Definition of the pain by Sanctis
“The pain is the perception of an unfavorable or injurious stimulus that brings about serious upheavals of sensitivity and the outbreak of the defense reflections that intensify in all the senses. All physical pain is a state of brings back to consciousness, a psychic superposition to the subconscious protective reflections”.
The pain according to the homotoxicología
The pain must (according to the type) to the action of several or different homotoxinas on diverse nervous receivers in the form of phases from impregnating. With the administration of analgesic the hemotóxico level does not improve. On the contrary, it gets worse habitually by the additional retóxicos effects or by the effects of an impregnating, that is to say, analgesic ones they do not act of etiológica form. So that the homotoxicología does not act against the symptom pain, but against the cause of the pain.
Types of pain
The types of pain are numerous that have been classified. We mention some of these.
- Central pain: Pain due to an injury in the central nervous system.
- Pain the growth: Pain rheumatic character in the adolescents
- Erratic pain: Pain that varies repeatedly of location.
- Ghost pain: Pain felt in one part that has been amputated.
- Piercing pain: Sensation of pinchazo that usually accompanies to the cancer and abscesses. As the one of a lance blow.
- Pulsating pain: Painful beat that feels in the inflamed zones, rythmical with the pulsation of the arteries.
- Pain urente: Pain with heat sensation or burn.
- Deaf pain: Slight, but continuous pain.
- Reflected pain: The one that is perceived in a different point in which the injury is based.
- Radiated pain: Produced by the irritation by a root or the nervous trunk.
Mechanism of the pain
The physical pain is considered like a phenomenon of sensitive irritation, that is to say, like a phenomenon of transmission from the periphery to the cerebral center of special impressions that when exceeding the threshold of brings back to consciousness, they affirm in the same like disagreeable sensations of suffering.
The sensations that the pain produces bring about an immediate automatic reaction, reflects in many cases, of flight in order to separate from the cause that brings about the pain or to neutralize it anyway.
According to different theories a quantitative and nonqualitative difference between the painful sensation and all the other sensations only exists (thermal, tactile, etc.); that is to say, that the thermal or tactile sensation is painless when it is of normal intensity and it becomes painful when “threshold of the pain” surpasses the call.
In relation to the intensity of the pain, some authors think that she depends – like the intensity of any other sensation – on the number of neurons, or nervous cells that manage to irritate the painful stimulus; that is to say, how many more neurons react by the action of as much greater the painful stimulus it will be the perception of the pain.
Causes of the pain
The painful stimuli can be of two classes: external and internal.
External stimuli
The painful external stimuli can be of mechanical nature (contusions, wounds, pinchazos, etc.) or of thermal nature like excessive heat brought about by burns, or excessive cold (freezing)
Internal stimuli
They are mainly of chemical nature: variations of the pH in weaves, pathological products of the spare part, etc. The pain that is perceived concerning an inflamed weave is as a result of a physicomechanical process originated by the compression of the local sensitive nerves on the part of the liquid that absorbs the inflamed weave and of a chemical component constituted by the tissue biochemical modifications brought about by products of the altered local spare part.
Characteristics of the pain
According to the characteristics of the pain it is possible to be known his origin or aetiology and therefore its diagnosis, his gravity or prognosis and treatment. These characteristics are:
- Location: Headache (migraine), torácico pain, abdominal pain (cólico), sciatic, etc.
- Type: Sharp, Oppressive, Lacerante, Urente, Ghost, Cólico, etc.
- Duration: The time from its appearance, since when.
- Regularity: The one of the gastroduodenal ulcer, jaquecas, migrañas, etc.
- Frequency: It is the number of times that the pain characteristic similars has happened. It can be periodic (in homeopathy one considers very).
- Intensity: Generally when is the first pain usually he is intense or strong, but when one has repeated several times in the time, it is possible to be quantified.
- Irradiation: It is the passage that crosses the pain from its original location to another place (sciatic, neuralgia).
- Accompanying symptoms: Like nauseas, vomits, diarrhoea, fever, tremor…
- Accompanying signs: Neurological perspiration, pallor, chills, upheavals…
- Aggravating factors: They are the factors that increase the pain for example after the ingestion, certain movements… and other factors to which it gives the patient.
- Extenuating factors: They are the factors that diminish the pain, for example the rest, corporal positions.
- Medecines: That they calm or that they bring about the pain.
Natural Medicine treatments and Remedies for the Pain
Since the pain can be by different causes, we must treat the cause to palliate the pain. Nevertheless, besides traditional chemical medecines (analgesic), also in Natural Medicine it is had resources to fight the pain.
Treatments of the pain with nutritional supplements
Vitamin C and the inflammation
Investigations have demonstrated that vitamin C, combined with bioflavonoids and one preparation of enzyme proteolytic (the one that digests protein molecules), is more effective in the reduction of the inflammation that the medication with nonestoroides products antiinflammatories.
Vitamin C and the burns
Vitamin C has come being used like a part from the treatment for patients with serious burns. The burned surfaces bathe with a vitamin-added solution, and vitamin C is administered internamente with dose of 200-500mg, four times to the day (1)
Vitamin C and Cancer
When vitamin C, in dose of up to 20 grams to the day, was administered to patients seriously affected by cancer in a study with double control completely without information, the pain levels were reduced significantly (2).
Vitamin E
The vitamin and most probably to offer an effect analgesic, due to its action in the inhibition of the synthesis of the prostaglandins. Between the clinical information on the lightening of the pain the referring ones to cramps in the 300 legs that responded to ui of vitamin and to the day, other cramps, pains neck and the back inferior, and the subsequent neuralgias to the herpes are counted to zóster.
The magnesium
It is known that the magnesium is necessary in the process of relaxation of muscles. It has a sinérgica association with triphosphate of adenosina (ATP). Without magnesium the organism would be always suffering of cramps, spasms and convulsions.
The zinc
A suplementación of zinc sulphate by oral route was administered to 24 patients with reumatoide arthritis, in a test, the University of Washington. By the investigation it is known that the zinc ions have effects antiinflammatories in the sinovial membrane.
The fatty acids Omega 3
The essential fatty acids are metabolizan in the organism to form anti-inflammatory prostaglandins. These substances similar to hormones help to reduce the inflammation in the organism. The essential fatty acids originating as much of marine oils as of not hydrogenated vegetal oils without refining, have the capacity to reduce to the pain and the inflammation if they are administered during an uninterrupted period and in correct doses.
Treatment of the pain with Homotoxicología (Homeopathy of 2ª generation)
By means of the administration of an indicated antihomotóxico homeopathic medicine according to the syndrome, it is acted on the homotóxico level on which the pain is based (curative effect). Reason why the homotoxicológicos homeopathic remedies can be considered like analgesic natural.
Next we indicated some of these remedies and so they are used:
- Migraines: Gelsemium-Homaccord and Spigelon
- Sciatic and sharp pains: Colocynthis-Homaccord
- Changes of time (sensitivity): Rhododendroneel
- Dolores cardiac: Cralonin, Pectus Heel
- Dolores renal: Berberis-Homaccord
- Dolores in cólicos (vesicle, etc.): Chelidonium-Homaccord
- Dolores intermenstrual: Meter (a), Hormeel (g), Galium-Heel (g.a.)
Treatment of the pain with hydrotherapy
Hot baths
General indications:
Analgesic action (calm the pain). One is used in arthritis, arthrosis, mialgias, spasms, neuritis and neuralgias.
Bactericidal anti-inflammatory action and. It increases the mechanisms of defense of the blood.
Antispasmodic action. It eliminates spasms. Indicated in asthmatic bronchitis, tortícolis, muscular lumbalgias, poliomelitis, pains, vesicular pains, cólicos gastralgias, and pains all type.
Cold envelopes
If the envelope is producing of heat (narrow-hipped envelope) its indications they are: Insomnia, headache (derivational action). Stimulus of the metabolic reactions in the functional upheavals of the digestive organs.