Surgery – Truss – Perineal
Patent
1984-12-13
1986-10-28
Kamm, William E.
Surgery
Truss
Perineal
128362, 604 20, A61N 124
Patent
active
046192522
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a therapeutic method and therapeutic means for curing an affected part by applying a voltage to the human body.
Heretofore, it has been known that a voltage applied to a certain part of the human body stimulates the muscle in that part, activating the flow of the body fluids. On basis of this principle, there have been proposed several therapeutic apparatuses for applying a high voltage to the human body.
An example of such an apparatus is constructed such that a pair of positive and negative electrodes are arranged to interpose an affected part therebetween and applied with a comparatively high voltage. This type of apparatus, however, is dangerous unless it is used in a correct manner. Moreover, the apparatus itself is relatively large in size, so that the therapy cannot be performed except during a special treatment time at rest, because the electrodes have to be attached to the affected part.
This invention has been made in order to overcome the above-mentioned disadvantages. Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a therapeutic method and therapeutic means for curing an affected part by using a sheetlike battery that generates a voltage low enough not to endanger the human body.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The present inventor has developed a sheetlike battery as disclosed in the specification of PCT/JP84/00100 (corresponding to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 675,060, filed Dec. 7, 1984) and, during the investigation of various applications of this sheetlike battery, has accomplished the present invention.
That is, the present invention was accomplished on the basis of the finding of the present inventor that the sheetlike battery produces a remarkable therapeutic effect when the negative electrode side of the battery is placed in contact with an effected part of a body and attached thereto by an adhesive tape or the like.
According to the therapeutic method of the present invention, the negative electrode of the sheetlike bettery is placed in contact with an affected part, and the battery is attached to the skin with a covering member such as film that covers the positive electrode of the battery, thereby causing an electric current to flow from the positive electrode side to negative electrode side through the affected skin part.
The reasons why the above-mentioned therapeutic method achieves the therapeutic effects can be considered from various experiments of the present inventor, as follows:
(1) First, it is considered that when an electric energy flows through the human body, some kinds of disease germs and bacteria are killed or the activities thereof are suppressed.
That is, in the event that the negative electrode side of the sheetlike battery was attached onto an itchy erythema of athlete's foot by an adhesive tape, the itchiness was removed almost immediately. And, when the battery was removed after one day, the erythema has disappeared and did not appear again thereafter. It is assumed from this fact that the electric energy flowed through the erythema and killed the bacteria in that part.
(2) It is also considered that the body fluids and self-curing ingredients therein flow along with the movement of the electric energy and are absorbed into the body part to which the negative electrode of the battery abuts, so that skin diseases and the like at said body part are cured.
In the experiments conducted by the present inventor, it was observed that when the sheetlike battery is kept in contact with the affected part of the skin, a large amount of moisture (sweat) oozes out of the affected part. It is considered from this fact that the body fluids move along the flow of the electric energy and ooze out at the body part contacting the negative electrode of the sheetlike battery. As is well known, body fluids contain some ingredients which cure a wound and the like by themselves, so that it is considered that these ingredients are also drawn, like the above-mentioned moisture, to the body part contacting the negat
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patent: 1032324 (1972-07-01), Breakfield
patent: 4142521 (1979-03-01), Konikoff
patent: 4474570 (1984-10-01), Ariura et al.
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