Hypertension 1996 : One Medicine, Two Cultures
Foreword
Prof. Umberto Solimene
Chair of Medical Therapy and Thermal Medicine
Director W.H.O. Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine
University of Milan
Dr. Roberto Mattioli
President of Research at Centre “Cuore” Rome
Hypertension has been named “the silent
killer” because it damages without showing itself during the years it can
affect the functionality of the vital organs as the brain, the kidneys and
the heart, without any discomfort and pains. In the western countries 30%
of adults suffer from it. In the USA it has been estimated that there are
about 60 millions of hypertensives. The recent publication of data coming
from “Monica” (Monitoring cardiovascular disease) project of WHO, started
in 1984 involving the research centres of 26 countries, has highlighted,
for example, how Briance, a rich and industrious locality can be defined
hypertensive. At about 47% of men and 37% of women are hypertensives. Usually
it is normal to have pressure values not superior to 90 mmHg for diastolic
and 140 mmHg for systolic.
Distress and incorrect life habits are some of the causes of this pathology.
Other ethiopathogenetic forms have to be considered as diabetes, blood diseases,
vascular diseases renal pathologies, inheritance, etc.
All of us can remember the experiment with the healthy Australian aboriginal,
who were taken from their habitat and moved to our civilization; after a
short time they showed all the most common pathologies, hypertension included.
The best drug for them has been to return to their original life conditions.
Therefore the only solution for such a problem is a total approach with
the patient, that allows an appropriate use of pharmacological therapies.
Since the causes are not always known, it is necessary to select the drugs
basing oneself on the other present pathologies, on the hypertension gravity,
on tolerance, on the costs of the therapy, and to the patient ability to
respect the treatment.
Diuretics, B-blockers, ACE-inhibitors, vasodilators, Ca-antagonists are
now very valid but they have also many side effects.
The mechanical action of the drug is to artificially lower the blood pressure,
“breaking” somewhere the biologic mechanism that keeps it too high. Natural
medicine offers its therapy instruments. It tries to cure the biological
mechanism as a whole.
With the bioenergetic researches the intoxication levels can be recognised
in each organ.
It allows to understand the basic hypertension causes. Kidneys, liver, pancreas
in an “energetic lack of balance” created a situation that makes the premises
for hypertension. Naturally the hypertensive is a hyper-energetic. In some
hypertensive the energy is wrongly shared “empty in the low parts and an
excess from the waist to the upper parts”, to use the traditional Chinese
medicine language. As the diagnostic schemes show, the hypertensives habits
leads to the expansion of the chest, to an energetic congestion of the heart
and the brain, and to the renal function deficit. A “high-low” balance can
be obtained by laser acupuncture, working on the pericardium meridian and
on the 36th point of the stomach, that intake energy to the legs and represses
the cardiac hyperfunctionality.
Also the thermal cures, with carbonic and sulphurous water, are valid instrument.
Homeopathy and Phytoterapy too, have valid indications. Those different
therapeutic formats, until now separated for the contents, methodological
formats and for cultural realities, have decided to “meet” each other, or
the first time, to value each possibilities and limits, in a critical and
constructive key,
In facts, that is the aim of the First International Symposium “Ipertensione
1996: una medicina, due culture”, that held on the 14th – 15th of June in
Ostia lido – Rome.
The authoritative patronage of WHO, that sees the presence of its high representative
(A. Antezana, X. Zhang), of Ministero Italiano della Sanità an of the University
of Milan, and of the Centro Studi Cuore of Rome, are a demonstration of
the interest and of the opportunity to create a “bridge” of collaboration
among the different medical impostations.
Important Italian scholars of cardiovascular diseases (Stella, Fedele, Dei
Cas), of dietology (Fidanza), of diagnostics (Matteoli, Trappolini), of
thermal medicine (Solimene, Bogoliubov), acupuncture (Yanling, Wangzhong),
of bioenergetic (Franzoso, Serrano) and of homeopathy (Negro) have presented
experimental clinical researches to have state of the art in the specific
sectors.
In short, a useful, stimulating meeting of medicine, with a unique aim: men’s health.
Edited by Aldo Campana,