Eliminatory proceedings

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Discharge procedures are treatment methods in alternative medicine , which are supposed to serve to detoxify the body fluids. The terms humoral therapy (from Latin humores "juices") or Aschner method (after the doctor Bernhard Aschner , 1883–1960) are also used synonymously . Purgation (from Latin purgare "clean") refers to a "discharge" via the intestine . However, there is no scientifically sound evidence that this is necessary or effective.

Classification

The exit procedures include

history

In ancient times and early Middle Ages, until the discovery of the blood circulation, the functions of the body were imagined as an interplay of different juices (Latin humores ) (cf. humoral pathology ). Internal illnesses were believed to result from imbalances, contamination and poisoning of these body fluids. Hippocrates of Kos z. B. described poor mixtures of blood, bile, and phlegm. The disproportion is actually to be understood in quantitative terms.

The physical humores were later placed in competition and interaction with the nobler, “spiritual” fluids above the diaphragm (tears, saliva, liquor ), which were called spiritus . The inside of the body is in equilibrium with the environment through excretions and vapors.

In ancient times, the theory developed that abundance should be seen as the cause of diseases (see diseases of civilization ). Before the introduction of general health insurance, the clientele of academic doctors was above average and it made sense to blame “excess juice” for their complaints. With these ideas, the healers tried to drain the body sickening juices. The main direction of therapy is from the inside out; the doctor has to provide for the opening, drainage and pressure equalization of the blocked body.

Paracelsus rejected the four-humours doctrine, but stuck to the deductive procedure. He believed that harmful toxins and "waste products" could accumulate in the body that had to be removed. “What is not pure, what is not flesh and blood, has two exits, through the stool and through the urine. So it depends first on the strength of the stomach. These are to separate the Tartarus and the food from each other and drive out the Tartarus, through the stool, that is through the excrement, which should be nothing but just slag and Tartarus. […] If this does not happen, a part of it can attach itself to the intestines, this is the slag. The Tartarus itself separates from the slag and exits through the urinary tract. "

Today's meaning

With the increasing understanding of the physiology of a body in the Age of Enlightenment , disease theories based on the theory of humors increasingly faded into the background, as other, scientifically verifiable causes of diseases could be determined and the respective diseases could be treated successfully. However, the outdated theories remained a basis of alternative medicine until modern times , with additional esoteric elements being integrated without considering the requirements of scientific standards. So z. B. Stars, seasons or the position of the moon are in contact with the body fluids and have an influence. Well-known representatives of modern humoral medicine were Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland and Bernhard Aschner .

With the scientific knowledge that humoral medicine is no longer tenable, representatives of the diversion now increasingly referred to metabolic waste and foreign toxins in order not to have to give up their theories. They are the waste products that accumulate in the body like a machine and have to be removed regularly. Although this notion could not be proven, the term purification found its way into school books.

The excretion as the alleged removal of waste products therefore focuses primarily on the regulation of intestinal motility, regeneration of the physiological intestinal flora and the intestinal-associated lymphatic system as well as the excretion of urine, in which alleged "putrefactive toxins" should be detectable if it is necessary to remove waste products. The "diagnosis" of these poisons is also based on alternative medical methods, so that no scientific evidence could be provided here either.

Scientific evaluation

According to scientific medicine, external poisons ( amalgam , environmental toxins , etc.) or accumulated metabolic products (e.g. uric acid in gout or glucose in diabetes mellitus ) can only be assumed to be the cause of the disease if the accused substance is present in the body in harmful quantities and / or am laboratory or histopathologically proven wrong place and, moreover, the symptoms and the latency period match the substance. Even in such rare cases, alternative medical elimination methods are unsuitable for therapy according to scientific criteria.

There is no generally accepted evidence that the body must be therapeutically “detoxified” or “purged” in this sense.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paracelsus: All works in 4 volumes . Translated by B. Aschner. Anger Verlag, 1993 (quoted from publications by Olaf Rippe: The idea of ​​deriving from Paracelsus . ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) natura-naturans.de; accessed on May 5, 2011).
  2. ↑ ernaehrung-und-verbrauchbildung.de