ARTIFICIAL AIR IONISATION AS A THERAPEUTIC FACTOR FOR PATIENTS WITH HYPERTENSIVE DISEASE AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA

St. Michajlov, E. Manova and G. Iliev
Institute of Kurortology,
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation,
OVTCA-KUPEL, SOFIA, 1618 BULGARIA

The authors studied the capacity of a new Bulgarian negative air ion generator designed for group inhalation therapy. The investigations were carried out on 30 subjects with bronchial asthma and 83 hypersensitive disease. Each treatment session lasted about 3 hours with a concentration of 5000-15000 negative air ions/cm3.

After 20 treatments the asthmatic attacks completely disappeared in 29 asthmatic patients; the vital capacity and forced expiratory volume increased an average of 337ml and 405ml, respectively, and the diffusion capacity improved by 9%.

It was also found that the subjective complaints in the patients with hypersensitive disease decreased or completely disappeared. Their arterial autonomic nervous system was observed.

AN APPARATUS FOR MEASUREMENT OF ION AND ELECTRO-AEROSOLS CONCENTRATION IN A NARROW INTERVAL OF MOBILITY

Read at the Proceeding of the Eighth Biometerological Congress: 9-15 September, 1979.

Published In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEROLOGY 1980