The Argonaut Saga tells that the Greek hero Jason heads out at king Pelias behest together with his fellow campaigners, among them Heracles, across the Black Sea to the country Colchis (today Bulgaria) to rob the Golden Fleece there. In Colchis Jason falls in love with the king’s daughter Medea, with whose magic help he succeeds in robbing the golden ram skin. Back in Iolcus he marries Medea and she gives birth to two sons.
At the royal court of Iolcus Medea tries out her magic arts on the decrepit father of Jason, Aeson. Ovid tells about it in his “Metamorphoses”; according to him the great enchantress Medea spoke: “Unsheathe your swords, dismiss his lifeless blood, and I’ll recruit it with a vital flood.” From such doing the poet hoped that a mind-blowing effect could be achieved: “The meager paleness from his aspect fled, and in its room sprang up a florid red; through all his limbs a youthful vigor flies. A happy change in body and in mind. In sense and constitution the same man, as when his fortieth active year began.”
The miraculous effect of this “Cura Medeana” was also used later in time, however, due to rejection reactions of the extraneous blood only with mixed success. In the meantime blood transfusions are – since discovery of blood groups by Landsteiner – no gambling any more, but standard in medical care. Appropriate tests of the donators ensure the absence of pathogens in the transferred blood.
Recent scientific studies bring new shine to the “Cura Medeana”: The blood circulation of an old mouse weakened by age was sewn together with the one of a younger mouse – lo and behold – the old mouse’s organs and tissue rejuvenated and it lived longer than her predicted life expectancy was. Scientists suppose that special cytokines and cell hormones contained in the younger mouse’s blood are responsible for the activation of the old mouse’s own stem cells. These autologous stem cells in turn allow organs and tissue to regenerate.
In Hormonal Regeneration® we use bioidentical hormones, which activate the body’s own stem cells and therefore lead to impressive rejuvenation. The usage of autologous stem cells extracted from fat tissue as part of a stem cell therapy can both be used for regeneration and rejuvenation of the skin and for treatment of chronic diseases. Thus it is not necessary to let oneself be sewn together with somebody who is younger in order to regenerate. Perhaps further research reveals easier ways, for example by injecting the most important cytokines or cell hormones. I will keep you informed.
By the way, the Argonaut Saga is ending tragically, like almost all heroic epics of the Ancient times: Iason falls in love with the young daughter of king Creon of Corinth and outcasts Medea. Medea takes her rival’s life and drives away in a carriage pulled by dragons to Athens because her spell of love does not operate anymore. There she marries the king and becomes the stepmother of hero Theseus. Iason, left from Medea that way despairs and in his gloom gets crushed by the hull of his ship Argo, with which he went from Colchis to Greece with Medea at that time. Medea’s traces disappear somewhere in Asia. It is after all considerable that there are older versions of the Argonaut Saga, in which Medea is portrayed in a much more positive way. In present-day Bulgaria, the ancient Colchis, Medea is classified as national heroine.
Perhaps Medea should have used her “Cura Medeana” for herself or rather granting it a bigger audience instead of reaching for such drastic measures. Right choice of the donator premised, she and her patients would have been regenerated, would have gotten stronger and they would have won new zest for life.
DDr. Heinrich, MD