autointoxication , auch: autotoxaemia BrE , auch: autotoxemia AmE

He also believed that autointoxication could be the root cause of certain mental disorders.

This concept is known as autointoxication.

The culprit was intestinal stasis, leading to that horror of horrors, autointoxication.

Autointoxication can almost always be prevented.

One of the main theories behind colon cleansing is an ancient belief called the theory of autointoxication.

It's a sort of post-combat autointoxication, I guess."

But eyestrain doesn't create an autointoxication.

They generally proceed harmoniously, but if they do not there results an autointoxication of the mother which is called a toxemia.

The dread eye disease of glaucoma is due, says Hauser, to "autointoxication, faulty foods, and worry."

Ernst E: Colonic irrigation and the theory of autointoxication: a triumph of ignorance over science.

With them, as with other presidents he has studied, "there's a degree of autointoxication," Mr. Dallek said.

In the 19th century, studies in biochemistry and microbiology seemed to support the autointoxication hypothesis, and mainstream physicians promoted the idea.

Autointoxication meant that toxins from backed-up, rotting wastes were seeping into their bloodstreams, poisoning their bodies and minds.

Colonic irrigation as a treatment for autointoxication fell out of favor after excessive advertising claims led many people to write off the treatment as quackery.

This resurrects the old medical concept of 'autointoxication' which was orthodox doctrine up to the end of the 19th century but which has now been discredited.

Greeks and Egyptians believed in autointoxication, and the concept was popular in the United States in the early 20th century, too.

These byproducts, called "toxins", are said to build up in the cells and cause cancer and other diseases through a process sometimes called autointoxication or autotoxemia.

The American Medical Association largely ridiculed colon cleansing and the idea that toxins are responsible for illness, and the theory of autointoxication plummeted in popularity.

Additionally, physiological theories of "autointoxication" were explored in the pre-1940 era of US psychiatry, but Southard had long rejected these.

Sadler's early writings about health are similar to ideas advanced by John Kellogg, including the concept of autointoxication, and the idea that caffeine has negative health effects.

The underlying theory-that there is only one cause for disease and that cause is autointoxication resulting from intestinal obstruction - is "false" and "absurd"

Meyer was skeptical of autointoxication and focal infection theories (then viewed as the cutting edge concept of scientific medicine)as biological causes of behavioral abnormalities.

The condition is brought about by loss of muscular tone, particularly of the abdominal muscles, intestinal autointoxication, with relaxation of the ligaments which hold the viscera in place.

Doctors have long said that autointoxication causes clouding of consciousness and that this autointoxication is what is responsible for hepatic encephalopathy.

In 1868 he introduced his theory of "autointoxication", of which he speculated that "self-infection" originating in the intestines could be a source of disease elsewhere in the human body.