Oligotherapy is an alternative therapy that uses trace elements, these are minerals that are present in our body in very small quantities yet are essential for the maintenance of health.
These minerals are essential for the proper functioning of metabolism and its main function is to facilitate the work of enzymes, which are responsible for producing the chemical reactions which together constitute the metabolism of individuals.
Minerals such as copper, zinc, magnesium and cobalt are present in many foods, so that we can sometimes have a shortcoming of these or other minerals that can lead to acute illness.
By oligotherapy examines what is the mineral that is lacking and provided minimal doses of minerals that tend to normalize any alteration of metabolism.
These practices were discovered in the thirteenth century almost by accident when doctors gave to patients with goiter marine sponges and without knowing why, patients healed. Many years later it was learned that it was due to iodine-containing.
In 1894 provided for the first time the role of manganese necessary for the development of organisms such as fungi. Until then trace impurities were considered without any role.
Depending on the availability of trace elements in our body, Oligoterapia recognizes four different states in the functioning of the agency:
- Hyperactive syndrome: When the regulatory systems operating in excess metabolism is related to the level of manganese
- Hyporesponsive syndrome: When the regulatory systems fail to operate sufficiently. (Manganese and copper)
- Dystonic syndrome: regulation systems operate in a disorderly manner or inappropriate. (Manganese, cobalt)
- Anergic syndrome: This is when the control systems stop working almost completely. (Copper, gold, silver)