Chapter 9

Bioenergetic and Informational Medicine

Scientists, particularly medical doctors, have always found the concept of Energy Medicine extremely controversial and confusing. The belief is that serious scientists do not concern themselves with concepts of ‘life force’ and ‘healing energy’ as this is not “evidence-based medicine.” I will not go into the arguments of what is or is not evidence-based medicine, as most of what is presently practiced by modern medicine is far from evidence-based; e.g. interactions of a cocktail of drugs given to the same patient, many surgical procedures are experimental, treating chronic disease using drugs, chemotherapy and radiation and much more – none of these are based on the ‘Gold Standard’ double-blind, placebo controlled trials that pure scientists often wrongly worship.

If you are such a scientist, thinking only in terms of evidence-based medicine, then please do not skip over this chapter – I challenge you to open your mind and heart and read with interest – there is a lot of evidence-based research that has made Bioenergetic and Informational Medicine a true science, even though there is much more that we have to learn. I promise you that by implementing a miniscule amount of what follows in your clinical practice, it is going to make you into a better practitioner, with ever grateful patients.

Bioenergetic and Informational Medicine covers a wide array of multiple disciplines ranging from the biological sciences, ecology, physiology, psychology,  anatomy of organs, tissues and cells, as well as the physics of molecules, atoms and subatomic particles.  In the human body all these sciences come together to teach us the properties of ‘wholeness’ which is the integration of the parts working together as a successful unit – this is the premise of this book on ‘Holistic Medicine.’

I strongly believe that bioenergetic and informational medicine is going to be the medicine of the future – these discoveries on energetics are now gradually percolating into the consciousness of medical practitioners - researchers and healthcare professionals and the general public are realizing that these energetic healing modalities are here to stay. Many times in clinical practice I have used various energetic diagnostic and healing modalities that have completely cured difficult chronic diseases, where more orthodox approaches could not help.

A little history

From as early as 2750 BC, people were exposed to shocks produced by electric eels – this was one of the earliest examples of using electricity to heal.[1] During the 1700’s and 1900’s various electric healing devices were developed and used by physicians for treating a range of ailments.[2] By 1884 it was estimated that 10,000 physicians in the USA were using electricity every day for therapeutic purposes without the science to back it. Figure 1 shows an electromagnetic healing device described by the Frenchman d’Arsonval in 1894.

 Duchenne in 1867 (Figure 2) published his famous studies of the ‘muscle points,’ otherwise known as motor points – these are points on the body that when stimulated by electrodes can determine the proper workings of the muscles – this is now the modern study of electromyography. 

In 1923, George’s Lakhovsky[3], a Russian engineer working in France, built a simple apparatus capable of registering microvoltage measurements from human cells, plants and microbes. In his studies of normal and diseased cells, Lakhosvky found that there were marked differences in their oscillation patterns. Each group of cells emitted frequencies specific to its organ or tissue of origin. Cancerous cells emitted a different, abnormal pattern. Lakhovsky also discovered that harmful factors such as faulty nutrition, environmental pollutants such as toxic chemicals or heavy metals, bacteria or viruses weaken and distort cellular electro-magnetic fields prior to the onset of illness and death.

A little later, Professor Harold Saxton Burr[4] of Yale Medical School carried out his own investigation of human-energy related phenomenon. His systematic measurements of the electromagnetic fields emitted by different body tissues and organs confirmed Lakhovsky’s findings concerning the difference in the electrical emissions of healthy and diseased organs and tissues. He called these the ‘L-fields’ with ‘L’ representing “Life.” Thanks to the controlling L-fields, new molecules and cells in the body are constantly being rebuilt, arranging themselves in the same pattern as the old ones.

With the advancement of scientific research technology, the number of discoveries regarding the human energy field grew. In 1967, the magnetic field around the human heart was observed and recorded using a sophisticated Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Masachusetts by Zimmermann and his colleagues.[5]^,[6]

Professor Tiller[7] believes that the magnetic elements in living cells are repositories for voluminous amounts of information, the pathological content of which contributes to the development and sustainment of chronic diseases. All of the major assaults that the body is not able to overcome (toxins, infectious agents and physical or emotional traumas) become imprinted onto these cellular recordings in a CD-like fashion and then continuously feed back into the body’s chemistry, altering it adversely.

German physicist Professor Herbert Frohlick[8] of the University of Liverpool, a world-renowned authority on human energy research, summarized his fifty years of research in the field by concluding that every structure in the body, including the entire chemistry of the body, down to the chromosomes, is energy-operated and driven by electromagnetic fields that are created by flows of charged ions. He received the Max Planck Medal, the highest award for physics in Germany. 

How Does the Body Work Energetically?

When students of medicine and biology study the cell, the diagrams that they study are very simplistic in the sense that they only look at the structural components – the different organelles contained inside the cell and their function. However, in order to be able to understand the energetic systems of the body, we need to understand the basic anatomy of the body’s Living Matrix. It is the living matrix or extracellular matrix (ECM) that communicates with each and every cell of the body forming a complex web of interconnectedness. Figure 3 is a summary of these interconnections – notice how the tissues surrounding the digestive tract, nerves, bones, blood vessels, muscles and underlying the skin contain a sparse but active number of generative cells the form and continuously modify the extracellular matrix and play an important role in injury repair and defence against disease.

All of these cells are part of a structural, energetic and informational continuum. This fibre system is now recognized by many scientists as an important communication system that affects all metabolic systems as well. It is part of a semiconducting, oscillatory continuum that allows all parts of the biological organism to communicate with each other. One research scientist, Adey in 1993 refers to this as “whispering between cells.”[9] 

In trying to understand the energy dynamics of the living matrix, the field of physics plays an important role. In the structure of the living matrix there is a degree of coherent crystallinity – this is like an ordered crystal matrix that is very important to the structure-energy-communication model of living tissue. Interestingly, many of the key molecules that make up the living matrix such as collagen, elastin, keratin, DNA, actin and myosin are all helical, much like a helical spring. If we can understand how the helical spring can convert energy from one form to another, then we will better understand how the living matrix is able to respond to different energies.

This system is comprised of two main structures: the visible and invisible connective tissue that extends from the molecular level of our body throughout our energy field and the element of water. In “The Hidden Messages in Water”, author Masuru Emoto[10] talks about water’s crystalline nature. He has observed through his unique process of freezing water, then photographing the crystals, that water not only responds to the vibration of words and pictures but also remembers these vibrations. Words that are hurtful or derogatory, such as “You fool,” create a condition where the water can’t form crystals. Words such as “love and gratitude” created extraordinarily beautiful crystals.

It was back in 1941 that Albert Szent-Györgyi,[11] who had received the Nobel Prize in 1937 for the synthesis of Vitamin C, gave the Korányi Memorial Lecture in Budapest, Hungary. He said, “if a great number of atoms is arranged with regularity in close proximity, as for instance, in a crystal lattice, the electrons cease to belong to one or two atoms only, and belong to the whole system…A great number of molecules may join to form energy continua, along which energy, viz., excited electrons, may travel a certain distance.”

What this means is that free electrons can move around the body quickly and transfer energy and information wherever in the body they wish. This is clarified further by Dr. Donald Coffey and an eminent group at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.[12] They were studying the nuclear matrix and its interconnections with both the DNA and with molecules that extend across the nuclear envelope and connect to the cytoskeleton.[13] What this meant was that we could now trace the continuity inward from the extracellular matrix and connective tissues, across the cell surface via the integrins and related molecules first described by Bretscher, throughout the cell cytoplasm via the cytoskeleton, and across the nuclear envelope to the genetic material.

In 1991, the same group produced an inspiring report on the way signals propagate through this matrix, which they termed a tissue tensegrity matrix system.[14] The tensegrity aspect had evolved from the work of Buckminster, Fuller and others.[15] Tensegrity is defined as a continuous tensional network (called tendons) supported by a discontinuous set of compressive elements (called struts).

The 1991 report by Pienta and Coffey gave precise language and experimental validation to the transfer of energy and information through the living matrix: “Cells and intracellular elements are capable of vibrating in a dynamic manner with complex harmonics, the frequency of which can now be measured and analyzed in a quantitative manner...a tissue-tensegrity matrix system…is poised to couple the biological oscillations of the cell from the peripheral membrane to the DNA.”

The helical molecules in living systems are piezoelectric semiconductors which have the ability of emitting and absorbing light and converting light energy into vibrations that can travel through the living matrix. Due to the transverse Hall effect, these helical molecules can also respond to magnetic and biomagnetic fields. Whenever a therapist applies any type of stimulus to the living matrix, whether it is by touch on the skin, inserting an acupuncture needle, using a pulsing electromagnetic field such as the PAPIMI that we will discuss below, the vibratory energy from these stimuli will be converted by the helical molecules of the living matrix into signals that will travel throughout the living matrix.

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