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MOFETTE THERAPY AND CO 2 WATERBATHS FOR ARTERIOSCLEROSIS OBLITERANS
Author(s) -
Hadnagy CS.,
Balogh L.,
Krepsz I.,
Benedek G.,
Brassai Z.,
Csorba L.,
Andras E.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1970.tb02808.x
Subject(s) - medicine , balneotherapy , arteriosclerosis obliterans , arteriosclerosis , blood circulation , foot (prosody) , collateral circulation , physical therapy , surgery , traditional medicine , pathology , alternative medicine , linguistics , philosophy
A bstract Although for centuries balneotherapy has been popular in Europe, it has not attained wide acceptance in the United States. This article is an interesting sidelight on a specific means of inducing therapeutic vasodilatation. In Covasna, Rumania, post‐volcanic CO 2 gas emanations are used in the form of mofette therapy (twice daily) and CO 2 waterbaths (about once daily) for the treatment of rheumatic diseases. This study concerns 40 male geriatric patients with arteriosclerosis obliterans, whose symptoms improved markedly during treatment. In each, the state of the circulation in the big toe of an affected foot was evaluated by means of radioactivity measurements after injection of I 131 —both before and after therapy. The results indicated that the arterial blood supply to the feet was definitely enhanced after CO 2 therapy, thus promoting the formation of collateral circulation.