The area of inaudible sounds is open to man relatively recently. Only a little decades have passed, and the circle of ultrasound is increasingly expanding. He is becoming an increasingly reliable assistant to a doctor in the treatment of a person from many diseases.
What structures and systems are the ultrasound, which is the way it ensures a sterilizing or stimulating effect? Obviously, in small doses, it increases the activity or amount of biologically active substances – enzymes, increases the permeability of the cell membranes. This accelerate redox processes in a living organism, the processes of biochemical metabolism of the cell. And this, in turn, enhances their life, vitality.
Large doses of ultrasound destroy the cell membrane. The contents of the cell come out. You can choose such irradiation conditions when, despite the destruction of the cell, its contents retain its biological properties. In this state, it is much easier to highlight the actively active principle, certain chemical compounds. These qualities of inaudible sounds are widely used in pharmacology.
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For example, from the tuberculosis and dysenteric sticks destroyed by ultrasound, active groups – antigens were distinguished. As you know, the introduction of weakened antigens creates persistent immunity in them, immunity to appropriate diseases. New vaccination methods appear, when instead of a whole microbial cell use only active structures extracted from it.
Now experts are seeking to improve the quality of emulsions, since the medicinal substance can be crushed into much smaller components. Thus, a thin suspension of campaire oil in water was obtained, which used to be impossible at all. Moreover, scientists develop methods of introduction using ultrasound of some medicinal compounds to the patient through… intact skin.
Ultrasound is also used in therapy. With it, spondylosis, arthritis and arthrosis, radiculitis, some skin diseases are treated with it. True, this method can be treated not all.
In one of the laboratories of the Academy of Sciences, animal experiments were conducted. With the help of powerful ultrasound radiation, a malignant tumor vaccinated by rabbits was destroyed within one second. The growth of the tumor stopped, it was absorbed. The rabbits recovered, and they even developed immunity to repeated vaccinations of a tumor of this kind. Of course, only the very first steps in the study of this process are taken. Experimental work, checking the results of the use of ultrasound in the fight against malignant tumors is still ahead.
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In another laboratory, the effects of ultrasonic irradiation on the exchange of nucleic acids were investigated. Experiments showed that there is some similarity between the action of ultrasound and x -rays. The same experiments revealed a huge advantage of ultrasound: its use never causes leukopenia, that is, a decrease in the number of leukocytes in the blood.
The therapeutic effect of ultrasound is like the action of massage, or rather, this is micromassage of cells and tissues. As a result, blood and lymph circulation improves, the processes of metabolism and release of the active substances of the body – hormones in the blood are activated; micromassage softens pain, stimulates the nervous self -endocrine systems.
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Currently, there are many facts when, after one or more courses of treatment with ultrasound, patients, say, radiculitis, returned to normal working life. In laboratories, scientists persistently seek methods of using inaudible sounds in urology, ophthalmology, dentistry, gynecology, etc. D.
Finally, the huge possibilities of using ultrasound are opened in the diagnosis of diseases. A certain pattern was established: the ultrasonic impulse directed to the human body is differently reflected in a sick and healthy tissue. Climbing the reflection of these impulses on the oscilloscope screen, the doctor gets the opportunity to judge the state of organs and tissues. Already today, using ultrasound, it is possible to detect the location of the cyst – a cavity filled with liquid, aneurysm. Helped images of the ventricles of the brain are obtained. Ultrasound “translucent”- stomach and gall bladder is complete without the use of contrasting substances.
