Self-healing power

The ability of the body to heal both external and internal injuries or diseases is called self- healing power (also called the healing power of nature ) . The use and intensification of self-healing powers, on which (according to Lohff) ultimately every therapy is based, represents an important aspect of every therapeutic treatment (surgery, radiation, medication, etc.).

The terms spontaneous healing and spontaneous remission are incorrectly used as synonyms. The self-healing power can lead to spontaneous healing or spontaneous remission. Spontaneous healing is also not the same as spontaneous remission. Of healing is when the patient is permanently healthy. If, on the other hand, a tumor remits spontaneously, it can bloom again after a certain time.

The term self-healing is used in technology when leaks become tight again without manual repair, for example

• if a tire sealant (liquid plastic or tire sealing gel) filled into a bicycle tube automatically seals a hole that has occurred,
• the effect of bentonite foil as a precautionary seal for water basins. When it comes into contact with water, the bentonite swells and, thanks to the pressure of the water column above, it clogs the fine pores of the subsurface.
• the self-sealing of cracks in waterproof concrete using deposited lime
• See also the " self-healing of electrolytic capacitors "

See also

• immune system
• Resilience (ecosystem)
• Wound healing

literature

• Hans-Harald Sedlacek: Self-healing powers and drug effects. Synergies and Limits. De Gruyter, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-11-044607-4 .
• Brigitte Lohff: Self-healing power (healing power of nature). In: Werner E. Gerabek , Bernhard D. Haage, Gundolf Keil , Wolfgang Wegner (eds.): Enzyklopädie Medizingeschichte. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-015714-4 , p. 1317 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spontaneous healing in cancer . Cancer information service of the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, November 3, 2010; Retrieved September 4, 2014.
2. ↑ Concrete structures underground - infrastructure for the future. P. 82 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

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