Regulation therapy

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The term regulation therapy comes from alternative medicine and is used for very different methods and procedures, from homeopathy to Reiki , but sometimes also for Kneipp cures . In the broadest sense of the word, alternative medicine practitioners understand regulation therapy to be any type of therapy that aims to bring an organism “out of balance” back into a state of equilibrium. As a rule, the body's own forces should be activated. The result is then regulation . The term is not scientifically defined.

Examples

An example of a scientifically verifiable control system is the body temperature , which is normally kept very constant by trembling or sweating, but in exceptional cases (illness) can be increased for a specific purpose ( fever ). Regulation therapies require a certain functionality of regulation, or try to restore the prerequisites for regulation. Alternative doctors often attribute "functional disorders" to "derailed regulatory systems".

concept

The regulatory capacity (ability to regulate) can allegedly be increased through therapies and an appropriate lifestyle. In the simplest case, these are physical therapies (e.g. Kneipp cures ), but there are also stimulant body therapies ( autologous blood treatments ) which are intended to increase the "regulatory capacity". According to this theory, systems that are at the edge of their regulatory capacity can fall into a pathological state due to minor disturbances. So z. B. a change in air ionization ( foehn in the mountains) can lead to considerable impairment of wellbeing. However, according to medical opinion, this is not a disease, but a temporary disorder.

Representatives of regulation therapies reject causal cause-and-effect considerations in extremely complex, often networked systems from control loops, as in the human body, and instead often use unspecific measures that are intended to restore the regulatory capacity. The regulation therapies include homeopathy , acupuncture , manual medicine , therapeutic hyperthermia and neural therapy .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Perger: Compendium of regulatory pathology and therapy ; see literature
  2. ↑ Bergsmann: Basic system and regulatory disorders ; see literature

literature

  • Alfred Pischinger: The system of basic regulation - foundations of a holistic biological medicine . Haug, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8304-7194-7
  • Hartmut Heine: Textbook of biological medicine - basic regulation and extracellular matrix . Hippokrates-Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-7773-1230-4
  • Felix Perger: Compendium of regulation pathology and therapy . Sonntag, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-87758-071-8
  • Otto Bergsmann: Basic System and Regulatory Disorders - Commemorative Volume for Prof. Dr. med. G. Waiter . Haug, Heidelberg 1984, ISBN 3-7760-0781-8