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Active Polarization: New Frontier for Acupuncture
All conventional physical therapies, such as laser, ultrasound, TENS, NMR has one shared characteristic-they have no specific purpose! These are systems with no specific aim in that they emit a quantity of energy in various ways in a repetitive and predefined way. All instruments and methodologies used in conventional physical treatments emit quantities of energy in different forms and with varying characteristics, but in an uncalculated way and therefore with an unpredictable impact on biological structures.The variables of a biological system are, therefore, functions distributed in space and continuous in time. For instance, the concentration of a substance in a tissue varies according to both position and time.
Re-polarizing Therapy (RT) identifies what is normally not revealed by conventional treatments, and that is which biological requirements must be met. The RT instrument creates a loop, a closed circuit between itself and the area we want to treat. Once the circuit is closed the machine interrogates the tissues at a very high speed. Using a series of algorithms it reads and interprets the chemical-physical situation of the acupuncture points and then makes the suitable energetic corrections.
Once the body system's response to the impulse has been measured, we can calculate any input using mathematical systems such as the convolution integral of La Place and Fourier. It is useful, therefore, to remember that static systems are characterized by algebraic relationships, while dynamic systems are characterized by differential equations.
As the algorithms memorized in the system are all concerned with equilibrium of reflected organic activity of acupuncture points, it should be noted that, even if one wanted to create a biological change, the instruments is not able to produce any form of damage. Once balance has been attained in the tissue under examination technically speaking the machine ceases to intervene, so that neither hyper-stimulation nor hypo-stimulation can occur.
If we start from the basic principle that any chemical substance has a corresponding physical electrical charge, the observation of a concentration gradient is nothing other than a gradient of electrical charge.
The electrical potential that forms originates in the separation of the electrical charges on either side of the membrane. This gradient is easily measurable and quantifiable as the electrical potential difference in the tissue.
A further analogy is found in comparing a biological cell with an electrical condenser. Both tend to be polarized, as the cell membrane is, electrically speaking, an insulator in which ionic channels are constantly being created because of ion exchange. The potential difference between the internal and external environment is what causes this. The electrica1 charges linked to the biological components are polarized as occurs in an electrical condenser, in which the charges tend to arrange themselves over the two surfaces, which are opposite but separated by a material which has a high electrical resistance.
According with the Tai Ji law both, the magnetic and the electric dipole, are systems that are coupled, which cannot be separated and which are characterized by the electrical charges being distributed at their two extremes.
Studies carried out in physiology about a decade ago suggested that a biological tissue could be described in electrical terms. Due to their caPacity to polarize, biological tissues can, therefore, be compared to an electrochemical dipole. This characteristic is due to the polarization of cell membranes, which behave as partially non-conducting systems.
Inflammation, such as any kind of pathology, produces polarization in tissues. Polarization produces a distribution of the electrical charges and the gradient generated can be interpreted as a dipole, which keeps the electrical charges separate.
When an alternating current is applied it is therefore possible to obtain a reading for a11 the components of the tissue, including its intracellular components. Thus, the complete reading of the system can be achieved when we apply an alternating current to an equivalent electrical mode1. The scale unit of measurement thus shows the operator if there has been a positive change in the patient's condition that corresponds to the chemical and physical re-polarization of the tissues with a decrease in resistance and increase in specific conductivity. As the presence of inflammation cannot be deduced as the extrapolation of an absolute value, we proceed to observe the dynamics of the response to correction, from which we can deduce the degree of inflammation.
From the above it can be seen that when treating a patient with RT it is useful to use the whole spectrum of frequencies available in the system in order to re-polarise the tissues, following which there is not only a remission phase of the painful symptoms but more importantly, a chemical and physical normalisation of the tissues, the real aim of any form of medica1 treatment.
By Genitoni V, Aschero G., Fuda F, Mussler A. & LiXtaomtw