Oligotherapy - Perspectives of a Holistic and Functional Therapy

Structural Medicine postulates operations whose first close directional, as much in the diagnosing as in the therapeutic form, comprises the wholeness of individual biosystem. It applies substances that are arose in the vital methods and procedures that channelise life’s routines. The focus of Functional Medicine is to promote restitution, compensation and substitution to strengthen the vital processes. Its principle is to act “for” and not “against”.

A positive, and non substitutive, precept prevails in it, with the acceptance of prevention writs for the sustainment of the health and ordinance of the spontaneous capacity of auto-cure.

Therapeutic process accepts as target to restore the routines and for that goal it has as principles:

1. REPLACEMENT (INTAKE) OF SHORTAGE SUBSTANCES: intercede colligates that miss in operational chains and in the determining circuits are replaced (contributed) to newly restore the operational chain. It agrees to the replacement of chemical elements, enzymes, endocrines, cells and fabrics.

2. ORDINANCE THERAPY: there's an attempt to restore the functional chains that are interrupted.

3. INDIVIDUALIST THERAPIES: in this case we need to focus patient’s individualist vital situation who's in handling, which adds his psychic and emotional sphere and constitutes in its set the called “land”. (NIEPER, 2003)

The characteristics of these therapies are:

1. High degree of chemical preparations’ dilution that prevent any not desired secondary effect.

2. Individuation of the treatment towards a projection of the individual situation of a person, reflecting in a qualitative and temporarily forms the state that is found the organism in its fight against the illnesses.

3. The medicines composites e complexes adapt themselves to functional chains and the metabolic cycles.

4. Regulation is tried to reach by using prepared that can take the handle of structural repairings e functional regenerations.

5. Intermediate catalysers, intermediate products and the cofactors have the mission to fix defects in metabolic chains, restituting the dynamics of these process.

6. Usage of products that stimulate the mechanisms of toxin elimination. (GUILLÉ, 2000)

Oligotherapy is known as as a ground medicine and it founds itself on the apply of the oligoelements, that are found in our organism in very low densities and are inorganic chemical elements, but necessaries to the accurate operation of the metabolic responses of all organisms. Its primary purpose is to catalyze chemical responses, or put differently, alleviates the work of the enzymes, that are the molecules in charge to carry through such reactions, whose set constitutes the metabolism of our body.

Endless reasons can change the accurate operation of our metabolism, compost by a cosmos of enzymatic responses in chemical chain in all cells of our organism and exhibiting particularities in all among us. These metabolic particularities connected to the continuing portion of natural and mental agents that delimit them, they make to a person further or fewer simplicity to live in the way that encircles, further or fewer simplicity to continue themselves healthy or to get ill and to be able to recover. All these sets define what we call individual land. As our land we will have certain generic characteristics as for example the trend to suffer definitive illnesses. (NIEPER, 2003)

As bio-psycho-social unit, we are continuously interacting and looking for a balance that in ideal conditions is the health in its ampler direction. When our systems of regulation function correctly we may say that we are in a compensation state. When, in the opposite way, our regulation systems are incapable to recover the state of adjusted balance, we enter in a descompensation state where physical as psychic symptoms, connected by our individual land, will appear in such a way. This set of symptoms will define what we will call functional pathology, inside of which can be defined four great syndromes, each one is dealt with one or some associated oligoelements:

• Regulation systems function too much: Hyper-reactive syndrome (Manganese).

• Regulation systems do not function sufficiently: Hypo-reactive syndrome (Manganese-Copper).

• Regulation systems function of anarchical or inadequate form: Distonic syndrome (Manganese).

• Regulation systems almost do not function: Anergical syndrome. (Copper-gold-Silver).

METHODS TO HELP OUR HEALTH

When intaking the analogous catalytic oligoelements, we produce a situation that the regulating organisations operate better, thus admitting the recuperation of the equilibrium for a compensation state, that's health. This is the moment when oligoelements are more effective. (GUILLÉ, 2000)

In the case that we didn't intervene, the operational disequilibrium would develop for the appearing of an organic pathology (with change of our body’s systems), where we could distinguish two phases: initially we would enter in a reversible lesional state, in what oligoelements still have resolutive capacity, and so it adopts the disequilibrium, subsequently would come along a permanent lesional state, in which the paper of the oligoelements already is bounded (as only coadjutant at certain moments of other more emphatic therapies). A previous valuation of the therapist in will give an idea of the real possibilities of this therapy in each case to them.

Lastly, being oligotherapy a formula centered in dealing the grounds of malady beginning and the inclinations to get ill or increase person’s weak points this method is more effective the more next to the functional alteration it starts.

When treating to a person, we must treat the syndrome where if it finds at this moment (can vary throughout the life) and ademais we will add other oligoelementos in function of the concrete pathology that has. In occasions it is necessary to change some oligoelemento second is the evolution of the person. (CHOPRA, 2000)

Hans NIEPER - Révélation en Médecine et Santé - Ed. Office International de Librairie - Bruxelles - 2003 - 315 pgs

Deepak CHOPRA - Cura Quântica - Ed. Difusão Cultural - Lisboa, 2000 - 270 pgs

Etienne GUILLÉ - Le Langage Vibratoire de la Vie - L'Alchimie de la Vie II - Ed. du Rocher - Paris, 2000 - 388 pgs