COMMUNICATION PATHWAYS AND RESONANT INTERACTIONS

The meridian system, according to Taoist description, is the communication system of the body which rises to the skin at certain points (acupuncture points) [39-43]. Becker, Voll and many others, have measured the relative resistance of the skin at the proposed acupuncture points and found that resistivity drops exactly at the points suggested by ancient Taoists [44-47].
At the microscopic level, numerous attempts to elucidate the extremely-low-frequency (ELF) signal transduction pathways of the interactions with cell membranes and subcellular components have been made by measuring various cellular and subcellular characteristics while exposing the studied systems to experimentally generated external ELF fields [20-28, 48]. Alternating electromagnetic field treatment induces observable responses in biological systems. Many processes turn out to be frequency dependent with thresholds or some peculiarities at certain values of external fields [23, 49-52].
The information obtained thus far is still insufficient to offer a reasonable mechanism for EMF interaction with biological tissues. Nevertheless, we would like to emphasize some general features of such kinds of interactions, primarily: the ”windowing” of frequency and power in tissue interactions with weak EMF as revealed by William Ross Adey. He studies the behavioral and neurophysiological effects of ELF and modulated radiofrequency (RF) fields as well as the responses of calcium ion binding in tissues to ELF and RF fields [50-52]. The occurrence of amplitude and frequency ”windows” in a biological object’s response to external stimuli is essential for an understanding of how biological systems can show a high sensitivity to external ELI fields, yet remain stable under intrinsic fields several orders of magnitude larger [47, 53]. The natural dynamic complementarity of inherent and environmental electromagnetic signals (frequency, amplitude, phase and the composition of complex signals), ensures a very fine selectivity of the available information from electromagnetic noise as well as preventing a “dissolving” in environmental electromagnetic fields.
Bearing this in mind, various electromagnetic therapy techniques - especially, those employing low-frequency and low-intensity signals - are promising with respect to initiation of healing processes. Because of their low-intensity and non-locality, such signals come into play at very general levels and may be involved in the inherent mechanisms of the non-specific defense of the organism [32, 33, 54-56].
Resonance is an elusive property which is responsible for synchronizing pendula as well as destroying bridges and buildings. Resonant frequencies establish a kind of sympathetic relationship between objects which have the same period of oscillation, such that the motion of one object will influence the motion of another without any physical connection.
Bio-resonance works on this same principle. It is a method of communication between objects, and apparently, biological objects have the capability of “tuning” their resonant frequencies to match that of another object. Since this is a non-local event, it is difficult to determine the cause and effect of resonance between two or more biological objects. The argument has been made that in order for inter and intra cellular communication to be successful, that is, no disturbances or distortions in the message, the cells need to be in resonance.
To the degree that one can use phrases to re-enforce a notion, our common usage of “being on the same wavelength” to describe an understanding of what another is saying might convey human’s more intuitive notion of resonance. This may also account for the good or bad ‘feeling’ that one gets when first encountering someone else. Is this other person capable of resonating with you?
The notion of canceling out certain undesired frequencies, as in Smith’s allergy experiments [57], suggests that an organism would have to be able to attune itself to the frequency emitted by a certain substance. In order to cancel out a signal, or to receive information from a signal, the receiver and sender must be synchronized. Otherwise, the signal is just data, which will be unintelligible to a receiver which is not in resonance. Below, the evidence for this kind of bio-resonance is listed.


KNOWN FROM FORMER RESEARCH

The previous results of Hippocampus Institute’s studies show that:
The integrating regulatory role of cellular level endogenous oscillations is explicitly evidenced by their influence on malignant (human lymphoma and melanoma B16) cell cultures. Extremely-low-intensity endogenous electromagnetic fields (EEMFs) induce a regulative halt in cell division which is also proved by a comparative study of the cytotoxic and cytostatic effects of EEMFs of embryonic and malignant cell cultures [59, 60].
The regulative function of the EEMFs in naturally occurring cell populations involved in a complex metabolic process is proved by the study of the EEMF effects on the phagocyting activity of human blood [60].
EEMFs are shown to influence the functioning of the immune system and correct a condition of immune deficiency provoked by the exposure to continuous, low-intensity radiation (in mice kept in Chernobyl). [5]
The EEMF feedback of women suffering with mastopathy is shown to improve the patients’ state [61].
EEMFs are shown to influence the viability of heat shocked Drosophila melanogaster chrysalises [5, 62,].
At the subcellular level, modulated endogenous EM oscillations are shown to affect kinetic and thermodynamic characteristics (as well as structural dynamics) in water and biological solutions (human blood serum and nucleoproteid complexes) [63, 64].
Human EEMFs are shown to influence the processes of self-regulation in chaotic chemical oscillations [65].

A LIVING SYSTEM CAN ONLY BE REGARDED AS A PART OF ITS ENVIRONMENT

Andrew Weil notes that most synthetic pharmoclogical substances are only semi-synthetic in that they are nearly always based on a natural compound (the ‘active ingredient’ of a plant or part of a plant) with a slight shift in the structure of the molecule. This is because humans do not generally respond well to purely synthetic substances, and in the case of psychoactive substances, the brain lacks the appropriate neurotransmitter to distinguish the substance and respond [66].
It is unlikely that this is mere coincidence. The dominant paradigm of evolution erroneously [67, 68 and references therein] suggests that organisms accidentally respond to their environment, thus tending to suggest that an organism is not an aspect of its environment. And though this idea runs counter to intuition, it is what is generally accepted, and taught in schools. Unfortunately, the paradigm has lead to a feeling of being separated from nature, and many pharmacological disasters have occurred over the last century due to the failure of pharmaceutical companies to recognize that all organisms are derived from, and are an integral part of their environment.
Until recently, electricity was not considered as part of the environment due to the lack of evidence of EMFs having an effect on biological objects. There are still substantial disagreements as to the extent and effect of EMF on living systems, but many developed nations have adopted certain guidelines for maximum exposure limits to certain field strengths [69]. Westerners have considered electricity and magnetism to be vital to life processes for at lest 200 years (e.g., by Mesmer and the 18th-century vitalists) however, at the time it was largely discredited. Modern possibilities of detecting endogenous AC electrical oscillations in cells [12-14, 47, 53, 69 and references therein] reveal that the endogenous fields are strongest when cell metabolism is most active. No signs of AC oscillations are found in dead or heavily poisoned cells [12]. These measurements make it possible for Herbert Pohl to assume that endogenous oscillations must accompany cellular reproduction, and vice versa - reproductive processes cannot proceed without endogenous AC oscillations [14]. This testifies to the key role endogenous EMFs play in the dynamical maintenance of an organism’s stability.
Many thousands of people with heart troubles have a “pacemaker” inserted in their body to keep the heart beating at a steady rate. This can be considered an external pacer as it has replaced the body’s own (evidently faulty) internal pacing system. The aforementioned works by Weaver and Brown [10, 11] demonstrate that all organisms rely at least partially on certain pacers from the environment (external pacers). NASA has also realized the need for these environmental pacers and now equip manned space voyages with an artificial Earth field so that the astronauts can maintain their normal bodily rhythms.
The fundamental self-awareness of living matter has been based on continuous communication between living subjects and the environment, during the whole process of development from protozoa to primates. This development occurred in the natural electromagnetic field of a broad frequency range (at least, from the order of 1015 Hz (ultraviolet light) to the order of units of Hz (Schumann earth/ionosphere cavity resonance [70]). This supports the occurrence of the endogenous mechanisms of electromagnetic signal modulations in a broad range of frequencies. Internal electrodynamic field coherence is evidenced to be the instrument of biological organization at many levels starting from the observations of the embryonic field in eggs [68].

After his lifetime’s work Brown concluded, “No clear boundary exists between the organism’s metabolically maintained electromagnetic fields and those of its geophysical environment” [10]. Unfortunately, information obtained thus far is still insufficient to offer a reasonable mechanism for EMF interaction with biological tissue. This is not entirely surprising since the theoretical exploration of EMF interactions with organisms only began about 30 years ago when Fröhlich began to apply his theory of dielectrics to biological systems to describe the propagation of EM signals in a given system [71].
Even if we try to do our best in order to appear self-ruling, we actually find ourselves highly dependent on the weather and the mood of encounters, as well as ones own attitude of how “things are going”. Speaking more scientifically, the human organism is essentially incorporated into the entire network of natural interrelations via a permanent balancing of the organism’s personal integrity with the integrity of nature as a whole.
Self-regulation of biochemical oscillatory cycles defines the natural selectivity. As it has been already mentioned, such self-regulation is maintained through a permanent information exchange within living matter. Louis-Marie Vincent has recently proposed a new approach to information by providing a conceptual tool adapted to biology [72, 73]. According to this concept, a message (transmitted by a means of communication) does not carry any information, only data. It is the receiver which makes an identification by recognizing the forms. In developing a theory for the mechanism of homeopathy, Del Giudice suggests that the EM information of a substance can be transduced into the surrounding water molecules (for instance, by affecting the field produced by large clusters of molecules), so that when the substance is diluted out, the information is retained in the water. Del Giudice writes, “the homeopathic remedy works only if it is meaningful to the array of previously existing signals in the organism; otherwise it is washed out ” [74].