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Electromedicine Modalities - A Simplified Explaination
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G e n e r a l I n f o r m a t i o n A b o u t E l e c t r o m e d i c i n e 1. The Changing Face of Medicine Electromedicine offers a viable and effective alternative to drug therapies. Having been used in several countries for decades, there are many inherent advantages to electromedicine. These include the following benefits: Non-invasive Easy to administer Non-toxic Safe and effective Minimal side effects, easily avoided Reimbursable 1.1 What is Electromedicine? Put simply, electromedicine is a discipline within the field of medicine that deals with the use of electricity to aid in the treatment of a variety of physical ailments. A fresh look at physiology is needed to solve the most intractable of all human medical problems. Physiology students in most of the western world are still taught that life is based on a chemical model. Perhaps the reader can remember a high school biology teacher holding up a small bag of powder stating that the bag represents the entire contents of a human body, except for the water. However, if one were to add water to such a bag of powder and completely reconnect all the powder into a human form, the new human would at best be just a solid statue. Obviously, something besides water and chemical compounds is missing from this paradigm. Rather than view life processes on a chemical basis alone, it is more helpful to view them on an electrochemical basis. All atoms are bonded electrically. This is a basic foundation necessary to understand electromedicine that was taught during the most elementary training in the basic sciences. Furthermore, in our rudimentary training, we learned that there are voltage potentials across the membrane of all cells. All standard physiology textbooks define the Nernst and Goldman Equations to determine membrane and action potentials. They do not, however, speculate on the staggering significance of these facts. And this is what the new electromedicine is about. If batteries are placed in series their voltage potentials are combined. A simple remote control unit may use three 1.5 volt batteries to produce the 4.5 volts needed to operate a television. The human body has trillions of cells each having a millivolt potential across their membranes. All good scientists should ask themselves why we find electricity so prevalent in biological systems. 1.2 How Does Electromedicine Work? In basic terms, the science may be described as follows. Electricity is found naturally in all of us. Certain electrical impulses in our bodies help facilitate bodily functions including actions needed for healing. By mimicking the electrical impulses that occur in us, we can help facilitate a specific effect. Electromedicine is able to trigger these impulses by varying the frequency, wavelength, intensity, and location of the electricity applied to the patient. Understanding how these elements interplay to create a desired effect is the basis for the science. A number of scientists working independently have invented or developed electric devices that can mimic the body’s electrical impulses – and some of these devices have been effective in reversing many “incurable” viral and bacterial conditions, including Cancer, Herpes, Hepatitis, Lupus, Chronic Fatigue, Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), and HIV-AIDS. Some of these devices achieve their therapeutic effects by neutralising the pathogens causing the disease while others do so by enhancing immune stimulation. Research from MIT & Albert Einstein College of Medicine has also revealed the effectiveness of electric currents on all viruses, even on the AIDS virus. It does this by deactivating their ability to penetrate into cells (and once there, reproduce while hiding out). By keeping them out of the cells and in the bloodstream, the immune system can easily remove them from the body. New developments in electromedical technology now offer physicians fast, safe, effective, and long-lasting treatment options for a wide variety of disorders for patients. 1.3 A Brief History of Electromedicine Electromedicine, or the use of electricity to treat physical ailments, is considered one of the oldest and most documented sciences known. Medical professionals of ancient Greece learned that the electrical impulses emitted from electric eels in clinical footbaths relieved pain and produced a favourable influence on the blood circulation. In western civilization, the first documented use of electricity to manage pain was by the physician, Scribonius Largus, in 46 A.D. Doctors Largus and his colleague Dioscorides documented substantial therapeutic results with electrical currents in circulatory disorders and in the management of pain from neuralgia, headache and arthritis. Largus claimed that just about everything from head to toe (specifically, headaches to gout) could be cured by standing on a wet beach near an electric eel. Not surprisingly, attempts at producing pharmaceutical preparations from dead eels proved ineffective. The first evidence of a scientific nature to indicate that electricity played any role in living things whatsoever was provided in 1791 by Italian physician, surgeon, and professor of anatomy at Bologna, Luigi Galvani who discovered that electrical impulses could cause muscle contraction in the leg of a frog he had dissected. From his numerous experiments, Galvani concluded that the electricity was generated within the animal's body, the wires only providing the circuit completion. He called this electricity "animal electricity”, and postulated that it was the long sought for "vital force" that gave life to all living organisms. It was also during the 1700s that Benjamin Franklin documented pain relief by using electrical currents for "frozen shoulder." By 1800, Carlo Matteucci had shown that injured tissue generates an electric current. The discovery of alternating current by Michael Faraday in 1830 also opened the door to the development of man-made devices as sources of electricity. In fact by 1910, approximately 50% (over 10,000) physicians in the United States alone used electrotherapeutic modalities in their daily practices. This trend suffered a setback after the publication of the 1910 Flexner report which stated that there was no scientific basis for electromedicine (at that time). However, a new body of evidence about the effects of electromagnetic fields on living organisms came to light during the 1920s – through the work of one Royal Raymond Rife, a microscope engineer who discovered that every micro-organism had a frequency at which it could be charged, and that if you isolated that frequency and sent it more energy than it could handle, it exploded, just like what happens when you overcharge a battery. According to Rife, the basic theory upon which his device worked was the theory of “coordinative resonance” with frequencies which he proved would kill microorganisms “by electron transfer and internal stresses of pathogenic cells owing to electromagnetic and electrostatic forces.” Rife’s original experiments were with the cancer virus for which he established the mortal frequency at which that virus, which he named BX, exploded. As he reasoned that this effect worked through simple resonance, with the pathogen being shattered by a specific frequency, Rife spent many years discovering the frequencies (MORs) at which numerous other viruses and bacteria could be destroyed and compiled a list of what he called Mortal Oscillatory Rates (MORs) of specific pathogens. Having reproduced this effect with several viruses and bacteria, Rife took up a challenge to treat 16 terminally ill cancer patients who were sent to him from Pasadena Hospital in California. After subjecting them to 3-minute per day and twice a week exposures to light rays generated from his “Beam Ray Device” - (now called the Rife Frequency Generator) - and tuned to the MORs of the cancer virus, all 16 patients were tested and pronounced completely free of cancer after 90 days of treatment by his "Beam Ray”. After this astounding success, Rife spent many years discovering and documenting the MORs of numerous other viruses and bacteria – extending his frequency list which is now known as the Rife Frequency Table. However, as the saying goes, one man’s meat is another man’s poison; Rife’s major breakthrough sent shock waves through the medical pharmaceutical establishment which relied on cancer drugs for billions of its revenue streams. The breakthrough was viewed not as an advance in medicine, but as a gigantic threat to the pharmaceutical drug industry; as the new technology threatened to make virtually all drug treatments obsolete, it had hit the nerve centre of the industry. It was therefore most unfortunate for the science that some incorrect and unfair reports such as the Frexner Report emerged at this time when Rife and other researchers were making advances in the field of electromedicine. Dr. Flexner’s report was originally prepared by the American Medical Association (AMA) and sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching. Since the Carnegie family was heavily invested in the young pharmaceutical industry, it is no wonder their report declared allopathic medicine superior. Furthermore, the AMA’s entire stock was then owned by the very influential Dr. Morris Fishbein who had made a futile attempt to buy out Rife’s inventions, and therefore wanted to ruin him. The overall thesis of these reports, produced by powerful special interest groups, discredited the value of both electromedicine and nutrition in medical practice. With fear of brutal assassination, harassment and condemnation from certain medical institutions, (that were funded by these special interest groups), almost all American physicians abandoned electromedicine and nutrition from their practices. Since then, arguably the greatest development in the field of electromedicine was when Dr. Robert Becker (1981) electrically induced limb regeneration in frogs and rats as a model to study bioelectrical forces as a controlling morphogenetic field. Regeneration represents a return to embryonic control systems and cellular activities within a localized area. It can therefore be considered a more accessible and more observable form of morphogenesis. The complexity of instructions required to designate all of the details to recreate a finished extremity is impossible to transmit by previously understood biochemical processes alone. Becker’s studies of extraneuronal analog electrical morphogenetic fields have eliminated any rational arguments against the importance of bioelectricity for all life processes, and thus laid the groundwork for the medical professions to start to evolve towards a more reasonable integrated view of biology incorporating our understanding of both biochemistry and biophysics. Dr. Björn Nordenström, M.D. (1983), former Chairman of the Nobel Assembly, has also proposed a model of bioelectrical control systems he calls biologically closed electric circuits (BCEC). The principle is analogous to closed circuits in electronic technology. Nordenström's theory is that the mechanical blood circulation system is closely integrated anatomically and physiologically with a bioelectrical system, and the biological circuits are switched on by both normal electrical activity of the organs and pathological changes, such as tumour, injury or infection. Like Becker, Nordenström views bioelectricity as the primary catalyst of the healing process. Nordenström (1984, 1989) reversed terminal cancer in most of his patients as clinical proof of his theories, and several other researchers are confirming the value of electromedicine for the treatment of cancer (Lyte, 1991; Morris, 1992; Sersa, 1992, & Belehradek, 1981). The beneficial effects of electromedicine were also noted in Bordeaux, France by another inventor, self-taught as was Rife, Antoine Prioré, whose apparatus combined the use of electromagnetic (EM) radiation with a plasma of helium or noble gases reminiscent of Rife's method used in detecting and devitalizing the BX virus. Prioré who had been fascinated by EM wave effects did his own research on exposing plants and animals to EM radiation, and by 1953 Prioré began treating human patients whose cancers had been judged hopeless. From 1966 on, many papers were published on the results of applying the Prioré technique to various animals and diseases. The results continued to be revolutionary. Another scientist-ally of Prioré’s was Pierette Chateau-Reynaud Duprat. Over the years, she worked with the Prioré method, showing that the Prioré ray had no direct effect on the trypanosomes themselves but stimulated and reinforced the defence mechanism of the infested organisms. [No one knew to investigate the regenerative system of the body, poorly understood and using the very kind of infolded EM extension to NLO that Prioré’s ray used.] The ray was shown to cause the rejection of both allografts and isografts, so that the machine affected not only the defence mechanisms of the organism but also the recognition system. The original P-1 (Prioré 1) machine affected cellular defence mechanisms. The second machine, P-2, seemed to act not on the cellular but on the humoral defence mechanisms. Prioré himself also cured cases of malaria and also tuberculosis in humans, but apparently did not publish these results. Eventually the French Government backed the construction of a more powerful Prioré device – the M-600 machine. The machine weighed some 50 tons and required 3-1/2 stories to contain it. The coil which generated the DC-pulsed magnetic field weighed 5.5 tons and had 11 miles of copper wire. During the week or 10 days that the machine was in operation, the results were formidable. The results were presented in notes to the Academy of Sciences by eminent French parasitologist, Professor Raymond Pautrizel and his team on the Faculty of Medicine at Bordeaux in 1978. From 1965 to 1980, the Prioré project spent about 20 million francs. Results were positively demonstrated, many of them sensational. Apparently, a change of government in France brought into the arena people who were aligned with Prioré’s opposition, and the odds suddenly swung against Prioré, being subjected to intense suppression and losing all the financial backing that had contributed to the continuation of his work. Prioré suffered a debilitating stroke or similar complication in 1981 and died in May 1983 after a lengthy debilitated period. Admiral Pierre Emeury, conseiller scientifique de la presidence, discovered L’Affaire Prioré. His inquest led him to conclude that the Prioré discovery was the most important medical discovery of the entire century. The suppression of such a revolutionary discovery, even though its technical methodology was not understood, remains one of the heinous examples of scientific dogma blocking highly innovative research and results. Untold millions of human lives would have been saved had science and government acted along scientific lines. However, despite opposition from the mainstream medical establishment, many scientists have continued to experiment and research on electromedicine, and the resulting weight of the evidence indicates that steady-state or DC currents exist within living organisms where they serve to transmit information at a basic level. This concept has proven to be of considerable value in understanding many of the life functions that are poorly explained when viewed solely within the framework of biochemistry. Apart from the determined resistance of powerful special interest groups, the lack of updated education in health care professionals is the main stumbling block to acceptance of the theory and practice of electromedicine. The other problem is the wide variety of technologies available. At present, there are well over 100 different models of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) devices in the marketplace and an increasing number of other electrical devices. Most health care practitioners who want to utilize such technology have received little or no background training in Electrobiology or electrical technology. Thus, not surprisingly, one of the greatest concerns in modern electromedicine, from a medical professional's perspective, is the lack of clarity regarding the most appropriate treatment protocol when using bioelectric medicine. Since the early 1950's there have been a number of discoveries made in the field in respect to currents and application techniques. This growth in the science has presented a problem to many medical professionals - which therapy form is most appropriate for a patient's condition. It is out of this concern that we now present in the next section, what we believe to be the most simplified way of categorizing electrotherapy treatment modalities. 2. Categorization and Description of Electrotherapy Modalities You may wonder if it is feasible to summarize all known electrotherapy forms in a brief manner, as there are a variety of names and physical parameters that make up the field of electrotherapy. It is possible to classify all known electrotherapy forms into a simple, logical system, and it is only through a clear understanding of their differences that one can be an effective practitioner in electromedicine which, if incorrectly applied can result in incomplete or counterproductive procedures being applied to a patient. We believe that it is easier and safer for therapists to categorize Electrotherapy by the types of effects obtained from a given technique, or the application for which a given technique is used. These fall into four main categories. a). Direct pathogen destruction; b). Tissue healing; c). Pain suppression; and d). Muscle dysfunction. In addition, the manner in which these effects are obtained also has its own sub-categorisation which is described in terms of the nature of the electric signal or impulse that is used to produce that effect. The main sub-categories of devices used are: i). Rife and Electromagnetic (EM) Frequency Generators ii). Constant current stimulators iii). Alternating current stimulators iv). Pulsed current stimulators In this section, we focus mainly on the basic effects obtained from the main electrotherapy modalities involved with the elimination of disease and restoration of good health (i.e.
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