Recently, vegetables have become a popular therapeutic practice, which is claimed to help a number of body systems. We decided to check that science is known about the benefits of such a hobby.
Feature - One of trends Tiktok autumn 2022. Video such Practices Get Hundreds thousands Likes And thousands comments. The Internet offer their services by carbonical vehicles - some work remotely, others full -time Groups are ready to put everyone on the nails. According to data service Profi.ru, only in Moscow almost 2000 such trainers. Google Trends Referes Request "Sadhu board" (the so -called special board with nails) to superpopular requests. Approvedthat standing on nails accelerates metabolism, regulates blood pressure, improves reproductive function, Displays slags and toxins (the myth of slag and toxins we are already Disassembled previously). Recommend This practice for the treatment of osteochondrosis, frequent colds, flat feet. Women this technique as They promise, reduce the symptoms of PMS and reduce pain during menstruation. Feature Recommend Even children. Moreover, referring to WHO data, supporters of this practice Reportthat “the impact on the points [on the feet] effectively helps at least 28 diseases, from headaches and depression and ending with allergic reactions, strokes and problems with the spine.” Principle This work Practices, How They tell Specialized sites, consists in availability On the feet of points, answering for the health of each of the organs. At the same time "cards" organs vary from site To site.
To begin with, let's deal with the physics of standing on the nails. Everyone knows that if you step on the nail, it will pierce the skin and enter the foot deep. This does not happen with practitioners, but not because they are special people. The fact is that the larger the area of the surface along which the weight is distributed, the lower the pressure at each particular point. By calculations The author of the Wired magazine Retta Allen, only 1394 nails with a 1 mm hat are required to distribute the weight of an adult man when lying down and not cause damage to his skin. For beginners standing on nails (and the standing surface is much smaller than for lying) Recommended Use planks in which 1070-1100 nails. That is, there really will not be penetrating wounds.
As for the potential therapeutic effect, the principle of vegetation is close to the principle of acupuncture, or reflexology, - ideas that, acting on certain points, you can redirect vital energy through some channels called meridians to the desired organ. At the same time acupuncture refers to alternative Medicine and her Therapeutic Effects They were not Confirmed in Most research. The British doctor Edzard Ernst, specializing in a scientific test of non -traditional medicine methods, and the popularizer of science Simon Singh in the joint book “Neither a wallet nor life. Non -traditional medicine under investigation " writethat scientists still have not found a single evidence of the existence of any meridians, or any vital energy. Moreover, in the blind research Patients the same evaluated the effect of the procedures carried out according to the rules of acupuncture, and from their imitation, that is, when they did not affect the points, but simply to an accidental place. In 2013, in the journal "Anesthesia and Analgesia" I went out The article by David Kolkhun, a professor from the University College of London, and Stephen Novella from the University of Yale called "Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo." In it, scientists summed up all the accumulated knowledge about acupuncture: “Since after more than 3,000 tests it was impossible to find consistent evidence [acupuncture’s effectiveness], it was time to surrender. It is extremely unlikely that the money that will be required to conduct another 3,000 tests will be spent not in vain. ”
What is surprising, but the review of WHO, which is reported by sites about vegetable vehicles, really exists. This Job 2003, in which experts actually designated diseases or conditions in which the acupuncture had a pronounced therapeutic effect. In addition to the already mentioned depression, headaches and allergies, pathologies such as dysentery, renal colic, hay fever and incorrect position of the fetus during childbirth were in this list. However, this report Passed harsh Criticism From the scientific community, was barely published. Moreover, two years later the same group of experts who announced the benefits of acupuncture issued another report on alternative medicine. It concerned states in which homeopathy showed the therapeutic effect (the report is absent on the WHO website, but Mentioned In other reports). And this report was also criticized by the scientific community for the fact that was “Frankly biased, that is, its authors relied on positive data,“ forgetting ”about negative research and systematic reviews. To date, a report on acupuncture absent On the official website of WHO. Data Kokrainovsky reviews (the largest base for evidence -based medicine) called quality evidence In the article pro acupuncture Extremely low And Mark Problems with design research.
To date, scientists agree that no parts of the feet can be associated with internal organs. The fact is that for communication in the human body exists Only two systems: nervous and endocrine. Scientists did not find nerves that would go directly from the feet to the liver, lungs or, for example, eyes. The work of the endocrine system is that the glands are released into the blood of hormones, which then affect the target organs. However, such a connection was revealed There was no.
At the same time, reflexotherapy and vegetation as its part still noted some positive effect. In defense of reflexology expressed Specialists of the British Society for Cancer Treatment: for example, self -massage of the head, as one of the areas of reflexology, according to self -report, helped women with breast cancer tolerate chemotherapy. Presumably, a positive effect can be associated with the release of endorphins - neurotransmitters of pleasure and a number of psychological factors. Endorphins stand out In many pleasant situations-for example, when we eat something tasty, we get massage or have sex. At the same time, endorphins are released in response to stress or pain - for example, during a difficult training in the gym or after an injury. Therefore, in general, standing on nails can be no less effective in terms of improving the psychological state than running or eating donuts. However, the therapeutic effect with somatic, that is, bodily, pathologies, neither donuts, nor run, nor nails do.
Thus, the popular vehicle practice can improve the psychological state, help relax or relax. However, you should not lay too many hopes on her, because its action is based on the release of endorphins. And if you do not like the thrills, then a plank with nails can be replaced with the same success with training in the gym, a romantic evening with a partner or using your favorite food.
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