Abstract: | Pineal gland phylogenic antiquity, its involvement in the stress reaction and many-sided activity of its compounds permit to consider the gland to be the organ taking an active part in the body protection against injury, which is essential for everyone since its appearance on the planet. The available data prove that almost all the reactions developing in the organism from the moment of trauma up to the complete wound reparation are under the pineal control. Being always an urgent one the problem of traumatism increased nowadays because of pineal dysfunction. It makes the premises to apply pineal secret products in traumatic disease as a kind of replace therapy that is suggested to be not less successful than glucocorticoid administration in shock. |