Homeopathic mesotherapy, Lipolytic homeopathich mesotherapy, Anti-flab mesotherapeutic homeopathy.

HOMEOPATHIC MESOTHERAPY

In the first place, speaking of Homeopathic Mesotherapy is something that fills me with pride. It is, of course, the result of many years of evolution, of many mistakes and, therefore, of many hours of work, which in the end, as always, bear fruit and enable us to keep on working with a certain guarantee of safety and effectiveness, which up until now we did not enjoy.

When we started out on our career using the Mesotherapeutic technique (which now amounts to over fifteen years’ experience of using same) we found ourselves forced to employ allopathic medicines, which were available to us at that time, as a conventional therapeutic arsenal. At scientific meetings and conferences, we learned of new formulae and active principles that we subsequently tried out and added to our own private Mesotherapeutic vademecum. Paradoxically, at all of the Mesotherapy fora we made special efforts in providing our mesotherapeutic technique with the greatest degree of safety possible, and this could only be achieved by insisting that all of the medicines to be used for this method of administration were to comply with the “Criteria for Use”, which we referred to in due detail in an earlier chapter. Nevertheless, the sad truth is that the medicines that were available to us back then seldom complied with aforesaid criteria, consequently, along with the unquestionable successes we had with our treatments, we had to face up to a large number of problems in our surgeries as a result of side effects provoked by the medicines that we were using. These side effects brought with them another unfortunate consequence, namely, the discrediting to which Mesotherapy became subject, both with respect to fellow doctors, who deemed it to be an unsafe technique and to be very risky, as well as the general female population, (we must not lose sight of the fact that Mesotherapy was mainly used in cosmetic treatments), who did not trust a technique which could have undesirable side effects.

These circumstances, which I will not go so far as to qualify as critical, but which were worrying, coincided with the appearance of the first injectable homeopathic medicines. At first, they had been designed as single strains (formed by only one compound), which I personally began to use in my Aesthetic Medicine surgery. After many attempts and different combinations, little by little, homeopathic formulations were being designed, which finally came to constitute my therapeutic arsenal in Mesotherapy. I managed to achieve the same results with these as I did with conventional allopathic medicines, but with the added advantage of the complete absence of side effects.

This is due to a single premise, which to my way of thinking is fundamental, and that is that homeopathic injectable medicines comply with the “10 Criteria for Use” of any medicine to be administered Mesotherapeutically:

1.- All injectable homeopathic products are hydrosoluble.

They are always isotonic water solutions.

2.- All injectable homeopathic products are Isotonic.

There is no chance whatsoever of damage to tissue by means of ionic disorders or osmolarity conflicts.

3.- All injectable homeopathic products are Perfectly tolerated by the tissues:

Absence of Nodules.

Absence of local necrosis.

They cannot provoke titrate lysis.

They cannot produce abscesses.

4.- All injectable homeopathic products are completely integrated into the tissue.

They do not contain protean molecules.

They do not generate antibodies.

They have no antigenic power.

5.- No injectable homeopathic product can provoke either allergies or hypersensitivities.

There are no molecules that can explain an allergic or hypersensitive reaction.

6.- No injectable homeopathic product ever uses oily vehicles.

There is no chance whatsoever of polyolic thrombosis.

7.- All injectable homeopathic products are perfectly compatible with each other.

Always the same pH.

They do not precipitate among each other.

They devoid of opalescence and iridescence.

Complete miscibility among each other.

8.- No injectable homeopathic product can provoke either interactions or antagonisms between each other.

No homeopathic product can annul or cancel the effects of another.

9.- Homeopathic injectable products can possess a perfect synergism of their constituent components.

We can prepare mixtures with products that boost each other.

10.- Acknowledged efficacy.

30 million users in Europe.

Recognition from the European Parliament.

Inclusion in Public Health Systems.

Therefore, we are dealing here with combining maximum safety with a zero possibility of undesirable effects. Consequently, we endow our technique with all of the possible guarantees that all medical actions must possess: effectiveness and safety.

There is an unquestionable statistical reality which reveals to us that 95% of Mesotherapy sessions are carried out within the context of the Aesthetic Medicine Surgery, or in pain relief treatments. Within the scope of these treatments, the combinations that are formulated are seeking an anti-cellulitic, a lipolytic or an analgesic – anti-inflammatory effect. As a result, when it comes to doing research into standardised homeopathic mixtures, our initial focus was to meet the main needs that arose from our Aesthetic Medicine Surgery. This is how the homeopathic formulae that I currently use most often, and which many fellow colleagues use in their surgeries, came about.

ANTI-CELLULITIC HOMEOPATHIC MESOTHERAPY

Before concentrating in greater detail on the mesotherapeutic treatment of cellulitis, we need to review the multi-aetiological character of this pathology. We referred to this in Chapter 6, and here I only wish to reiterate the fact that there are always multiple factors involved in the appearance of cellulitis (endocrinal, genetic, enzymatic, dietetic, toxic, vascular, etc.). On account of the multi-aetiological character of the problem, I am still unable to understand the obsession that many seem to have with treating the cellulitis solely with lipolytic products (we mentioned these in the chapter on Mesotherapy), while overlooking the rest of the factors that help to provoke it. If there is a fatty component, and I might add that the majority of the cases that we are presented with in our surgeries present a cellulitis with an associated fatty component, we do not worry ourselves overly about this circumstance. Fortunately, we have a homeopathic product that will act as a lipolytic (Metabolites), we simply add it to the mixture, and the problem is solved. Notwithstanding, that is not to say that we are going to solve the lipolytic problem solely by means of the lipolytic agent.

Whenever I want to treat an area with a cellulitic component, I use a product called LIPODISTROFIN, and if we read the composition of the aforesaid carefully, as well as the detailed indications of each one of these components we will understand why:

Dosage and frequency:

The maximum dosage I use per session is 4 cc (two ampoules). I make 3-4mm-deep papules, covering as much of the affected area as I can. If this area is very big, I leave a greater space between one and the other papule, but as a norm, I do not use a larger number of ampoules.

The frequency and number of sessions is quite a random matter, and although it is a question very often asked in meetings, I always give the same answer: it depends on the intensity of the process, of the medical criterion and, why hide the fact, on the patient’s possibilities. In the interests of proposing a guideline, we can say that the norm would be as follows: 4 to 6 sessions a week, 4 to 6 sessions every fortnight, and very importantly, the holding of “maintenance sessions” once a month for about 4 to 6 months.

If, in addition to the cellulitic component, there is a fatty component, something which we come across quite frequently, I mix a LIPODISTROFIN ampoule with a METABOLITES one, thus I manage to provide an anti-cellulitic and a lipolytic treatment in the same session.

“VASCULAR AXES” technique

This is an extremely easy technique to perform, and it is one which perfectly complements anti-cellulitic treatment with mesotherapy. It is used when there is a large component of venous return insufficiency. Moreover, it complements the phytotherapeutic and the physiotherapeutic treatments that we will be using to treat the varicose problem, whether or not there is any cellulitis trouble .

It consists of making small papules with a LIPODISTROFIN ampoule along the whole length of both saphena veins, from the groin down to the distal area at the ankle malleoli.

I use just one ampoule per session, and the result is often surprising, giving the fact that it cures the varicose symptomatology practically immediately. On the other hand, when the circulatory pathology co-exists with the cellulitic problem, combining this technique with the normal mesotherapeutic sessions, is going to enable us to speed up the treatment, and see results much sooner. Notwithstanding, the simple decrease in the vascular symptoms suffices in itself to justify its use.

LIPOLYTIC HOMEOPATHICH MESOTHERAPY

As we have already commented, whenever we need to activate or increase the general lipolytic level of the body, or when we wish to focus on specific areas of the accumulation of fats, we use a homeopathic complex called METABOLITES.

It is composed of the following:

Graphites D 10, D 30, D 200

Levothyroxine D 12

Fucus Vesiculosus D 6

Adenosine – 5´- triphosphate dinatrium salt (ATP) D 8

3´, 5´- Adenosine – Hydrogenphosphate (AMP c) D 6

Acid 3, 5, 3´- Triyodothyroacetic acid D 6, D 8.

At a general level, METABOLITES works on the tendency of the organism to adiposis and fatty accumulations. At a peripheral level, it acts on the intra-adipocyte lipolytic cascade supporting the energy consumer systems, increasing lipolytic enzyme production (triglyceride - lipases) and favouring the activation of cyclic AMP, stimulating its synthesis and inhibiting its degrading enzymes, the phosphodiesterase.

METABOLITES is a homeopathic product indicated as an adjuvant to treat obesity in all the manners that it might manifest itself (general, localised, either predominantly male or female, etc.), as well as in the most common dyslipidemias that normally accompany the obesity problem: Hypercholesterolemia, Hypertriglyceridemia, Hyperlipidemia, etc.

In the following diagram, we can observe the levels at which the different METABOLITES components operate:

We can see how we act on practically all of the key points of the lipolytic cascade, either by potentiating or boosting factors, or by impeding the degradation of same.

Dosage and frequency:

The guidelines to be followed with respect to dosage are similar to those we mentioned when dealing with LIPODISTROFIN. If we are treating localised obesities I use 2 ampoules of METABOLITES per Mesotherapeutic session, beginning with one session a week for 4 to 6 sessions, and then following up with fortnightly sessions. This is quite an open recommendation, in the sense that it is going to depend a great deal on the characteristics of the patient to be treated and of the fatty volume that we are treating. Quite often, weekly Mesotherapeutic sessions are held for up to three months. As I have already intimated, it is quite a random matter. Nevertheless, what I am consistent in doing is only having one Mesotherapeutic session a week.

In cases of severe obesity, I supplement the Mesotherapy with a weekly intake of two METABOLITES, either before breakfast and dissolved in some water, or dissolved in a large glass of water to be drunk throughout the course of the morning.

It is quite important to clearly recognise the fact that METABOLITES is not an "Anti-cellulitic", given that it does not act on any of its determining factors. Notwithstanding, it must be used in combination with LIPODISTROFIN in those cases of cellulitis with fatty accumulations in the same area.

I wish to present you with a study (the first one carried out on a worldwide level), which has been carried out in accordancw wtih all of the strictest scientific criteria, and which can boast of containing all the necessary guarantees of scientific rigour and impartiality.

TITLE:

Therapeutic effectiveness and subchronic oral toxicity of the homeopathic product known as Metabolites® in Wistar rats.Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain.

Authors: Morales R., Villalobos A and Baguer AJ

MATERIAL AND METHOD

The homeopathic test substance Metabolites® (Fucus vesiculosus, D6; Graphites, D10, D30, D200; Levothyroxine, D12; ATP, D8; AMP, D6; Tiratricol (D.C.I.), D10, D12)

POPULATION

Control group: 14 Wistar rats
Treated group: 14 Wistar rats, to which an ampoule (2cc) of the homeopathic preparation known as Metabolites is administered in the water being drunk by same, on a daily basis for 27 weeks.

Duration of the study: 33 weeks

“Ad libitum” feeding and identical conditions as far as temperature, humidity, lighting and handling conditions are concerned with respect to both groups.

Anthropometric tests
Complete analytic tests, including hormonal analyses
Complete anatamopathological study on finishing the study
Assessment of abdominal fat
Assessment of muscle infiltrated fat
Assessment of total fat, protein, and ash percentages

RESULTS:

In the treated group:

Evident loss of weight (Lipolytic effect) (Chart 1)

Decrease of muscle infiltrated fat (Chart 2)

Decrease of abdominal fat percentage (Chart 3)

Decrease of total fat and increase in the protean percentage (Chart 4)

In both groups:

Analytical signs in line with normal values
Anatomopathological study without changes

DISCUSSION:

Lipolytic effect demonstrated
Total absence of side effects
Absence of placebo effect
Complete absence of toxicity

It is extremely important to stress, with respect to the results, apart from the effects revealed, the question of the “absence of a placebo”, given that obviously there can be no placebo if we are dealing with animals. This is a feature of the test that can be used from now on to refute the accusations made by “official” sectors against the Medicine. Such groups have tried to run down and disparage Homeopathy by claiming that if it does cure patients, it merely does so because of the placebo effect.

ANTI-FLAB MESOTHERAPEUTIC HOMEOPATHY

A problem we face everyday in our Aesthetic Medicine clinics or surgeries is the treatment of so-called “flabby” cellulitis. We tackle aesthetic problems produced by the localised accumulation of fat with lipolytic Mesotherapy treatments, and in the same way as cellulitis, that is to say, by means of microcirculatory active products. Notwithstanding, against the problem of flabbiness our therapeutic strategies are implemented by the use of apparatus that activates muscular functioning, or by recommending that our patients do certain exercises to potentiate particular muscles. However, the reality is that at the moment, we have no specific product that we can combine with our conventional anti-cellulitic treatment which would truly help to improve the quality of the muscle groups that are affected by this problem. Furthermore, I consider the use of anabolic steroids, both ethically and legally to be wholly unacceptable for this purpose.

Another essential problem is, I feel, how to “objectively measure” the results achieved in our regular patients, without having to inevitably resort to a one’s “subjective” opinion of same. For this very reason, when it comes to planning an anti-flab treatment that can be recorded accurately, objectively and which can be “measured”, we have resorted to a population group in which the parameters concerned with strength gain, mass, resistance, and muscular quality can be used as a measure of comparison with the aesthetic problems related to flabbiness that we come across in our daily consultations, given that the end purpose, that is to say, an increase in muscular quality, is the same.

The experiment group is made up of 32 male athletes with ages ranging from 22 to 37. These individuals have been practising body-building since they were at least 4 years old, all following more or less the same training programs and using the same techniques. The following tests were carried out after 6 weeks and at the end of the study, that is to say, in the 12th week: Body Mass Index and Weight, Lean Body Mass Index , Measurement test of “pure strength” and Measurement test of “Resistance strength”. Over the course of the twelve-week study, all the athletes followed a standard diet of 3000 Kcal., distributed in not less that five mealtimes or intake times a day. They took 6 SIMILDIET AMINO ACID capsules a day as a diet supplement. These were distributed over three intakes of two capsules, along with two BORONEGRA pills (vitamin, mineral, anti-oxidant and essential fatty acid supplement) at breakfast and two with the midday meal. We treated 16 athletes with a homeopathic preparation called MUSCLEBIG. This was in the form of an ampoule, injected intra-muscularly 3 days a week, while the second group did not receive any such treatment, given that it was considered to be the experiment control group.

The homeopathic preparation comes in injectable ampoules, which can also be taken orally. They are composed of all of the biocatalysers and Krebs Cycle intermediate substances, such as stimulants and activators of the mitochondrial enzymatic functions, as well as the homeopathic components that intervene in the correct development of the striated muscle, states of fatigue and adynamia, states of exhaustion, suprarenal glandular regulation, the stimulation of the muscular protean synthesis and of the connective tissue.

The results confirm an increase of the Body Mass Index in the group treated, a statistically significant increase of the Lean Mass Index and a decrease in the Body Fat Mass with respect to the group that did not receive the treatment. As far as the results obtained in the strength assessment test are concerned, we observe an important increase in the “Resistance Strength” tests in the athletes treated, which could demonstrate a modulating stimulant in the intermediate links of the Krebs cycle in aerobic activities in which the correct functioning of the cellular respiratory mechanisms constitute the main limiting factor in the optimum response of the athlete.

This overall improvement of the muscular quality, made objective by means of the aforementioned study, is what we are finding subjectively in our daily treatments of flabbiness accompanied by cellulitic problems or localised obesities, which we are systematically treating with homeopathic mesotherapy.

Our standard action protocols are, in the cases of flabby cellulitis, a weekly session of mesotherapy, mixing a MUSCLEBIG ampoule with a LIPODISTROFIN one in the same syringe, and if we need some lipolytic action we add a METABOLITES ampoule to the mixture (given the fact that they are homeopathic preparations and thus display perfect mutual compatibility). The concept of the homeopathic product, by its very definition, assures us of the total absence of side effects or contraindications. We always practice mesotherapy after a muscular stimulation session with excitomotory currents. We recommend that our patients do some complementary exercise (Gym exercises, Aerobics, Cycling, Swimming, etc.) two or three times a week, and we prescribe the taking of 60 drops of MUSCLEBIG – ORAL, dissolved in a finger measure of water, every day, if possible before breakfast, or before taking the exercise.

The results that we are obtaining can be qualified as extremely satisfactory and extremely gratifying as far as or patients are concerned, given that, thanks to the homeopathic stimulus, they obtain assessable results from their exercise much quicker and with less effort. On the other hand, it is important to stress the fact that we have not come up with any type of collateral side effect, nor with any intolerance in any of the patients that were treated, as we expected of course, given that we are dealing with a homeopathic product, or mixture of several homeopathic products.