Detoxification (alternative medicine)
Purification (of slag, a residue of combustion ) is in alternative medicine is a term for actions taken to eliminate the alleged toxins and supposedly harmful metabolic products. The effectiveness of this method is not given, the modes of action adopted can not be detected.
Uncertainties exist in both the definition of the substances that fall under these slags, as well as regarding the measures that should be considered as detoxification. Most are "cleanse" certain understood measures used, which are summarized under the term detoxifying methods, for example cupping, Cantharidenpflaster, enemas, sweat cures (sauna), laxative ( laxative ) and fasting in the context of alternative medicine. Some methods claim also mercury (eg, amalgam dental fillings ), to drain out vaccines or other slags.
A generally accepted proof that the body could be in this sense therapeutic " detoxifies " or " purified " or even should is, not before. During a juice fast even the pollution of the blood rises. The subjective experience of sound sequences by patients can be explained by sensations such as the placebo effect.
In a broader sense, medical therapies fall into this category, such as the removal of uric substances from the blood into the dialysis by dialysis. And ammonia, which is obtained in increased liver -related disease of the brain in the context of liver cirrhosis and whose production is decreased by an antibiotic bowel decontamination and Lactulosebehandlung, would be an example in this context.
History
Especially in the traditional Hindu treatment methods of Ayurveda called detoxification is established under the term Panchakarma. The history of purification in this sense in the Western world, however, dates back only to the late 19th century when the great industrial cities received sewage systems. Correspondingly, the theory came to the pathogenesis that intestinal and kidney contain toxins and these would dissipate from the body. Constipation and urinary retention should rot and internal poisoning produce like an operating channel. The term detoxification as an analogy for the cleaning of furnaces or fire the boiler of steam locomotives was first used by Otto Buchinger, an active early 20th century physician and inventor of a fast method.
Several substances that are normally detoxified and excreted by the intestine, liver and kidneys, can accumulate in dysfunction of these organs in the body and act sanely under certain circumstances. For some situations has been proven effective forms of therapy such as dialysis or Laktulosebehandlung could be developed. Here, both some of the harmful substances to be removed in these methods as well as the toxicity of the same, if they accumulate within the body without these measures are known. However, this does not apply to the purification of alternative medicine in the strict sense, where there are often no generally accepted proof of the harmfulness of the propagated poisons ( at least in the concentration present in the patients ) are. For other substances, their harmful buildup in the body is indeed detected, such as cholesterol and lime for atherosclerosis, urate crystals of gout, proteins for amyloidosis and Alzheimer 's disease or immune complexes for some forms of glomerulonephritis and vasculitis.