EUROMEDICA  Hanover 29-30  Mai 2006	Advanced methods of diagnosis, treatment and prophylactics
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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The great interest of both physicians and inhabitants to nonconventional therapies is demonstrated in Russia for last decade. From one hand this interest can be explained with the high prices for remedies and numerous side-effects when pharmacotherapy was used. From another hand the increase of a number of scientific papers in medical journals where successful results when various pathologies were treated with acupuncture chiropractic etc. become an additional stimulus to rise those interest.

However, the division of therapies on orthodox and nonconventional ones is presented in Russia. The absence of profound scientific studies of curative effects of numerous methods of nonconventional therapies supports a scepticism in representatives of orthodox medicine to nonconventional therapies. This situation is considered to be an obstacle on the way to broad use of integrated healthcare in Russian medical practice.

Mentality of Russian orthodox physicians can be changed only when methodological aspects of both orthodox and nonconventional medicine will be clear to everybody. First it is necessary to stress that the main goal for both of medical branches is the restoration of homeostasis which was changed during disease. However the specificity in normalization of homeostasis can be observed when methods of orthodox medicine and nonconventional therapies are used.

Curative effects of numerous methods in nonconventional therapies which were based on selfregulatory principle can be explained via influence on “internum” of an organism. As for orthodox medicine – its methods also include the effects on environmental agents when so-called ethiological or causal therapy is used.

One can easily find that methods of orthodox medicine act according to one of Hippocrates principle “ contraria contraribus curantur”, when the basic principle of homoeopathy, one of nonconventional therapy, is the other Hippocrates one “similia similibus curantur”.

Those specificities for othodox and nonconventional medicine let to support an idea to combined use of methods of above mentioned therapies in practice and that nonconventional therapies can be not only alternative but also complementary to orthodox medicine.

Now there are some examples when integrated healthcare is more effective in therapy of various diseases in comparison when isolated methods of orthodox and nonconvemtional medicine were used.

Combination of acupuncture, homoeopathy and psychopharmacology was found to be very effective in the cases of psychosomatic and somatopsychic pathologies (A. Mikhailova, 2003). Complex manual therapy and homoeopathy were demonstrated good resuls to decrease pain in the cases of osteochondrosis (A. Kartzev, 1992). Dystrophic diseases of vertebra and leg joints were successfully treated when manual therapy, electroneurostimulation and neuroorthopaedic therapies were used (V. Frolov, 2005). Ishemic heart disease were curative better on 15-17% when acupuncture together with routine pharmacotherapy were used in comparison with isolated drug therapy (I. Paltzeva, 1995, O. Iljina, 1998). Those data with the increasing papers about positive results obtained when combined therapies of various diseases are used let to hope that understanding of Russian physicians that nonconventional therapies are complementary ones towards the orthodox medicine will lead to more productive achievements in medical practice.