Microsystems
as Fractals of the Human Body
Today there exists many forms of
therapies that point out the fractal characteristics of the human body. Every part
of the body can be seen as holographic system of its own. So the hand and the
foot, the leg, the arm, the ear, the face, the head etc. are small copies of
the body reflected to the skin. Also inner parts as the tongue, the teeth, the large intestine are microsystems, but because they are
inner parts they are seldom used.
Location of auricular organ projection areas related to gallbladder (1),
appendix (2), stomach (3), uterus (4), heart (5), and
lungs (6)
The idea is based on the principle of the fractalisation of living and
non-living nature and on the acupuncture channels systems wave essence. This
theory allows from physics point of view explain such categories of traditional
chines medicine as meridian, point, microacupuncture system, Qi-energy,
pathogen factors. Possible amount of projection microsystems on skin surface
and mucous membranes is unlimited.
The necessity of scientific elaboration of physiologic
mechanisms of treatment effects are badly needed. The problems with skin
electrical potentials are enlighted in an article here.
Three lines of scientific evidence suggest that impedance at APs is
electrically distinct from non-AP sites and that changes in skin impedance at
APs may be of substantial diagnostic, therapeutic and research significance.
The medicine has long known such mechanisms as referred pain (reflexes of pain
to the skin), trigger points (reflexes to muscles and tendons), dermatomes
(reflexes from the nerves to the skin), and sclerotomes (from bones to skin),
reflexes from the heart and intestine, the tendons, the muscles etc. Reflexes
are very important as a whole for the body. They are used as messengers for feed-back
and feed-forward mechanisms, or in short as stress responses,
and the aim for these responses are to adapt the body to its surroundings. The
stress can be outer stress from the surroundings, but more often it is inner
stress, built up by the individual. In chinese
traditional medicine they also say, that illness can never come from outside,
if the body is in balance.
Reflexes from skin to the organs
These same reflexes can also be used the other way;
from the skin we can see our inner body. We can diagnose imbalances in
different organs, as seen from South-Africa, where Szopinski
among others found that all our inner organs had reflexes to the skin. This is
called organ electrodermal diagnostics (OED)and has a a thorough scientific
background, including two Ph.D. theses, a master's degree dissertation and
several research articles published in international medical journals (can be
requested from Diagnotronics). This has been investigated academically for 20
years.
OED is the first method of this kind that has undergone double-blind clinical
trials with positive results.
Rectification ratios obtained at Organ
Projection Areas, OPAs, related to diseased organs before premedication
were approximately 3 times higher than readings from control points.
Premedication, general anesthesia, and skin incision
did not influence the results. However, direct surgical manipulation of the
diseased organs resulted in a rapid and statistically significant (P<.001)
increase in the rectification ratios observed in the related skin areas. In addition,
rectification ratios were significant (P<.001) for all conditions vs
control.
Various specific relationships between the skin and internal organs are known.
Pain sensitivity (e.g., as assessed by means of Head's dermatomes), skin
temperature, hydration, and color, as well as electrical parameters, may be
changed by internal organ pathology. Correlations between skin electrical
resistance and psychological status (psychogalvanic reaction) are used in
polygraph tests. The impact of endocrine function and autonomic innervation of
particular dermatomes on the skin's electrical resistance is also well known.
The electrical current perception threshold is influenced by many diseases.
Many authors have investigated the effect of particular organ pathology on the
electrical parameters of the corresponding skin areas. Diagnostic methods based
on measurements of electrical potential, resistance, and impedance of these
zones have been proposed. However, their diagnostic
accuracy has not been proven and reproducibility has not been consistent. Some
of these methods use specific bioelectrical properties of acupuncture points.
A breakthrough effect
A wide variety of measurement techniques and current
parameters are used in the above-mentioned methods. The results obtained often
depend on perspiration, which is influenced by the patient's muscular tension,
emotional condition, skin hydration, procedure duration, environmental
temperature, and humidity, as well as the pressure of the measuring electrode.
Therefore, these methods did not find widespread application in contemporary
medicine, and the authors' ideas did not create a unified and systematic
scientific basis for the use of bioelectrical skin properties for organ
diagnostics.
The nervous system is the primary computing system of the human body. The
sensory nervous system detects any damage done to the body from both outside
and inside and sends the information, at the earliest stage of pathology, to
the central nervous system, which controls potent self-defense mechanisms. The
CNS cannot simultaneously process all available information, originating
internally and externally, due to limited capacity. The necessity to eliminate
information which is less important at the time, created the specific
converging structure of the sensory nervous system.
Due to the specific structure of the nervous system, this information also
reaches certain skin areas (Convergence Modulation Theory), causing changes in
the skin's bioelectrical properties. This phenomenon opened new and logical
opportunities for medical diagnostics. OED is the first clinically proven
method of this kind which accesses the body's own information system, the
'first hand' source of diagnostic information.
The CNS gives higher priority to signals resulting from external stimuli (skin)
than to messages coming from internal organs: information coming from sensory
organs is generally more important for the organism's self-defense and
survival. This is why signals generated by internal organs can be blocked by
even mild stimulation of the relevant skin areas. 'Convergence
modulation theory' is introduced, which proposes that acupuncture and other
reflexive therapies function by controlling the flow of information in the
nervous system and thereby reprogramming the powerful self-defense systems
according to actual needs.
The OED device utilizes the electrical “breakthrough effect” of the skin to
estimate the extent of the diode phenomenon in skin areas corresponding to
particular internal organs. In this way OED identifies diseased internal organs
and estimates the intensity of pathological processes within these organs.
Reflexological research
The American Academy of Reflexology conducted the first
reflexology research study to ever be published in scientific medical
literature, when the study appeared in the prestigious journal, Obstetrics and
Gynecology, Vol. 82, #6, December 1993.
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Since then many other Reflexology Research Studies have been reported around
the world.
Microsystems
Acupuncture as a science are nowadays going through an enormous developement.
Different microsystems
are detected from different parts of the body. From the first look even the
brief review astonishes by their variety. Auriculotherapy (Nogier), Su
Jock-therapy (Park Jae Woo), ECIWO-therapy (Zhang Ying Qing), oral acupuncture
(J. Gleditch), iridodiagnostics, nasal therapy, different modifications of
scalptherapy (including Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture-YNSA), facial
reflexology (Sörensen) vaginal acupuncture (H. Buchheit), clavicle needle
injection – that is a far not full list.
All the varieties of these systems are united by their general property – each
of them is a projection of all body parts and internal organs on the limited
section of the skin, mucous membrane and periosteum. The organs are
extrapolated not only morphologically, but also functionally. It’s evidently
impossible to explain such kind of reflection on so various and removed
surfaces by the only means of neurohormonal connections. Nevertheless the
clinical efficiency of influence on the microsystems points is out of doubt.
One of modern theories of the acupuncture influence is the fractal-field model
of organism structure. It exactly opens the way for the microacupuncture
systems appearance, structure and activity understanding.
Benua Mandelbrot, working in the field of nonlinear equations and complex
numbers is the father of fractal geometry. Their peculiarity is that the
primary (mother’s) figure gives rise to the absolutely similar in form and
contents but smaller in size figures. This similarity is mathematically endless
in principle, but the real size of the smallest figure must be restricted by
atom size. Apart from the self-organization principle here is demonstrated the
dialectical unity of structure and chaos during the same process: the central
symmetrical figure at the beginning of the process is gradually turning to the
chaotic “fractal dust” on the periphery.
Recently the fractalisation (similarity) principle has been recognized as the
basic principle of nature self-organization. A lot of similar to fractal
structures were also discovered in the organism. The organisms are said to be
geometrical, topological, and fractal in its forms. Furthermore besides
structural there are functional fractals as well. For example, according to the
ECG Holter monitoring data, the curve depicting the alteration of heart’s
contractions frequency for 24 hours, is identical to the R-R interval
(electrocardiogram) one minute’s exchange diagram.
There were many attempts to explain the nature of acupuncture meridians. Now
you can count about twenty theories, that confirms
that the problem has not been solved yet. One of modern views is the
fractal-field model of the organism structure, which describes the meridian as
a wave’s extreme cycle in the organism coherent field with projection on the
body surface at the acupuncture points zone. According
to the positions, the main function of the meridians is an informational
exchange between the organism (microspace) and the environment (macrospace).
The goal of this exchange is the adaptation of on organism for the
environment’s changeable conditions.
Negentropy maximization principle.
One concept that is often used is entropy. When the differentation increases
the entropy becomes smaller. The negative entropy of a living system is the
entropy that it exports to keep its own entropy low; it lies at the intersection
of entropy and life. Negentropy
is used as a measure of distance to normality. Negentropy is the force that
seeks to achieve effective organizational behavior and lead to a steady
predictable state. Planck thermodynamic potential, known also as free entropy,
has been shown to play a great role in the so-called entropic formulation of
statistical mechanics, applied among the others in molecular biology. The term
was introduced by Erwin Schrödinger in his 1943 popular-science book What is life. Matti
Bergström uses this in his dipole brain theory. Also different low energy
lasers are used in this way. The "healthy" frequence is 632 nm, used
by Anu
Mäkelä among others. Its "healtiness" depends on its harmonious
characteristics.
Quantum biology.
In quantum physics the different elementar particles also behaves according to
the same principles, and how could it be otherwise. The life, and all the world, is built from these particles. They have also
a supersymmetry of bosons and fermions. That is matter and not matter, perhaps
dark matter. From this simple equation is then the whole
universe built. Soon, perhaps, we have the answers, when the so called
Higgs particle´s secret is revieled.
One fundamental aspect in understanding of fractalization principle is Planck
constant. Matti Pitkänen has developed a fascinating theory, TGD, that will unite the quantum world with our classical world
ontology. And there is the
Planck constant hierarchy very central, indeed. The thought that the
hierarchy of Planck constants could label levels of fractal hierarchy is quite
new, and hitherto controversial. But it looks very good.
The evolution goes up the ladder of Planck constants. The different Planck
constants grows bigger as evolution goes on, and the
materia condensates at magnetic flux tubes containing dark matter forming a
fractal hierarchy.
As above, so below, is the ancient saying, that in
this way can be said to be true. I will come back to this fascinating question
later.
It is a very fruitful combination to unite biology with physics. The physic
tries to get the simple picture, so often lost in science. Said with Matti
Bergströms words on the observer-problem - "There then appears to be a
paradox: a "sleeping physicist" would be the best, ideal, observer,
since the imaginary, subconscious dimension would not affect the
cortical/sensory functions and the results of our observation in physical
experiments. There would be no iterations in the observing Self. And no local "dance", nor uncertainty, in the observed
object."
Here links also the very complicated question of EEG, EMG, EXG,
seen as fractals. Also other electromagnetic frequencies may be involved. The Yin and Yang of our world?
Conclusions
- Microacupuncture systems are one of the manifestations of fractalisation, the
universal principle of self-organization in nature.
- The number of possible microsystems is unlimited.
- Resolution of a microsystem and its influence on the organism depend on the
size of its projection on the surface of skin, mucous membrane and periosteum.
This influence is the most effective in the points of the classical acupuncture
meridians.
-The fractal-field theory of the microacupuncture systems needs the elaboration
of the physiological mechanism for the medical effect realization.