It occurs on a predisposed ground, the difficulty being to apprehend it and to individualize the diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.

Spasmophilia is a common condition

Very painful for the patients in its severe forms, and too often treated with contempt. Like primary fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, with which it sometimes overlaps, it manifests as functional disorders contrasting with a normal clinical examination. There is a clear female predominance.

Spasmophilia is characterized by a wide variety of functional (i.e. reversible), neuromuscular and visceral spasmodic disorders, generated by and amplifying anxiety. It seems without cause or logic. The disease would occur in destabilized and genetically predisposed subjects; the symptoms would be revealed by an aggression (psychoaffective and/or physical) triggering intimate metabolic disturbances affecting exchanges between cells. These disorders are due much more to a disharmony of cellular exchanges than to real organic damage. In general, the assessments performed are usually negative. This non-objectifiable character of the disorders aggravates the anguish of the spasmophiliac who feels misunderstood by those around him.

Currently, an increasingly plausible and widespread hypothesis concerning the appearance of spasmophilia is that it has an environmental or geobiological energetic origin.

Polyfactorial, this affection would thus result from genetic factors and environmental factors cumulated, combined undoubtedly with mineral deficiencies (magnesium, potassium, silicon...), and, also with a progressive clogging of the cells by waste coming among others from the intestine.

Generally, high doses of magnesium are recommended, in the order of 500 to 1000 mg per day, given in the form of chloride or orotate, which are particularly well absorbed at the digestive and intestinal level.

Eating rice three times a week seems excellent, as rice is very rich in silicon. This mineral has the reputation of facilitating the entry of magnesium into the cells. In this problem, no mineral or vitamin (especially A, C and E) and trace element intake should be neglected. All these measures, together with a diet aimed at reducing tissue acidity, seem to reduce the frequency and intensity of attacks.

These measures are aimed at activating the functioning of deficient enzymes, whereas a diet low in toxins and acidifying foods is aimed at stopping the flow of intestinal waste, thus reducing the work that the enzymes must do. This therapy has been very successful in some patients and has failed in others. This suggests that spasmophilia actually encompasses several conditions in which enzyme and mineral deficiencies are variable.

Spasmophilia: tips.

The adapted and personalized treatment must be accompanied by a dietary reform essential to the correction of the spasmodic process that perpetuates the disease. This involves the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems, complementary and antagonistic components of the involuntary nervous system regulating all the body's functions. It is at this level that energetic reaction therapies act: acupuncture, homeopathy, sympathic therapy.

This fundamental dietary reform will maintain the integrity of cell membranes through the intake of unsaturated fatty acids and lecithins. On the other hand, an acidosis of the internal environment favors neuromuscular excitability and spasms, so it is necessary to opt for a maximum consumption of basifying foods.

The particularly wise spasmophile will thus limit the production of free radicals and fight against the excess of acid waste.

It may be wise to take regular courses of dietary supplements with an alkalizing purpose. Supplementation with various trace elements and vitamins, regulating enzymatic reactions, is also useful, certain associations being particularly indicated in the correction of spasmophilic conditions.