Flebotomiya or bloodletting means withdrawal of a certain volume of blood. For this purpose special punctures or cuts of venous vessels become. Still for this purpose medical bloodsuckers can be used. This method as remedy is forced out by more modern techniques every year.
Before finding out whether bloodletting is useful, we learn about this way of treatment slightly more information. Treatment can be two types: local and the general. In the first case the bloodletting is performed by means of drawing notches, pricks or bloodsuckers. Besides also the special device which is sucking away blood can be used. Separately it would be desirable to tell about krovososny banks which due to heating of air in capacity, lead to expansion and filling of vessels blood. It is recommended to carry out local bloodletting when determining local stagnation of blood. In case of the general bloodletting there is an opening of the large vessels which are on a neck and on extremities.
Advantage and harm of bloodletting
Still experts in the field of medicine argue concerning the existing advantage of this "blood-thirsty" procedure. Many are still sure that it is not a medical technique, but charlatanism. For a start we will consider results of scientific research which concern influence of bloodletting on an organism. During a procedure, blood merges through a vein that leads to pressure drop for 10-20%. The similar imbalance causes increase in a difference between arterial and venous blood pressure, and it, in turn strengthens warm reductions and saves from cardiovascular insufficiency. Bloodletting at a hypertension leads to strong pressure decrease, approximately for 20-30%. It is important to notice that the result can remain for a long time practically up to several months. Besides, hypertensive persons note some more positive effects: there are headaches less often, numbness of extremities decreases, and the feeling of cheerfulness and freshness still appears.
Bloodletting with a high pressure allows to stabilize indicators temporarily. It is important to notice that increase in pressure is sign of presence of more serious disease, but not the reason. Bloodletting allows to receive only temporary relief, and here the disease remains. For this reason experts do not recommend to treat bloodletting, as unique means in fight against different diseases.
The advantage of bloodletting is also that there is a blood fluidifying. It is explained by the fact that water from various cells of a body begins to come to vessels after the procedure, taking away with itself toxic substances which are removed from an organism. From here it is possible to draw a conclusion that the procedure allows to clean and rejuvenate organism cages. You should not worry that hazardous substances got to blood as they will be removed by kidneys. The advantage of bloodletting is also that many young erythrocytes come to blood, and it leads to improvement of health in general. Procedures will be useful to the women who entered the climacteric period and also to men 25 years are more senior.
Treatment by bloodletting can bring not only benefit, but also harm therefore it is important to consider the existing contraindications. It is forbidden to carry out such procedures to people with low hemoglobin and gematokrity. Hypotonia and the started atherosclerosis also belongs to contraindications. People cannot carry out bloodletting with heavy heart diseases. The procedure can do harm after the postponed serious illness and in the presence of open injuries. Bloodletting in the presence of difficult mental diseases is contraindicated.
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