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Biology and
Medicine
Healing processes are typical examples of syntropic processes in biology
and medicine.
Living beings have an innate
ability to repair themselves and thus restore anatomical and functional
integrity. This ability for self repair and self healing is a part of
life itself
and a prerequisite that life
could arise and develop on our planet.
We are repeatedly
exposed to conditions that threaten our health. The question of health
or disease is a question whether we are able to ward off attacks on our
health and integrity, our ability to adapt to different conditions, and
last, but not least, our capacity for self healing. Chronic diseases
arise when our ability for spontaneous healing and self repair fails and
a lasting defect in the functional integrity of the organism arises. If
wounds would not heal and the organism would not recover from acute
illnesses, all medical therapy would fail. Since there is here a
question of recovering an organic order that has been lost, healing
processes are typically syntropic processes.
This capacity for
self healing is, however, relative. What may cause chronic disease in
one person, will not necessarily do so in another person. Here many
factors that are more or less unknown, may come into play. But it is
well known that our way of living, our attitudes, and how we actually
are handling ourselves and our lives, are important factors. And here
the art of medicine comes into place: The objective of medical art is
just to create optimal conditions for the patients to heal themselves.
The capacity for
self healing is thus of fundamental significance both in medicine and in
biology. This is, however, a field of research that has had relatively
little priority in biomedical research. There are several reasons for
this. A main reason has been that from a strictly analytical point of
view this is a very difficult field of research that has proved hardly
accessible for the reductionist methods that have dominated modern
biomedical research. As| a consequence of this we do not in modern
biomedicine have an adequate scientific theory to explain the healing
processes. And we have neither developed a specific teaching about the
healing system of the organism, although it is apparent on the basis of
general medical experience that such a system must exist.
During the last
decades immunology has become a central part of medicine, and there is a
tendency to explain healing processes on the basis of the immune system.
The immune system, however, serves the defence of the organism against
microbes and foreign proteins, and has thus another task than that of
self repair and healing. We, therefore, should not identify these two
functions and systems with each other, although it clear that they
cooperate, and it may be possible to regard the immune system as part of
a more general healing system.
We can take the
healing of a superficial wound as an example of a healing process. It
includes immunological reactions to fight invading microbes, the
cleansing task of the macrophages, the invasion of new vessels and new
nerves, cell division and cell differentiation to replace lost tissues,
etc. We realize that this requires a co-operation of many different
physiological reactions that are co-ordinated in space and time in order
that organic defect can be repaired and healing occurs.
In the healing of a
superficial wound we can study what is exactly happening, measure the
different physiological parameters and analyse the physiological
reactions that are involved. And yet we have insufficient knowledge of
what initiates the different physiological reactions. And as regards
explaining how all these reactions are coordinated – how they are so to
say orchestrated in space and time – our medical science so far fails.
The healing of a
superficial wound is a simple example of a healing process that we
easily can study by scientific methods. The ability for self repair and
spontaneous healing is, however, a general biological capacity in all
living beings. Such repair and healing processes take place in all parts
of the human organism and at different levels as response to different
kinds of injury or disease. Our knowledge about these integrated healing
processes that occur in the interior of the body naturally is far more
insufficient and incomplete than as regards the healing of a superficial
wound.
From a scientific
point of view this entire field which includes regeneration and healing
processes is yet to a large extent an unknown territory. At the same
time it is, however, a most central field in medical science. It is all
reason to believe that if we had better knowledge of the healing system
and what directs the healing processes, this would be of great
significance for practical medicine and may be give us specific means to
stimulate healing processes. Actually there is to day some research and,
not the least, a great amount of medical experience that may turn
relevant in this context. This research has, however, not been given
priority and has in some instances been rejected as ‘pseudo science’.
Yet it may give us interesting bearings that may enlighten our
understanding of healing processes as a syntropic medical science.
We will here try to
give a review of research fields that we believe are especially relevant
in this context, trying to demonstrate how they open for new insight
into the field of healing..
ECIWO biology (Reflexology - the Microsystems of acupuncture –
Bioholographic methods – Fractal therapies)
Several therapies, like ear
acupuncture, foot and hand reflexology, etc., are based on the general
principle that the whole organism with its different organs and parts is
projected as a kind of zone system in a part of the body, and that this
can be used for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. In ECIWO
biology this has been developed into a general biological theory. In the
attached article “The Healing System and Bioholographic Acupuncture” it
is demonstrated how this bioholographic structuring of the organism
serves to strengthen and restore organic order and thus forms part of
the healing system. Referring to the philosophy of Plato it is further
indicated how this may help us to explain the basic biological problem
of how living beings actually can constitute individuals and subjects in
their relation to the external world.
The research on ECIWO biology has
been presented at 3 international congresses. This research is probably
the most solid documentation of the medical effects of acupuncture and
acupuncture related therapies that has been presented so far. A review
of this research is given in the book “ECIWO-biologi – Et nytt grunnlag
for akupunktur og soneterapi” (in Norwegian) by Vilhelm Schjelderup,
Høyskoleforlaget, Kristiansand, Norway 1998.
Attached:
The Healing
System and Bioholographic Acupuncture
Advanced Waves and Syntropy
As a consequence of the theory
of relativity and quantum theory advanced waves that are mediated
backwards in time, are theoretically possible. It has been claimed that
such advanced waves are irrelevant in physics. They may, however, be of
fundamental significance in the sciences of life and explain some of the
basic problems and paradoxes we encounter in biology.
While the retarded waves that
are basic to physics, as we know it, are connected with positive energy,
causality and entropy, the advanced waves are connected with negative
energy, retrocausality and syntropy. To most of us this is undoubtedly
an entirely new and unexpected aspect of reality. For a proper
understanding of what this means, we refer to the two attached articles.
Antonella Vannini: “Advanced
Waves, Retrocausality and Consciousness”
Ulisse di Corpo:
“The
Conflict between Entropy and Syntropy”
Homeopathy
Homeopathy was founded 200 years
ago by the German medical doctor Samuel Hahnemann. It is based on a
principle of similarity: to treat patients with a remedy which by
poisoning give a similar pattern of symptoms as those of the patient. As
the symptoms are a result of the work of the healing system, this
implies that the remedy is in a kind of resonance with the work of the
healing system.
In homeopathy
remedies are used that are diluted to the degree that statistically
there are no molecules of the original substance left, i.e. they consist
of the pure medium of dilution. This is the main reason homeopathy is
believed to be a odds with natural science, and why it has not been
accepted by academic science. Homeopathy has, however, survived in spite
of this and is to day flourishing anew. As homeopathy tries to heal
diseases by activating the healing system, it is an important complement
to dominant European medicine. And because homeopathic remedies in such
dilution that they do not contain any molecules of the original chemical
substance seem to have profound medical effect, homeopathy poses an
interesting challenge to our scientific understanding.
Attached:
Homeopathy
Electromagnetism and Biological Information
There has been a lot of research
on the biological effects of different types of electromagnetic
radiation. A main work in this field is the book of Alexander Presman
on “Electromagnetic Fields and Life” (Plenum Press, New York 1970 –
originally published in Russian 1967). Presman discovered the so called
‘window effect’: the phenomenon that specific electromagnetic radiation
of a low intensity may cause specific and much stronger biological
effects than the same radiation of a stronger intensity. On this basis
he formulated a theory about biological information based on
electromagnetic signals.
Attached:
Alexander Presman
During the last decades several
different methods based on recording the electromagnetic field of the
patient and giving electromagnetic therapy have been developed. Perhaps
most important of these is quantum medicine which is now also well
represented in Norway. More information about quantum medicine can be
found on
www.scio.no .
The Nikken products
are based primarily on the biological effects of magnetic fields. They
have been developed in Japan on the basis of extensive research.
www.nikken.com .
The American
orthopaedic surgeon Robert Becker discovered that in addition to the
digital information system of the nervous system there is an analogue
information system based on electric semi-conductivity located to the
Schwann cells of the peripheral nerves. This perineural information
system has an important function in regenerative and healing processes.
Although this discovery is of fundamental medical significance, it is
relatively little known. Becker has given a comprehensive description of
this research in his book ‘The Body Electric’ (William Morrow & Co., New
York 1985).
The Swedish
radiologist, Professor Björn Nordenström, discovered through his study
of reaction patterns around tumours and infectious foci that these are
due to closed electrical circuits (Nordenström, Björn: ‘Biologically
Closed Electric Circuits’, Nordic Medical Publications, Uppsala 1983).
On the basis of his research he developed a method to treat tumours with
direct electrical currents. Although Nordenström belongs to the top
level of Swedish academic medicine, his discovery has not been taken
seriously in Western medicine. In China, however, a great number of
medical doctors have been trained in his method, and several tens of
thousands of patients have been treated.
The first to suggest
the significance of semi-conductor electricity in physiology was Albert
Szent-Gyorgyi, the great biochemist and biophysicist of the last century
who won the Nobel price for his discovery of the function of Vitamin C.
In a famous lecture in 1941 he explained how he had reached the
conclusion that life processes could not be explained on the basis of
biochemistry alone. He proposed in addition the function of
semi-conductor electricity, emphasizing that proteins and other
important biomolecules had been found to have semi-conductor properties.
A comprehensive review of Szent-Gyorgyi’s research in this field and
other important contributions that give a more biophysical basis for
physiology and medicine, is to be found in James Oschman’s book ‘Energy
Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance’ (Butterworth-Heineman
2003).
Photobiology
Cell communication by ultra-weak
light was first discovered by the Russian biologist, Alexander Gurvich,
in the form of mitogenic radiation in 1923. In the 1960.s Viktor
Injushin, professor of biophysics in Alma Ata, proved that the
Helium-Neon laser has a positive biological effect and developed on this
basis soft laser therapy and laser acupuncture. Around 1980 the German
biophysicist Fritz Popp and the Chinese laser physicist Hsueh-ke Li
developed the biophoton theory and explained how DNA may function as a
self-regulating laser system. To day the Russian biophysicist Peter
Gariaev is a prominent name in the development of wave genetics,
according to which a wave field complementary to the molecular structure
of DNA is essential for genetic information in addition to the molecular
information of DNA. A more comprehensive exposition of the biology of
light is given in the second part of the book ‘Lys som helbreder’ (in
Norwegian), Indre ledelse forlag, N-3145 Tjøme 2004.
A practical therapy
based on photobiology is the treatment of asthma in children with the
application of light from Singlet Oxygen at acupuncture points. A study
comprising 134 children suffering from asthma that were treated with
this method was presented at an international medical acupuncture (ICMART)
congress in Edinburgh in 2002.
Attached:
Treatment of Asthma in
Children with Light Containing Singlet Oxygen Energy
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