scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Chronic Infections and Autoimmune Diseases

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 155-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Immune Defense ◽  
The Body ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Chronic Infections ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Important Challenge ◽  
Intercellular Communications

The consciousness-based (holistic) medical toolbox might be useful in general practice and in cases of recurrent infections and chronic infection or inflammation. From our clinical experiences, there is hope for improvement from a number of diseases caused by disorders affecting the regulation of the immune system when the physician includes the holistic medical approach.Our scientific understanding of the connection between consciousness and cellular order is still limited. Consciousness-based holistic medicine removes (as explained by the holistic process theory of healing) the “blockages” in the tissues of the body and facilitates function and informational exchange of the cells of the body. Many blockages and repressed feelings in an area would imply “noise and disturbances”” on the level of intercellular communications, which in turn means major difficulties for the cells of the immune system. For this they are totally dependent on the body information system, which the holistic treatment aims to recover. Processing the blockages increases the coherence of the cells and organism, thus increasing the intercellular flow of information in the area and thus strengthening the immune defense and healing the disease. The area of clinical holistic medicine is going through a rapid development and the toolbox of consciousness-based medicine is available for dealing with many diseases arising from disturbances in the regulation of the immune system. Holistic medicine has yet to be better explained scientifically and our proposed holistic cures have yet to be documented clinically. We invite the medical community to cooperate on this important challenge.

scholarly journals Probiotics: Helpful for the prevention of COVID-19?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 4086-4099
Author(s):  
Nishat Zafar ◽  
Muhammad Aamir Aslam ◽  
Ashiq Ali ◽  
Aisha Khatoon ◽  
Abdul Nazir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
The Body ◽  
Alternative Measures ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Entire World ◽  
And Control ◽  
Stimulation Of

Up to now, no vaccine has been developed for COVID-19 treatment. Although many scientists are working for the rapid development of a vaccine to control this pandemic, nonetheless, it will take time. If the vaccine will be developed soon, it will not be available to the entire world instantly since the mass production of the vaccine will take time. In this scenario, we will have to take alternative measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. These alternative approaches include the stimulation of the immune system to fight against viral infections. Among the different approaches to strengthen the immune system, the use of probiotics is the best one. Probiotics can help the body to fight against COVID-19 directly and indirectly. In this review, we comprehensively discuss the use of probiotics for the prevention and control of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Rationality and Irrationality in Ryke Geerd Hamer's System for Holistic Treatment of Metastatic Cancer

2005 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Niels Jørgen Andersen ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Metastasis ◽  
Metastatic Cancer ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Subsequent Development ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Medical Community ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Medical Theory ◽  
Medicine Today ◽  
German Physician

The aim of this paper is to examine if the “medical laws” found by the German physician Ryke Geerd Hamer are substantiated by contemporary holistic medical theory. He developed a psychosomatic theory after a personal emotional trauma that he believed resulted in his subsequent development of a testicular cancer. From our analysis, it is clear that the two most fundamental principles of Hamer's work, the psychosomatic “iron law of cancer” (Hamer's first “law”) and the principle of pathogenesis being reversed into salutogenesis (Hamer's second “law”), are well-established principles of holistic medicine today. Hamer's understanding of symbols in medicine, virus and bacteria, and the evolutionary process itself (Hamer's third, fourth, and fifth “law”) differs a great deal from both traditional and contemporary holistic medical theory and we did not find them substantiated. Hamer's understanding of cancer metastasis was built on these failing principles and therefore not substantiated either. Altogether, it seems that Hamer's thinking was basically sound as the most fundamental principles of his work were built on an understanding very similar to holistic medical thinkers of today. We found his postulate that metastatic cancer patients can be healed or their health improved by using his system of holistic medicine likely to be true, at least for some motivated patients. This must be tested scientifically, however, before being accepted. His presentation of his system and work has been idiosyncratic and highly provocative, which has alienated him from the whole medical community.

scholarly journals EFFECT OF GOLD AND NICKEL NANOPARTICLES ON IMMUNE PROTEINS OF TOXOPLASMOSIS PATIENTS

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 162
Author(s):  
Sura A Abdulsattar ◽  
Abdullah H Drywall
Keyword(s):  
Gold Nanoparticles ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Total Protein ◽  
Nickel Nanoparticles ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Immune Defense ◽  
The Body ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Dual Effect ◽  
The Impact

  Objective: An interaction between a nanoparticle and the immune system is considered desirable when it may lead to various beneficial medical applications such as vaccines, delivery of drugs, antigens or therapeutics for inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. This study aims to evaluate the impact of some immune proteins by the presence of gold and nickel nanoparticles in sera of toxoplasmosis patients.Methods: A total of 20 patients women with toxoplasmosis aged (20-40 year) attending Central Health Laboratory in Baghdad city for the period (November 2016 to February 2017) and 20 age-matched of women healthy as a control were included in this study.Results: A non-significant increase in the activity and specific activity of protease in the sera of women infected with toxoplasmosis were observed in comparison to their values in the healthy (p˃0.05). While a non-significant decrease in total protein values was reported. The results of effect of nanoparticles showed a decrease in the level of the enzyme in the presence of nanoparticles by 41.3%, while the results showed that inhibition of nickel nanoparticles was greater and 43.8%. The results indicated that IgA, IgG, and IgM levels were decreased in the presence of gold nanoparticles. In the same context, both IgA and IgG were shown to be inhibitory in the presence of nickel nanoparticles while the results showed activation of the IgM level with nickel nanoparticles.Conclusion: We conclude from this study that other studies are required to confirm our results and therefore support the possibility of using nickel nanoparticles as a support for the treatment of toxoplasmosis through its dual effect first by reducing the protease, which is essential for survival of the parasite and second by activating IgM level, which enhances the immune defense of the body against the parasite.

Immune Consequences of Burn Injury

1993 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melva Kravitz
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Burn Injury ◽  
Antibiotic Use ◽  
Immune Defense ◽  
The Body ◽  
Burn Shock ◽  
Electrolyte Balance ◽  
Burn Wound ◽  
Vascular Access Devices ◽  
Major Burn

The purpose of the immune system is to protect cells from invasion by microorganisms. The body has three equally important interactive immune defense systems, all of which are profoundly disrupted with major burn injury. The immune response to burn injury is immediate, prolonged, and severe. The end result in individuals surviving burn shock is immunosuppression, with increased susceptibility to potentially fatal systemic burn wound or pulmonary sepsis. Nursing actions to support the humoral and cell-mediated immune system of the burned patient include providing nutritional support to maintain serum protein levels at optimal levels; measures to decrease edema and promote angiogenesis in areas of partial-thickness injury; meticulous treatment of the wound to prevent infection and promote healing; monitoring of antibiotic use; conservative use of invasive techniques, including intubation and vascular access devices; maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance and body temperature; and energy conservation measures

scholarly journals Extracorporeal Immunotherapy in Oncology

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Cytotoxic Activity ◽  
Tumor Cells ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Immune Defense ◽  
The Body ◽  
System State ◽  
Killer Activity ◽  
Apheresis Therapy

Tumors development is closely related to the immune system state and in immunosuppression tumors occur many times more often. The quality of the immune defense depends on how the recognition system functions for malignized tumor cells and its timely destruction. However, the immunosuppression state may be a result of the tumor process itself. The tumor itself generates soluble molecules that inhibit the killer activity of lymphocytes and macrophages, which allows tumor cells to survive in the body. Therefore, it is justified to perform apheresis therapy aimed at removal of such inhibitors, and targeted restoration of cytotoxic activity of leukocytes, which should contribute to the tumor cells apoptosis. This method of extracorporeal immunopharmacotherapy is indicated not only in far-advanced cases, but also after any radical operations, when metastases are not detected and even chemotherapy is not carried out.

scholarly journals Maintaining Optimum Health Requires Longer-Term Stable Vitamin D Concentrations

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Sunil Wimalawansa ◽  
Sunil Wimalawansa
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin D ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Healthy Person ◽  
Immune Defense ◽  
The Body ◽  
Steady Level ◽  
Clinical Signs And Symptoms

Humans are constantly invaded by environmental microbes. The body is protected from pathogen attacks by the immune defense system. In 99.8% of the time, our innate immune system is capable of getting rid of these organisms without before these can cause harm. Those who are with weaker immune systems constantly get infections and having chronic diseases. Among many factors contributing to maintaining a robust immune system, vitamin D has the highest impact. It has a major protective effect against acute respiratory infections and subduing both communicable and non-communicable diseases. A healthy person with stronger immunity may not manifest clinical signs and symptoms of COVID-19-silent, asymptomatic carriers of the virus and can be infectious. Whereas not all PCR positive persons are infectious. A rapid response occurs through the innate system that is followed by the adaptive response that lasts a longer period. Vitamin D kick starts both systems. However, the protective immune and other functions are damped in the presence of hypovitaminosis and also when the levels are fluctuating. Thus, the importance of maintaining serum 25(OH)D at a steady level above 30 ng/mL. When maintaining such, among all nutrients vitamin D has the widest benefits to multiple body systems. Thus, this sunshine vitamin (a steroid hormone) has been modulated through evolution to emerge as a key survival mechanism in humans. Nevertheless, vitamin D is not a panacea.

scholarly journals Structural analysis of morphometric and morphofunctional state of immunocompetent blood cells in case of purulent-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues on the background of type 2 diabetes

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 part 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
M. D. Zheliba ◽  
M. G. Bogachyuk ◽  
M. I. Pokidko ◽  
S. D. Khimich
Keyword(s):  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Blood Cells ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Inflammatory Diseases ◽  
Immune Defense ◽  
The Body ◽  
Neutrophil Granulocytes ◽  
Study Results

Relevance. According to the study’s results, steady changes in various parts of the immune system: cellular, humeral, phagocytic activity is revealed in patients with type 2 diabetes. Hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, insulin resistance, and adaptive ehyperinsulinemia affect the cells of the immune system, promoting the development of metabolic immunosuppressant and forming a stable immunological disorder. The purpose of the study into the morphometric and morphofunctional state of peripheral blood leukocytes in patients with type 2 diabetes to determine their significance in the development of purulent-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues are research. Materials and methods. In this work, the analysis of morphometric, cytogystochemical and laboratory study results of the control (20 healthy volunteers) and thematic (47 patients with supportive soft tissue disease son the background of type 2 diabetes mellitus) study groups with the statistical processing of the obtained results was used. Results. The investigation of morphofunctional features of nonspecific and specific protection cells for purulent inflammatory diseases of tissues on the background of type 2 diabetes showed that the basis of diabetic complications are there vealed changes in the bactericidal activity of segmented neutrophils. The trend of indicators of leukocyte formula and the distribution curve of mononuclear cells by size, as well as the growth of the lymphocyticgranulocytic index, indicate a chronic formation of endotoxin synthesize of diabetes. Conclusions. Lowering the level of cationic proteins, the activity of myeloperoxidase and the NBT-test under stimulation of neutrophil granulocytes bylectinsis a sign of unsatisfactory state of the bactericidal cells system, which may be the cause of chronic and acute inflammatory processes in the body that accompany type 2 diabetes, to a functional exhaustion of the macrophage link in the organism immune defense. Keywords: type 2 diabetes, purulent-inflammatory diseases of soft tissues, immunogenesis, cytomorphometry, cytogistochemistry, immunocompetent blood cells.

scholarly journals Clinical Holistic Medicine: Holistic Pelvic Examination and Holistic Treatment of Infertility

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 148-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Ventegodt ◽  
Mohammed Morad ◽  
Joav Merrick
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Touch ◽  
Holistic Medicine ◽  
Present Condition ◽  
Pelvic Examination ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Holistic Treatment ◽  
Holistic Practice

In clinical holistic practice, it is recommended that ample time is spent with the gynecological or pelvic examination, especially in cases of women with suspected old emotional traumas following early childhood cases of incest or sexual abuse. The holistic principles of holding and processing should be followed with the purpose of healing the patient, re-establishing the natural relationship with the body, sexuality, and reproductive organs. Sexual violations are often forcibly repressed. It appears that the tissues that were touched during the violation often bear the trauma. It is characteristic of these patients that their love lives are often problematic and do not provide the necessary support to heal the old wounds in the soul and therapy is therefore indicated. When this is concerned with the reproductive organs, it poses particular difficulties, as the therapy can easily be experienced as a repetition of the original violation, not least due to the risk of projection and transference. There is, therefore, a need for a procedure that is familiar to and safe for the patient, for all work that involves therapeutic touching of sexual organs over and beyond what is standard medical practice. This paper presents one case story of earlier child sexual abuse and one case of temporary infertility. We have established a procedure of slow or extended pelvic examination, where time is spent to make the patient familiar with the examination and accept the whole procedure, before the treatment is initiated. The procedure is carried out with a nurse, and 3 h are set aside. It includes conversation on the present condition and symptoms; concept of boundaries; about how earlier assaults can be projected into the present; establishment of the therapeutic room as a safe place; exercises on when to say “stop”; therapeutic touch; visualization of the pelvic examination step by step beforehand; touching on the outside of the clothes with repetition of the “stop” procedure if necessary; pelvic examination paying special attention to traumatized (damaged/scarred/blocked) areas with feel, acknowledge, and let go of the traumatized areas; postprocessing of emotions and traumas with final healing. The patient cannot be healed until negative decisions are found and dropped with a tour back to the present, to let go of negative sentences and ideas, and a plan for further positive progress.

Immunity boosting diet during Covid 19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 832-838
Author(s):  
Roshna Sukheoji Bhutada ◽  
Renu Rathi ◽  
Devyani Dasar
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Food Studies ◽  
Egg Yolk ◽  
The Body ◽  
Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Green Leafy Vegetables ◽  
Custard Apple ◽  
The Right ◽  
Daily Physical Activities ◽  
Physiological Reactions

WHO declared Covid 19 /SARS -COV-2 as a global pandemic.Till date, there is no medicine for COVID-19. If the Infection arises in the body then the defence mechanism activated against infection. A recent study suggests that temporarily augmenting the body's immune system in the early stages of COVID-19 can help patient to avoid severe symptoms as it is rightly said prevention is better than cure. Ayurveda approaches to develop physiological reactions to facilitate immunity. Planning of diet is most important to boost immunity.As per many researches to provide supplementary food which contains Zinc, Vitamin C,Vitamin D and immunity boosting foodsuch as citrus natural products, custard apple, apple, papaya is among the Fruits. Vegetables include broccoli, onion, garlic and green leafy vegetables. Nuts, ginger, turmeric, pepper, egg yolk, shellfish, mushroom. The need of the hour is a quick boost to immune system to keep it fit, fighting. One should get the right amount of nutrients from the diet, supplementation regimen to boost immune system.In this review, there are few common supplements and super food studies have been included. It might be a torch bearer as sample menu and their alternatives are given for a normal adult. Needy may change contemplated according to age, sex, body mass index and daily physical activities.

Nutritional Recommendation for COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 753-757
Author(s):  
Anagha Gulhane ◽  
Shamli Hiware
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Immune Function ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health Issue ◽  
System Quality ◽  
Life Phase ◽  
Global Health Issue ◽  
Nutritional Recommendation

It is the most unreliable truth that anybody can get infected by the COVID-19, and nobody can escape from the danger of getting tainted by the virus. Yet, the line of hope is that anyone and everyone can boost their resistance, thus avoid the risk of getting affected by the illness. The immunity of humans pulls down as they grow older. If their immune system is robust, them falling sick is feeble. If their resistance is weak, them getting ill is sound. Several factors affect the immune system and its ability, including its nourishment. A two-way connection between nutrition, infection and immunity presents. Changes in one part will affect the others part in our body that's the nature's rule. Well defined immune system quality which is present between each life phase may influence the type, generality and the degree of infections. At the same time, low nutrition to the body will decrease the immune function and expose the body to the danger of getting infected by infectious diseases. Different quantity of micronutrients is required for increasing the immunity power of our body. Generally the vitamins A,C,D,E,B2,B6,B12, iron, zinc and selenium.The deficiencies of micronutrients are acknowledged as a global health issue, and also low nutrition makes it prone to establishes the infections in the body.

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