Biophysics Wk 13 - Energy Medicine Energy Fields

Acupuncture as effective energy medicine -

This week we took a look at a diagram that outlined The Biofield, this hypothetical definition comes from viewing the organism as a self controlled cybernetic, thermodynamically open system.  (side note: I thin I could benefit from someone breaking that sentence down into layman terms for me).  In this table physiology and mid lay on either side of programs of development, maintenance, reproduction and death these two overlaying systems then join back together again and create a group of control subsystems.  One of these control subsystems are those manifested in acupuncture as defined as acupuncture meridians carrying impulses of x-interaction (Qi, prana).  I feel that this outlines how the system acupuncture acts on as an energy system exists within living organisms.

In our reading, we discussed a 1997 finding by the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture that acupuncture is an effective treatment for nausea, surgical anesthesia and for pain resulting from surgery and a variety of musculoskeletal conditions.  BOOM!

What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?
What I learned from the article from www.themysticica.com on Krilian photography is that it is capturing a corona discharge phenomenon, between an object that is electrically grounded (I am deducing that this grounded object is the the subject of the photograph) and metal plate that has been connected to a Tesla coil generating an electric field.  The coronal discharge is then captured on film.

I conclude that Kirlian photography is going to show the areas that have the greatest conduction as the brightest on the photograph, as the electric field will ground out through those areas quicker than others.  I think this is consistent with the idea of how qi flows through meridians and comes to the surface at acupuncture points.  This is also consistent with the Soviet scientist that found the brightest 700 points on the body concurs with Chinese acupuncture.

Krilian photography has yet to be leveraged in a way that has gained popularity, and because of this it has be relegated to the realm of entertainment.

Human intent as it affects health -

For the individual, if a person cares to be healthy then that intent will color all the decisions made.  In a moment of hunger, there could be a fast food/convenient option or perhaps an individual that has an intent to be healthy would have an healthy snack on hand in case of such an hunger emergency and they would not make the unhealthy choice.  It's a long game vs immediate type of mind set. One person may see a box of doughnuts and think, "Free tastes best!  I'll have two!" where as if a person who has an intent of health sees the same box of doughnuts the thought may be, "Oh dang, that looks like a box full of belly aches & feeling awful after a sugar crash.  No fun, no way!"

Intent also comes to play on the part of a practitioner.  If the intent is to see 3 patients every hour in a clinic setting, the practitioner could miss information that could be key in diagnosis a patient because they were in a hurry to 'help' the next person and were not able to be present in the moment.