Abram zalmanov secret wisdom of the human body. Alexander zalmanov

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Alexander (Abram) Solomonovich Zalmanov was born in Russia in 1875. After graduating from the gymnasium, he entered the Faculty of Medicine at Moscow University. However, having already entered the 4th year, he left the Faculty of Medicine.

In 1896, Zalmanov entered the first year of the Faculty of Law, combining jurisprudence with the study of Russian and general history and comparative linguistics. In 1899 he was arrested as one of the organizers of the all-Russian student strike, and after that he was expelled from the university.

After his release, deprived of the opportunity to continue his education in Russia, Zalmanov went to Germany, to Heidelberg. Here he graduated from the Faculty of Medicine with a Doctor of Medicine degree.

After the Great October Socialist Revolution, in 1918, he worked as head of the Main Resort Administration and Chairman of the State Commission for the Fight against Tuberculosis.

In the same year he was invited to treat N.K. Krupskaya and M.I. Ulyanova, having received a permanent pass to enter the Kremlin.

Lenin knew him personally and appreciated him as an experienced doctor. A.S. Zalmanov still keeps the certificate given to him by V. I. Lenin and written by his hand.

Later A.S. Zalmanov worked a lot in various clinics in the largest cities in Europe. The monograph by A. Krogh on the physiology of capillaries, awarded the Nobel Prize, inspired in him a desire to thoroughly study the issues of capillary circulation and cell metabolism.

His book "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body" was first published in France in 1958, and then translated into German and Italian.

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The secret wisdom of the human body

The book combines three works by A. Zalmanov: "Secrets and Wisdom of the Body" (1958), "Miracle of Life" (1960) and "Thousands of Ways to Recovery" (1965).

In these works, the author outlined the results of his many years of experience in the treatment of numerous chronic diseases, the theoretical basis of which was the idea of \u200b\u200bthe most important role of the capillary system in the development of pathological conditions and in recovery.

Reader Comments

Lfkn / 6.07.2017 The recipe for a yellow emulsion is removed from books

Alexander / 02/11/2016 As far as I understand, the best version of the book was published by Phoenix Publishing House. Please sell the book to someone.

Alexander / 11.02.2016 ZALMANOV-GENIUS. In my practice I try to be guided by the ideas of the TEACHER. I am looking for followers of the great master to exchange experiences. Farming on its modern scale strangles the doctor's mind.

Guest / 10.02.2016 It was not doctors who did this with medicine, but lawmakers lost education and medicine. And it surprises me that everyone can see what is happening and no one has realized that something needs to be done until they have lost everything. And doctors who want to preserve the art of healing disperse to paid centers

Nabis / 25.11.2015 A.S. Zalmanov is the greatest, scientist, doctor. Thanks for his books. Everything is simple, accessible, brilliant!

Valentine / 09/10/2015 Thank you for your feedback, tell me where you can download his 66-year-old book ??? Zalmanov SUPER doctor, this is a very big problem !!!

Tatiana S. / 04/03/2014 Following the links, you get to Ozone, where the book "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body" is offered (which is not currently on sale at Ozone). Shown is the cover of Zalmanov's book, which was published in Moscow, in 1991, ed. "Young Guard" "Dialect". It actually has 224 pages. Translation from French by Z.D. Damperova, translation from German (!) And editing of translations of NuMu Vertkin and S.I. Vysheslavtseva. And this is only the first book. The other two are not included. I found one in the internet and downloaded it. This information is for those looking to find all three books.
Zalmanov is a great doctor, physiologist and man. Such doctors, scientists and intellectuals, can hardly be raised and educated by modern education.

Tolyan / 25.11.2012 I took skip baths for about six months every day for 20-25 minutes .... no result .... maybe this is due to pharmaceutical preparations ... maybe there is not what is needed ... but experience application is not optimistic .... Zalmanov writes that there will be coronary improvements ... but I did not feel them.

mark / 03/18/2011 Tatiana,
which edition of the book is the most complete?

Surah / 3.11.2010 Someone tell me the name of the book in French

tatyana / 12.06.2009 I didn't like it very much! Compared to the same book published in the USSR in 66 g, it sucks! It feels like it was not a doctor who translated it and was too literal. Here, for example: In this book: "In every living and plant organism we find in a relatively small volume a huge expansion and superficial contraction." Also in book 1966: "In every living and plant organism, a surface is enclosed in a relatively limited volume of enormous dimensions." And in such a clumsy language the whole book is written. Better to read the original. Or the 66g book, although it is cut down.

Sergey Gedzira / 4.03.2009 Now A.S. Zalmanov is 88 years old and he continues to work actively. What year are we "now" in?

Leko / 21.01.2009 Book - The Greatest! And about the amazing results of a simple hot chest wrap can not be repeated. Everyone wants to shout: "People! It's so easy! So free! So effective! Do it and you will be healthy!"

Zalmanov Alexander Solomonovich

The secret wisdom of the human body

Editor's Preface to First Edition

In 1896 Zalmanov entered the first year of the Faculty of Law, combining jurisprudence with the study of Russian and general history and comparative linguistics.

In 1899 he was arrested as one of the organizers of the all-Russian student strike, and after that he was expelled from the university.

During the First World War, Zalmanov returned to Russia and was the senior physician-head of sanitary trains. After the Great October Socialist Revolution, in 1918, he worked as head of the Main Resort Administration and chairman of the State Commission for the Fight against Tuberculosis. In the same year he was invited to treat N.K. Krupskaya and M.I. Ulyanova, having received a permanent pass to enter the Kremlin. Lenin knew him personally and appreciated him as an experienced doctor. A.S. Zalmanov, and to this day, the certificate given to him by V.I. Lenin and written in his hand.

Later A.S. Zalmanov worked a lot in various clinics in the largest cities in Europe. A. Krogh's monograph on the physiology of capillaries, awarded the Nobel Prize, inspired in him a desire to thoroughly study the issues of capillary circulation and cell metabolism.

Being fluent in five languages, A.S. Zalmanov studied hundreds, if not thousands, of works and for eight years visited hospitals and clinics of the medical faculty in Berlin. At the same time he worked at the pathological institute and institutes of physiology and colloidal chemistry.

His book "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body" was first published in France in 1958, and then translated into German and Italian. Now A.S. Zalmanov is 88 years old and continues to work actively.

Here's everything that, from my point of view, the reader needs to know about the author, whose book with some abbreviations is being published in Russian for the first time.

Now about the book and the ideas and thoughts that the author put into it.

The book is not written in the usual manner of a scientific, strictly structured monograph. Rather, it is a casual, lively, imaginative and emotional conversation with the reader. This must be taken into account when evaluating a book.

Sometimes this manner contributes to a more complete understanding of the issues that the author is talking about. But more often it makes it difficult. However, this is still an external, stylistic feature of the book, and not an assessment of its essence. What is the essence of A.S. Zalmanov, the provisions he developed?

Over the course of millions of years, the organisms of animals and humans have developed, in the process of adapting to the environment, a remarkable property - to resist harmful influences. This feature, very figuratively named by I.P. Pavlov as a "physiological measure against disease", it allows living organisms to emerge victorious in dangerous situations without any outside help.

It seems to me that in his book A.S. Zalmanov and tries to draw attention to the body's natural defenses and ways to stimulate them. That is why the author so emotionally opposes the indiscriminate use of numerous antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents immediately and for any reason.

I will note right away that A.S. Zalmanov does not at all deny the importance of these funds in general. But one cannot but agree with him when he writes: "Modern therapy with antibiotics preys on microbes and at the same time cultivates 'resistant' microbes and mycoses."

One cannot but agree with the author that vaccination and all kinds of vaccinations, starting almost from infancy, cannot help maintain the body's own defense mechanisms at the proper level. Such an outstanding pathologist as I.V. Davydovsky. It is possible that A.S. Zalmanov is right when he writes that the increase in the number of various allergic diseases is associated with the flooding of the body with all kinds of serums.

Zalmanov Alexander Solomonovich

The secret wisdom of the human body

Editor's Preface to First Edition

In 1896 Zalmanov entered the first year of the Faculty of Law, combining jurisprudence with the study of Russian and general history and comparative linguistics.

In 1899 he was arrested as one of the organizers of the all-Russian student strike, and after that he was expelled from the university.

His book "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body" was first published in France in 1958, and then translated into German and Italian. Now A.S. Zalmanov is 88 years old and continues to work actively.

Here's everything that, from my point of view, the reader needs to know about the author, whose book with some abbreviations is being published in Russian for the first time.

Now about the book and the ideas and thoughts that the author put into it.

Of course, it would be ridiculous to deny the benefits of vaccination and various sera. This would mean going “against reason, in defiance of the elements,” but it is impossible not to reckon with this side effect.

Moreover, A.S. Zalmanov (this especially applies, of course, to foreign medicine), when he speaks out against the unbridled use of all kinds of patented and generic chemotherapeutic agents, which flood more and more medicine in Europe and America from year to year.

At the same time, it is curious that, opposing Ehrlich's Terapia sterilisans magna, he turns out to be very close to the ideas that were once developed by our greatest scientist, Academician A.D. Speransky. Let us note by the way that in general in many places in his book A.S. Zalmanov comes close to the ideas of A.S. Speransky about nonspecific reactions and nonspecific therapy.

Thus, the main idea of \u200b\u200bA.S. Zalmanov basically boils down to the fact that one should pay special attention to all-round support and stimulation of the body's natural protective resources.

There is nothing incongruous or incorrect in this thought.

What idea does A.S. Zalmanov as a basis for stimulating the body's own defense mechanisms? This is "capillary therapy", or, as he writes, a method of "deep" influence on the capillaries, more precisely - on the metabolic processes occurring at the level of this part of the vascular bed.

Is this idea nonsense, or does it have a good foundation? I believe the second is true. Unfortunately, very little attention is paid to capillary blood circulation in the general mass of works devoted to the circulatory apparatus. True, over the past 10-15 years, attention has been paid abroad to the problem of microcirculation. Several symposia and conferences were held on this important issue. Our interest in this problem revived just 3-5 years ago.

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The history of the invention and development of the method

Method therapy with turpentine baths according to Zalmanov gained fame relatively recently. Zalmanov's book "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body", published in Paris in 1958, opened capillarotherapy to the world and had a profound impact on medicine. In the Soviet Union, this work was published 5 years later in a small print run and soon became a bibliographic rarity.

Abram (Alexander) Solomonovich Zalmanov

Zalmanov was looking for a therapeutic method that had a beneficial effect on the entire body at once, since he did not consider it expedient to influence a separate organ or tissue. Turpentine baths became the basis of the famous capillary therapy, which improves the state of the entire biological system called “man”. The mechanism of their therapeutic action is simple, like everything ingenious: turpentine irritates the skin receptors, causing reflex opening and blood filling of reserve capillaries. Because of this, the supply of oxygen, glucose and other nutrients to the cells increases, venous blood flow is stimulated, and the removal of decay products from the intercellular fluid, cells and blood itself is accelerated.

Fact

For centuries, we have been living in conditions of heat deficiency, which is why we are attracted to rest in tropical resorts, and baths, saunas and hot baths serve as an excellent healing remedy for a variety of ailments. Needless to say, an organism suffering from diseases is more sensitive to a lack of heat than a healthy one.

Heat treatment used for a long time by a variety of peoples. Observant healers of the past have appreciated the properties of water to be used as a cleansing agent, as well as as a medium for tight contact with the skin and even heat release. Perhaps, it is the tradition of short-term (4–5 minutes) hot baths that Japan owes to the record low percentage of patients with rheumatism and cardiovascular disorders. How widespread bathing is in this country can be judged at least by the number of public institutions that provide this service to the population.

Fact

Before the 1923 earthquake, there were 800 bathrooms in Tokyo alone. To appreciate the scale, imagine that about 400,000 people could take a bath during a day in Tokyo. Moreover, the cost of this pleasure did not exceed 1 sous, that is, baths were available to all, without exception, segments of the population.

The famous Japanese bath - ofuro

Scientists have proven that heat is energy, the role of which in the body is similar to nutrition. The energy balance of the body is equally dependent on these two components, and one type of energy can compensate for the lack of another: a lack of heat requires an increase in the amount of nutrients, some of which are spent on heating the body. The opposite is also true: external heat leads to more efficient absorption and use of nutrients, which makes it possible to reduce their consumption. Plus, getting enough heat allows the body not to store nutrients in adipose tissue to protect it from the cold.

External heat serves as an additional source of energy, helping the weakened body to fight off viruses and bacteria. Moreover, the bacteria themselves become less dangerous at high temperatures. The brilliant scientist Louis Pasteur discovered that under high temperature (42.5 ° C) strains of anthrax bacilli lose their infectiousness. This property was used to make a vaccine against anthrax, but the method of hyperthermia has not been further studied.

Naturally, each human organism is unique, and each has its own thermal optimum. There are more and less cold-resistant people. But the emerging need for warmth must necessarily be satisfied in full and not be considered a manifestation of effeminacy. Nobody argues about the need to eat well, so why is it often considered unnecessary to provide the body with heat energy above the minimum?

The need for warmth does not mean that you need to wrap yourself up and avoid any cold. For the development of the adaptive capabilities of the body, and therefore for health in general, the alternation of cold and heat is much more useful than a constant temperature. Therefore, a healthy person in the summer heat is useful cold rubdowns, and in winter - hot baths.

An increase in temperature is a protective reaction of the body against infection

The body has its own defensive reactions to the intake of infectious agents or foreign proteins associated with an increase in temperature. Fever mobilizes leukocytes to fight against hostile microorganisms, and also speeds up the metabolism, which is necessary for the rapid neutralization of toxic elements. The processes occurring in the body during fever and taking a hot bath are similar in many ways, but there are significant differences. First of all, the heat from the baths is sterile, there is no infection in the body, which means that all the mobilized forces are spent not on fighting invading microbes, but on building new cells, restoring damage and renewing tissues and organs. An increase in temperature in infectious diseases increases the number of leukocytes, increases acidity, and is accompanied by increased protein breakdown. General health worsens. In hyperthermic baths, protein synthesis prevails over its breakdown, acid-base balance and blood biochemical parameters remain normal, and a person feels better.

Of course, you should not use hot baths at elevated temperatures: you can disrupt the body's thermoregulation and get an uncontrolled rise or fall in body temperature. But a long-term chronic illness, when the body's defenses are depleted and, despite the presence of infection, the temperature does not rise or rises slightly, is a direct indication for the use of hot baths. Baths prescribed according to a certain scheme can awaken the body's defenses and help recovery.

Hot baths are the most affordable way to improve your well-being

Modern practice shows a great efficiency of the method when using turpentine baths according to Zalmanov. Deforming arthritis and old ankylosis, before which simple hot baths were powerless, are quite amenable to treatment with turpentine baths. Cases of cure of ankylosis of the arm of thirty years ago and ankylosis of the leg, which lasted 6 years, were recorded.

From clinical practice

The ability to walk came back to me only thanks to the turpentine baths. I took yellow and mixed baths in courses for six months, and the arthrosis of the knee and hip joints receded! My blood pressure returned to normal. For a long time I lived with an elevated (up to 300 mm Hg), and now I understand how wonderful it is to feel like a healthy person! I have not yet fully returned to mobility, but there is confidence in the correctness of the chosen treatment.

Olga T., 43 years old, Yekaterinburg

What is turpentine? There are people who are prejudiced against it, in their perception it is a caustic liquid used in paint and varnish production, which has no prospects in the field of medicine. And even the explanation that medical turpentine is made using a different technology and is radically different from the technical one does not get rid of such an attitude. Therefore, in medicine, more attractive-sounding names are often used: turpentine oil, or resin.

Fact

Turpentine is a liquid product of the distillation of the resin of coniferous trees, a mixture of organic substances, mainly terpenes. Turpentine has a local irritating, analgesic and antimicrobial effect, is a part of many pharmacy ointments and is widely used in official medicine and veterinary medicine as a means for inhalation in respiratory diseases.

Pine - a source of gum turpentine

The healing qualities of turpentine have been known for a long time. Even in ancient Egypt, compresses and poultices from dried pine or fir needles were used to treat wounds and stop bleeding. For the same purposes, turpentine oil was also used, which at that time they already knew how to make. During the plague epidemic in the 16th century, the only effective means of preventing infection with a fatal disease were the bactericidal vapor of turpentine.

Note

In Russian traditional medicine, turpentine occupied an honorable place. Published in 1868, "People's Clinic" is written about pine resin, which helps to treat rheumatism, gout, wounds and joint pains of any origin. Comprehensively educated surgeon Pirogov, using turpentine, achieved good wound healing after amputation of limbs during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877. Zhivitsa really helped save many lives.

Before Zalmanov, turpentine was used exclusively in the form of an active ingredient in medicinal ointments, rubbing and compresses. The problem of using turpentine in aqueous solutions is that this substance does not mix with water, forming a thin film on its surface. If you use pure turpentine, only a small area of \u200b\u200bthe skin will come into contact with it, which will receive a burn as a result, while turpentine will have no effect on the rest of the human body.

In 1904, the famous Russian doctor, who received a doctor's degree in medicine in Germany (1901) and Italy (1903), managed to create two methods of emulsifying turpentine, allowing the substance to mix with water. After that, it became possible to use gum turpentine in hydrotherapy. Zalmanov developed two types of bath turpentine preparations with the opposite effect on blood pressure in the vessels: a white emulsion that increases blood pressure and a yellow solution that lowers the pressure. By mixing drugs in one bath, it is possible to achieve the optimal effect on pressure and capillaries for a particular person at the moment with existing diseases.

Zalmanov deeply studied the problems of balneology, working at the best resorts in Russia, Italy, Germany and France. He came to the idea of \u200b\u200bturpentine baths while researching the healing effects of water on the human body. Having made sure that hot and cold baths can affect the functional state of capillaries, regulate water exchange, restore the energy saturation of depleted cells and tissues, normalize vascular permeability, that is, restore the health of the body in a comprehensive manner, Zalmanov was the first to use salt and herbal supplements in baths. Then he began to prescribe to patients not only general baths, but also hand or foot baths, and later, reflecting on the improvement of Valinsky's hyperthermic baths, he decided to use the famous turpentine gum for the procedures.

In 1918, A.S. Zalmanov was appointed head of the Main Resort Administration and Chairman of the State Commission for the Fight against Tuberculosis. The scientist disseminated the method of hydrotherapy and the use of turpentine baths in sanatoriums and hospitals. Until now, this procedure is used in medical institutions, sanatoriums and resorts in Russia and other countries that were part of the USSR and preserved the best traditions of the Soviet medical school.

An excellent clinician who knew how to carefully examine the patient and accurately diagnose, the personal physician of Lenin and Krupskaya, Zalmanov understood all the imperfection of medical methods and tried to find harmless methods of therapy. In search of new knowledge, with the permission of the leader, he went abroad. After the death of Vladimir Ilyich, Zalmanov was forbidden to return to the Soviet Union; all his petitions about this remained unanswered. So he ended up in Europe. He worked in several large clinics, wrote books and refused to replace the Soviet passport, calling himself a citizen of the USSR until his death.

In 1920, the Danish physiologist August Krogh received the Nobel Prize for his research in the physiology of capillaries at the microscopic level. Zalmanov, who followed all the innovations in medical science, realized that it was in the field of capillary blood flow and metabolism at the cell level that the answer to the question that tormented him was: how to help the body heal itself? He worked through many articles on this topic in the most detailed way, analyzed the work of capillaries (at the Pathological Institute, Institute of Physiology and Colloidal Chemistry), while continuing to practice at the clinic of the Medical Faculty in Berlin and other medical institutions. As a result, the Russian doctor found practical application for the brilliant discovery of the Danish physiologist.

Physiologist August Krogh, who studied capillary circulation

During World War II, Zalmanov lived in Paris. His name was known in Germany, according to his method, the elite of the Third Reich was treated, therefore, even having refused to head the Paris hospital and treat German soldiers, the doctor survived. He was not harmed by his Jewish origin, or Soviet citizenship, or the fact that he secretly provided medical assistance to the fighters of the French Resistance.

After the war, Zalmanov theoretically substantiated capillary therapy, popularized the technique among colleagues and trained successor students. In 1946, the scientist held several conferences in Switzerland and France. Vigorous activity gave a result: in 1952, turpentine baths as a therapeutic method were officially recognized by the French Ministry of Health. The queue for an appointment with the "capillary healer" was scheduled two years in advance.

The success did not turn the doctor's head and did not prevent him from continuing to work methodically on the formulation of his theory. In 1956 the book "Secrets and Wisdom of the Body" was published, in 1958 - "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body", in 1960 - "The Miracle of Life". In them, the scientist reveals the essence of capillarotherapy, shares his observations and practical results. Not long before Zalmanov's death, his last work, "Thousands of Ways to Recovery" (1965), was published.

The book "The Secret Wisdom of the Human Body" was published with an appendix containing comprehensive information on the technique of turpentine baths. As soon as it was published, Zalmanov sent one copy to Moscow, to the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences. A world-famous scientist asked to publish a book in Russian and send young specialists to him for training, so that he could pass on the experience of healing diseases that were considered incurable for free. There was no answer this time either.

Zalmanov's book appeared in Russia anyway. One of the doctors of the departmental polyclinic of the USSR Academy of Sciences got hold of the French version and, having read it, decided to treat one of his patients with turpentine. The effect exceeded all expectations, then the doctor and his sympathizers tried to publish Zalmanov's books in Russia.

This was achieved in 1966, when the genius doctor, who so relied on the recognition of his methods in his homeland, was no longer alive. Zalmanov died at the age of 90, maintaining excellent health, good memory and clarity of thought until the last day. He really managed to create an effective recipe for longevity and overcome the most unpleasant moments of old age.

In the books of Zalmanov, which were published in Soviet Russia, corrections were made in the recipes for emulsifying turpentine so that the reader could not prepare a solution at home and self-medicate.

In the rest of the world, turpentine baths gained popularity during the lifetime of their creator. They are still successfully used in sanatoriums in Italy, Switzerland, Germany and, of course, France. They also knew about this method and its effectiveness in Russia. First, Zalmanov baths were used in Kremlin clinics, and later - in the Central Institute of Physiotherapy and Balneology.

Yuri Yakovlevich Kamenev - student of Zalmanov

Under Brezhnev, the therapist Y. Kamenev, who served in the Armed Forces and therefore did not obey the Ministry of Health, showed courage by defending a dissertation using the Zalmanov method, whom official medicine at that time accused of quackery. Kamenev did not confine himself to one bold act, introducing treatment with turpentine baths at the department of advanced therapy for doctors of the St. Petersburg Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov.

Today turpentine baths are available to all social strata of the population. Research at the Research Institute of Balneology revealed the normalization of blood composition as a result of therapy with turpentine baths, convincingly proving their benefits. Since then, Zalmanov baths have become popular in the spa treatment of a variety of diseases. They can be done at home by buying a ready-made emulsion or solution and exactly following all the instructions for preparing and taking a bath.

Zalmanov's name has been cleared of all suspicions of charlatanism, his therapeutic technique is recognized, books are published, and his museum has been opened at the Military Medical Academy, which houses the scientist's archive, transferred by his family in 1979. The relatives had to work hard to fulfill the last will of the doctor and take the archive and library home - for 7 years they were not given permission to do this, until the family sent to Russia a Zalmanov certificate signed by Lenin and a pass to the Kremlin in his name. But even now, when the name of the scientist is widely known, his archive has not yet been studied by anyone and ideas have not yet taken their rightful place in official medicine.

Although there is still some progress: private clinics use turpentine baths along with other naturopathic methods of therapy, there is literature on the treatment of capillaries, the industry produces bath solutions at home, some of which are added with herbal extracts and essential oils, which make the smell more pleasant ... There are many sites on which people share their experience of taking turpentine baths, there are other resources on the Internet that give medical advice on capillary therapy and allow you to order solutions.

In many respects, turpentine baths owe their popularity to Yuri Yakovlevich Kamenev and his book “A. S. Zalmanov. Capillary therapy and naturotherapy of diseases ”, setting out all the information known by that time about gum baths in simple and understandable language.

AS Zalmanov wrote: “If a means is found to expand the capillaries when they are compressed by a spasm, a means to stop the paralyzing atony when they are dilated; if an opportunity is found to improve their insufficient permeability or curb their exuberant permeability, then the nutrition of tissues and cells will be improved, the supply of oxygen to cells will be established, tissue drainage will be facilitated, the energy balance of the affected tissues will be increased; if we improve, establish tissue nutrition, the cells in a state of bionecrosis (necrosis) will be brought back to life, and the elimination (removal) of cellular waste will be ensured in order to avoid slow but dangerous protein intoxication (poisoning). "

The doctor devoted his whole life to finding this remedy. In medical practice, he used all the physiotherapeutic methods known at that time, but their effectiveness seemed insufficient to Zalmanov. It took time, an active search for an answer and an acquaintance with the method of hot baths of Valinsky to find an effective remedy for many diseases - turpentine baths.

The main advantages Gum baths, distinguishing them from other physiotherapeutic methods, consist in a complex effect on the capillary network and in the convenience of their use. Zalmanov baths are one of the few methods of treatment that does not contradict the physiology of the human body, but, on the contrary, contributes to the manifestation of its own regenerative capabilities. Baths do not disturb the internal balance of the body and the biochemical composition of its tissues and at the same time have a beneficial effect on metabolism. They do not cause pathological changes in internal organs and do not violate their functions, which is what they differ from pharmacological treatment with its side effects according to the principle "we treat one, we cripple the other." A person taking turpentine baths is insured against medical error, wrong choice of medicine and wrong dosage.

Pharmacological agents are another matter: they are toxic, while the side effects of new drugs do not become known immediately, but after several years of widespread use. This has happened before: the history of pharmacology is replete with examples of how many popular drugs were subsequently banned because of their carcinogenic or toxic effects. Therefore, medicines should be taken very carefully: the poisoned body will not feel better because the drug that has disturbed its health will later be banned.

Unjustified addiction to pills is dangerous

Fact

Among medicines, only two have overcome the 100-year barrier. These are aspirin and Zalman solutions for turpentine baths, which is very significant. Moreover, aspirin has been found to have many side effects, the harmful effects of which can be avoided only with careful, short-term use and when monitoring a blood test.

In general, if the condition is not critical, it is better to resort to naturopathic remedies, leaving chemical and surgical methods for extreme cases. If baths are as effective as medicines, and there is no harm from them, is it worth poisoning your body with pharmacological drugs?

Turpentine baths are so successful in restoring the work of the capillary bed that they can become the basis for the treatment of any known disease. The mechanism of their effect on blood circulation is multifaceted and worthy of detailed consideration.