Tissue therapy is a method initially proposed by Filatov, that is based on a hypothesis of existing of biogenic stimulators (substances appearing in tissues exposed to unfavorable conditions) that stimulate inner powers of a treated organism. Filatov treated corneal opacity by human cornea transplantation. At the first, transplantation material was taken from humans who were having an eye surgically removed. Due to a shortage of supply, Filatov tried to use corneas from recently dead people. That did not lead to satisfying results. During experimental work he discovered that corpses' corneas, saved at 3-4 °C for several days, rather than used immediately, gave more positive results. Thus he succeeded in growing his practice in cornea transplantation.7
As it seemed to Filatov in the time of engaging in that practice, the method also cured a number of diseases not connected to corneal opacity. He suggested that a piece of tissue placed in unfavorable conditions (cold and darkness) which still do not kill it, changes its metabolism for producing some yet unknown compounds, that serve saving it alive as long as possible. He named them biogenic stimulators.8
Then he applied the same method to treating skin diseases, and (by 1933) he formulated main postulates of his doctrine of biogenic stimulators and tissue therapy.9
After Filatov, the biogenic stimulators teaching mostly developed into obtaining of biogenic extracts from different materials of animal and plant origin, including (but not limited to) placenta, vitreous body, aloe leaves, peloid from limans of the Black Sea and even peat. All biogenic extracts have common preparation technique: original material is exposed to specific cold temperatures for specific durations, then extraction is performed, the obtained extracts are packed in ampules and sterilized. These extracts are used subcutaneously as pharmaceutical and veterinary remedies in post-Soviet countries10 against inflammation, degeneration, atrophy, and other slow pathological processes.11
In America, the method was criticized and did not find much support and application.12
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