From the point of view of the therapeutic use of trace elements, more than the quantitative lack of them in nutrition, we must think of the numerous substances accumulated - pollution, drugs, chronic and degenerative diseases - which produce organo-metal complexes in the body very stable ketates, thus preventing any immobilized cation from causing any activity of a qualitative nature .
The oligotherapy intervention, providing again simple, highly dissociated and therefore ionized metal salts, obvious to this block allowing the regular continuation of the metabolic processes.
THE OLIGOELEMENTS ARE ESSENTIALLY CATALYZERS AND REGULATORS OF INDISPENSABLE VITAL PROCESSES IN THE NORMAL OPERATION OF OUR METABOLISM
MINERAL ELEMENTS are divided into
1. FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS whose presence in significant quantities is fundamental because they participate in construction and combustion and have a structural and energetic role and are: calcium, iron, chlorine, fluorine, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, silicon, sodium, sulfur
2. OLIGOELEMENTS OR MINERALS TRACES whose presence in small quantities plays the functional role of essential catalysts for normal metabolic activity and are: aluminum, silver, bismuth, cobalt, chromium, germanium, iodine, lithium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, gold, copper, selenium, vanadium, zinc.
Barzelius first used the word CATALYSIS - from the Greek "solution" - which means the acceleration effect that some substances impose on certain reactions. So the catalysts are minerals that change, increasing or decreasing, the speed of some chemical reactions, although they are irrelevant for their mass.
The use of trace elements in functional therapy is due exclusively to their catalytic effect and regulatory action : this role has been called by Ménétrier "an action of presence that allows, through a qualitative contribution, to regularize, facilitate, enhance and provoke of ionic exchanges and to rebalance the physical-chemical metabolism ".
Some associations of trace elements acquire a new and different therapeutic character from their components taken individually. Therefore by administering the first Manganese and the Copper afterwards to the same subject, we could never have the same effects as Manganese-Copper.
Among the single minerals or in associations that regulate endocrine disorders we recall:
- manganese-copper with thyme and spleen
- copper with parathyroids
- nickel-cobalt with pancreatic function
- zinc with diabetes
Elements that have a direct relationship with precise organic regulations:
- Cobalt regulates the neuro-vegetative system and the nervous system
- Copper-Gold-Silver increases the action of antibiotics and prolongs their effect
- Copper through its anti-infective activity can resolve even a viral infection if administered at regular intervals in the initial phase of the infection.
