With the device

Healing magnets, rejuvenating LED flashlights, water charging devices, and blue lamps were darsonal - from the choice of these medical (sort of) devices for home use from a Russian lover of lifestyle, the head can go around. It is very difficult to understand this zoo, even more difficult-to find in it at least something that is not a very frank charlatanism. Without claiming academic fullness, we have chosen the most popular and funny of the devices that are treated by Russians

Bioresonance therapy: biomedis

What promises to us: the device is “intended for conducting bioresonance therapy [...] - correction of the body's functions by harmonious transformation of resonant electromagnetic vibrations characteristic of the radiation of a living organism, with the aim of synchronization.” It treats almost everything: “diseases of the central nervous system and sensory organs; diseases of the circulatory system, breathing, organs of the gastrointestinal tract, skin and subcutaneous tissue, the bone muscular system; diseases of the urinary organs and genital organs. " For each of the diseases, there is its own program, the device contains the regimes of therapeutic effects when stuttering, tuberculosis, obesity, hepatitis and even homosexuality.

What you need to know about this: a biomedis is a small device with a LCD screen in a white-blue case of a typically medical color. The size of about about a modern smartphone. He is a smartphone - in fact, this is an Android platform with a simple “health” software shell. By the way, it is quite possible to use a smartphone - having fulfilled the daily rate of treatment for stuttering or homosexuality, you can drive a device in Angry Birds.

Illustration: Rita Cherepanova for TD

In a sense, the biomedis is the pinnacle of the evolution of bioresonance therapy. It is completely and completely made of ordinary components and is eliminated from all the superfluous - even electrodes, which seem to be influenced. The current strength in the biomedis is replaced by the power of the conviction of its distributors working on the principle of network marketing. About how the sales of “healing” smartphones are organized, you can read, for example, here and here .

However, finding fault at the electronic filling of bioresonance devices would be wrong. The smartphone has many much better and more solidly looking predecessors: from a simple “detail of the rhythm” to “Imedis battal” , a masterpiece of industrial design from the oldest Russian office “Center for Intelligent Medical Systems” in this niche of the Russian office. When it comes to bioresonance therapy, the point is not at all that the device is inside, the fact is that the manufacturer is in the head.

The idea of ​​bioresonance therapy came to the USSR from Germany, where, I must say, it is still some popularity in circles of alternative medicine fans. The founders of the method were Franz Morel and Erich Rush, who were inspired by the ideas of the electrodiagnostics of Reynold Fall. The confusing story of the emergence of this pseudo -nausea and its arrival in Russia is well stated in the ballot “in defense of science”, so it does not make much sense to repeat it here.

If it is quite briefly, then the roots of bioresonance are growing from the traditional Chinese acupuncture, which Fall turned into an electrical punk by replacing needles with electrodes, and Morel and Rush surpassed the electrical scheme of exposure to the opposite direction - from diagnostics for treatment. In the USSR, a bioresonance appeared back in the 80s, Yuri Valentinovich Kotsky, the creator of the Center for Intellectual Medical Systems, became its main adherent.

“Empirically described in ancient times, subtle bodies currently have a serious scientific rationale,” he writes in a monograph on bioresonance. There we are also informed about the importance of the work of the chakras, about seven thin membranes of the physical body and energy flows in the body of 72 thousand energy channels. It is with these energies that the electromagnetic vibrations of bioresonance devices should come into resonance. The reader can think about what kind of energy channels and what kind of energy flows in them.

There are only two facts that cannot be mentioned. Firstly, approved by the Ministry of Health (and current!) Methodological recommendations that determine the procedure for conducting bioresonance therapy in Russia. This document , of course, will go down in the history of domestic medicine with all its excellent formulations (“the treatment signal is strictly symmetrical, and in pathologically altered structures it has asymmetry”, “the frequency of spontaneous bioelectric impulses of the stomach is, according to our research, 0.043 Hz”, etc.). The second fact is that since 2010, the Bioresonable devices of Imedis purchase and use the Russian strategic missile forces on their personnel.

Magnetotherapy: Almag-01

What promise to us : treatment of arthritis and osteochondrosis, gout and neuralgia, bronchial asthma and “vegeto-vascular dystonia”. He relieves pain and swelling, “it restores performance twice as quickly” and accelerates the fusion of bones during fractures. All this is achieved by increasing metabolism and "restoration of the electromagnetic parameters of cells."

What you need to know about this: Almag is one of the most famous devices for magnetotherapy, a very popular physiotherapy method among Russian doctors. There are similar devices in almost all clinics, where they are in constant demand - sending a patient to magnets is considered a good tone among doctors of different specializations. It is not surprising that many of the patients are thinking about buying a personal “Magnit” device and arrange a sanatorium at home.

Illustration: Rita Cherepanova for TD

There are only two problems with this sound idea. Firstly, none of the doctors and scientists know how such therapy works at the molecular cell level: what is the magnetic impulses in the cells, and what is happening as a result. Secondly, it is not clear whether this action is truly therapeutic, that is, whether it works.

It would seem that in favor of magnetotherapy, its established reputation and extensive experience of clinical use speaks (Almag, for example, has been used for more than 15 years). In addition, magnetotherapy exists not only on the territory of the former USSR, but also in Europe and the USA. It is scary to say, the American FDA itself in the late 70s approved the use of magnetotherapy as a means of accelerating the healing of complex fractures (we note in brackets: we are only talking about fractures, no bronchitis and dermatoses that are trying to treat the domestic diamond, there are no testimonies). Can't everyone be mistaken around?

Unfortunately, we do not know the answer to this question. Magnetotherapy is not a bioresonance, there is no question of energy bodies and chakras. Theoretically, it can work. For example, causing electrical excitation of cells - after all, there is transcranial magnetic stimulation that is already used to selective activation of individual zones of the brain (the power of magnets, however, is two orders of magnitude more). There is even some data that the target of exposure to magnetotherapy can be calcium ion channels of cells that are sensitive to the magnetic field. But today there is still no convincing evidence of the effectiveness of magnetotherapy. The ash of clinical trials that the manufacturer of the domestic device leads, otherwise you can’t name (they say in medicine - this is anecdotal evidence). Systematic reviews of properly set clinical studies of the Western analogues of Almag, no significant improvements in patients who received magnetotherapy, alas, were found .

Yes, and yet. The therapy should not be confused with magnetic impulses - which, in fact, was talking about now - with the treatment of conventional magnets in the form of rings or bracelets. The latter is a pure quantity to understand this, no clinical research is needed.

Silver: Oserbrier of water Netonot

What promises to us: the Oserbrier "Effectively and dosed saturates the water with active silver ions, which cannot be obtained using a silver spoon or coins." The manufacturer is especially proud that "the device can be used to prepare not only drinking water with silver, but also a silver concentrate (SIC!)." “This silver source is capable of stopping up to 60 tons of water, and this is the volume of a whole railway tank!”

What you need to know about this: silver is toxic. That is why its ions have an antimicrobial effect: they are associated with the remnants of the amino acids of cysteine, which is part of almost all proteins, cause denaturation of the latter and ultimately lead to the death of the cell.

Illustration: Rita Cherepanova for TD

The thing is that silver is completely indifferent to which proteins to contact - bacterial or our own. These antibiotics act only on microorganisms, but not on human cells, for silver we are all exactly the same - cysteine ​​is everywhere. Do not believe - take a look at people with Argria, that is, silver poisoning. You can’t call them healthy, but even the opposite.

Of course, in a large concentration, silver can be used to disinfect water, but ordinary boiling acts much more efficiently and reliably. Or ultraviolet. Or chlorine. Or peroxide. If you want to get rid of bacteria in drinking water, then any kettle will give a head of the most advanced Oserbrier. Silver in this sense is simply a very weak substance. That is why in the middle of the 20th century, antibiotics completely ousted it from medicine, where it was initially used as an antiseptic. Now it is not even added to the ointment for processing burns - it simply does not work.

And one should not think that there is some kind of safe level of concentration at which silver ions still need the body. Nothing of this is known: silver is not part of a single famous enzyme, not a single physiological function is noticed behind it.

Another detail. The concentration of silver that the manufacturer of the device promises in processed water (35 micrograms per liter) almost does not differ from the one that an ordinary person who does not at home consumes at home daily (up to 27 micrograms per day). So, if you still want to give your skin an interesting blue shade, drink “well-taught” water liters.

Heat therapy: Blue lamp

What promises to us : “In the zone of exposure to the blue lamp, deep layers of tissues are heated, the flow of blood and other nutrients is enhanced. The body begins to recover acceleratedly and fight ailments. Heals depression, a decrease in performance, immunity, a breakdown of strength, chronic fatigue syndrome. ”

What you need to know about this : a blue lamp, of course, is a pearl of domestic physiotherapy at home. This is the best of what can be found on sites like “kindness”, “healthy” and “do not get sick”. It is supposed to be inserted into a reflector that resembles an iron bowl for pets, and use to warm up joints, muscles, respiratory systems and so on.

Illustration: Rita Cherepanova for TD

A blue lamp is an incandescent lamp with an E27 screw cartridge, usually 60 watts, with a blue glass flask. Not fluorescent, not diode, not halogen or arc. An ordinary incandescent lamp, fully consistent with Edison's idea. Safe for the eyes to exactly the same extent as red and black. And that gives exactly the same amount of infrared heat for heating as ordinary transparent lamps - because this is a regular lamp. Well, almost ordinary: it, unlike them, is blue, and this is her essence.

Afterword

Physiotherapy has existed for a very long time, in fact, since the opening of electricity. Faradization, galvanization, x -rays - almost any physical discoveries by their authors, in one way or another, tried to use for the treatment of diseases. The great Nikola Tesla and the French physicist d'Arsonval were noted on this field. European, primarily German, medicine, leading at the beginning of the 20th century, then grabbed with greed for any experiments with wires and lamps. The love of Russians for healing instruments and the love of our doctors for physiotherapy - it is from there.

The irony is that during the years of the rapid development of physics science, such a thing as scientific, that is, evidence-based medicine simply did not exist. No one thought that the action of such a powerful thing as an electric current or magnetic field may be the result of a placebo effect or an incorrectly made experiment. Evidence medicine appeared only in the mid-70s, when in almost every Soviet clinic its own physiotherapeutic department has long worked, and such specialists were trained in medical universities. It is difficult to break traditions overnight, and it is not necessary: ​​much of the practical experience of this traditional (might say, folk) medicine can be useful in the future. It is only about the fact that the evidence-based approach of medical decisions should still sooner or later reach the physiotherapeutic departments of hospitals and the clinic. And then, you look, and in the love of the townsfolk for home medical devices, something will change.