Autohemotherapy/autohaemotherapy (AHT)

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Hi All,

 

Though not directly related to injection-AP or TCM, there is evidence on

Medline that AHT has immunostimulant effects. See references below.

 

Some of the authors added ozone or irradiation to the blood before

injection back into the patients.

 

Medline has many more references to ozone addition to blood as a

therapy but I have omitted them because most refer to intravenous

injection (or recirculation) of the ozone-treated blood.

 

IMO, AHT at the relevant acupoints probably activates TWO responses:

(a) the immune response, and

(b) the AP response.

 

Those using AHT injection into tissues (muscle, skin, conjunctiva,

tendon, ligament, etc) , or AHT at acupoints, must take care to avoid

cross-infection between patients because hepatitis outbreaks have

been traced to clinics that used AHT.

 

Best regards,

Phil

 

Skinmed. 2005 Sep-Oct;4(5):316-9. Why a historical approach has

clinical benefits: Staphylococcus toxoid and autohemotherapy. Steffen

C. charlesseffen Publication Types: Historical Article PMID:

16282756 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

J Altern Complement Med. 1997 Summer;3(2):155-8. Successful

treatment of herpetic infections by autohemotherapy. Olwin JH,

Ratajczak HV, House RV. Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center,

Chicago, IL, USA. Herpes zoster (shingles) affects a significant number

of individuals over age 50. To date, no satisfactory treatment has been

available. The clinician author (JHO) witnessed a dramatic response of

a shingles patient to autohemotherapy: the pain was completely relieved

and lesions gone within 5 days with no recurrence of either. Treatment

of other herpetic patients then began with autohemotherapy. Twenty-

five patients with herpes were given an autologous blood transfer of 10

mL of blood from the antecubital vein into the gluteal bundle and

followed for clinical signs. A 100% favorable response occurred in 20

patients who received autohemotherapy within 7 weeks of the onset of

clinical signs and 1 other who received autohemotherapy at a 9-week

interval. No untoward signs or symptoms of the treatment occurred.

Autohemotherapy has been demonstrated to be effective in elimination

of clinical sequelae in these cases of herpes infections and these

results justify further rigorous clinical investigation. PMID: 9395705

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Stomatologiia (Mosk). 1995;74(2):37-9. [immunocorrective therapy in

the treatment of chronic herpetic stomatitis by using magnetic

autohemotherapy][Article in Russian] Grebnev EN, Shumskii AV. 27

patients with chronic herpetic stomatitis were treated using routine

protocols including traditional autohemotherapy (controls, n = 12) and

magnetic autohemotherapy (main group, n = 15) developed by the

authors. Local therapy was identical in both groups and corresponded

to the disease stage. Treatment with magnetic autohemotherapy proved

to be highly effective: it prolonged the remission and reduced the

incidence and duration of exacerbations. Cytological findings indicate

that such an exposure activated the processes of regeneration of the

buccal and labial mucosal epithelium. A trend to normalization of some

parameters of cellular and humoral immunity was observed. PMID:

7482606 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Klin Oczna. 1992 Apr;94(4):113-4. [subconjunctival autohemotherapy of

eye burns in our cases] [Article in Polish] Lenkiewicz E, Ferencowa A,

Szewczykowa E. Oddzialu Okulistycznego Wojewodzkiego Szpitala

Zespolonego w Olsztynie. The authors present the results of

subconjunctival autohemotherapy of thermal and chemical burns in 940

eyes which concerned 734 patients; simultaneously they discuss the

causes of these burns. The obtained results confirm the very well

known opinion that subconjunctival autohemotherapy applied together

with the vasodilating drugs is still a very valuable method in the

treatment of ocular burns. PMID: 1405409 [PubMed - indexed for

MEDLINE]

 

Anesteziol Reanimatol. 1989 Jan-Feb;(1):31-4. [A method and the

clinical effect of quantum ultraviolet autohemotherapy in resuscitation of

children][Article in Russian] Kurapov EP, Lykov AA, Zhuravka GV,

Ziberova EF, Golubov SP. Using the technique developed by the

authors, 279 sessions of ultraviolet autoblood irradiation were

performed in 93 patients with complicated infectious pathology. 90

patients with the same pathology constituted the control group. All the

patients were treated pathogenetically and etiotropically for toxicoseptic

pathology, using current schemes based on correction of clinical-

biochemical alterations. In the test group one session of ultraviolet

autoblood irradiation was performed once daily for 3 days. The data

obtained show positive dynamics of the disease in patients after

quantum ultraviolet autohemotherapy and a considerable decrease in

lethality and the time of the patient's stay in intensive care unit. PMID:

2712381 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

Indian J Sex Transm Dis. 1990;11(2):57-8. Autohaemotherapy for

genital, anal and perianal warts. Williams J, Raja DA, Kala M,

Damodharan K, Sundraraj AS. PIP: 68 men and 16 women with

venereal warts, who had previously been treated with podophyllin,

cryotherapy, electrocautery, and surgical incision, were treated with

autohaemotherapy. The patients were selected at random from patients

at the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Department of the Government

Rajaji Hospital, Madurai, India, from July 1987-December 1988.

Autohaemotherapy is an old nonspecific treatment for chronic diseases

such as inflammatory dermatoses. It involves drawing 5-10 ml venous

blood from the antecubital vein and injecting it immediately into the

gluteal region. Treatments were repeated weekly 3-10 times in these

patients. 36.9% were completely cured, with recurrence in 2. 75% of the

women, including 3 pregnant women, responded, but only 28% of the

men improved. None of the women with warts on the cervix or inner

thighs improved, but all women with warts on the vagina or urinary

meatus were cured. Publication Types: Case Reports PMID: 12343559

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

J Int Med Res. 1994 May-Jun;22(3):131-44. Autohaemotherapy after

treatment of blood with ozone. A reappraisal. Bocci V. Institute of

General Physiology, University of Siena, Italy. Autohaemotherapy,

involving bland treatment ex vivo of blood with ozone and prompt

reinfusion into the donor, is a procedure mainly performed in central

Europe, which is claimed to have therapeutic value in circulatory

disorders, viral diseases and cancer. This practice is mostly performed

in private clinics, and good clinical trials have not been published, which

has understandably given rise to prejudice and scepticism. By analysing

possible mechanisms of action and current hypotheses, this report

attempts to explain how this procedure can be useful in such disparate

diseases. The current state of the art is presented objectively, the lack

of toxicity is documented, and the rationale and therapeutic advantages

are discussed, with the aim of eliciting interest in carrying out controlled

clinical trials. Publication Types: Review PMID: 8088420 [PubMed -

indexed for MEDLINE]

 

J Hyg Epidemiol Microbiol Immunol. 1986;30(3):331-6.

Immunomodulating effect of autohaemotherapy (a literature review).

Klemparskaya NN, Shalnova GA, Ulanova AM, Kuzmina TD, Chuhrov

AD. An analysis is presented of experimental and clinical data from

different authors on the stimulating effect of autohaemotherapy with

regard to the immunological reactivity of humans and animals as well as

in vitro experiments with lymphocytes. Erythrolysate has been found to

exert a more powerful effect than intact erythrocytes. The stimulating

effect of autohaemotherapy on both irradiated and non-irradiated

animals manifests itself in an increase in resistance to infection

(increased LD50 in experimental infection), enhanced production of

antibodies to microbial and tissue antigens and activated functioning of

cell-mediated immune defence mechanisms. The favourable influences

on radioresistance and the antitumour effect of authohaemotherapy are

described. Induced desensitization plays an important part in the

mechanism of action of autohaemotherapy. The administration of large

doses of erythrocytes or of erythrolysate results in immunosuppression.

Autohaemotherapy does not cause side effects and is feasible both on

an in-and out-patient basis. Publication Types: Review PMID: 3534085

[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]