Abstract

CRUZ, YAMILE  and  FAYAD, RAMÓN. MICROTUBULES AND NEURAL THERAPY: PROPOSAL OF A PROMISSORY RESEARCH. rev.fac.med [online]. 2011, vol.19, n.1, pp.82-92. ISSN 0121-5256.

Neural therapy is a non-conventional medical practice in which the injection of local anesthetics (procaine and lidocaine) in concentrations in the range of 1 - 10 mg/ml, in quantities between 1-10 cm3 , is applied in different parts of the body with therapeutical but not anesthetics purposes. The mechanism of action of local anesthetics in this therapy is not known. The possible remote action and the electrical effect of procaine on the signal transport and on the membrane is normal potential recovery are very important issues in neural therapy, and a physico-chemical explanation of these phenomena is required. In this paper we propose that the propagation of signals in neural microtubules could be involved in the mechanism of action of procaine in neural therapy. We suggest some experimental studies in order to find a more rigorous scientific interpretation of the reported observations and of the remote effects that are assigned to the injection of procaine in neural therapy.

Keywords : neural therapy; microtubules; procaine; electrical permitivity.

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