not been extensively discussed in our Republic.
The Health Ministry of Republic of Buryatia supports and
enforces the introduction of foreign and domestic scientific elaborations
on fasting therapy and traditional medicine into practices of public
health care institutions.
I wish you successful work and mutual enrichment with ideas
and insights for the noble cause of health improvement of Russian
citizens.
V.KOZHEVNIKOV
Minister, Republic of Buryatia
Ministry of Public Health Care
THE EDITOR'S FOREWORD
The idea of organizing and hosting the Baikal Readings on a regular
basis was forwarded at the 2001 Republican scientific-and-practical
conference (Ulan-Ude), where issues of fasting therapy in treatment
of internal diseases were dealt with, and was reflected in the conference
resolution.
Having supported this idea in general, I immediately suggested the
expansion of the topics of the will-be Readings: to raise and discuss
issues not only of fasting therapy but of traditional medicine as
well, proceeding from the fact that in both cases non-medicamental
therapies are applied. Based on our observations we can assert that
techniques of traditional medicine employed at a certain period of
fasting therapy optimize results of fasting.
As the editor of the Baikal Readings' 1 proceedings, I have
attempted to involve experts and adapts who have accumulated
significant personal experience both in fasting therapy and
various techniques of traditional medicine, in order to display
their wide scope, therapeutic and valeological potentialities and
virtual efficiency. I feel that discussion of all these issues
in Republic of Buryatia, which is fortunate to have deep and unique
roots of folk healing and Tibetan medicine, can be of certain interest
for wide general public and local medical community. It can
provide a good stimulus for mobilization of latent reserves for health
enhancement of the locals within the Republic, as well as in some
other regions of the Russian Federation.
Hopefully, that in this respect, the Baikal Readings'1 materials
will attract attention of various medical specialists and give impetus
for their willingness in mastering techniques of fasting therapy and
traditional medicine, and, thus, perfect their personal professional
skills for combating numerous diseases and health enhancement of
the local population.
Prof. Aleksei KOKOSOV,
Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation,
MD, Director on Science of the City Centre Fasting
(St. Petersburg)
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HEALTH FROM THE POINT
OF VIEW OF ORTHODOX (CONTEMPORARY)
AND TRADITIONAL (ORIENTAL) MEDICAL SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL
PRINCIPLES
OF TREATMENT OF PATHOLOGIES AND HEALTH ENHANCEMENT OF THE BODY
A. KOKOSOV
St. Petersburg, Russia
By orthodox (contemporary) medicine health is defined as the state
of equipoise of the systems of biochemical homeostasis with their
environment. Health is sustained by a dynamic complex of defensive-and-adaptive
reactions, introduced in the impact of an extreme (pathogenic)
stimulant, here the primary (adaptive) and secondary (defensive, compensatory)
reactions are being distinguished. Traditional (Oriental) medicine
assigns the paramount relevance in health conservation and sustaining
to informational-and-energetic homeostasis. The human body is presented
in the form of an energetic egg, in which only the internal
envelope coarse (physical) body exists on the anatomical
level, the rest is on the mental one. The state of health is stipulated
by the maximum harmony of all constituent envelopes or shells of the
energetic egg. Its structure is a sustainable, self-regulating
biological system with initially well-developed protection against
external and internal pathogenic factors. Any disease begins from
the change of biological energetics of a Man, namely his biological
field. Recent investigations of biophysics allowed it to be
visualized, what is important for definition of health quality. The
general principles of treatment of pathologies and health enhancement
of the body include the following major tenets, like: (1) to overcome
endotoxicosis and to purge and evacuate wastes from the
body in reliance upon efferent therapeutic and health enhancing techniques;
(2) to create a (competing) leitmotif of health by diverse public
outreach; (3) to stimulate and train mechanism of adaptation and
sanogenesis; (4) to teach a (potential) patient's necessary skills
of health enhancement and quality life maintenance.
Part I
PROSPECTS AND POTENTIALITIES
OF USE OF THERAPIES AND TECHNIQUES
OF TRADITIONAL MEDICINE WITHIN
THE PUBLIC HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
OF REPUBLIC OF BURYATIA
Life Quality and Health (P. Gorbenko; St. Petersburg)
Regarding the terms Life Quality and Health the author emphasizes
saving health of the healthy people and supposes that the current
social policy declared by the President of Russia creates preconditions
for forming the social culture of Life Quality and Health as well
as practical realization of the relevant social actions.
Potentialities and Perspectives of the Traditional Medicine
in Medical Practice in Russia (A. Kokosov; St. Petersburg)
There are two different terms in international medical practice
Health Improvement and Treatment. Although the world and the Russian
health improvement experiences are very reach, they are not studied
very well. The activity of folk healers therefore should be certified
by state health organizations with the use of laboratory diagnostic
methods of the evidence based medicine. All the methods of the traditional
medicine should go the same way.
Buryatia Republic can become an experimental region for it as this
work is supported by the Republic Health Ministry for the first time
in Russia.
Traditional Medicine of Buryatia: Potentialities and Prospects
in Therapy and Health Improvement of the Population (S.Nikolayev,
B. Balzhirov, K. Malanov; Ulan-Ude)
The Tibetan tradition of healing in Buryatia has been widely spread.
Nowadays it is, to a significant degree, complemented with data from
Buryat folk medicine, experience of Buryat and Mongolian emchi-lamas,
introduction of some practical therapies and techniques of health
enhancement of the population from the legacy of other medical systems,
like the Mongolian, Ayurvedic, Russian, and Persian ones, once popular
throughout Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Virtually,
we have a modernized, as a result of purposeful scientific and
research work, and adapted form of Tibetan medicine, which can
be called traditional medicine of Buryatia. It regards traditional
believes, climatic-and-geographical conditions in the region, life
style of the local population, genetic memory, specific dietary patterns,
traditions and culture of the ethnic groups inhabiting Buryatia.
Prospects of further development of traditional medicine of Buryatia
are undoubtedly related with continued research based on premises
of the above traditions and new medical technologies of contemporary
(orthodox) medicine. Their integration will guarantee a qualitatively
new level of development of medical science and practical public health
care within the region in the 21st century.
On the Buryat Tradition of Healing (V.Tarnuyev, G.Namsarayeva;
Ulan-Ude)
Based on studies of numerous literary sources, the authors present
their own version of the origin and formation of the Buryat healing
tradition, as well as its evolution from old days up to now.
The Use of Therapies and Techniques of Traditional Medicine in
Gerontological Practice (V.Zhernov; Moscow)
The portion of senior patrons has been growing throughout the world,
and according to the UN data, will reach 1 billion by 2010. In Russia
elderly people make one fifth of the entire population, 11% of them
are over 80 year old.
So, problems in the solution of this issue are abundant and related
not only with the fact of the elderly population growth, but also
with insufficient material maintenance, unwillingness of the majority
of medical doctors to deal with this group of patients who require
more attention and medical erudition.
In the recent therapeutic practice the increase of a number of diseases
in senior patrons is reported, what can be estimated as a manifestation
of the population aging in the country. As a rule, at this age a patient
usually suffers from 57 diseases at the same time, among them
diseases of the cardio-vascular system can be focused. The most common
ailments are arterial hypertension and ischemic disease of the heart.
At the Faculty of Traditional Medicine of the Russian University of
Friendship among Peoples, effectiveness of therapies and techniques
of traditional medicine, including reflexotherapy and hirudotherapy
in gerontological patients, has been studied.
Prospects of Phytotherapy and Phytoprophylaxis of Diseases with
Regard of Genetic Memory of Ethnic Groups (S.Lemza, S.Nikolayev;
Ulan-Ude)
The paper presents a short survey of recent publications dealing with
the important problem of enhancing efficacy of medicamental therapy
of various diseases based on data on the functional role of genes
and their polymorphic variants, coding enzyme systems, which catalyze
biochemical transformations of xenobiothics and medicaments. The assumption
on interesting prospects of studies on effectiveness of natural phytoremedies'
application in populations with various genetic structure, as well
as necessity of individual approach in phytotherapy of diseases with
regard of genetic features of the body, is forwarded.
Fasting Therapy as a New Direction in Sanatroium-and-Resort Treatment
(N.Batayeva, T.Syrenova; Goryachinsk Resort, Republic of
Buryatia)
For optimization of generally-accepted sanataroium-and-resort
treatment 575 patients with various somatic pathology were
administered short-term (2436 h) fasting therapy with subsequent
remedial diet to alleviate the period of their acclimatization. The
authors assume that such preventive fasting therapy fosters optimization
and complements the generally-accepted therapies provided at
the sanatoria and resorts, it also serves as prophylactics of excercebations
of clinical pathgologies and improves life quality of such patients.
The efficacy of the therapy ranged from 75 to 98.7%, depending upon
the character of the pathology.
The Attitude of the Doctors and Nurses of Buryatia toward Fasting
Therapy (Information and Psychosocial Factors and the Results of the
Anonymous Survey) (M. Mitupov, K. Godinya; Ulan-Ude)
The authors have conducted an anonymous survey among 314 doctors
and nurses of different specialization from hospitals and other medical
organizations of Ulan-Ude who had not done any special courses on
fasting therapy about their attitude toward it. Different answers
have been got. However, the majority of the doctors and nurses wished
to have much more information on fasting therapy.
The Perspective of Wide Inculcation of Fasting Therapy Method
to Practical Work of Healthcare Administrative Bodies of Republic
of Buryatia (Based on the Patients' Questionnaire) (N.Batayeva,
T. Angarova, N. Danchinova, A. Shagdurova, K. Godinya; Ulan-Ude)
The authors have interrogated 182 patients (76.3% women,
23.62% men), who underwent a course of fasting therapy.
The patients have answered various questions about their attitude
to fasting therapy, Oriental medicine and other non-medicamental
methods, as well as to nutrition, bad habits etc. The results of the
questionnaire show the demand of fasting therapy for people and
good prospects for application of this method in Republic of
Buryatia.
The Role of Ulan-Ude Libraries in the Popularization of Fasting
Therapy Method in Republic of Buryatia (E. Demkova, N.Petukhova,
E. Ryabusheva, E. Ochirova, K. Godinya; Ulan-Ude)
In the city library, during the discussion of the application of fasting
therapy at various pathologies, doctors and patients were anonymously
interrogated. The authors showed an important role of city libraries
in the process of application of fasting therapy in the work of healthcare
administrative bodies of Republic of Buryatia.
The Results of the Survey among the Patients Having a Second
Course of Fasting Therapy (N.Batayeva, T.Angarova,
Z.Teponasyan, K.Godinya; Ulan-Ude)
The authors have conducted a survey among 50 patients having a second
course of fasting therapy in a hospital. The results have shown that
a second and subsequent courses of fasting therapy are advisable as
they improve psychological condition of the patients, reduce reception
of medicines at chronic illness down to their full cancellation and
give valuable information helping adopt fasting therapy in the system
of traditional medicine.
Organization of Activities of Medical Doctors on Introduction of
Fasting Therapy within the Public Health Care System of Republic
of Buryatia and Obvious Prospects of these Activities (T.Shilina;
Ulan-Ude)
The author reports that in Republic of Buryatia over 90 medical doctors,
88.2% of physicians among them, have been recently trained in fasting
therapy. According to the Republican Fasting Center schedule, these
doctors meet on a regular basis with the local community; particular
attention being focused on exchange of opinions and ideas among patients
experienced in fasting therapy. The priorities of further introduction
of fasting therapy into the public health care system of the Republic
are enumerated.
Part II
FASTING THERAPY IN THERAPEUTIC
AND HEALTH ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES
Potentialities of Fasting Therapy in Treatment and Health Enhancement
of the Body (A. Kokosov; St.Petersburg)
Health enhancement and treatment are different notions. Fasting therapy
may be beneficial in both cases, though methodological approaches
to health enhancement and treatment should be different, too. For
health enhancement one can use health-improving fasting therapy following
the techniques by P.Ivanov or P. Bragg on a short-term and regular
basis (from the methodical point of view, either a moist
or dry, not-drastic fasting therapy following Prof. A. Kokosov)
supervised by a folk healer or a physician, experienced in applying
these techniques aimed at health enhancement. For treatment of pathologies
it is recommended to apply fasting therapy in various methodical variations
(completemoist, drydrastic and not-drastic, stepped, combined
fasting therapy following Prof. A.Kokosov) guided by indications
and contraindications. The selection of a technique and duration of
fasting depend upon the nature of pathology and polymorbism, the
latter lengethening fasting. The treatment should be supervised
by a physician, knowledgeable and experienced in the technique
of fasting therapy.
Adaptive Reactions of the System of Immunity, Hemostasis, and Lipid
Spectrum of Blood in Patients with Bronchial Asthma and Indications
for Fasting Therapy (V. Mishlanov, A. Tuyev; Perm)
The conducted investigation has shown that fasting is an effective
accessory therapy of bronchial asthma: plausible increase of Forced
Expiratory Volume, decrease of eosinophilia of peripheral blood
and index of allergic inflammation have been revealed. The results
of assessment of effectiveness of the programs of basis medicamental
and fasting therapy in patients with bronchial asthma have confirmed
the major statements of the authors' concept on adaptive reactions
of the systems of homeostasis under study. Indications for application
of the accessory therapies and techniques, including fasting, should
stipulate their effect on the state of compensatory-and-adjustment
mechanisms of patients.
On the Problem of Prevention of Malignant Tumors with the Help
of Fasting Therapy (B. Babinov, M. Naumov, N. Chernomorenko;
Tyumen)
The staff of the specialized department of the oblast clinical onclogical
dispensary has accumulated experience in applying fasting therapy
for the primary and secondary prophylaxis of oncological pathologies,
including premalignant diseases of the stomach, mammary glands, uterus,
thyroid gland, gall bladder, prostate, larger intestine, and in the
oncological pathology risk group. Fasting therapy was performed
following the Yu.S.Nikolayev's technique (complete,
moist fasting), the fasting period lasting in average 18 days. All
the patients have successfully undergone the therapy. Among
68 patients with premalignant diseases and benign tumors, the
positive effect was achieved in 64: decrease and disappearance of
the pathologies, what was verified by radiation, endoscopic and morphological
examinations. In the oncological pathology risk group the patients
have experienced improved stamina, normalization of the gastro-intestinal
tract functioning, better working capacity. The authors consider
that fasting therapy can be used for the primary and secondary prophylaxis
of oncological pathologies.
Fasting Therapy in the Shumilov's Disease: Author's Recommendations (V.
Shumilov; Minsk)
Among the major synonyms of the Shumilov's disease, or otherwise,
the disease of minor radiation dosages, are: primarily chronic radiation
disease, radiation disease due to internal radiation, disease of accumulation
of radionuclids (radiotoxins). The pathology is stipulated by introduction
and accumulation of minor dosages of radionuclids, their pathological
effect deteriorated with alcoholisation. As a therapy and prevention
of advanced pathology, the efferent principle of acceleration of the
transit of radionuclids throughout the victim body has been recommended
(patent N3352 of December 20, 1999, entitled The Technique
of Removal of Radionuclids from the Body issued by the State
Patent Committee of the Republic of Byelorussia, the author V.Shumilov,
the patent owner the Byelorussian Social-and-Ecological Union Chernobyl).
The Chernobyl Atomic Power Station disaster victims are recommended
to undergo a regular detoxication by fasting therapy, with subsequent,
predominantly vegetarian diet, in-between the repeated courses
of fasting therapy. As a specific control of the detoxification,
the individual dosimetry of radiotoxins' excretion following
the spectrometry of bodily emanation is used. The author provides
his recommendations on the technique of out-patient fasting
therapy.
The Effect of Fasting Therapy on the Diastolic Function of the
Left Ventricle of the Heart in Patients with Hypertension (S.Muravyev,
G.Makarova, O.Andreyeva, I.Zmanovskaya; Tyumen)
Fasting therapy was administered to 183 patients with hypertensive
disease of the 1st2nd stages following the classical technique
of complete (moist) fasting, the average duration of fasting
reaching 15.5 days, 40% of the patients undergoing repeated courses
of fasting therapy. Along with the generally accepted clinical and
laboratory examinations, during the fasting therapy dopplerechocardiography
was performed on the patients prior, immediately after, and in three
months after the fasting therapy, with identification of changes in
the diastolic function of the left ventricle of the heart. The findings
have shown the hypotensive effect of fasting therapy, all the patients
experiencing the improvement of the diastolic function of the left
ventricle of the heart, and positive changes retained in three months.
Fasting Therapy in Allergic Pathology under Out-Patient Conditions
(I.Shoizhalsanova; Ulan-Ude)
In the Town Center Fasting Therapy based in Polyclinic N1,
fasting therapy was administered to 19 patients with allergic pathology,
aged from 13 to 50, among them 13 women, 4 men, and 1 teenager. The
pathology included bronchial asthma, atopic, mild, and medium severe
8 cases; allergic dermatitis 4; polynosis 2; chronic
cholecystitis 2; chronic gastritis 2. During
the preparatory period the generally-accepted clinical-and-laboratory
and functional examination was conducted, accompanied, if indicated,
with ultrasound examination of the abdominal organs, fibrogastroduodenoscopia,
and immunological examination. At that time vegetarian diet was recommended,
excluding sharp, salty, pickled products and rich soups. Fasting therapy
lasted 34 days. Unhealthy habits, like smoking and alcohol consumption,
were also prohibited; also, cleansing enemas were performed daily,
also there were recommended hygienic procedures, walking and hiking,
daily examination by a physician, control over bodily weight, pulse
frequency, arterial pressure, self-checkup log; and peakflowmetry
in bronchial asthma. The recuperative period is 3 days. During that
time the patient is offered to select 3 variants of diets: the juice-,
cereal-, whey-based ones; salt was excluded, its amount being limited
later. During the subsequent 1.5 months we recommend diet, similar
to the one during the preparatory stage for fasting, one-day fasting
once a week, and three-day fasting in every 6 months. The assessment
of the results of fasting therapy has shown that the absolute majority
of patients (89%) report improved well-being and display positive
clinical-and-laboratory dynamics of the symptoms, and improved
peakflowmetry indices in bronchial asthma. The majority of patients
during the fasting therapy gave up supporting medicamental therapy.
Following the above dietary recommendations (please see above), the
most patients (68%) retained well-being; their clinical signs of the
pathology and needs in basic medicamental therapy decreased; and the
quality of life improved. The author provides brief clinical illustrations.
Fasting Therapy with Resumption of the Cambridge Diet in Patients
with the Syndrome of Irritated Large Intestine (V.Maksimov,
V.Panaikin, A.Lysov, K.Tarasov, G.Bazhenova; Moscow)
Having applied fasting therapy in patients with the syndrome of irritated
large intestines, the authors investigate two variants of remedial
nutrition the Cambridge diet and the diet generally accepted
in our country. According to the results of the analysis of morphological
data obtained from the patients under study, it is inferred that the
Cambridge diet entails more frequent normalization of the mucous membrane
structure of the large intestine in patients suffering from the syndrome
of its irritation.
The Dynamics of Clinical-and-Anthropometric Indices in Patients
with Alimentary-and-Constitutional Obesity under Dietary
Interventions including Fasting Therapy (Ye.N.Lapteva,
Ye.S. Lapteva, M. Bolotova; St. Petersburg)
The authors conducted their research to study the dynamics of the
body mass index depending on the character of the dietary interventions
in the different periods of the treatment of the patients with alimentary
and constitutional obesity. The results show the beneficial effects
of the all used methods including the suggested reduced diet with
the elements of the separate feeding. However, the patient's wish
to change his lifestyle, the doctor's considerate attitude toward
the patient as well as the regular implementation of the doctor's
prescribing are crucial for the patients with alimentary and constitutional
obesity.
Automated Correction of Diet during the Remedial Period of Fasting
Therapy (M.Ashikhmina, V.Zhernov, M.Zubarkina,
A.Ustinov, M. Kartseva; Moscow)
In the fasting therapy course of importance is the period of rehabilitative
diet. Based on the analysis of literature and our own data about dietary
features during the rehabilitative period of fasting therapy, we have
developed an algorithmic software for the computerized system to assist
a physician in compounding an individual dieting plan for a patient
with regard of his or her disease, initial bodily weight, rehabilitative
period dates. The suggested system allows us to facilitate a physician
in conducting fasting therapy. In its administration the individual
program of treatment is needed, which will include rehabilitative
diet during the withdrawal from fasting. It is mandatory to observe
the principle of individual-based administration of diet to a patient
according to dates with due regard of his or her diseases, general
state, age, duration of fasting. It is particularly important when
the therapy is conducted in out-patient conditions. In a thorough
and adequate approach it takes a while for a doctor to administer
such diet.
Dosaged fasting therapy can be prescribed in stages III of hypertonic
disease, stenocardia, obesity, initial arteriosclerosis, residual
symptoms of infectious hepatitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis,
III type diabetes mellitus, ulcerous gastric and duodenal
disease, nephrosonephritis, colitis, gastritis, bronchial
asthma, skin ailments (eczema, psoriasis, neurodermitis, etc).
The Combination of Fasting Therapy and Acupuncture in Patients
with Arterial Hypertension (Z.Vukolova, M.Ashikhmina,
A.Oganova; Moscow)
125 patients with hypertension have been treated by fasting therapy
combined with acupuncture. The main group consisted of patients
with mild hypertension. Acupuncture has been employed
with regard of the physiological model. In the acupuncture exertion
there were used both classical and auricular points. In the selection
of the classical points there were regarded the findings on patient
examination following Nakatani. The statistically reliable
decrease of arterial pressure and the cholesterol level has
been reported. The given technique can be recommended for therapy
of hypertensive disease.
Probable Complications of Fasting Therapy and Their Correction
with the Help of Phytotherapy (A.Alifanov; Rostov Oblast)
The author has analyzed not-fatal complications and side effects of
fasting therapy, lasting from 2 to 45 days, in 230 patients with different,
mainly somatic pathology: 170 patients underwent fasting therapy in
out-patient conditions, 60 in an in-patient hospital. Fasting
in 200 patients was under control by a competent physician, and 30
patients conducted it on their own, without medical assistance. The
complications and side effects are categorized. The author provides
his own experience of their successful correction by phytotherapy.
He believes that long-term fasting should be conducted under in-patient
conditions supervised by a competent physician.
On Possibilities of the Use of Homeopathic Preparations in Fasting
Therapy (M.Ashikhmina; Moscow)
In this work the author has attempted to apprehend the possibility
of combining fasting therapy with homeopathic treatment, to suggest
the technique of their joint application. Homeopathic medicaments
are believed to be innocuous, without side effects, as their action
is realized within the subtle regulating systems. The variants of
administering homeopathic medicaments to patients during different
periods of fasting therapy have been described. The both techniques
of traditional medicine are aimed towards stimulation of vital
forces of the body. Intake of homeopathic remedies improves
efficacy of fasting therapy, and allows the physician to find new
key factors for checking fasting therapy.
Fasting Therapy and Phytotherapy in Treatment of Patients with
Bronchial Asthma (A.Dolgodvorov, A.Kirsanov; St.Petersburg)
The authors present their experience in applying fasting therapy (classicalmoist
technique) in patients with bronchial asthma (52individuals)
combined with phytotherapy administered during the fasting period.
The latter lasted in average 12 days. Aside from the clinical and
functional examination, homeostasis of macro- and microelements
in the fasting period of the therapy has been scrutinized. Juice derived
from wheat sprouts has been used as a phytopreparation.
On Complex Use of Fasting Therapy and Phytotherapy in Treatment
of Patients with Hypertension Complicated with a Relevant Pathology
(A.Alifanov; Vsevolozhsk)
According to the author's many-year expertise, polymorbism
(multiple somatic pathology) is another indication for applying fasting
therapy. In conditions of polymorbism, fasting therapy combined
with phytotherapy is advisable, with due regard of nature of the pathology.
Fasting therapy courses enhance sensitivity of patients to medicaments,
which may be used in a lesser dosage, as compared to the prior-fasting
therapy period.
Endotoxicosis of the Patients with Bronchial Asthma and its Treatment
Using Fasting Therapy and Gydrocolonotherapy (M.Kolpakov,
V. Pogudina; Novosibirsk)
The authors used fasting therapy in conjunction with gydrocolonotherapy
for treatment of endotoxicosis of the patients with bronchial asthma
accompanied with digestion system disorders. Compared with the control
group the quicker recovery of the laboratory parameters and the intestinal
microflora along with the general positive effect were registered.
The Initial Experience of Fasting Therapy Application at
the Republican Dermatovenerologic Dispenser (N.Yermolayev;
Ulan-Ude)
The author, chief physician of the Republican dermatovenerologic dispenser,
narrates about how he got familiarized with fasting therapy and shares
his initial expertise on the successful use of this therapy in patients
with skin ailments at his dispenser. The patients totaled 12, with
various pathologies, like psoriasis (6), neurodermite (3), eczema
(2), lichen ruber planus (1). 3 of 12 patients with psoriasis repeated
the course of fasting therapy to sustain healing effect.
Two Cases of Successful Application of Fasting Therapy in Combined
Somatic Pathology (I.Afanasyev; Ulan-Ude)
2 cases of successful application of fasting therapy in two women,
aged 75 and 51, with combined somatic pathology, ensuring appropriate
life quality in the 75-year-old patient and retained working ability
in the 51-year-old one, are described. The catamnesis was 1 year.
Principles of Clinical Systems' Psychotherapy in the Complex with
Fasting Therapy in Psychogenic Reactive Depressions (V.Gurvich;
Moscow)
In 75 patients with psychogenic (reactive) depressions of the medium
and severe degrees entailing different psychogenies in the form of
hysterical and melancholic depressions, the possibilities and traits
of applying clinical systems' psychotherapy have been investigated
in the fasting therapy course. The distinctive principles of adequate
and successful application of psychotherapeutic effect in the
complex of fasting therapy against psychogenic depressions have
been revealed. The clinical and psychotherapeutic analysis has
shown the necessity of emotional-and-empathic contact for an
aimed purpose formation by the physician for conducting fasting
therapy and performing accompanying psychotherapy; the relevance
of apprehension by the psychotherapist of both the clinical and psychological
aspects of the studied psychogenic states; the observation in clinical
psychotherapy of regularities of staged dynamics of fasting therapy
and staged duration of psychopathological and psychological manifestations
of emotions; the significance of comprehension by the psychotherapist,
while performing such psychotherapy of psychogenic depressions
in the complex with fasting therapy, of the systems' nature of psychotherapy
and him- or herself as the key component in the given functional system.
Spiritual Purification as an Element of Healing Effect of Fasting
Therapy and Hirudotherapy (V.Savinov; Bryansk)
In the author's opinion, the programs of treatment and health improvement
should stipulate the simultanious effect excerted by its components
on the Spirit, Soul and the Body of the patient. Based upon the author's
many-year experience, such programs should comprise fasting therapy
and hirudotherapy, which, as compared to other factors of traditional
medicine, provide the most comprehensive effect on the all three above-mentioned
constituents of the human health. According to indications, these
programs may include other factors of traditional medicine, like phytotherapy
(phytoprophylaxis), products of apiculture, Russian steam bath, and
others. Practical implementation of the programs of treatment and
health improvement, following this principle, has revealed their
high efficacy: complete recovery in 59% and significant improvement
in 41% of cases, irrespective of the character of pathology.
Part III
TRADITIONAL MEDICINE IN THERAPEUTIC
AND HEALTH ENHANCEMENT PRACTICES
Traditional (Oriental) Medicine: the Content of the Notion and
Prospects in Therapy and Health Enhancement of the Body (A.Kokosov;
St.Petersburg)
@EP-3 = Dedicated to my pen-friend Mr Kenneth S.Jaffrey, famous
naturopath of Australia
Traditional (Oriental) medicine is part of people's culture and employs
therapies and techniques, their efficacy being corroborated by many-century
practical experience of their use. In Russia, the doctrine of public
health care still caters for orthodox medicine, though many doctors
trained in orthodox medicine have mastered various techniques of traditional
(Oriental) medicine, including acupuncture, phytotherapy,
etc. Not rarely in their practices they combine techniques and devices
of both orthodox medicine and traditional (Oriental) medicine.
It is the onset of integrative medicine-to-be. Employment of
folk healers, many of whom possess unique techniques of healing,
has good prospects for primary prevention of diseases.
Quick Examination of Schoolchildren by Techniques of Traditional
Medicine (N.Maksyutkin, T.Goncharova; Cheboksary)
The authors have accumulated a significant experience and expertise
of examining the state of health in children by techniques of traditional
medicine, including auriculodiagnostics, iridodiagnostics, and psychological
testing. According to their observations, even in an obviously healthy
appearance of a child the presence of changes at the auricular points
should be regarded as the sign of overloading of the organs
and systems, the state of pre-disease or latently occurring pathology.
Iridodiagnostics reveals changes of the zones, corresponding to the
internal organs and systems, as well as allows one to highlight
constitutional weakness and hereditary predisposition to a certain
pathology still at the stage of pre-disease. The data obtained with
the help of auriculodiagnostics together with iridodiagnostics and
based on the findings of psychological tests may be used for assessment
of the general physical state of children and their resources;
further, more profound and aimed examination by specialists, sound
organization of school routine and recreation, search of optimum correlation
of classes and physical training along with active recreation, in
development of complex systems of valeological control and preventive
correction of health in schoolchildren.
Hirudotherapy as a Method of Traditional Medicine (M.Zubarkina,
V.Zhernov, M.Ashikhmina, G.Nikonov; Moscow)
Therapy with medical leeches is traced back to deep antiquity. Medical
men in the ancient Egypt, China, India, Greece applied this therapy,
what is testified by works of classical authors of the antique medicine.
Nowadays hirudotherapy as a method of traditional medicine is more
widely used in clinical practices due to scientific underpinning of
many therapeutic effects. Indications and contraindications have been
verified, methods of medical leech culture, care and application have
been worked out, as well as the algorithm of therapeutic outlines.
It allows this method to be effectively applied as a pathogenetic
and symptomatic therapy. Hirudotherapy can be applied both solo
and as part of complex treatment. Good prospects of use of hirudotherapy,
likewise other therapies and techniques of traditional medicine, are
stipulated by its availability and accessibility, low costs, polymorphic
character of therapeutic effect, good indurance, virtual absence of
side effects (provided observation of all rules while selecting
patients).
Hirudotherapy: Potentialities and Prospects (V.Savinov;
Moscow)
Hirudotherapy is a therapy, using leeches, which secrete hirudin preventing
blood coagulation, for medical purposes. This ancient therapy
improves local blood circulation, disturbed in many, especially chronic
ailments. The major indication for hirudotherapy is a disturbed arterial
and venous blood circulation. The absolute contra-indication is hemophilia,
the relative ones being pregnancy and anemia.
Phytotherapy and Homeopathy in Treatment of Patients with Bronchial
Asthma (D.Koshechkin; St.Petersburg)
In experimental and clinical observations of patients with bronchial
asthma, the efficacy of phytotherapy (usage of compounds derived from
medicinal plants, including licorice) and the complex homeopathic
preparation Pertudaron 12 produced by Welda Company, possessing
of antihypoxic, cholinolytic, and expectorating effects, as well as
potency to stimulate the adrenal gland functioning, has been
shown. It allowed the medicaments administered by the author
to be recommended for treatment of bronchial asthma of various
degrees of severity, including its hormone-dependent form.
Phytotherapy and Phytoprophylaxis of the Syndrome of Endogenic
Intoxication (T.Azhunova; Ulan-Ude)
Basic principles of enhancement of processes of detoxication of alien
substances and endogenic metabolytes aimed towards decrease of manifestations
of the syndrome of endogenic intoxication and increasing adaptive
processes in exposure to different toxicants have been developed.
The efficiency of the proposed plan of disintoxication is linked to
absorption of xenobiotics, as well as products of endogenic genesis,
their limited absorption, stimulation of alien substances' biotransformation
and their accelerated removal from the body due to increased activity
of the systems of disintoxication.
The Use of Means of Plant Origin in Hypoxic States (S.Chukayev,
L.Balzhinimayeva, T.Shenoyeva; Ulan-Ude)
In vivo experiments conducted on Wistar-series white rats,
the antihypoxic effect of dry extracts from roots of Baikal
scullcap (Scutellaria baikalensis) and garden burnet (Sanguisorba
officinalis L.), and leaves of big-sting nettle (Urtica dioica)
has been studied. The animals were exposed to dosaged hypoxic load
of submaximum intensity (raised in the pressure chamber to the conventional
altitude of 9,000 m and exposed for 30 min to these conditions)
at the background of the preliminary course administration
of the remedy under study (100/300 mg/kg once a day during 5 days).
It is shown that the protective effect of the studied phytoextracts
is accompanied with the expressed inhibition of lipid peroxidation
reactions and restored activity of one of the key enzymes, ensuring
the functioning of the transportation chain of metachondriae
succinatdehydrogenase.
The results obtained can be used for optimization of regimens of pharmacocorrection
of hypoxic states with the help of remedies derived from plants.
Phytotherapy and Phytoprophylaxis of Alcohol-Related Intoxications
(Zh. Dashinamzhilov, A.Dil, S.Naidanov; Ulan-Ude)
It is found that in patients with alcohol-related liver injuries pathological
transformations manifesting through the syndrome of cytolysis and
choleostasis, as well as increased lipid peroxidation and decreased
activity of blood serum catalase, are typical. The course administration
of Narkophyt significantly suppresses lipid peroxidation processes
in the liver accompanied with increased serum catalase activity in
patients' blood and diminishes indices of the syndromes of cytolysis
and choleostasis. The antioxidant properties of Narcophyt are
stipulated with the content of flavonoid combinations and ensures
stabilization of membrane structures of hepatocytes, thus preventing
the development of the syndromes of cytolysis and choleostasis. The
results obtained corroborate advisability of the use of the new
hepatoprotective remedy Narcophyt for therapy and prevention of
alcohol-related intoxications jointly with other therapeutic-and-preventive
activities.
Phytotherapy and Phytoprophylaxis of Nephropathies (A.Mondodoyev,
Ye. Abgaldayeva, S.Batoyev; Ulan-Ude)
Nowadays of significance is search of new nephroprotective remedies
for further improvement of phytotherapy and phytoprophylaxis of nephropathies.
The studies of formulas based on many-century experience of traditional
medicine, as well as transfer of galenic forms of medicinal means
into summary extractive preparations have good prospects. Nephrophyt
has an expressed pharmacotherapeutic effect in kidney injuries
of various ethiology what allows it to be recommended for complex
phytotherapy and phytoprophylaxis of nephropathies.
Phytotherapy of Intestinal Dysbacteriosis (Ye. Bakhanova,
S.Nikolayev; Ulan-Ude)
It is established that in the course administration of the extract
derived from sprouts of Pentaphylloides fruticosa (L.) O.
Schwarz (in the experimentally therapeutic dosage of 300 mg/kg)
in Canamicin-induced dysbacteriosis, the normalization of indices
of the microbe media of the intestinal tract was reported in white
mongrel rats. The marked pharmacotherapeutic effect of the given phytoextract
is revealed in the restoration of the level of the indigene microflora
bifidobacteriae and lactobacilles, as well as in the significant
decline of the content of conditionally pathogenic bacteriae. This
effect is likely to be achieved due to the aggregated action of biologically
active combinations available in the extract under study.
Phytotherapy and Phytoprophylaxis of the Immune-Deficit State
(S.Nikolayev, S.Zhamsaranova, V.Khobrakova; Ulan-Ude)
The authors have experimentally shown on CBA and F1 (CBAxC57/
B1/6) line mice of both sex the possibility of using remedies made
ofplants: dry extracts from sprouts of Pentaphylloides fruticosa
(L.) O.Schwarz; terrestrial parts of Gentianopsis barbata
(Froel.) Ma, Odontites vulgaris Moench, Orthilia
secunda (L.) House, and Panzeria lanata (L.) Bunge; tincture
from roots of Euphorbia, tincture from flowers of Lilium
pumilum; as well as multicomponent compounds of Tibetan medicine
the extract Shi Zhid (shi byed in Tibetan, consisting of dry
extracts of roots and rhizomes of Tangut rhubarb (Rheum tanhuticum
Maxim), common ginger (Zingiber officinale), garden burnet
(Sanguisorba officinalis L.), elecampane inula (Inula
helenium L.), tincture Gum Brum (rkun 'brum in Tibetan,
consisting of pot marigold (Calendula officinalis), common
licorice (Glycyrriza glabra), European bistort (Polygonum
bistorta L.), cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia (L.) Blume),
and raisins); decocted Dig da shi thang (tig ta bzhi thang
in Tibetan, consisting of grass of Gentianopsis barbata
(Froel.) Ma and Odontites vulgaris Moench, fruits of Siberian
crab apple (Malus baccata (L.) Borkh, Sophora flavescens
Soland) as immunomodulators in experimental immunodeficit
induced with azatioprin.
Phytotherapy of Dyskinesiae of the Biliary Ducts (S.Nikolayev,
A.Tsyrenzhapov; Ulan-Ude)
In the paper data on potentialities and prospects of phytotherapy
of dyskinesiae of the biliary ducts are given. Preparations derived
from officinal medicinal plants are focused. If phytotherapy of
the primary forms of dyskinesiae is aimed towards removal of disturbances
of the vegetative innervation of the biliary ducts, then phytotherapy
of the secondary dyskinesiae implies suppression of mechanisms of
the development of the secondary dyskinesiae in organic injuries
of the gall bladder and biliary ducts. In the conclusion, the value
of the application of many-century experience of traditional medicine
combined with achievements of contemporary medicine, ensuring expressed
pharmacotherapeutic effect along with improved life quality
of patients, is highlighted.
Phytotherapy of Chronic Prostatitis by a Complex Natural Remedy
(V.Mantatov, P.Darmayev, A.Markaryan, I.Bashelkhanov,
V.Ivanov, S.Radnayeva; Ulan-Ude)
Nowadays the search of new remedies for protection of the prostate
is still important in order to improve phytoprophylaxis and phytotherapy
of chronic prostatitis. The studies of formulas based on many-century
experience of traditional medicine, as well as transfer of galenic
forms of medicaments of natural origin into summary extraction-based
preparations have good prospects. Phytoprost has a marked pharmacotherapeutic
effect in chronic prostatitis, what allows it to be recommended
in complex phytotherapy and phytoprophylaxis of chronic inflammation
of the prostate gland.
Experimentally-Studied Nootropic Activity of a Complex Plant
Remedy (G.Namsarayeva, V.Tarnuyev, G. Damdinova;
Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude)
Based on empirical experience of folk phytotherapy of Buryatia and
data from literature about traditional plant medicamental means, the
authors developed a multi-component phytopreparation from plant raw
material, comprising 7 components. Its suggested nootropic activity
has been experimentally studied on white mongrel rats following the
method of the conditioned reflex of passive avoidance. The standard
nootropic preparation pyrocetamum in a dosage of 200 mg/kg was
used as a preparation of comparison. The results obtained have shown
that in the preventive course administration of the preparation studied
in doses of 50 and 200 mg/kg there is reported a significant stimulation
of elaboration of the conditioned reflex of passive avoidance,
and a more complete conservation of the memory trace is secured.
Correction of the Initial Forms of Vascular-and-Cerebral Deficiency
by a Complex Plant Preparation (G.Namsarayeva, V.Tarnuyev;
Ulan-Ude)
Having analyzed traditional empirical phytotherapy of Tibet, China,
Mongolia, and Buryatia on the basis of therapy of neurological
diseases, the authors compounded a complex plant preparation,
comprising 7 components. This preparation was administered to
31 patients (16 men, 15 women, aged from 38 to 69) suffering from
initial forms of vascular-and-cerebral deficiency, with pathological
symptoms manifested during 6 years. The preparation was administered
in the form of a liquid extract in a dosage of 350 mg two times a
day during 3 weeks. All patients reported improved health state. They
stood the preparation well. The first clinical effects were noted
on the sixth day of the therapy, and the positive dynamics of
the neurological status by the end of the course; the neuropsychological
testing revealed the improved functions of attention, memory, counting,
associations, and kinetics.
Findings of Therapy of Herpes Labialis with the Oily Extract Derived
from Thyme Flowers (A.Alifanov; Rostov Oblast)
The author suggests his experience of treating Herpes labialis
with oily extract derived from thyme flowers by repeatedly lubricating
affected sites of the skin. The therapy was a success, visible
in 24 h, without side effects. The findings have been collected for
one year of observations.
Aromatherapy: Potentialities and Prospects (V.Timchik,
I.Zarembo; St.Petersburg)
From the today's point of view the authors explain the notion aromatherapy
as one of the oldest traditional techniques of healing and health
enhancement of the body, as well as define its place within the medical
care system nowadays.
Some Aspects of the Use of Volatile Oils in a Chronical Obstructive
Pulmonary Disease (I.Zarembo, V.Timchik; St.Petersburg)
The authors scrutinize the historical aspect of the use of volatile
oils for therapy and health enhancement, illustrating it with their
short-term experience of inhalation-based usage of compositions of
volatile oils aerophytes in therapy of patients with a chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease in the phase of subsiding acute condition
of endobrochitis. The course is 10 days. The distinct improvement
of the clinical picture occurred after 57 inhalations.
The authors relate the efficacy of the therapy to the improved
eliminative function of the lungs.
Our Own Experience of Applying Phytotherapy in Elderly and Very
Old Patients (L.Vasilyeva; St.Petersburg)
The many-year experience of applying phytotherapy in a many-department
hospital has been analyzed. The medicinal forms used were herbal mixtures
for internal use in the form of extracts and infusions, powders, microclysters,
and phytoapplications. The herbal mixtures were compounded with regard
of age features of patients according to standard and individualized
formulas, each compound including plants with angio-protective potency.
All the phytopreparations were manufactured from officinal plants
at the hospital drugstore. The one day dosage of dry raw material
per person was 24 g. The treatment course ranged from 14 to
20 days. 46% of the patients at the hospital were administered these
phytopreparations. In this paper the author's personal expertise
and observations over traits of phytotherapy in various somatic pathologies
are given.
Acupuncture in Therapeutic Practices of a Many-Department Hospital
(A.Krasnova; St.Petersburg)
Over 1,000 patients receive acupuncture at a many-department hospital
during a year. By the frequency of employing acupuncture, the hospital
departments may be placed in the following diminishing order: the
neurological, traumatological, gastroenterological, pulmonological,
and cardiological ones, much less in other departments. The predominant
age of the patients undergoing acupuncture is 7075. The major
indications are painful syndromes and abdominal pains. In 80% of the
patients corporal acupuncture combined with cauterization was practiced,
in 15% corporal and auricular acupuncture combined with the su-jok
therapy, in 15% the auricular one only. In the patients older 60 the
braking model was used, in the aged 4060 the transitional
one, in the younger ones under 40 the stimulating
one. The efficacy of the treatment does not depend upon the patients'
age. The following three aspects were considered in the selection
of the technique: (1) diagnosis; (2) predominant syndrome; (3)
predominance ofthe braking or stimulated phase
of a pathology. In painful syndromes the full efficacy was observed
in 15%, the partial one in 65%, no effect entailed in 20%. In case
of the full efficacy of the treatment, painful syndromes recurred
very seldom: for 10 years in 5patients only.
Pointed Massage in Prevention and Therapy of Pulmonary Diseases
(P.Gorbenko, Yu. Turkin; St.Petersburg)
In order to enhance adaptive potentialities of the body in prevention
and therapy of pulmonary diseases, it is advisable to apply pointed
massage on biologically active points, located on the head and thorax.
This technique is easy, accessible, and physiological, and can be
combined with other non-medicamental techniques for therapy and
prevention of diseases. To achieve the needed effect, it is
crucial to know, to anatomically locate biologically active points,
and to master the technique of pointed massage.
Functional Diagnostics as the Factor of Objectivization of Results
of Reflexotherapy of Gerontological Patients (V.Zhernov,
M.Zubarkina, M.Ashikhmina, A.Lukashev, L.Goncharov,
Z.Goncharova, M.Kartseva; Moscow)
Arterial hypertension in elderly and senile patrons is often combined
with ischemic disease of the heart. It is rather difficult to select
adequate medicamental therapy for a long-term intake for patients
belonging to the senior age groups. It is related with side effects
caused by many medicaments, their cumulation in the body what fosters
manifestation of toxic effect of these medicaments. Also, prescription
of some antihypertensive remedies is not possible due to
polymorbidity in aged persons. The above appear a drawback for using
medicamental therapy in gerontological practice. The application of
reflexotherapy along with standard medicamental therapy allows hemodynamic
parameters to be stabilized in shorter periods, the amount of medicaments
used and their dosages to be diminished. Functional diagnostics permits
to objectivize results of reflexotherapy and to display changes of
hemodynamic parameters influenced by it.
Russian Steam Bath and Finnish Sauna as Traditional Efferent Techniques
of Health Improvement (A.Kokosov; St.Petersburg)
Based on literature data and many-year personal experience, the author
tells about accessible and effective technique of bath procedures
which, if taken on a regular basis (once a week) foster bodily hardening
and adaptation of the cardio-vascular system to acute fluctuations
of environmental factors.
Manual Therapy, Turkish Bath, and Exercise Bicycling in Complex
Rehabilitation of Patients with Diseases of the Bronchi and Lungs
at a Climatic-and-Physiotherapeutic Sanatorium (K.Komissarov,
G.Trubnikov, O.Romashin, N.Vorobyeva, B.Trofimova; Barnaul)
In a climatic-and-physiotherapeutic sanatorium 50 patients with chronical
(common) non-obstructive bronchitis and a chronical obstructive
pulmonary disease were administered a remedial complex, including
manual therapy, Turkish bath, and exercise bicycling. The efficacy
was estimated according to the somatic health quantity following
the G.Apanasenko's test, the level of physical working capacity
(the PWC AF test), and external respiration functioning parameters.
After the above remedial complex in the main group of 26 patients,
the average growth of the somatic health quantity was 53.6%, and of
the physical working capacity 19.2%. The control group (24 patients)
was given a generally accepted, mainly medicamental therapy, these
indices were, respectively, 16.2 and 8.8%. After the treatment the
external respiration functioning parameters in the main group
increased, in average, by 14%, in the control one by 1%. All patients
in the main group reported improved stamina, less or no short breath
and cough, better removal of sputum. The dynamics of these symptoms
in the control group was insignificant.
Potentialities of Naturotherapy in Filling Free Intervals
in Radiation, Surgical and Chemiotherapeutic Treatment of Oncological
Patients (Ye. Potyavina, S.Vershinina; St.Petersburg)
Naturotherapy can be applied at any stage of specific anti-tumor therapy
of patients. The therapeutic program includes measures aimed to decreasing
of endogenic intoxication, as well as risks of recurrences and metastases
of a tumor, with the help of natural adoptogenes, hydrocolonotherapy
(according to indications), and enterosorbents of plant origin. The
correction of the affected immune system and systems of homeostasis,
and elimination of dysbacteriosis with the help of phytopreparations,
biologically active supplements and preparations eubiotics
and prebiotics, are conducted, as well as the correction of microelement
balance (according to the state of hair), vitamin balance, development
of optimum individual diet, exercise regime, and improvement
of life quality.
Traits of Sound Gymnastics in Obstructive Pathology of the Lungs
(D.Shadrin, M.Devyatova; St.Petersburg)
As a remedial therapy for patients with pulmonary diseases, the technique
of sound gymnastics, is traced back into the traditional breathing
culture in Hatha-Yoga or Pranayama. The authors adjusted this technique
with regard to obstructive pathology of the lungs in its acute and
subacute conditions. The technique has successfully undergone a
clinical trial among patients with obstructive pathology of the lungs
at the Scientific-and-Research Institute of Pulmonology clinic.
Enhancement of Physical Endurance of the Body with Remedies
of Natural Origin (L.Shantanova, I.Ivanova, Zh. Nimayeva,
T.Dargayeva; Ulan-Ude)
In their experiments on mice and rats the authors have shown that
their original complex preparation derived from raw material of natural
origin (named Beverage Mumiyah (mumiyah or mineral exudate)
has an expressed actoprotective effect: it tones up and stimulates
physical endurance. Its preventive administration in hypodinamia
and dosaged physical loads helps prevent the development of fatigue,
accompanied with enhanced physical endurance in the animals.
Interpretation of Gastric Diseases according to Traditional Tibetan
Medicine (V.Tarnuyev, L.Dymsheyeva, N.Motoyev; Ulan-Ude)
Familiarizing with Tibetan and Old Mongolian sources of medical knowledge,
the authors believe that their interpretation of diseases of the gastro-intestinal
tract is rather logic and unique, and its research might facilitate
enrichment of contemporary medical practice.
Apitherapy of Patients with Bronchioobstructive Pathology (N.Trubkina,
V.Kirusha; Vologda)
For many-year the authors have accumulated a beneficial experience
of applying apitherapy in an in-patient hospital, particularly on
patients with bronchioobstructive pathology. The therapy and its results
are described in the paper.
On Visceral Chiropractice in Old Russian Medicine (A.Ogulov;
Moscow)
Folk medicine in Russia has always been based not only on use of remedies
of natural origin (by herbalists), but also on actions of manual character.
The latter is exemplified by the method of visceral chiropractice
or manual therapy of the internal organs revived and creatively developed
by the author. Indications/contraindications and basic principles
of pressuring the injured organ are provided.
A Case Study: Application of Su-Jok Acupuncture in Acute
Dental Pathology (I.Afanasyev; Ulan-Ude)
The author describes a case when 3 procedures of energetic treatment
with the application of Su-Jok acupuncture during 20 hours resulted
in cupping a pain syndrome in periodontitis, thus preventing tooth
extraction. For the next 2 years the toothache did not resume, all
the teeth were sound.
Cases of Successful Application of Su-Jok Acupuncture in
Stomatological and General Therapeutic Practices (I.Afanasyeva;
Ulan-Ude)
Based on the personal experience from stomatological and general therapeutic
practices, the author provides description of cases of successful
symptomatic therapy using techniques of Su-Jok acupuncture in algesic
syndromes of various genesis, faints, and other emergency cases.
Koumiss in Buryatia: a Historical Note by an Amateur Student of
Local Lore, History and Economy (S.Bakhlayev; Ulan-Ude)
Koumiss, fermented mare's milk, has been long used in Buryatia as
a nourishing, wholesome and tasty beverage both in everyday peaceful
life and during warfare to treat in wounds and maladies, as well as
for health enhancement, in general. In folk medicine in Buryatia there
are regulations for partaking of certain amounts of koumiss, depending
on the severity of disease, duration of its intake, as well as its
combinations with other therapies and techniques of traditional medicine.
For example, it was not recommended to combine the intake of koumiss
with performance of acupuncture and moxibustion, with partaking
of potato, onion and some sorts of meat. The author believes in the
possibility and necessity of revival of koumiss-therapy in Buryatia.
Part IV
FASTING THERAPY AND TRADITIONAL MEDICINE APPLIED AT THE
SPAS AND RESORTS
OF REPUBLIC OF BURYATIA
Insights on Application of Fasting Therapy in Resort-Based Practices
(T.Syrenova; Ulan-Ude)
Findings on effective application of fasting therapy in various somatic
pathologies at the resorts Goryachinks and Arshan located in Buryatia
are given. The author infers that fasting therapy at resorts should
be applied with regard of their natural factors; with dispenser-based
followup of patients by a physician, experienced in this therapy,
including, if necessary, preventive courses of fasting therapy. Fasting
therapy is sufficiently effective against a wide spectrum of somatic
ailments and allows an amount of medicaments administered to be
canceled or significantly reduced.
Results of the Work of the Department of Fasting Therapy at the
Goryachinsk Resort (A.Shumilov, N.Batayeva; Buryatia)
The Goryachinsk resort is the oldest resort in Siberia, located on
the sandy shoreline of Baikal. Among the principal natural therapeutic
factors are mineral water and sapropels. The Department of Fasting
Therapy was opened in October 1994, it was the pioneer endeavor in
the resort practice throughout Russia. At the resort, pulmonary diseases,
disorders of the joints, disturbed metabolism, ailments of the nervous,
cardio-vascular, and digestive systems, gynecological, skin, and allergic
maladies have been successfully cured; scientific research has been
conducted. At the Department of Fasting Therapy we have developed
special forms of medical documentation for the staff and patients.
The successive character of the work of the medical personnel and
catering staff is maintained through the patient's individual diet
index card system. The index card reflects peculiar features of rehabilitative
diet after fasting therapy and diet specificities of a patient. The
dietetic nurse of the Department employs in her work specially designed
forms of menu apportionments after fasting therapy, exemplary menu
for the most important first five days of the recuperative period
after the course of fasting therapy, and a seven-day menu to order,
designed for patients starting from the sixth day after fasting.
Two cooks and a waitress are supervised by the dietetic nurse.
At the Department of Fasting Therapy cafeteria patients are asked
once every two weeks to fill in questionnaires, this survey's results
being used to improve the work of the Department in general. At
the Department we treat patients with different somatic pathologies.
Its efficacy, a significant improvement, ranges from 75 to 100%, depending
upon the nature of pathology, advanced stage of disease,
presence and number of accompanying pathologies, etc.
For the majority of patients fasting therapy is combined with traditional
(natural) therapeutic and balneotherapeutic techniques. In order to
facilitate the effect of fasting therapy at the Department, we employ:
1) microclysters with mineral-and-oily emulsions, chamomile decocted,
mineral water (since 1998);
2) pointed massage following the Su-Jok method (since 1998);
3) duodenal cleansing with mineral water of patients suffering from
chronical cholecystitis, hepatitis, dyskinesia of the biliferous tructs
(since 1995);
4) drinking of mineral nitrous-silicic water in chronic cholecystitis
(since 2000);
5) applications of honey and grated beets for patients with mastopathy
during fasting (since 2000);
6) microclyster-administered bio-biphivit to recover the intestinal
microflora after fasting therapy (since 2000);
7) training of diaphragmal-and-relaxative breathing to patients undergoing
the course of fasting therapy with the use of (apparatus) biological
reverse relationship (since 2000).
For treatment at our Department several techniques of fasting therapy
(complete, combined, step-by-step) are employed.
Patients administered fasting therapy at our Department pursue different
goals: to treat pathologies, to cleanse or remove wastes from
the body (antigene materials, endotoxins, xenobiotics), to lose
weight, etc. The patient' decision to choose fasting therapy among
other therapeutic techniques proposed at the resort is influenced
by different factors, including friends, acquaintances, and relatives;
the state of health improved after the previous fasting therapy (51.3%);
resort physicians' recommendations (20%), popular medical literature
and mass media (10.7%), recommendations of family physicians (9.5%).
According to the data of surveys, the patients who have experienced
fasting therapy report after the course of fasting therapy that they
are more tranquil mentally and feel much better physically (27.8%),
more patient (16.7%), with improved perception of the surrounding
world (33.3%), more active (22.2%), and look younger their age
(16.7%). Since its establishment the Department of Fasting Therapy
of the Goryachinsk Resort has rendered this kind of therapy
to 1.796 patients (83% of women, 17% of men), repeatedly to 246 patients
(13.7%). 68% of them were residents of Republic of Buryatia, the rest
from other Russian regions and 5 foreigners from Mongolia (1), the
USA (1), Finland (2), and Japan (1). To conclude, the efficacy of
fasting therapy depends upon the level of the organization and accurate
coordination of various structural divisions of our Department,
as well as optimized therapeutic processes, in reliance upon balneoprocedures
and traditional and folk techniques.
The Effect of Fasting Therapy Combined with Balneotherapy on Non-Specific
Adaptive Reactivity in Patients with Hypertensive Disease (N.Batayeva;
Buryatia)
One of the method to treat and rehabilitate patients with hypertensive
disease at the Goryachinsk resort is fasting therapy. Having prescribed
fasting therapy with balneotherapy to such patients, the author investigated
their non-specific adaptive reactivity following the L.Garkavi
et al's method by estimating lymphocytes in the leucocytic formula
prior and after the treatment. 90 patients aged from 30 to 60, including
55 women and 35 men, were studied. All the patients were divided into
two equal groups, comparable by their sex, age, and degree of the
pathology severity. The first group was administered 10-day
fasting therapy along with balneotherapy, the second one balneotherapy
only; thermal (+54.5 C) weakly mineralized alkaline nitrous-siliceous
sulfate-sodium water of the Goryachinsk resort was used. In the
end of the treatment in both groups its hypotensive efficacy and state
of non-specific adaptive reactivity of the patients were assessed.
The general conclusion is as follows: in patients with hypertensive
disease fasting therapy combined with balneotherapy, along with
hypotensive effect, supports antistress reaction of training,
entailing stable and enhanced activization of non-specific adaptive
reactivity. It is advisable to include the so called adaptive therapy
into the complex of therapeutic-and-rehabilitative activities prescribed
to patients with hypertensive disease over 45 year old.
The Application of Fasting Therapy and Administration of the Mineral
Water Arshan for Treatment of Diseases of the Biliferous Tracts (A.Shagdurova;
Buryatia)
For treatment of pathology of the biliferous tract at the resort Arshan
we have effectively used fasting therapy (complete moist fasting)
combined with the administration of the mineral water Arshan.
We have observed 93 patients. In the paper specific features of the
pathology and therapy are described.
A New Approach to Peloidotherapy of Patients with Bronchial Asthma:
Combined with Fasting Therapy (T.Zaripova, I.Antipova,
I.Smirnova, I.Medvedeva; Tomsk)
A new approach to peloidotherapy of patients with bronchial asthma
is suggested: its administration after a short (58 days) course
of fasting therapy will allow clinical symptoms and inflammation to
be cupped, and bronchial permeability to be restored. Such treatment
will entail stabilized course of the disease with decreased medicamental
load.
Experience of Application of Fasting Therapy at the Zdorovye Therapeutic-and-Rehabilitation
Center in the Village of Sotnikovo (V.Amagyrov, T.Angarova,
V.Tepanosyan; Ulan-Ude)
Fasting therapy has been used at our therapeutic-and-rehabilitation
center since 1996. During this time fasting therapy was administered
to 590 patients with various somatic pathology; 55 practically healthy
patrons, according to their wish, for bodily cleansing and health
enhancement underwent preventive fasting therapy. The patients'
age ranged from 17 to 50. Different techniques of fasting therapy
were used, like complete moist, combined, step-by-step therapeutic
fasting therapy, with predominance of the complete moist one. The
fasting period lasted from 5 to 21 days, the duration of the in-patient
hospital-based remedial period reaching up to 7 days. During
the fasting period side effects were noted rather rarely, elapsing
without treatment, and without confining dates of the therapy. They
did not affect its good results. In 2 patients only fasting therapy
was discontinued due to aggravated chronic pyeolonephritis.