The human
body floats in a sea of magnetic fields - those of the earth, moon, sun, and
other galactic fields. The body is full of magnetic materials. Every cell and
atom of the body is a small magnetic dynamo. The body's fields, which are very
tiny, are measured in devices called SQUIDS. The earth's field is 100,000 times
or more stronger than the body's! We are so dependent on the earth's fields
that astronauts in space for long periods require artificial magnetic fields to
maintain health.
Magnetic fields penetrate the body as if it were
air. Nothing in the body stands in the way of a magnetic field. The body is 70%
or more water, which doesn't reduce or block magnetic fields. A strong magnet
held on one side of the hand can easily deflect a compass needle on the other
side of the same hand.
SQUIDS show that tissues exposed to magnets have
enhanced magnetic signals afterward for some time. Various types of magnets
produce these effects. They include permanent magnets, such as flat magnetic
pads and electromagnets of various kinds, such as MRI machines and nerve
conduction testing devices.
Some acupuncturists use permanent magnets because
they are painless and allow treatment to continue after a visit. While a
student in acupuncture, I was experimenting on myself with two of the most
powerful acupuncture magnets available. In two separate trials, I felt an
obvious buzzing sensation in my chest and abdomen. By chance I stimulated two
acupuncture meridians! This proved that magnets significantly affect
acupuncture points and meridians. I also worked with a physician friend who owns
some sensitive electrical testing equipment. We were able to show that magnets
increase the energy (chi) flow along a hand meridian. In my practice, I now
frequently replace needles for magnets.
Magnetics act on the body in many ways:
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They stimulate the acupuncture points and meridians.
In this way, they can be used for all kinds of problems, especially for pain,
fibromyalgia and muscle strains.
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They work on red blood cells because they contain iron.
I placed a round bullseye magnet on a nurse's knee bruise following a ski
injury. The next morning she had a perfect bullseye pattern over her bruise!
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Most people report warmth and gentle tingling under
the magnets. Europeans have measured increased blood flow. Others have seen
this on thermograms too.
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They affect some chemical processes within and
between cells. Chemists use sensitive magnetic equipment to measure simple and
complex molecules. Researchers at Harvard found that salt water passes a membrane
quicker with a magnetic field.
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They can affect nerve signals. High strength magnets
can cause anesthesia, through a principle in physics called the Hall effect.
Dr. Robert Becker (author of Body
Electric) put salamanders to sleep before surgery with electromagnets
more safely than anesthetics. Magnets can stop epileptic seizures. They are
also used to study and map nerve structures deep in the brain, normally only
accessible during brain surgery.
I hope the above has helped to inform you about the
exciting new field of biomagnetics which has great potential to help people. We
are clearly seeing a new day in medical sciences and health care with the
expanded awareness and use of complementary techniques of care.
This week Wellness Weekly is featuring the clinical
use of enhanced magnetic fields. This will be a series over the next few weeks.
Magnetic therapy is important for several reasons:
1.
Magnetic
therapy is a “renewable resource.” An enhanced magnetic field is produced with
permanent magnets. Once you have these magnets, they are good for life. You
have a health and energy resource that is maintenance-free, and that works
while you sleep.
2.
Magnetic
field therapy may be needed now for survival—we evolved in a stronger magnetic
field than the one the earth has now. There is now evidence that magnetic field
decreases preceded five of the six great species extinctions on the earth.
3. We have a chaotic and polluted field to contend with because of all the wave forms we have produced and are “bouncing around” in the atmosphere—from sources as big as satellites, and high tension wires, to those as small as appliances and cell phones. Spending time in a coherent field is needed to allow our cellular level processes to work properly.
William Philpott, M.D. , a founding
member of the Academy of Orthomolecular Medicine, and fellow of the Society of
Environmental Medicine and Toxicology has done the most extensive clinical
research that I have encountered on the use of applied magnetic fields in
clinical practice.
Dr. Philpott has described three
types of maladaptive metabolic states that block the body’s ability to activate
a crucial enzymatic sequence in the biochemical processes of the body. This set
of enzymes reconverts “spent” oxygen in the form of toxic and inflammatory free
radical oxygen, peroxides and acids back into its molecular, active state so
that it is useful for biological energy production. He has found that a
negative magnetic field activates the enzyme sequence, and thus restores the
ability of the body to break down the harmful free radicals, peroxides and
acids and reclaim the oxygen they contain for active use. This means that a
negative magnetic field may be the key to the body’s ability to prevent the
inflammatory, toxic and infective environment caused by the products of
oxidation—free radicals, peroxides and acids.
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TOXIC, INFLAMMATORY, INFECTIVE STATES CREATED |
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RELEASE OF TOXIC, INFLAMMATORY, INFECTIVE STATES
RESTORATION OF HEALTH |
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Neg mag field activates molecular state |
acids broken down |
peroxides broken down |
0= + =0 |
0=0 |
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This helps to explain the
effectiveness magnetic therapies in bringing about recovery from many
illnesses. A negative magnetic field “primes the pump” of cellular metabolism,
allows the body to bring oxygen to the diseased or damaged area and facilitate
the natural healing process.
Here is a table of the effects of
negative magnetic fields vs. positive magnetic fields from Dr. William
Philpott’s Biomagnetic Handbook, p6. These are compiled from his review of
research, as well as his own clinical observations:
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Negative Magnetic Field Energy: |
Positive Magnetic Field Energy |