Autohemotherapy

The Autohemotherapy belongs to the irritant therapies. These are therapies in which the body receives stimuli, for example in the form of heat, cold or homeopathic remedies. The body then tries to activate its self-healing powers due to the stimuli. When it comes to self-blood therapy, the added stimulus is a tiny amount of your own blood. One's own blood is recognized as "foreign", which causes it to overcome the stimulus and then initiate a healing process.

Contents:
Autohemotherapy
Methods of autologous blood treatment
Types of self-blood therapy
Modes of action of the self-blood therapy
areas of application
Contraindications

Methods of autologous blood treatment

In self-blood therapy, there are two different methods of execution. Thus, either blood is taken from the arm vein or a small drop of capillary blood from the fingertip. Subsequently, in the case of venipuncture, this blood is returned to the body untreated or treated. In the case of capillary blood, the withdrawn drop is prepared for oral ingestion according to homeopathic regulations.

Types of self-blood therapy

1. Unaltered own blood
A small amount of venous blood is removed and reinjected into the body immediately afterwards. This takes place either in the form of a muscular injection (i.m.) into the gluteal muscle or as an injection under the skin (s.c.) into the forearm. The muscular injection is much more common. In the subcutaneous form (under the skin), the small amount of blood is considered as a so-called depot, which, when placed under the skin, spreads very slowly.

2. processed own blood
Here a homeopathic remedy is added to the withdrawn blood. The choice of the remedy results from the starting position of the patient. For example, echinacea is used for the prevention of infections and, in the case of an allergy treatment, a naturopathic agent, for example citrus limon.

Both unprocessed and purified blood are started by taking a small amount of about 0.1 to 1 milliliter and increasing the amount of blood from treatment to treatment. The self-blood therapy is usually performed 8 to 10 times a week. In acute processes, autologous blood is sometimes given several times a week.

3. Potent own blood
This is called autologous blood node ... A drop of capillary blood is taken from the fingertip. This small drop of blood is then then potentiated according to homeopathic regulations, that is shaken. In a D-potency is diluted 1:10, in a C-potency, the dilution is in the ratio 1: 100. For example, add 10 drops of alcohol to one drop of blood, shake 10 times and then get the potency D1. From this prepared solution is again taken a drop, placed in 100 drops of alcohol and shaken 10 times. This gives the power D2.

The choice of potency depends on the treatment. Thus, the type of application in an allergy treatment differs from that in a defense increase. Different potencies are chosen and taken at certain intervals over a selected period of time. The potentiated autologous blood is mainly used in children, high allergic persons or in case of fear of injection.

Modes of action of the self-blood therapy

No matter whether oral or injected blood, both variations give the body the smallest stimuli. Here then the defense system is in demand. This reacts and has to deal with the invaded stimulus, that is to say the own blood. The leucocyte count increases, it is increasingly formed antibodies, possibly even raises the body temperature slightly. In parallel, a healing process is initiated. Sometimes it can happen that after the first injection or the oral intake a so-called first aggravation occurs. This means that the symptoms get worse for the time being, but this quickly turns into the opposite.

If it is an allergy treatment, then the self-blood therapy is seen as a so-called training for the immune system. The immune system should be made to not overreact, as is the case with an allergy, but again bring about a normal defense performance. Likewise, it is important to start with an allergy treatment in the allergy-free time with the self-blood therapy.

areas of application

Self-blood therapies are often used in diseases such as allergies, of any kind. Often the reason for the use of the autologous blood treatment is also a weakened immune system. In addition, there are diseases such as eczema (atopic eczema), psoriasis (psoriasis) as well as rheumatic and chronic inflammatory diseases, in which repeatedly the self-blood therapy is the drug of choice.

Contraindications

The self-blood therapy should not be used in blood coagulation disorders, phlebitis and severe illnesses as well as in the intake of glucocorticosteroids, blood thinners and immunosuppressants. (Susanne C. Waschke)