Das Nasen-Rachen-Spülbad, eine ganzheitliche Therapie- Methodenbeschreibung, Methodenkritik -

Abstract: The nose-throat irrigation is a useful treatment which has been forgotten or which at least has got out of fashion in physiotherapy, physical medicine and the ENT medicine.In the postwar period with its limited possibilities of therapy we developed a simple method without apparatuses which proved its value during forty years and which is more and more used in the general practice and even in the ENT clinic. The method is described critically. The irrigation cleans and takes care of the mucosa, supports the secretion and thus inhibits inflammation. lt regulates the width of the nose and by reflex distant effect it regulates also dysfunctions in the gastro-intestinal tract, disorder of breathing, menstrual disorders etc. As the nasal mucous is very capable of absorption, the sea salt solution-the irrigation water-can be effective from within, in an allopathic or a complex homoeopathic way, which for example corresponds to the drug image of sodium chloride and magnesium.With so many possible effects, the area of indication is broad. Side effects and contra-indications are hardly of any importance. Rules about the number of daily irrigations and the duration of the applications are listed. In the discussion the objections mentioned by Grunewald are considered, that the irrigations would only be a symptomatic method. The symptom congestion would only be suppressed, the catarrh as a disease would not be influenced. We can point out, that with the explanation of the effects one starts out from the symptoms, but a psychosomatic therapy is reached, especially when there is a good compliance and a good coping behaviour from the patient.

Keyword(s): Nasen-Rachen-Spülbad

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