Using Electricity to Heal 200
ganjadude writes to tell us that while the idea of using electricity to heal wounds was first reported 150 years ago by Emil Du Bois-Reymond, modern scientists may have found a way to practically apply this idea. From the article: "The researchers grew layers of mouse cells and larger tissues, such as corneas, in the lab. After 'wounding' these tissues, they applied varying electric fields to them, and found they could accelerate or completely halt the healing process depending on the orientation and strength of the field."
Old news (Score:2, Interesting)
I analysed a patent recently that dealt with this as part of a question in a preliminary round of interviews.
I can't remember the patent number, but basically, if they try to patent the actual therapy, they are going to have problems because the patent I am describing is something like 15 years old already.
Coming soon to an inbox near you... (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:I don't think this is new (Score:2, Interesting)
I was told many things by many people as to why this happened and what to do about it (diet, immobilization impossibilities, extensive surgery, prayer, physical therapy, just live with it, etc.).
One doctor prescribed a device to wear while I sleep. Charge a box during the day, then connect this "bendy-wire" loop to it, strap the loop around the break. It generated an electrical field, not an electrical shock to my skin (nor bone!). Just a field.
It worked, and after about four weeks of this electro-treatment the bone became whole again, mostly (pretty bad break); at least it no longer had an additional joint in the middle, instead there's a bulge of bone mass where before there was only pieces. It's mostly as straight as it's supposed to be (one shoulder is now ~4cm lower than the other).
It's definately not new. It's just taking some time to be accepted as real medicine.
Sick of 'science' reporting (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Magnets (Score:3, Interesting)
Actually, no. While it is true that the magnet is stationary w.r.t your wrist (or whichever part of your body), it is not stationary with respect to the moving ions that make up the electric current within the cells. The presence of the magnetic field will deflect the charges according to a force F = Charge * Field x Velocity. Charges coming in from further away might get deflected away from their original destination, allegedly altering the healing process.
So wearing magnets might not be pointless.
Implementation or Understanding (Score:4, Interesting)
Are we in fact going to do the same thing with electricity here? Are we really understanding why these mice are being cured or are we just satisfied to have a technique that appears to work? I don't mean to be cynical. Curing the impossible seems like a great thing. But will we be reading about how a quick emag arthritis treatment today resulted in the creation of Alzheimer's v2.0 tomorrow?
IMHO, a workable implementation is great, but full understanding would be better.
Re:Magnets (Score:2, Interesting)
A shade of experience might come in handy. I was researching a lot of stuff involving magnets for issues of motors etc. I had no interest in Magnetic Therapy though I had heard of it for years. I generally regarded it to be a bit silly.
Then one day my 81 year old mother with 3 fractures in her left lower leg and diabetes who had been told she would never walk again called me because her leg was swollen about 2 times its normal size. I came over to help her as best I could. On a wild chance I placed 2 magnets on her leg. It was just to see what would happen. In about 60 seconds the swelling was gone! (That doesn't happen with the best of drugs folks!) After 1 week of exposure to the magnets, X-Rays showed a leg that had not healed at all in 3 months to have the region near where the magnet was, completely healed fracture and all. More astounding was seeing the X-Ray! It showed the calcification in her Osteoporosis (Ghost Bone)to be fully restored in that area about the size of a soft ball where the magnet was kept on her leg. After that we moved magnets to cover her other fracture locations. In 4 weeks they were healed. The neuropathy she has (Pain from nerve regrowth patterns and IDDM) is only successfully relieved by magnets. Drugs don't do it.
I went looking hard into the physics of how this works. Here is the process. There is a derivation of the Maxwell Equations that states Force = B field squared times the Area / the universal magnetic constant. Since Area and the constant drop out under normal conditions the Force = B Squared. The Mitochondria of the Cells (Energy Power house of the cells) are small DC motors and their efficiency goes up if their magnets are stronger. Adding an external field adds to the B field and thus squares the sum as the power of the mitochondria. But it was even more. Since 1799 it has been known that transmutation (fusion for you physics types) is done in living things. Chickens in Wales were found putting out more Calcium than they were eating. This has since been validated extensively including 2 Nobel Prizes and work done by the US Army and by the French nuclear agency. The mitochondria of the cells does this transmutation. This means that they are small particle accelerators with microscopic "Wiggler" magnet sets. Adding an external field strengthens them. As such the cells can do their work more effectively this way.
The pain relief therefore from magnets isn't like standard medical drug pain relief where we suppress a function. Rather a magnet relieves pain, and I now know it with my arthritic back, by causing damaged cells that are weak and which might cause pain by disintergration to be able to accelerate their function and recover. This in medicine is the magic pill that doesn't do wrong. It is real. I know about this healing ability personally from my mother as well as myself. I kicked a toe and injured it severely. One night with a magnet taped to it and it healed.
Why then all the discussion if it works? It is quite simple. We didn't have good strong magnets until recently the therapy was unreliable because it diminishes by the inverse square law in distance and the old magnets had no range. The new N-50 magnets have the range. The ones I was using have a 200 gauss field at over 4 inches away. Point blank they have 14,700 gauss and are massively powerful. Also most experiments have not been sized to the test subjects.
Now just some pure physics stuff for people out there: There is absolutely no difference between a permanent magnet and an induced one. All magnets are already resident in the media and induced ones are merely aimed in response to the external field. All magnets do represent strong electrical currents. The ones I am using for therapy would correspond to approximately 1 hp of current driving an induced magnet. The process by which a magnet works is that it is a diode in the ether. I know the Einstein types out there don't believe in the ether. They also don't know how a magnet works. They
Some interesting points. . . (Score:3, Interesting)
Some notes of interest. . .
Acupuncture works. Nobody contests this. --The theory is that by inserting a metal needle and setting it to lightly rotate, the needle cuts through the Earth's magnetic field creating a micro-current which then affects the body in a variety of different ways.
Electromagnetic fields similarly are able to stimulate cells to react in similar ways; this is probably the basis of all concerns regarding Cell Phone radiation.
How can EM fields affect humans? --It is understood by some that EM fields can be used to affect emotions and states of awareness. With specific application to the primary visual cortex, they can even be used to cause temporary blindness [scotsman.com]. (Read article half-way down.)
The HAARP Array, supposedly used for research, is also suggested by some to be a means of mind-control; that is, beams of specific EM can be reflected from the sky onto terrestrial targets. The science is not contested, just the intent.
In a world where the U.S. secret services admit to having run extensive (and fairly gruesome) mind-control experiments, where secrecy and paranoia run rampant through the government, where Israel is allowed to commit genocide in the Middle East without the media blinking an eye, and where Bush is allowed to build a police state, all to the drums of Christian-Cult Apocalypse insanity, the idea of population control through manipulation of EM fields is not so very far fetched, now is it?
Disagree? Before responding, ask yourself in all honestly why you disagree and where the impulse stems from.
-FL