scholarly journals Lymphatic self-massage for enhancing immunity during a pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-12
Author(s):  
O. V. Sapozhnikova ◽  
E. E. Eliseeva
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Autoimmune Thyroiditis ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Lymph Flow ◽  
Related Effect ◽  
Facial Muscles ◽  
Common Diseases ◽  
Flow Stimulation

The article is devoted to the problem of improving immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic and the related effect of lymphatic self-massage.The article analyzes the general concepts of the lymphatic system and its functions, as well as lymphatic self-massage and its effect on cardiovascular and lymphatic systems.It is noted that the lymph flow stimulation through movements activates and normalizes the most important body functions. Using Skype, the authors surveyed medical students about knowledge on benefits and techniques of lymphatic selfmassage.Further, a master class was held on the technique of lymphatic self-massage. The authors studied the awareness of students about the benefits of lymphatic selfmassage, revealed a tendency to chronic diseases and assessed the benefits after the procedure.Based on the data obtained, it was revealed that viral infections, namely COVID-19, provoke one of the most common diseases — autoimmune thyroiditis. So, 64% of the respondents noted about it.Using lymphatic self-massage, the manifestations of this pathology decreases, the facial muscles relax and the blood and lymph outflow improves.Thus, there is an undoubted benefit of lymphatic self-massage for the prevention of diseases with immune involvement, including COVID-19.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the knowledge level and usage attitudes of the medical students on the medicinal herbs and herbal products: a project of special study module in the first three years of the school of medicine

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 394
Author(s):  
Hulya Guven ◽  
Sule Kalkan ◽  
Nil Hocaoglu ◽  
Engin Yildiztepe ◽  
Gamze Gokalp
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Medicinal Herbs ◽  
Legal Regulations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Herbal Products ◽  
School Of Medicine ◽  
Herbal Plants ◽  
Potential Risks

Background: In this survey, it was aimed to determine the types of medicinal herbs and herbal products, reasons of use and consciousness levels among the medical students in the first three years of the School of Medicine.Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive questionnaire consisting of 50 questions was applied to all the students in the first three years of Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine between September 1, 2016 and June 1, 2017.Results: The results of 571 participating students were evaluated. Of these students, 301 (52.7%) were females and 270 (47.3%) were males. It was found that 73.4% (n=419) of the students used these products for treatment and mostly consumed linden, sage tea, mint and rosehip. Also, 11.6% of the students had chronic diseases (n=66). It was determined that 69.7% (n=46) of these students having chronic diseases used medicinal herbs and herbal products. Only 12.0% of the students had an opinion about the legal regulations regarding the use of herbs and herbal products in Turkey, while 39.7% of them had no idea, and 48.3% stated that such regulations on this matter were unreasonable. However, 59.7% of the respondents stated that legal regulations were necessary. It was found that the participating students used herbs and herbal products generally for therapeutic purposes without having sufficient knowledge about medicinal herbs; therefore it was necessary to increase their level of consciousness.Conclusions: Medical students neither have adequate medical information about medicinal herbs and herbal products, nor about the regulations on these products. It is crucial to revise the courses in the medical education so that the students would get informed about the regulations as well as potential risks of herbal plants while still in the medical schools.

Contamination of lymph from the major prenodal cardiac lymphatic in dogs

1999 ◽  
Vol 276 (5) ◽  
pp. H1795-H1800
Author(s):  
Hans J. Geissler ◽  
Karen L. Davis ◽  
Glen A. Laine ◽  
Michael L. Brennan ◽  
Uwe Mehlhorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tidal Volume ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Ventricular Myocardium ◽  
Left Ventricular ◽  
Lymph Flow ◽  
Left Ventricular Myocardium ◽  
Anatomic Variations ◽  
Lymphatic Function

Cannulation of the canine major prenodal cardiac lymphatic (MPCL) is the most common approach for the investigation of myocardial lymphatic function. However, the assumption that the MPCL drains pure cardiac lymph has been questioned. We studied variations of MPCL anatomy and investigated whether noncardiac lymph is drained by this lymphatic. After dye was injected into the lungs and left ventricular myocardium in 21 dogs, dissection of the cardiac lymphatic system yielded 3 anatomic variations. In variations 1 and 2 (81% of dogs), a mixture of cardiac and pulmonary lymph was drained via the MPCL. In variation 3 (19% of dogs) no connection was found between MPCL and pulmonary lymphatics. In variations 1 and 2, alteration of tidal volume resulted in significant changes of lymph flow rate. The pulmonary contribution to MPCL lymph flow was estimated as 34% in variation 2. We conclude that MPCL lymph may contain not only cardiac lymph but also significant pulmonary contamination. This finding should be considered in the interpretation of lymph data from cannulation of the canine MPCL.

scholarly journals Mathematical Modelling of the Structure and Function of the Lymphatic System

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1467
Author(s):  
Anastasia Mozokhina ◽  
Rostislav Savinkov
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Mathematical Modelling ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Structure And Function ◽  
Lymph Flow ◽  
And Function

This paper presents current knowledge about the structure and function of the lymphatic system. Mathematical models of lymph flow in the single lymphangion, the series of lymphangions, the lymph nodes, and the whole lymphatic system are considered. The main results and further perspectives are discussed.

The effects of raised ICP on lymph flow in the cervical lymphatic trunks in cats

1984 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Love ◽  
Ronald A. Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Cerebrospinal Fluid ◽  
Steady State ◽  
Subarachnoid Space ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Cranial Nerves ◽  
Lymph Flow ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Large Molecules ◽  
Csf Pressure ◽  
Fine Print

✓ Lymph was collected from cervical lymphatic trunks of anesthetized cats under conditions of normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pressure and again when the CSF pressure was elevated by infusing artificial CSF into the subarachnoid space at the cisterna magna. There was an immediate increase in lymph flow on initiation of the CSF infusion, but this increase was not maintained although the CSF infusion continued. Lymph protein concentrations fell when the CSF infusion started and remained depressed while the infusion of CSF continued. It is postulated that under steady-state conditions much of the CSF leaving the subarachnoid space via the cranial nerves enters the capillaries from the extravascular spaces, and that large molecules from the CSF, such as proteins, return to the blood via the lymphatic system.

scholarly journals Can energetic vaccines, based on physics, be the sound options for COVID-19 and other pandemics in the absence of pharmaceutical vaccines?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Savely Yurkovsky
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Viral Infections ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
Practical Advantage ◽  
Energy Field ◽  
Public Health Emergencies ◽  
Uncertain Future

The proposed approach presents substantial scientific evidence based on physics and clinical data to support a clinical trial of an energetic SARS-CoV-2 vaccine. This is particularly imperative in the absence of a pharmaceutical vaccine as well as its uncertain future efficacy and safety, considering the limited time for testing and rapid mutations of the virus. Some of the vaccine trials have already been halted due to volunteers falling ill. Physics and biophysics of the fundamental electromagnetic nature of the living matter, including microbes as well as water, support the imprinting of electromagnetic fields of microbes in water that elicits an immune response. Energetic vaccines can be rapidly mass-produced for both prophylaxis and treatment of the public and healthcare personnel against the original as well as mutated viral strains. These can be prepared through a standard homeopathic process, as well as an energy field imprinting device,* offering a unique potential in versatility, speed, and low cost in mass protection against the current and future public health emergencies. Other viral infections, epidemics, antibiotic-resistant, and vector-borne infections could be similarly addressed. Paradoxically, in spite of a general perception of homeopathy by physicians as the most alien and least scientific, among complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), it is just the opposite. Homeopathy carries formidable scientific support, with the specific proposed homeopathic model being fully in line with physicians’ superior knowledge of infectious diseases and medicine, making its adaptation into their practice intuitive and more effective than in the hands of non-MDs or DOs homeopaths. The practical advantage of the proposed homeopathic model in acute infections versus its oldest one of multisystemic, totality approach, yielding mixed results in chronic diseases, parallels a similar prevailing success of the corresponding conventional modalities in acute versus chronic diseases.

Intestinal lymphatic pressure increases during intravenous infusions in awake sheep

1993 ◽  
Vol 265 (3) ◽  
pp. R703-R705 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Drake ◽  
Z. Anwar ◽  
S. Kee ◽  
J. C. Gabel
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Venous Pressure ◽  
Ringer Solution ◽  
Lymph Flow ◽  
The Body ◽  
Intravenous Fluid ◽  
Thoracic Duct Lymph ◽  
Duct Lymph ◽  
Intestinal Lymphatics

Intravenous fluid infusions cause increased venous pressure and increased lymph flow throughout the body. Together the increased lymph flow and increased venous pressure (the outflow pressure to the lymphatic system) should increase the pressure within the postnodal intestinal lymphatics. To test this, we measured the pressure in postnodal intestinal lymphatics and the neck vein pressure in five awake sheep. At baseline, the neck vein pressure was 1.2 +/- 1.5 (SD) cmH2O and the lymphatic pressure was 12.5 +/- 1.7 cmH2O. When we infused Ringer solution intravenously (10% body weight in approximately 50 min), the neck vein pressure increased to 17.3 +/- 0.9 cmH2O and the lymphatic pressure increased to 24.6 +/- 3.8 cmH2O (both P < 0.05). In two additional sheep, the thoracic duct lymph flow rate increased from 0.8 +/- 0.4 ml/min at baseline to 5.5 +/- 2.0 ml/min during the infusions. Our results show that postnodal intestinal lymphatic pressure may increase substantially during intravenous fluid infusions. This is important because increases in postnodal lymphatic pressure may slow lymph flow from the intestine.

scholarly journals Prevalence of multiple behavioral risk factors for chronic diseases in medical students and associations with their academic performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Manolis Linardakis ◽  
Angeliki Papadaki ◽  
Emmanouil Smpokos ◽  
Anthony Kafatos ◽  
Christos Lionis
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Behavioral Risk Factors ◽  
Behavioral Risk

Seroprevalence of vaccine preventable and blood transmissible viral infections (measles, mumps, rubella, polio, HBV, HCV and HIV) in medical students

2007 ◽  
Vol 196 (3) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Wicker ◽  
Holger F. Rabenau ◽  
René Gottschalk ◽  
Hans Wilhelm Doerr ◽  
Regina Allwinn
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Viral Infections

Pump eflciency of lymphatic vessels: numeric estimation

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia S. Mozokhina ◽  
Sergey I. Mukhin ◽  
Gennady I. Lobov
Keyword(s):  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Pressure Gradient ◽  
Lymphatic System ◽  
Lymphatic Vessels ◽  
Lymph Flow ◽  
Dimensional Approach ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Numeric Estimation

Abstract A model of lymph flow in the human lymphatic system in the quasi-one-dimensional approach has been created and investigated under different conditions. The model includes an implementation of contractions and valve influence on lymph flow. We consider contractions of lymphatic vessels and their influence on resulting flow in the whole network of lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes. We have investigated flow with zero pressure gradient and have found parameters, which influence the efficiency of contractions most significantly.

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