Diaphragm is second heart.

The diaphragm is the second heart

The history of the pathophysiology of the diaphragm is both funny and extremely sad. The clinic is   known, of course, diaphragmatic pleurisy, diaphragmatic paralysis, abscesses under the abdominal obstruction. Not particularly important is the muscle that plays a role in breathing! Here's how they say about her, by the way. Pathologists described in pulmonary emphysema hypotrophy of the muscles of the diaphragm, ending with atrophy and fatty degeneration of the muscle. Diaphragm atrophy also occurs after phrenicotomy. Known changes in the diaphragm after emphysema, peritonitis, purulent pericarditis. 

 With trichinosis, the diaphragm, muscles of the tongue, pectoral and intercostal muscles are most captured by parasites. In scurvy, especially in adults, significant bleeding may occur in the muscles of the diaphragm; typhoid fever can be complicated by foci of necrosis in the same muscle. Paralysis of the diaphragm during the development of poliomyelitis is also known: this is Landry's ascending paralysis, which soon causes asphyxia. But the pathophysiological role of the diaphragm in the development of chronic diseases is completely ignored by the medical literature.

Let's consider the diaphragm carefully and try to summarize its activity, taking into account its effect on various functions of the body. In a healthy body, the diaphragm makes 18 vibrations in one minute. It moves 2 cm up and 2 cm down. On average, the range of motion of the diaphragm is 4 cm. 18 vibrations per minute, which means 1000 per hour and 24,000 per day! Now think about the work done by this muscle, the most powerful in our body, and about the impressive area that descends like a perfect pressure pump, squeezing the liver, spleen, intestines, revitalizing all portal and abdominal circulation.

By constricting all the blood and lymph vessels in the abdomen, the diaphragm empties the venous system and pushes blood forward to the chest. This is the second venous heart.

The number of movements of the diaphragm per minute is a quarter of the number of movements of the heart. But its hemodynamic pressure is much stronger than the contractions of the heart, because the surface of this pump is much larger and it pushes the blood much stronger than the heart.

It is enough to imagine the surface of the diaphragm once to agree with the fact that, possessing this muscle, we have at least a second heart, and maybe something somewhat larger.

Physiologists should start by establishing an accurate balance of blood flow by the diaphragm in parallel with cardiac flow, by determining the role of the diaphragm in emptying the blood lakes of the liver and spleen, which under certain conditions, for example, during cold weather, can keep from 30 to 50% of the total volume of circulating blood; and also to elucidate the role of the diaphragm as a pump when pushing lymph into the thoracic duct and its role in the systematic contraction of intestinal villi - the only place of general metabolism where the mysterious transformation of indigestible nutrients into assimilable nutrients destined for tissues and cells occurs.

The diaphragm is a good mill that works to nourish the body. By systematically compressing the liver, the diaphragm facilitates, and perhaps directs, the flow of bile, provides blood circulation to the liver and indirectly affects all its functions: glycogenic, urea-forming, antitoxic, lipopexy, proteopexy, etc.

If one does not forget the role of the diaphragm in the entire physiology of the liver, then it is easy to understand the relative value of various functional studies of the liver, because, unfortunately, the result of tests made on an isolated liver is taken as decisive tests, and an isolated liver exists only in the imagination of laboratory enthusiasts.

By improving the functioning of the diaphragm, the liver function is also always restored, in spite of any, even catastrophic, indications. Conversely, if, with a successful treatment, the increase in the volume of the liver and spleen is reduced, then this contributes to both a decrease in the delay in the function of the diaphragm and an increase in its movements.

What tools do we have to release the blocked diaphragm and increase its range of motion and overall productivity?

1. First of all, it is necessary to reduce the volume of the liver and spleen, which, in fact, from the point of view of blood circulation, are a close functional synergy in the general portal irrigation and are closely interrelated.

To do this, take three days of each month half an hour before lunchtime sodium sulfate (Glauber's salt) - on the first day, one teaspoon (4 g), on the second and third days, 1/4 teaspoon of Glauber's salt dissolved in 200 ml of mineral (Essentuki No. 4) or boiled water. Thus, lavage and cleansing of the blood, lymph and bile capillaries of the liver is achieved. A decrease in the volume of the liver will automatically lead to a decrease in the volume of the spleen.

 2. Systematically apply a fairly hot heating pad to the liver area for at least 40 minutes 3 times a day after each main meal in cases where the liver and spleen are very enlarged, and only 1-2 times a day in less serious cases. Heating pads are usually used to relieve abdominal pain. But in reality, they need to be used to avoid abdominal pain.

The enlarged liver and spleen raise the diaphragm and make it immobile. Too raised the diaphragm compresses both bases of the lungs and causes alveolar and circulatory congestion at the bases of the lungs. The use of heating pads achieves better ventilation and the disappearance of stagnation with their consequences (bronchitis, foci of pulmonary inflammation, emphysema).

You need to rinse, you need to warm, you need to feed the liver with sugar. By warming up the liver, raising the blood temperature in the blood lakes of the liver and spleen, we activate blood circulation in the hepatic and splenic capillaries and achieve an increase in the volume of circulating blood.

The influx of thermal energy reduces the need for increased nutrition. This simple and cheap procedure has invaluable preventive value when applied systematically over months and years. After 2-4 weeks of such a simple therapy, the diaphragm begins to unblock, its movements become fuller and stronger. Breathing, circulation, general nutrition are improved for the benefit of the whole organism. I do not know of a simpler, deeper and more effective treatment than applying a heating pad to the liver area. You wash your face and hands every day, and you also need to flush your liver daily. You need to warm up your liver if you want to live longer and get sick less often.

"Airing" the human body

To exist and lead an active life, a healthy person needs from 2500 to 3000 calories per day, plus one and a half liters of non-alcoholic liquids. A healthy person consumes 11,000 liters of air a day, containing 360 liters of oxygen. The human body must have this amount of air at every moment of life (16-18 breaths and exhalations per minute).

If you ponder these ratios a little, you will understand the life-giving effect of chest wraps, the value of careful chest auscultation, with which you can determine the degree of ventilation of the lungs (while X-rays could sometimes be avoided), and, finally, the pathogenic value general or local hypoxia. You will replace breathing in oxygen with breath-activating wraps and intramuscular injections of camphor, which dilate the pulmonary capillaries.

Blood composition and its changes

Each organ is irrigated with blood capillaries and lymphatic capillaries. Hematologists believe that the same blood of the same composition, with the same chemical constituents, circulates in all organs. Is this physiological axiom correct? Isn't there a miraculous chemical mutation in blood that changes depending on the location? Is there not a sudden change in the biochemical properties of blood, which supplies each organ with a specific substance necessary for its specific functions?

In the lungs, the blood gives off carbon dioxide, and itself is supplied with oxygen. In the liver, the same blood leaves the breakdown products of hemoglobin in the form of biliverdin and bilirubin, which pass into bile, and is supplied with cholesterol; in the kidney, the blood makes a difficult way for itself in the 300,000 glomeruli, directing its plasma through the walls of the capillaries (200 liters of blood in 24 hours), and again takes 90% of the substances filtered in the convoluted tubules. In the intestinal villi, the blood takes part in the continuous hydrolysis of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and is supplied with nutrients; in the muscles, it is freed from its glycogen and is supplied with lactic acid; in the brain, blood forms cerebrospinal fluid; it brings tiny building blocks to the endocrine glands for building hormones; everywhere blood does a strictly specific job.

This work, naturally, is carried out with the assistance of specific cells of the parenchymal tissue. But blood, changing its composition in each organ, retains at the same time its chemical individuality. And she manages to do all this for 23-27 s, repeating this work in her mobile laboratory for 70-80 years.

Could there be a miracle more unlikely than the life of blood? We must admit that there are regional changes in the composition of the blood, invisible to us, but highly effective.