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Methods using exposure to an artificially altered air environment
Last reviewed: 07.07.2025
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Aeroionotherapy is a method of influencing the human body through the respiratory tract and skin with electrically charged gas molecules (aeroions) or combined molecules of water and gas (hydroaeroions).
With this method of exposure, the ratio of the number of positive ions to the number of negative ions in 1 cm3 ( unipolarity coefficient) should be equal to 0.1-0.2, i.e. an increased content of negative ions is necessary.
The peculiarities of the method’s action are determined by the influence of negatively charged ions on the skin and mucous membrane of the respiratory tract due to the resulting electrodynamic changes in these tissues, followed by a cascade of corresponding reactions and clinical effects.
Main clinical effects: local anesthetic, bronchodilatory, vasoactive, metabolic, bactericidal.
Equipment: AF-3-1, FA-5-3, AIR-2, KKI-2M, Serpukhov-1, GAI-4, GAI-4U, various versions of the Chizhevsky chandelier.
Aerosol therapy is a method of influencing the human body through the respiratory tract (inhalation therapy) or skin with various drugs in the form of aerosols or electroaerosols. The specifics of the method are associated with the entry of drugs into the body through the respiratory tract or are due to an increase in the area of contact of these substances in the form of aerosols with the skin and mucous membranes.
The main clinical effects are determined by the potentiated action of the corresponding drug.
Equipment - various inhalers, closed (individual) and open (group) type aerosol generators.
Halotherapy is a method of inhalation of sodium chloride aerosols into the human body, carried out in special rooms - halochambers.
The concentration of sodium chloride in the halochamber is 5-15 mg/ m3, 80% of which has aerosol sizes of less than 5 µm. The air temperature in the halochamber is 20-22 °C, the relative air humidity is 40-70%.
The peculiarities of the method's action are associated with the entry into the body through the respiratory tract of finely dispersed solid particles of sodium chloride, which helps restore the normal osmolarity of the secretion of the bronchi and bronchioles, and reduces the secretory function of the bronchial mucosa.
Main clinical effects: bronchodilatory, secretolytic, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic.
Equipment - appropriately equipped rooms - halochambers.
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