No. Mineral turpentine is derived from petroleum products and may cause toxic effects.
No. Gum turpentine is insoluble in water and forms a thin surface film capable of irritating the skin. To overcome this difficulty Dr. Zalmanov developed the special preparations known as the Yellow Emulsion and the White Solution, which distribute evenly throughout the bath water.
The capillaries perform several essential functions:
– supplying every cell of the body with oxygen and nutrients;
– removing and carrying away the products of cellular metabolism;
– regulating the local blood flow by contraction or dilation according to the needs of the tissues.
Life is a continuous movement of fluids between the cells and within the cells themselves. The complete cessation of this movement results in death. A partial obstruction of the flow of fluids in any organ leads to functional disturbance, while a more profound stagnation of extracellular and intracellular fluids gives rise to disease.
With advancing age, poor nutrition, and environmental pollution, an increasing number of capillaries become partially or completely obstructed. Disturbance of the microcirculation causes groups of cells and organs to lose their normal function, which ultimately leads to the development of disease.
A noticeable effect is usually obtained after 7–8 procedures.
For a more complete and lasting result, a course of 20 or more baths is recommended.
The baths are generally taken every two to three days, and the course may be repeated after six months.
The treatment proceeds in three stages:
1. During the bath, the tonic dissolved in the water penetrates through the skin into the capillaries and gradually dissolves deposits on the walls of the blood vessels.
2. During the bath itself and the subsequent period of rest in a warm bed, accompanied by perspiration, toxins and dissolved deposits are eliminated from the body through the skin with sweat.
3. Finally, a shower is taken to remove the toxins that have been excreted through the skin.
– Generalized or localized arteritis, including angina pectoris and arteritis of the lower extremities.
– Sciatica, neuritis, and polyneuritis.
– Deforming rheumatism and arthrosis.
– Arterial hypertension.
– Sequelae of poliomyelitis and hemiplegia; certain spondylotic conditions; and the after-effects of cerebral hemorrhage or myocardial infarction.
– The consequences of various injuries, including accidents and war wounds.
– Postoperative scars and adhesions.
Until August 1914, therapeutic methods were largely guided by the principles of preventive medicine. Physicians sought to avoid accelerating the natural course of disease and relied instead on stimulating the organism’s own protective and restorative reactions.
Modern medicine, which often strives for rapid and demonstrative recovery without sufficient consideration for the long-term physiological future of the patient, largely emerged during the wartime and post-war periods between 1914 and 1945.
During those years it was necessary to act immediately: wounded soldiers had to be restored to working condition as quickly as possible in order to replace losses and return them to duty. Their long-term health was rarely the primary concern.
Under these unavoidable circumstances, medicine in all countries fulfilled its duty as best it could.
Objectives
- To concentrate the healing arts within a single, disciplined order, governed by the authority of laboratory science
- To relegate natural medicine to the margins, stripping it of legitimacy as an equal path to healing
- To enthrone pharmaceutical preparations, born of the laboratory, as the principal instruments of medical intervention
Methods
- The systematic exclusion and gradual extinction of schools and clinics that did not conform to the new doctrine
- The persistent assertion of a single “scientific” truth, presented as the only permissible foundation of medicine
- The redirection of intellectual and material resources toward a model of medicine increasingly distant from the natural processes of the living body
- The founding of well-funded institutions tasked with shaping a new kind of physician—one trained to rely chiefly on pharmacological remedies rather than the restorative forces of the organism itself
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Тraditional medicine is primarily concerned with the treatment of diseases themselves. Modern medicine, by contrast, is largely based on the principle of allopathy and is therefore directed mainly toward the treatment of symptoms.
Traditional medicine and naturopathy were largely displaced in the early twentieth century following major reforms in medical education in the United States (see the Flexner Report).
* Allopathy (from the Greek állos — “other” and páthos — “suffering”) is a term introduced by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann to describe a system of medicine in which treatments are used that produce effects opposite to the symptoms of the disease.