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METHOD OF ALGETIC EXPOSURE AT TREATMENT
FOR ADDICTIVE BEHAVIOR, AND OTHER MANIFESTATIONS OF
DEVITALIZATION ACTIVITIES. |
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V. Speransky, M. G. Chukhrova, N. K. Zhukov
State unitary research institute of hygiene, state
unitary research institute of therapy, Siberian
branch of the Russian Academy of medical sciences
JSC “Spasitelniy put’” (“Salvation path”),
Novosibirsk, Russia |
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Addictive behavior is
the manifestation of so called devitalization
activities, i.e. biological activities and ways of
behavior directly lowering the vitality. Apart from
alcoholism, drug addiction, and other types of
addictions, devitalization activities include
various forms of suicidal behavior, depressions,
obsessions, and some forms of psychosomatic
pathology. While the suicidal behavior leads
directly to death, the addictive behavior,
depression, and psychosomatic pathology lead away
from real life, and can also be considered as
devitalization activities (Yu. R. Vagin, 2001). In
psychiatry, these states are to be treated by the
active pharmacological and psychological therapy,
still being hard to cure at present. As this takes
place, every illness (depression episode, alcoholism,
drug addiction, unfinished suicide, obsessions, or
psychosomatic pathology) has got strictly specified
set of medical methods and remedies, which are known
to be not always efficient. Here, the fact that all
these illnesses are based upon the devitalization
activities, which pathologic and physiological
substrate is the decrease of elaborating of
endorphins, or lowering of sensitivity of endorphin
receptors, is not taken into consideration.
As the pathogenetic method of treatment, we bring to
your notice the method of algetic exposure, which we
called the flogging therapy. A patient, suffering
from a manifestation of the devitalization
activities, gives written consent his buttocks to be
flogged in some series of 5 blows each, up to 60
blows at one procedure in all. A person of average
constitution takes the blows in full strength.
Needless to say that it is difficult to dose the
strength of the blows, but that is not obligatory as
the intensity of exposure is determined individually.
According to the level of pathology, the patient is
to be flogged from one time a day to one time a week,
30 procedures in all.
Being an algetic exposure, flogging therapy produces
activation of endorphin receptors, ejection of
endorphins on completion of the procedure as the
reaction to algetic exposure. As a result, the
patient begins to enjoy life as before.
A type of flogging therapy called “pravezh” (correcting)
was applied in the Russian culture. In the beginning
of the former century, there was a clinic in Germany,
where some illnesses were treated by whipping and
flogging (S. V. Speransky, 2003). But the view of
“inhumane character” of the flogging therapy, widely
spread in medical science, has resulted in
unjustified ignoring of that really efficient method
of control over devitalization activities.
In former Soviet times, there was the remedy for
healing unfinished suicides, drug-addictions, and
alcoholism. It was sulphozine, which was taken as
intramuscular injections of sulfur suspension in
peach-kernel oil. These injections were of
“educational” character as they caused pain, fever,
and made striving for life come back again. This was
an auxiliary method with a vividly pronounced
repressive character. According to recommendation of
the World Health Organization, sulphozine therapy
has actually disappeared from the arsenal of
psychiatrists’ methods since the end of 1980-s, and
it is now of really limited usefulness, and is used
with the consent of the patient and his family.
However, those positive results that had been
previously achieved through sulphozine therapy of
the grave forms of drug-addiction, second tries to
commit suicide, depressive states, made us pay
attention to analogous methods of treating our
patients. It has been observed that flogging therapy
makes the vital activity of a patient come back to
him with devitalization activities disappear.
Algetic stimulation synchronized in frequency and
phase as a massive exposure by signals of the equal
sensor modality is likely to allow disruption of the
compliance of the starting (at the moment of healing)
dynamic stereotype, and to transform biological
system into a new physiological state with the
correspondent transformation of its metabolism. A
strong torrent of algetic stimulation “erases” the
pathological programs, breaks the conditioned reflex
pathological links, and generates general
stimulation of the central nervous system,
particularly in the affective-genetic zones. One
more psycho-physiological tool of positive exposure
of the flogging therapy is recovery influenced by
the intensive algetic stimulation of
inter-hemispherical relationships. In the process of
therapy the left hemisphere, which level of
activation is rather low at different forms of
addictive behavior, is being activated, and the
inversion of inter-hemispherical reflection, obvious
at addictions, is being recovered (M. G. Chukhrova,
N. A. Stepushina, 2002). There are also
neuro-humoral, immune and other tools of positive
exposure in flogging therapy, but we will not apply
to them.
These are some most typical clinical examples:
Example. Patient K., 24, has been heroin-addicted
for 5 years, with short remissions. He has
repeatedly experienced various methods, including
the ones practiced in the clinic of Dr. Nazaraliev.
When coming to the first flogging therapy procedure,
he was in the state of abstinence from heroin of a
middle degree. The latest receipt of the drug was
the day before. He passed the flogging therapy
course of 15 – 60 blows as their number increased.
The effect was really surprising: phenomena of
abstinence were interrupted, patient’s sleep was
restored, his spirit turned to become stable and
normal, living activity appeared, the patient found
a job, where he is working now. Catamnesis in a
2.5-year period – remission is stable, spirit is
high, has got a job, has got positive plans for the
future, and is not going to turn back to drugs again.
Thirty people have passed flogging therapy
procedures for 3 years, every case being
characterized with good or excellent results. All
the patients addressed themselves to flogging
therapy voluntarily, and in most instances –
anonymously. On completion of the course, the
majority of them periodically decided to repeat
flogging therapy procedures as the first alarming
symptoms appeared.
Flogging therapy should be accepted to be one of the
most efficient methods of restoring disrupted
balance and living activities. Flogging therapy can
be really helpful to a large number of people,
struggling to overcome the most difficult crises and
a number of unhealthy states.) |
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