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The
Healing System and Bioholographic Acupuncture
By Vilhelm
Schjelderup, M.D., Kirkerønningen 102, N-3145 Tjøme, Norway,
e-mail:
vilschj@online.no
Living beings have a remarkable
ability to repair themselves and thus regain their anatomical and
physiological integrity. This capacity for spontaneous healing is a part
of life itself and a prerequisite for the evolution and continuity of
life. It is something we take for granted in practical medicine. If
wounds would not heal and the organism had no capacity to restore itself
after acute illnesses, no medical therapy could work.
This capacity for spontaneous
healing is, however, only relative. We are all the time exposed
to factors detrimental to our
health. Chronic diseases arise when our ability to self-repair and
spontaneous healing fails, causing a chronic failure in the functional
integrity of the organism. The crucial medical question of disease or
not, is thus as much a question of the relative capacity of the organism
to heal itself, as it is a question of pathogenic factors. In
biomedicine we have, however, no adequate, scientific theory to explain
the healing processes all the time occurring in the live body.
Healing processes are highly
complex biological processes. A theory of healing processes must account
for three basic features of organic self-repair:
- Healing is spontaneous.
Healing processes proceed spontaneously when an organism has been
damaged.
- Healing processes serve to
restore anatomical and functional integrity. They imply that
information relating to the structure and function of the whole
organism is translated into the repair work at the local level of
cells, tissues and organs.
- Healing processes are
immensely complex, involving a large number of physiological,
biophysical and biochemical reactions that are coordinated in time
and space to serve an optimal restoration of the whole organism.
From the point of view of
analytical science healing processes are immensely complex. From a
biological point of view, however, they serve a single purpose: that of
restoring organic integrity. It is this apparent paradox of immense
complexity and wholistic simplicity – of manifold and unity – that makes
a scientific explanation so difficult.
My own approach to this problem
has been through a study of the bioholographic methods of complementary
medicine. These methods are used to stimulate the healing system on the
basis of a bioholographic principle. They offer strong empirical
evidence for a bioholographic structuring of the living organism.
Bioholographic Therapies and the ECIWO Theory
Several such bioholographic
methods are known in acupuncture and alternative medicine: ear
acupuncture, nose acupuncture, foot and hand reflexology, Yamamoto’s new
scalp acupuncture, Su Jok therapy and some others. They are all based on
the same principle: the whole organism with its different organs and
parts is found projected as a zone system in a circumscribed part of the
body. These zone systems can be used for both diagnostic and therapeutic
purposes.
A general biological theory, the
ECIWO theory, has been proposed (Zhang 1991) to explain these
bioholographic zone systems. The E in ECIWO stands for ‘Embryo’, the C
for ‘Containing’, the I for ‘Information’, the W for ‘Whole’ and the O
for ‘Organism’. The idea is that the living organism is structured as a
multilevel mosaic where each part has an embryological potential and
contains relevant information of the whole organism. A living cell
contains in its nucleus the genetic information of the whole organism.
And, as we know from cloning experiments, it has the generative
potential to turn into a real embryo, developing into a new individual
of the same kind. The ECIWO theory can be regarded as an expansion of
cell theory, postulating similar properties at higher organic levels.
It is easy to illustrate the
ECIWO principle in plants. If we place a branch of a tree into the
earth, it may develop roots and grow into a new tree. The same applies
to a twig, or a leaf, or even a part of a leaf. Given favourable
conditions they may turn into seedlings, growing into new trees of the
same kind. The branch, the twig, the leaf and the part of the leaf are
all ECIWOs at different levels, containing information of the whole
organism and having an embryological potential to generate a new tree.
In higher animals and humans the
embryological potential of the different ECIWOs has partly been lost due
to differentiation and specialization of the different parts. But it
still remains as a regenerative potential and is thus significant for
self-repair, regeneration and healing processes. This explains why we
can use these bioholographic zone systems to stimulate healing processes
in the body.
Such bioholographic methods are
in extensive use all over the world. A large amount of clinical
experience has been gathered. An impressive scientific documentation of
the medical effect of bioholographic acupuncture has been presented at
three international congresses of ECIWO biology: in Singapore 1990, in
Oslo 1992 and in Los Angeles 1996. This material comprises clinical
experience from the treatment of more than one million patients, some
experimental studies and several large clinical studies. The main method
used in these studies is bioholographic acupuncture of the second
metacarpal system, a microsystem of acupuncture that has proved very
practical and therapeutically effective in clinical use. (Zhang 90, 92
and 96. Schjelderup 98). This is a simple, repeatable method which is
relatively easy to verify scientifically. I shall here present a few of
these studies, documenting the effect of this method in prolonged
diarrhea and pneumonia in children, in diabetes and in coronary heart
disease.
Clinical Studies on ECIWO
Acupuncture
Prolonged diarrhea in children:
400 cases of diarrhea of a
duration of 15-60 days in children of age 6 months to 6 years were
divided into two groups:
ECIWO-group:
200 cases. These were treated with acupuncture of the 2. metacarpal
system for 5 days.
Control group:
200 cases, which were treated with Western medicines for 5 days.
Group: Cases:
Recovered: Markedly improved: Improved: Inefficient: %Effect:
ECIWO: 200
146 30 10
14 93%
Western
medicines 200
114 32 16
38 81%
(Huang 1992)
Prolonged pneumonia in children:
200 cases of pneumonia of 15-60
days duration in children of age 6 months to 6 years were divided into
two groups:
ECIWO group: 100
cases treated with acupuncture of the second metacarpal system for 5
days.
Control group: 100
cases treated with Western medicines for 5 days.
Group: Cases:
Recovered: Markedly improved: Improved: Inefficient: %Effect
ECIWO: 100
66 11 15
9 91%
Western
Medicines: 100
51 12 9
28 72%
(Huang 1992)
Diabetes:
288 patients suffering from
diabetes were divided into three groups:
ECIWO group: 128
cases (48 diabetes-I and 82 diabetes-II)
Insulin group: 80
cases (55 diabetes-I and 25 diabetes-II)
DMBG group: 80 cases
(29 diabetes-I and 51 diabetes-II)
ECIWO group: treated
with daily acupuncture of pancreas point in the second metacarpal system
of both hands. After 3-4 days a decrease in blood sugar was observed in
most cases. 2 courses of 7 treatments were given in all.
Insulin group:
treated with injections of insulin.
DMBG group: treated
with oral anti-diabetic medication.
Control of blood sugar:
Ideal: Good: Ordinary: Poor: % Effectivity:
ECIWO group (128):
51 26 37 14 89 %
Insulin group
(80): 30 16 22
12 85 %
DMBG group (80):
16 16 20 28 65 %
The patients in the ECIWO group
were tested with an insulin radio-immunity test after 2 weeks of
treatment. The insulin level had increased. 6 other tests were done to
determine blood rheology and the peripheral circulation of blood. All of
these showed significant improvement. Measurements with a
cerebro-electric activity topography unit made in China also showed
improvement in cerebral electric activity, indicating improved cerebral
function.
(Zhang Manhua 1992)
Coronary heart disease:
236 patients suffering from
coronary heart disease were treated with acupuncture of the heart point
in the second metacarpal system. One month after the completion of the
treatment the results were evaluated:
119 cases were both
free from their angina and had marked improvement in ECG.
109 cases were
either much improved or free from their angina, but had no significant
improvement in their ECG.
In 8 cases the
treatment was a failure.
(Yang 1996)
In another study by Professor
Chen 130 cases of coronary heart disease were divided into two groups:
ECIWO group: 100
cases were treated by acupuncture of the heart point in the second
metacarpal system. 1 course = 7 treatments.
Control group: 30
cases were treated with acupuncture of the point Neiguan (Pericardium-6)
which is a commonly used point for treating coronary heart disease in
traditional acupuncture. 1 course = 7 treatments.
Significantly better
results were found for the ECIWO group than for the control group, both
as regards improvements in clinical symptoms and in the function of the
left ventricle of the heart as measured by several cardiological
parameters.
(Chen 1992)
The
Living Organism as a Biocybernetic Unity
Clinical experience, supported
by the research so far, indicates that these methods have a homeostatic
effect, and that they stimulate healing processes according to a
bioholographic principle. We may explain this on the basis of
cybernetics.
The two main parameters used in
bioholographic therapy to identify affected zones in an ECIWO,
reflecting a disorder in the corresponding part of the whole organism,
are increased sensitivity to pressure and increased electrical
conductivity of the skin.
To illustrate how the increased
sensitivity to pressure of affected zones in an ECIWO may serve a
biological purpose, let us have a look at foot reflexology. When we walk
the zones of foot reflexology will be continuously exposed to pressure.
Walking thus gives a kind of natural foot reflexology. Due to the
increased sensitivity of affected zones, the main effect will be on the
corresponding, ailing organs. We thus get a natural feed back mechanism,
serving to strengthen those parts and organs of the body that are
weakened.
The other ECIWOs, or
bioholographic systems of the body, will also from time to time be
exposed to pressure and strain due to the activities of the body and its
contacts with the surroundings. These also will have a cybernetic
function, serving to re-establish homeostasis and stimulate regenerative
processes where these are needed in the body.
The increased electrical
conductivity of affected, bioholographic points may serve a similar
cybernetic function. An internal electrical system may exchange
electrons with the surroundings through these points. Such an electrical
system, based on semiconductor electricity and involved in regenerative
and healing processes, has been discovered through the work of Robert
Becker and Björn Nordenström. (Becker 1985, Nordenström 1983)
The increased sensitivity to
pressure and the increased electrical conductivity of affected zones
apparently serve biocybernetic functions. This will apply to all the
different ECIWOs of the body. The total effect, which may also include
other physical modalities, will amount to the sum, or integral of all
these effects. In ECIWO biology this is called the pancybernetic effect
of the ECIWOs. In agreement with clinical experience this integral
effect will promote self-regulation, serve to restore homeostasis and
stimulate regenerative processes where these are needed in the body.
The pancybernetic effect of the
ECIWOs is a dynamic effect due to the activity of the organism and its
interplay with the external world. Erwin Schrödinger, the co-creator of
the quantum theory, once formulated the paradox of life in view of the
second law of thermodynamics thus: “The art by which an organism is able
to stay at a rather high level of order, does in reality depend on a
capacity continuously to suck order out of the surroundings.”
(Schrödinger 1945) Part of this capacity may be due to the structuring
of the organism in ECIWOs at different levels, each of these reflecting
the whole organism holographically.
The
Healing System
Healing processes take place at
all levels of biological organization from the biomolecular level to the
level of the whole organism. Andrew Weil has raised the question of the
healing system, taking as his starting point the self-repair at the
biomolecular level of the DNA, a level which is common to all living
organisms (Weil 1995: pp. 71-87). On the basis of the research that has
been done, Weil draws some general conclusions which he believes also
apply to the work of the healing system at higher organic levels:
“#Healing is an
inherent capacity of all life. DNA has within it all the information
needed to
manufacture enzymes to repair itself.
# The healing
system operates continuously and is always at call.
# The healing
system has a diagnostic capability; it can recognize damage.
# The healing
system can remove damaged structures and replace it with normal
structure.
# The healing
system not only acts to neutralize the effects of serious injury (as in
the
SOS-response of
E. Coli) it also directs the ordinary moment-to-moment corrections
that maintain
normal structure and function (as in the proofreading and editing
activity of
DNA-polymerase-I).
# Healing is
spontaneous. It is a natural tendency arising from the internal
structure of
DNA. The
occurrence of a lesion (such as a kink created by misbonding as a result
of a hit by UV
radiation automatically activates the process of its repair.”
(Weil 1995:75)
Looking at the pancybernetic
system of the ECIWOs, we see that this indeed is such a continuously
working, automatic system with a diagnostic capability, and that it
serves to direct the “moment-to-moment corrections that maintain normal
structure and function”. It is therefore reason to regard the
pancybernetic system of ECIWOs as part of the healing system, operating
above the cellular level in multicellular organisms.
The
Healing System and the Biophoton Theory
As regards the capability for
self-repair at the biomolecular level of DNA, there are indications that
this may be explained on a biophysical basis. The phenomenon of
photo-repair, for example, has been known since the 1930’s. This
phenomenon, where the self-repair of DNA is stimulated by specific
wave-lengths of light, is probably a part of normal physiology.
Such an explanation is in
agreement with the biophoton theory of Popp and Li. According to this
theory, DNA acts like a highly coherent, broad band laser system that
plays an essential role in all cellular processes. It has an enormous
information capacity, equal to the task of regulating physiological
processes and self-repair at the biomolecular and cellular level. (Li
1983)
Due to the very high degree of
coherence of the biophoton field, it will have a holographic structure.
Every part of the coherent biophoton field of the DNA thus contains the
information of the whole. Basic physiological information, such as the
information needed for self-repair of the DNA, will be stored in the
field as holographic memory.
According to the model of Popp
and Li, the biophoton field in those parts of the DNA chains where there
is a high degree of periodicity of the nucleotide segments will tend to
be above the laser threshold. Here we have a high degree of coherence;
the wave field will dominate and we get non-local effects that are not
clearly defined in space. This implies holography and a communicative
correspondence with photon fields in other parts of the organism. In
those parts of the DNA, however, where the genes are located, we will
not find such a high degree of periodicity. Here the field may tend to
be below the laser threshold; the particle structure will tend to
dominate, and the field looses its coherence and becomes chaotic due to
thermal disorder.
Great significance is attached
to the state of the biophoton field at the laser threshold. Here we may
get a special quantum physical state, first described by Erwin
Schrödinger. In this state the particles and waves combine into a new
stable unity, called a wave-packet, signifying a coupling of a coherent
and a chaotic unity. These wave-packets are relatively stable. That
means they do not change their structure when in motion, or when they
emit photons. And the Heisenberg relation of uncertainity is minimized.
(Popp 1984: 145-146)
Looking for a physical basis for
the high degree of order characterizing the self-repair of DNA, it is
tempting to associate this with the very special quantum physical state
at the laser threshold. This state permits physical changes by the
emission of photons while the coherence of the wave field is preserved.
The holographic information of the coherent biophoton field may thus
theoretically order the energetic interactions initiating the process of
self-repair.
In this model the degree of
coherence of the biophoton field is of crucial significance. Different
factors which tend to increase the coherence of the biophoton field may
serve to raise the parts of the biophoton field, corresponding to
genetic segments of the DNA, to the laser threshold and eventually
initiate processes of self-repair. There are indeed a whole range of
medical therapies that may act this way.
A
Holonomic Theory of the Healing System
According to the biophoton
theory, the coherent biophoton field is the carrier of the information
necessary for self-repair. This information is stored in the biophoton
field as holographic memory. If we look at this from the point of view
of David Bohm’s theory of the implicate order (Bohm 1980), we may say
that the information is present in the biophoton field as an implicate
order that may be explicated in the process of self-repair.
On this basis it may be possible
to formulate a holonomic theory of the healing system in agreement with
Bohm’s theory. Such a theory would account for the processes of
self-repair at the biomolecular and cellular level, and it might be
extended also to account for the processes of self-repair and healing at
higher organic levels. The bioholographic structuring of the ECIWOs may
in this context be explained on the basis of holomovements taking place
during embryological morphogenesis.
In a biological sense healing
and morphogenesis are intimately related. Healing means a restoration of
what has been developed through morphogenesis. It is reason to assume
that both morphogenesis and healing basically proceed according to the
same blueprint. The ECIWO concept applies to both of them, to generation
as well as regeneration, indicating that a bioholographic structure is
inherent in the morphogenetic field.
The
Whole and the Part
The theory of morphogenetic fields is a modern theory
to explain biological organisms on a
physical basis. Trying to solve
this problem we ultimately have to face the basic problem of biology:
How a living being, that is something composite which can be dissected
and analysed into ever smaller parts, at the same time is an individual
in the sense of being a unity and a subject in its dealings with the
external world.
Our understanding of this
fundamental problem of the relation between the whole and its parts in
biology has hardly made any progress since the time of the ancient Greek
philosophers. The young Plato formulated his theory of ideas. Aristotle
criticized this early theory of Plato and introduced form as a causal
factor, making morphology the basis of biology. The problem of
Aristotelian science is, however, that it can not be given a
mathematical foundation.
Later, Plato in his dialogue
‘Parmenides’ gives another solution to this fundamental problem, which
is in agreement with ECIWO biology and, therefore, relevant to our
discussion.
In ‘Parmenides’ Plato first
raises a similar criticism to his early theory of ideas as Aristotle
does. He then lets Parmenides proceed to develop an elementary theory,
giving the basic logical conditions for a more explicit scientific
theory. (Johansen 1984) The different hypotheses that are discussed give
the basic logical conditions for the different spheres of reality. From
the 2.nd hypothesis “If the one is, can it be and not partake of being”
it turns out that if being is added to unity, something composite
arises. And, as it is composite, it can be divided, each part in its
turn having both unity and being (or existence). Such a reality, defined
by the 2.nd hypothesis, Plato shows, must have a mathematical structure
and be extended in space and time. And this is exactly the conditions of
physical reality as we have learned to know in physical science.
Plato’s exposition of the 2.nd
hypothesis in ‘Parmenides’ corresponds to something fundamental in our
understanding of reality. The concept of unity is a precondition for all
logical thought, for all mathematics, yes, indeed, for all concepts of
order. Without the idea of ‘unity’ there would be no possibility for an
idea of an ordered universe. Existence would not be possible, for how
could something exist, if it could not be a something.
Just as the 2.nd hypothesis
defines the logical conditions for physical reality, we may regard the
4.th hypothesis: “What must happen to the things other than the one, if
one exists?” as the precondition for biological reality. This is indeed
highly meaningful. In our concept of a living being, we imply that it is
an individual, facing the external world in a dialectical relationship,
as something ‘other’. Plato gives here the logical precondition for the
relative autonomy of living beings. This does not contradict the
conditions of physical reality, but brings in something new, something
‘other’ than purely physical existence.
In his exposition of this
hypothesis Plato shows its implications for the relationship between the
whole and its parts. We do use the term ‘whole’ in two different
meanings: either as the sum of all the parts; but also in the sense of
something more and different from just the sum of the parts. It is the
term ‘whole’ in this last sense which is relevant here.
Where can we localize this whole
which is something different from just the sum of its parts? Plato
raises this question already in his discussion of physical reality
according to the 2.nd hypothesis: “not being in one or several of all
its parts, it must be in something else ….. and one must be both in
itself and other.” In the physical world the whole can not be found in
its parts. We must look for it in something else, and this is later
related to the concept of ‘the other’. In the 4.th hypothesis he returns
to this theme.
First it is made clear that ‘the
Other’ must have parts because it is not ‘the One’. And having parts it
must be a whole. And this wholeness must mirror a unity or oneness. Here
Plato formulates his theory of the whole:
“Then the part is a
part, not of the many nor of all, but of a single form and a single
concept which we call a whole, a perfect unity created out of all, this
it is of which a part is a part.”
This implies that ‘the other
than the one’ necessarily must be “a whole, a perfect unity created out
of all” its parts. And, reasons Plato further, this must also apply to
all its parts:
“And the same
reasoning applies to each part; for the part must partake of the one.
For if each of the parts is a part, the word ‘each’ implies that it is
one, separated from the rest, and existing by itself; otherwise it will
not be ‘each’ ….. But its participation in the one clearly implies that
it is other than the one, for if not, it would not partake of the one,
but would actually be one ….”
The part must accordingly also
partake of ‘the one’ and thereby mirror the whole. The whole is
therefore present in each of its parts and will be mirrored in each of
these. This is actually what is called ‘the holomeric principle’ whereby
each part is structured according to the meaning of the whole. (Wyller
1981: 222-231) And this is essentially also in agreement with the
principle for the whole/part relationship in ECIWO biology.
It has been said that Plato in
the Parmenides dialogue disproves the whole/part axiom in the geometry
of Euclid. According to this axiom, a part can never be equal to the
whole of which it is a part. In mathematics the absolute validity of
this axiom was disproved by the German mathematician Cantor at the end
of the 19th century. Cantor is the creator of the modern
theory of sets. A transfinite set can have parts that are also
transfinite, or unlimited, and for such transfinite sets the whole/part
axiom of Euclid is no more valid.
If we apply this to biology, we
may define the whole as a transfinite set. In the ECIWO theory
the organism may be described as a transfinite
set and each of its parts as a transfinite subset. In physics an
aggregation of particles can never make up a transfinite set. A physical
field, however, can be defined as a transfinite set. We may, therefore,
conclude that the whole in biology can not be localized in physical
particles, like molecules, atoms or elementary particles. It must, as
Plato states, be looked for in ‘something else’, or, according to modern
physics, in physical fields.
Conclusion
The clinical research gives
strong evidence that bioholographic methods may stimulate the healing
system according to a bioholographic principle. The pancybernetic effect
of ECIWO biology acts on the super-cellular level of tissues and organs.
On the basis of recent advances in biophysical research this may,
however, be expanded into a more general, holonomic theory of the
healing system that may account for the work of the healing system also
at the biomolecular and cellular level. In view of the very positive
results that have been documented for these bioholographic methods in
the treatment of a great variety of medical problems, we may now safely
conclude that they can be applied in clinical medicine on a sound
scientific basis.
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