Evidence for Healing with EMFs

Arguably, Nikola Tesla understood electricity on a more fundamental level than anyone else has before him or since. In the 1930s Tesla and Georges Lakhovsky constructed the Multiple Wave Oscillator: a generator of life-associated frequencies from 750 kHz to 3 MHz and numerous harmonics. He reported several successful applications of the device (some medical reports from the 1930s are quoted in ref. 7) in cancer treatment and various metabolic disorders in plant, animal and human patients.
Among others, Robert O. Becker and Cyril Smith have written popular books which describe the history of bioelectromagnetism as well as their own positive experience in employing EMFs for healing processes. Becker’s work focuses on bone, nerve and tissue regeneration using exogenous stimulation sources and reports success in the mending of bones, which for one reason or another, refused to heal. One of the most stunning accounts is an experiment where a 1 nanoamp battery was implanted in the stump of an amputated rat foreleg and induced histologically completed regeneration.8
Smith and his colleagues challenged electrically sensitive patients with various artificially generated frequencies, and the patients produced allergic responses which corresponded to their familiar reactions to chemicals for certain frequencies. Smith has also performed experiments where an allergy patient was brought into close proximity of a sealed vessel containing a know allergen to that patient. Despite the absence of a possible chemical interaction, the patient nonetheless produced an allergic response.9
Smith suggests that people with allergies are oversensitive to EMFs and are therefore improperly responding to the EMF of certain substances. The question which arises now is: what are the mechanisms of disturbance and how can an understanding of these mechanisms further the possibilities of correcting pathologies which arise from them? By looking at this question holistically, another factor, that of an organism’s ability to communicate with the environment, needs to be considered.

Communication Breakdown

Louis-Marie Vincent has recently proposed a new approach to information by providing a conceptual tool adapted to biology.10 According to this concept, a message does not carry any information, only data. It is the receiver which makes an identification by recognizing the forms. Fritz-Albert Popp has demonstrated that incoherent signals are not recognized by organisms.11
In developing a theory for the mechanism of homeopathy, Emilio 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.”12 William Ross Adey elaborates on this notion of ‘meaningful’ information in writing, “Biological effects of oscillating environmental electric fields are related to the electric gradient which they introduce in the tissue. This will be determined by the degree of coupling between the field and the tissues.”13
This may seem all too convenient to have a self-regulating mechanism where the body can either accept or reject information based on need. However, this ‘windowing effect’ is what Adey realized after studying the behavioral and neurophysiological effects of extremely low frequency (ELF) and modulated radiofrequency (RF) fields as well as the responses of calcium ion binding in tissues to ELF and RF fields.14-16 The occurrence of such “biological” electromagnetic windows is also evident from several of the studies described above.17,18 The natural dynamic complementarity of the endogenous and environmental electromagnetic signals (frequency, amplitude, phase and the composition of complex signals) ensures a very fine selectivity of the available information from the electromagnetic noise as well as preventing an organism’s “dissolving” in the environmental electromagnetic fields.
A ‘communication breakdown’ may occur when a biological system becomes too tired (what is often referred to as a lack of vital energy) to recognize the windows of meaningful information that is needed by the system in order to regulate itself. As humans have simultaneously introduced artificially generated signals (EMF pollution), and relocated the Earth’s minerals and soil and subsequently altered the landscape (and therefore the local naturally occurring EMFs), the possibility of a biological system to recognize and select what it needs has diminished enormously since the Industrial Revolution.