Porphyry: myths and reality

There is no such disease, rare cases of the development of which so would have thrown by speculation like porphyria. That of these speculations is true, and what - myth? Answer you will find in this article.

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Recently, Professor did computation, suggesting that the first bloodthirstywolf appeared in 1600, when about 600 million people lived on Earth. He is the waswolf - bitten one, the one - the other and so on. Already two and a half years, according to the estimates of Ephtimue, everyone would be gamble and drank blood. And since this did not happen, there were no vampires. And no. We do not suck blood from each other.

Reality: The image of the vampire resembles a patient with porphyria

The first mention of vampires appeared at about a thousand years ago. In the Middle Ages, the legends became larger, as the weighborhood themselves. They were cailed and tens of thousands burned on fires, equating to the witches. At the same time, vampire signs appeared in the numerous works of the Inquisitors. They say, the view of them is terrible, the fangs stick out, the glance is crazy, the behavior is aggressive, afraid of daylight - hiding, go only at night, attack people and drink their blood.

The first attempt to figure out what could be the case, the British Dr. Lee Illis took. He suggested that the so-called vampires actually suffered a severe ailment - porphyria. And in the mid-80s, the doctor supported his colleague Professor Wayne Tikkanen. And after Ilis began to insist that «All European myths about vampires and werewolves had a real basis». What kind of?

Porphyria, they believe scientists, most likely, hereditary disease caused by some defect in genes affecting subcutaneous pigments.

Each living organism is saturated with pigments, so-called porphyrins. They enter, for example, in chlorophyll, giving green leaves, in hemoglobin, making our blood red. Failure in the genetic program violates the natural exchange of porphyrins. They accumulate under the skin and under the action of sunlight become catalysts that convert ordinary oxygen into the so-called singlet. And its molecules, as you know, destroy the cells.

- With a severe form of the disease, the affected fabrics urged and jarny the body, especially the limbs, distort from unrecognizability of the face of the face, make them frightening, - says Sergey Vasilyev. - Skin darkness. Dums are corrosive, exposing fangs. And porphyrins give them more blood-reddish tint. What seems to be in the blood can. At the same time, people are afraid of sunlight, from which painful belzes are arising on the skin. On the street only at night. Begins changes in the psyche...

The most important myth or porphyry is not «Vampirism»

Only one thing does not converge in the nosology of porphyry and legends about vampires - the fact, so to speak, the use of blood. Patients Porphyria are not really experiencing any need for the blood of people and animals. Moreover, the oral use of blood in this case is useless, since the problem of the patient is not so much in the shortage of red blood tauros, but in the overaffect of porphyrins in the body. Cases are known when patients with porphyrine themselves were treated with blood oh, in order to bring out of the body with blood and excess porphyrins.

Questions remain

Porphyry and vampirism confirmed Canadian Professor Biochemist David Dolphin. Moreover, I saw in this likely way to create a medicine from skin cancer.