Autohaemotherapy as stimulus-response therapy is considered a classic naturopathic treatment.

Blood that was newly taken from a vein is immediately injected back subcutaneously or into a muscle after having been mixed with certain active substances.

Blood carries information that is presented to the immune system at an “unexpected“ location and thus triggers immune reactions which stimulate the entire defence system. Such a strengthening of the body’s defences has a beneficial effect on the entire organism and may help to heal up acute or chronic processes.

An activation of immunological processes becomes evident through an increase in leucocytes, an increase in the formation of anitbodies or a rise in temperature. As with other stimulus-response methods, the initial stimulus may cause a so-called initial aggravation which, however, rapidly changes to improvements.

With chronic diseases, injections are given 1 to 3 times per week over a period of 6 to 10 weeks or in larger treatment intervals. Another series of injections may follow after a break.

With acute diseases (such as infections), autohaemotherapy is carried out in short intervals (often on a daily basis), but only a few times.