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Fungi and Water
Published in Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy, Food and Lifestyle in Health and Disease, 2022
Chuong Pham-Huy, Bruno Pham Huy
Since antiquity, traditional Greco-Roman medicines have used sea water and source water (spring water) from specific areas by bathing for the treatment or relief of some chronic diseases like gout, rheumatism, psoriasis, eczema, stress, and asthma (190–198). The therapy using natural source freshwater by bathing is called balneology or balneotherapy, spa therapy or thermal cure; while that using sea water by bathing is named thalassotherapy (190–198). The natural source water with its mineral contents penetrates the skin through pores, then stimulates circulation and boosts the action of certain minerals with some organs in the body. It is usually practiced at spas – places or resorts with natural source water; therefore, it is also called spa therapy. Thermalism or thermal cure is therapy using spring water at its source by bathing and sometimes accompanied by drinking (197–198). However, bathing in a specific sea for the treatment of specific diseases is called thalassotherapy. Nowadays, the two types of traditional natural water therapy, including thalassotherapy and spa therapy or thermalism, still remain popular in many European countries such as France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Israel, but are going into decline especially in the Anglo-Saxon world (191).
Production of Essential Oils
Published in K. Hüsnü Can Başer, Gerhard Buchbauer, Handbook of Essential Oils, 2020
Essential oils have become an integral part of everyday life. They are used in a great variety of ways: as food flavorings, as feed additives, as flavoring agents by the cigarette industry, and in the compounding of cosmetics and perfumes. Furthermore, they are used in air fresheners and deodorizers as well as in all branches of medicine such as in pharmacy, balneology, massage, and homeopathy. A more specialized area will be in the fields of aromatherapy and aromachology. In recent years, the importance of essential oils as biocides and insect repellents has led to a more detailed study of their antimicrobial potential. Essential oils are also good natural sources of substances with commercial potential as starting materials for chemical synthesis.
Bibliography
Published in Arturo Castiglioni, A History of Medicine, 2019
IX. A valuable collection of mediæval prescriptions, with notes and comments, is H. E. sigerist: Studien und Texte zur frühmittelalterlichen Rezeptliteratur. Stud. z. Gesch. d. Med. (Leipzig, Barth, 1923). Many important notices on pharmacology and treatment in the fifteenth century are in A. benedicenti: Malati, medici e farmacisti (2 vols., Milano, Hoepli, 1925). On balneology, see A. C. klebs: Balneology in the Middle Ages, Trans. Amer. Climat. and Clin. Assn., 3, 2:15, 1916, and the interesting paper by G. novati in Mem. 1st. Lombardo, ser. 11, 9, 1899.
Singultus, paper-bag ventilation, and hypercapnia
Published in Journal of the History of the Neurosciences, 2020
The ability of CO2 to modulate excitability is based on its effect on pH and ionic concentrations. According to the empirical formula put forward by Klothilde Gollwitzer-Meier7Klothilde Gollwitzer-Meier (1894–1954) was the daughter of a well-known ENT surgeon, Dr. Heinrich Meier (nicknamed Tonsils-Meier [Mandel-Meier in German] for the small fortune he made removing tonsils). She studied medicine in Munich, and became an associate professor in Hamburg and director of the Balneology Institute in Bad Oeynhausen (Bunovic 2013; Kramer 2010). (1894–1954; see Figure 3), excitability is inversely correlated to the free calcium and free magnesium concentrations, and directly correlated with the plasma potassium and phosphate concentration. A change in pH will affect all mentioned ionic concentrations, albeit to a different degree, the immediate change in free (ionized) calcium being by far the most consequential change (Gollwitzer-Meier 1924).
Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation in an allergen safe outdoor environment on children and adolescents with mild to moderate persistent allergic asthma
Published in Journal of Asthma, 2021
M. Lipej, D. Plavec, J. Živković, O. Malev, B. Nogalo, R. Magdić, R. Lulić Jurjević, M. Turkalj
The uniqueness of our study is the combined approach of pulmonary rehabilitation in allergen free outdoor environment with specific climate/balneology properties which potentially facilitate the effectiveness and benefits of the applied PRP. However, it is also important to consider the limitations of this interventional single arm prospective study (quasi-experimental research design) such as: short period of PRP, no randomized control group and the lack of follow-up period. All these aspects should be considered in future similar studies. On the other hand, even though the study was done in a group of children with well or partially controlled mild to moderate asthma the significant benefits were clearly evident.