Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000271
M. V. Zyl, Lesley M. Harris, D. Harper
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000261
V. Golovin, A. Samorukov, M. Arkhipov, L. Kocherevskaya
The possibilities of manipulative robots to perform techniques of restorative massage, increasing the psychophysiological mood of the working population in order to increase the productivity of labor are considered in this article. The robot control making possible to perform a mass preventive massage is offered. Most of the studies were carried out using the so-called force points trained on robots with one-dimensional force training. The more convenient and quick training method by demonstration is proposed. At the same time, the unloading of the masseur’s hand and the accuracy of reproduction of trained trajectories are provided to a much greater degree. The hand of the masseur by means of the massage tool deforms the patient's soft tissues. To teach by the demonstration of spatial trajectories, the robot is in admittance control mode, without resisting the movements of the masseur’s hand, fixed on the robot end link. In admittance control mode, the robot tracks exactly the movements of the masseur’s hands or corrects them with the necessary force. Currently, there are robots with force control, which can organize the required admittance control mode. These robots are not specialized to perform mode massage and are not mass-produced, so they are quite expensive. If the demand increases, the cost would be much lower. Studies that will determine the techniques for performing robotic massage are needed. As an initial basis, methods of manual restorative and sports massage can be taken.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000266
J. Vr
The doctrine of signature is a philosophy known to mankind from times of Dioscodrides and Galen. This doctrine states that herbs that resemble various parts of the body can be used to treat ailments of that part of the body. It was reasoned that almighty must have set his sign upon the various means of curing disease which he provided. This concept is still reflected in the common names of some plants whose shapes and color reminded herbalists of the parts of the body where they seem to have some positive action. The concept was developed by Paracelsus (1491-1541) and published in his writings. During the first half of the 16th century, Paracelsus travelled throughout Europe and to the Levant and Egypt, treating people and experimenting with new plants in search of more treatment and solutions.
{"title":"Nature Sofia-Doctrine of Signature","authors":"J. Vr","doi":"10.4172/2327-5162.1000266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4172/2327-5162.1000266","url":null,"abstract":"The doctrine of signature is a philosophy known to mankind from times of Dioscodrides and Galen. This doctrine states that herbs that resemble various parts of the body can be used to treat ailments of that part of the body. It was reasoned that almighty must have set his sign upon the various means of curing disease which he provided. This concept is still reflected in the common names of some plants whose shapes and color reminded herbalists of the parts of the body where they seem to have some positive action. The concept was developed by Paracelsus (1491-1541) and published in his writings. During the first half of the 16th century, Paracelsus travelled throughout Europe and to the Levant and Egypt, treating people and experimenting with new plants in search of more treatment and solutions.","PeriodicalId":90094,"journal":{"name":"Alternative & integrative medicine","volume":"07 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.4172/2327-5162.1000266","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70258998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000257
H. M. Kenari, M. Shirazi, Rozita Jafari, M. Moghimi
Background: Today, complementary and alternative medicine and a variety of traditional medicine, along with conventional medicine, are used to prevent and treat diseases. In Iran, Persian medicine is taught academically and its services are being provided to patients. The aim of this study is to evaluate the patient satisfaction with Persian medicine and the reasons for follow up or non-follow-up of treatment by patients referred to Behesht Persian medicine clinic of Iran university of Medical Sciences. Methods: 394 cases were selected among patients who were treated by Persian medicine in the Behesht clinic in 2016. After extracting the data, a semi structured questionnaire regarding the degree of satisfaction with the treatment and the reasons for follow up or non-follow up of the patients was completed by making phone calls with participants. Data were then analyzed using software (Microsoft Excel 2016). Results: Women were referred to the Persian medicine clinic more than men (72.5% versus 27.5%). The most common causes of referral were gastrointestinal diseases (15.1%) and musculoskeletal disorders (13.5%). 35% of the patients referred only once and did not follow the treatment. The most common causes of non-referral were the patient’s own lack of attention to taking medication and follow-up (24.2%), disease recovery (23%), lack of appropriate response to treatment (20.8%) and relocation of the therapist (11.6%). 91.4% of participants did not mention any complications and 95.84% were satisfied with the behavior of doctors. Overall, 82.6% of patients had a tendency to recurrent referral to the clinic. Conclusion: Despite the problems with referral of patients to the Persian medicine clinic, there is a high inclining rate that reflects the satisfaction of the treatment. Therefore, planning to solve existing problems and facilitating the referral of patients can increase the satisfaction rate of Persian medicine. More studies are needed in other Persian medicine centers to evaluate patients’ satisfaction.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000269
Tashi Rabten
This paper aims to offer an overview of the history of Tibetan medicine and its emerging contributions to Western mainstream medical culture and to compare Tibetan medicine with Western medicine. Within this, there will be a brief introduction about the current status of Tibetan Medicine in the US; Followed by a proposal to change federal drug and clinical policy guidelines on botanical drugs and alternative medicine applying German drug policies as exemplary guidance. In recent years, the United States increasing reliance on Tibetan health practitioners is evidenced by the public’s interest in an alternative to conventional Western medicine. Tibetan medicine has been integrated into and has made large contributions to the US Healthcare system and yet despite all of this recognition and support, Tibetan medicine remains unregulated by US health and drug agencies. Measures and guidelines, with exemplars from Germany’s management of botanical medicines, will be used to evaluate how Tibetan medicine meets and exceeds federal standards of medical safety and protection. The results of which will contribute to the public’s knowledge and increase incentives for on-going research. The ultimate goal is to change the U.S States’ attitude about Eastern medicines so much so that they gain regulation from the Federal Drug Administration.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000273
Michelle Delpaul, Radmila Razlog, R. Greenfield
Background: The morphogenesis of Xenopus laevis is dependent on the thyroid system and the production of thyroxine. Numerous studies using the amphibian model have shown tadpoles to be responsive to ultra-high dilutions of Thyoxine. Ultra-high dilutions used in Homeopathy are not suitable to pharmacokinetic investigation due to their lack of detectable active ingredient and the lack of analytical methods with sufficient sensitivity; however, laboratory and clinical studies are providing experimental evidence contributing to the pharmacodynamics of high dilution remedies. Method: The experiment consisted of four groups, labelled according to the dilution each group was administered, Control (no treatment), Thyroxine 6C, Thyroxine 30C and Thyroxine 200C. Each group consisted of 90 tadpoles divided into three tanks of 30 tadpoles each. The respective dilutions were administered to the water the tadpoles were housed in every eight hours from Day 32 until Day 58 of the experiment. Tail length was measured every three days from Day 32 to Day 48 and every day from Day 48 to Day 58. Results: Thyroxine 6C was shown to have had a stimulatory effect while Thyroxine 30C had an inhibitory effect on the growth phase of the Xenopus laevis tadpole tail. Thyroxine 6C, 30C and 200C were shown to have had an inhibitory effect on the reduction phase of the Xenopus laevis tadpole tail. Conclusion: Where the results were shown to have had a stimulatory effect on the growth phase of the Xenopus laevis tadpole tail, it was likely due to a physiological effect, mimicking the action of the naturally circulating thyroxine. The results that were shown to have had an inhibitory effect are in line with the “Law of Similars” and the fact that a homeopathic preparation of Thyroxine would have an opposing effect to that of naturally circulating thyroxine.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000274
F. Ab, Oyedeji Fo
Dermatophytosis are skin infections caused by dermatophytes which can be pathogenic for humans and animals by infecting the stratum corneum, nails, claws or hair and which now affect more than 20%-25% of the world populations especially in the developing countries. Drug resistance and toxicity associated with long-term treatment with existing antifungal drugs necessitate the search for new drugs to treat dermatophytosis. The juice of Kigelia africana leaves has been used by the natives to treat dermatophytosis. The leaves were extracted with water, ethanol and petroleum ether. Phytochemical analyses of the extracts were carried out. Agar disc discussion method was used to determine the antifungal activities against clinical isolates of Microsporum audouinii, Epidermophyton floccosum, Trichophyton mentagrophytes and Malassezia furfur. Herbal creams formulated with 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 g w/w of the extract were subjected to stability tests using standard methods. FTIR was used to determine if there were new functional groups formed during production of the herbal creams. Sensitivity and efficacy of the products were determined using animal model experiment. The percentage yields of extracts are petroleum ether 6.3%, aqueous 6.5%, and ethanol 7.2%. Percentage ethanol phytochemical composition indicated that for Alkaloid (4.67%), saponins (2.48%), flavonoids (0.81%) and tannins (1.05%). The emulsion produced was an oil-in-water emulsion and had a white colour with pH of 7.02 spread of emulsion, rubbing-in effect and stability to centrifugation was very high. The antifungal results showed that the petroleum ether and aqueous extracts had 10 mm zones of inhibition, while ethanol extract had 15 mm at 10,000 μg/ml against Trichophyton mentagrophytes. Against Microsporum audouinii, the results are petroleum ether and aqueous extracts (10 mm) and ethanol extract (14 mm). Against Epidermophyton floccosum, the results are petroleum ether and aqueous extracts (10 mm) while ethanol was 13 mm. The zones of inhibition recorded by the extracts against Malassezia furfur are aqueous 4 mm, petroleum ether 12 mm and ethanol 15 mm respectively. The results for FTIR showed a spectrum of C-N stretch which peaks at 1019.00 cm-1 for Ka cream. Also, an O-H stretch peak was observed at 3254.00 cm-1. Temperature stability tests carried out indicated increasing stability in the order Ka.water cream
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Pub Date : 2018-01-01DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000270
Vidan Damljanovic, O. Faehnle
Vidan Damljanovic erhielt sein Diplom als Physiotherapeut 1981 in Belgrad, Serbien, sein Diplom als Shiatsuterapeut 2007 am Kaiko Institut in Zürich, Schweiz und arbeitet und unterrichtet bis heute auf diesem Gebiet. Von 1983 bis 1988 arbeitete er an der Poliklinik Belgrad und von 1988 bis 1995 als Physiotherapeut am Krankenhaus Heiden, Heiden, Schweiz. Seit 1995 und bis heute leitet er eine Physiotherapiepraxis in Au, Schweiz. Er hat kontinuierlich verschiedene Fortbildungskurse zur Manuellen Therapie und MTT (Medizinische Trainingstherapie) in Europa und Japan besucht: u.a. Maitland, Cyriax, Mc Kenzie, Manuelle Therapiemethoden von Brian Mulligan, Propriozeptive Neuromuskuläre Facilitation (PNF) und Osteopathie. Dieser Spur folgend, hatte er einen starken Fokus auf Seiki und konzentriert sich dabei auf die Shiatsu-Physiotherapie. Er wendet Seiki täglich in seiner Praxis an und unterrichtet dieses Thema in verschiedenen Workshops in ganz Europa; begleitet von regelmäßigen Schulungen in Shiatsu und vor allem in Seiki bei Akinobu und Kyoko Kishi. Seit 2013 leitet Vidan Seiki Seminare. Außerdem unterrichtet und trainiert er seit mehr als 33 Jahren Kendo und leitet seit 1999 den Bushikan Kendo Club, Au, Schweiz, und nahm an mehreren Europaund Weltmeisterschaften teil.
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Pub Date : 2017-12-22DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000256
Andrea Srvry, P. Takacs, A. Sárváry
Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is still popular worldwide. This study investigates and compares the choices of health care and social work students between CAM and conventional medicine (COM) on a 5 point severity scale of diseases. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey 595 (49.6% response rate) health care and social work students at the University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health completed the questionnaire. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: The more serious the disease was, the frequency of primarily COM and secondly CAM increased (from 37.1% up to 62.4%), while it decreased in only COM (from 26.2% to 23.5%), in primarily CAM and secondly COM (from 28.7% to 10.8%), in only CAM (from 7.9% to 3.2%). Significantly more health care than social work students chose only COM on moderate level (34.0% vs. 24.2%; p<0.05) Significantly more social work than health care students chose primarily COM and secondly CAM on moderate, serious and the most serious levels (62.9% vs. 49.9%; 69.4% vs. 58.8%; 71.8% vs. 59.9%; p<0.05). Significantly more males than females chose only COM on the most serious level (36.4% vs. 21.6%; p<0.05). Significantly more females than males chose only CAM on the mildest level (8.9% vs. 1.3%, p<0.05) and primarily COM and secondly CAM on serious and the most serious levels (62.7% vs. 49.4%, 63.9% vs. 51.9%; p<0.05). Conclusions: Our results suggest that beside conventional medicine most health care and social work students consider CAM to be an important element of healing process, although social work students are more open towards the combined use of CAM and conventional medicine. Our results supported that females have more positive attitudes towards CAM than males.
背景:补充和替代医学(CAM)在世界范围内仍然很流行。本研究调查并比较医疗保健和社会工作专业的学生在5点疾病严重程度量表上选择CAM和传统医学(COM)。方法:采用横断面调查法，对德国德布勒森大学卫生学院卫生保健与社会工作专业的595名学生进行问卷调查，回复率为49.6%。数据分析采用描述性和推断性统计。结果:病情越严重，原发性和继发性心肌炎发生率增高(从37.1%上升到62.4%)，单纯心肌炎发生率下降(从26.2%下降到23.5%)，原发性和继发性心肌炎发生率下降(从28.7%下降到10.8%)，单纯心肌炎发生率下降(从7.9%下降到3.2%)。在中等水平上选择COM的卫生保健专业学生明显多于社会工作专业学生(34.0%比24.2%);p<0.05)在中度、严重和最严重水平上，社会工作学生选择COM为主，其次是CAM (62.9% vs. 49.9%;69.4% vs. 58.8%;71.8% vs. 59.9%;p < 0.05)。在最严重程度上选择COM的男性明显多于女性(36.4%比21.6%;p < 0.05)。女性比男性更倾向于选择轻度的CAM(8.9%比1.3%，p<0.05)，而在严重和最严重的水平上选择以COM为主，其次为CAM(62.7%比49.4%，63.9%比51.9%;p < 0.05)。结论:我们的研究结果表明，除了传统医学之外，大多数卫生保健和社会工作专业的学生认为CAM是治疗过程中的一个重要因素，尽管社会工作专业的学生对CAM和传统医学的结合使用持更开放的态度。我们的研究结果支持女性对CAM的态度比男性更积极。
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Pub Date : 2017-11-20DOI: 10.4172/2327-5162.1000255
Simonetta Bernardini, A. Gottard, M. Rinaldi, A. Mattei, G. Virgili, Franco Cracolici, R. Ferreri, Roberto Pulcri
Background: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of treatment with integrated medicine (acupuncture and homeopathy in addition to conventional treatment) in improving measures of physical ability. Data from medical records with patient-reported information on background characteristics, diagnosis on admission (orthopaedic conditions and stroke) and movement performance indices. Methods: Comparative, observational, propensity-score matched clinical study. Participants: 383 adults admitted to the rehabilitation Centre in Manciano, stratified by stroke and orthopaedic condition. Interventions: acupuncture and homeopathy with physical rehabilitation vs. rehabilitation alone. Main outcome measures: Activities of daily living performance indices for patients with knee or hip replacements (Barthel index) and stroke patients (Barthel index and Trunk control test). Number of days of analgesic drug treatment for orthopedic patients. Results: The activities of daily living performance indices showed a significant improvement for both stroke patients (Fisher p-value: 0.008 and 0.046 for Barthel index and Trunk Control Test respectively) and orthopaedic patients (Fisher p-value: 0.032 for Barthel index) treated with integrated medicine. The treatment also reduced the duration of analgesic treatment by 2.8 days (Fisher p-value: 0.0015). Conclusion: Integrated medicine helps to improve rehabilitation performance in stroke and orthopaedic patients and considerably reduces the need for analgesic drugs.
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