Energy Medicine - E-Book

James L. Oschman

Description

See how energy therapies can normalize physiology and restore your patients’ health! Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, 2nd Edition provides a deeper understanding of energy and energy flow in the human body. Using well-established scientific research, this book documents the presence of energy fields, discerns how those fields are generated, and determines how they are altered by disease, disorder, or injury. It then describes how therapeutic applications can restore natural energy flows within the body. Written by recognized energy medicine expert Dr. James Oschman — who is also a physiologist, cellular biologist, and biophysicist — this resource shows how the science of energetics may be used in healing diseases that conventional medicine has difficulty treating.

• Easy-to-understand coverage simplifies the theory of energy medicine and the science behind it, providing detailed, coherent explanations for a complex subject.
• Well-established scientific research shows why and how energy medicine works.
• Multi-disciplinary approach covers energy medicine as it applies to various healthcare disciplines, from acupuncture to osteopathy to therapeutic touch and energy psychology.

Sujets

• Complementary Medicine
• Alternative Medicine
• Medical

Informations

• Publié par: Churchill Livingstone
• Date de parution: 04 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780702065552
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

Energy Medicine
The Scientific Basis
Second Edition
James L. Oschman, PhD
Nature’s Own Research Association, Dover, New Hampshire, USA
Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
Dedication
Copyright
How to Use
Foreword to the First Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Introducing and Defining Energy and Energy Medicine
Chapter Summary
Forms of Energy in Nature and Their Sensation
The ‘Five Senses’
Beyond the Five Senses
Synesthesia
A Magnetic Sense?
A ‘Sixth Sense’
Defining Energy and Energy Medicine
Chapter 2: Basic Physics and Biophysics, Part I: Electricity and Magnetism
Chapter Summary
An Academic Discipline
Some Vocabulary
Electric, Magnetic, and Electromagnetic Fields
Ampère’s Law and Faraday’s Law of Induction in Action: Energy Medicine Devices and Energy Therapies
Chapter 3: Basic Physics and Biophysics: Electromagnetism and Resonance
The Power of Resonance
Importance of Frequency
Electricity and Magnetism Combined: The Electromagnetic Field
Antennas
Biological Antennas
Molecular Antennas
Oscillations, Vibrations, and Energy Transfers
Conclusions
Chapter 4: Historical Origins of Energy Medicine
Chapter Summary
Discoveries, Ideas, Enlightenments, and ‘Golden Ages’
Enlightenments
Herbert V. Günther
Early Use of Energy in Medicine
Franz Anton Mesmer
An Emotional Controversy
Mechanism Versus Vitalism
Samuel Hahnemann and Homeopathy
Andrew Taylor Still, the Palmers, William G. Sutherland, and Randolph Stone
The Beginnings of Reiki
Albert Abrams
Flexner Report
Chapter 5: Electrobiology and Electrophysiology
Chapter Summary
Electrophysiology After Galvani
The Beginnings of Electrobiology and Electrophysiology
Early Electrotherapy
Electrotherapy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Electrobiology, Electrophysiology, Neurophysiology
Fields in Diagnosis
Conclusions
Chapter 6: Electricity and Magnetism in Diagnosis and Therapeutics
Chapter Summary
The Injury Potential
TENS and MENS
Frequency-Specific Microcurrent
Pulsing Electromagnetic Field Therapy
Low-Energy Neural Stimulation
Electrical Properties of Tumours
Tabriz for Early Detection of Bladder Cancer
Electrotherapy Treatments for Cancer
Electrotherapy Treatments for Cancer
Electrotherapy for Liver and Other Cancers
Nutri-Energetic Systems and miHealth
Low Level (cold) Laser Therapy
Light and Sound Therapies Combined
Conclusions
Chapter 7: Bodywork, Energetic and Movement Therapies
Chapter Summary
Jin Shin Jyutsu®
The Alexander Technique
Rolfing®/Structural Integration
The Feldenkrais Method
The Trager Approach
CranioSacral Therapy and SomatoEmotional Release
Active Isolated Stretching
Therapeutic Touch
Continuum Movement
Zero Balancing
Bowen Technique
Healing Touch
Resonance Repatterning
BodyTalk
Many Others
Chapter 8: Measuring the Fields of Life
Chapter Summary
Heart Electricity
Magnetism from Electricity
Heart Magnetism
Brain Electricity and Magnetism
Weak Versus Strong Fields
Effects of Practice on Brain Waves
Biomagnetic Fields and Senses
Chapter 9: Regulatory Energetics
Chapter Summary
An Energetic Fabric
Regulation Beyond Nerves and Chemical Messages
Other Models of Communication
Lock and Key Model
Spectroscopy: The Webwork of Molecular Electromagnetic Fields
Vibratory Interactions Between Molecules
The Field of the Body
A Physical Matrix
The Dual Nervous System
The Fabric of Space
Some Conclusions
Chapter 10: Energy ‘Circuits’ in the Body
Chapter Summary
Introducing Holism
Defining Matrix
From Biomagnetism to Semiconduction
Assume a Spherical Cow
Assumptions and Deductive Logic
Electricity Versus Electronics
Cell and Tissue Structure: The ‘Living Matrix’
The Cell Is Not a Bag
Continuum
Information Flows
Matrix Dynamics: Signaling and Cell Crawling
Solid State Biochemistry
Crystalline Arrays in Cells and Tissues: Piezoelectricity
The Control of Body Structure: Metabolic Regeneration
Properties of the Living Matrix
Circuits and Meridians
Conclusions
Chapter 11: The Living Matrix: Ten Perspectives
Chapter Summary
Andrew Taylor Still and the Connective Tissue
Alfred Pischinger and Hartmut Heine: The Extracellular Matrix and Ground Regulation
Albert Szent-Györgyi: Electronic Conduction and Semiconduction
Robert O. Becker: Regeneration
Rahul Sarpeshkar: Cell-Inspired Electronics
Robert O. Becker: The Perineural Control System
Herbert Fröhlich: Biological Coherence
Donald Ingber, Stephen Levin, and Tom Flemons: Biotensegrity
K.J. Pienta and D.S. Coffey: The Vibratory Matrix
Thomas Hanna, Mae-Wan Ho, David P. Knight, John F. Barnes, Gerald Pollack: Soma, Consciousness, and the Water-Collagen Matrix
Chapter 12: Energy Medicine and the Sciences of the Subconscious and Intuition
Chapter Summary
Introduction
The Study of the Subconscious Mind
Memory and Consciousness
The Living Matrix
Faster than Neurons
Chapter 13: The Energetic Blueprint of Life and Health
Chapter Summary
Introduction
Stating the Problem
The Genes Are Not on Top, They Are on Tap
Epigenetics
Weiss on the Development of the Organism
Self-Organization
Emergent Properties
The Organism Does Not, in Fact, Assemble
Morphogenesis
Defining ‘System’
Wound Healing
Assembly Rules for Whole Systems
Tensegrity
The Morphogenetic Field
Regeneration Versus Prosthetics
New Rules
Conclusions
Chapter 14: Acupuncture, Acupressure, Shiatsu, and Related Therapies
Chapter Summary
Introduction
Meridians and Fascia
Medical Imaging Approaches of Joie P. Jones and Colleagues
The BHS, Renamed the PVS
Quantum Shiatsu
The X-Signal System of Manaka
Relation to Acupuncture
Hypothesis
Chapter 15: Silent Pulses and Rhythmic Entrainment
Silent Pulses
Medical Use of Electricity and Magnetism
Magnetism and Soft Tissue Healing
Fields Projected from the Hands
Entrainment or Sync
Frequency Windows of Specificity
The Zimmerman Study
Defining ‘Healing Energy’
Other Healing Frequencies
QiGong
Mechanisms
Prevention
Infrared Radiations
Biological Rhythms and Wound Healing
The Blueprint
Sources of ELF Signals
The Brain’s Pacemaker
Entrainment of Biological Rhythms: More Controversy
Geomagnetic and Geoelectric Fields
VLF-Sferics
Evidence for Entrainment by External Fields
Mechanism of Entrainment
An Attempt at Replicating the Zimmerman Study
Some Conclusions
Chapter 16: The Electromagnetic Environment
Introduction
Biology and Physics at Odds
The Dilemma Resolved
Clinical Applications
Mechanisms
Biosensors
The Natural Electromagnetic Energy Spectrum
Other Extraterrestrial Sources
Geopathic Stress
The Energy Spectrum of Technology
Conclusions About Our Natural Environment
The Electromagnetic Environment: Biological Effects
Weather Sensitivity
Allergies
‘Billiard-Ball’ Regulations Versus Electromagnetic Signaling
The Legacy of Lucretian Biochemistry
Acute Pathology
Electromagnetic Pollution and Other Diseases
Scalar Waves
Scalar Waves and Bodywork
Implications for Structural Bodywork
Prudent Avoidance
Some Conclusions
Chapter 17: Energy Medicine in Daily Life
Introduction
Inflammation
Grounding or Earthing
Reduction of Primary Indicators of Osteoporosis, Improvement of Glucose Regulation, and Immune Responses
Implications for Aging
Aromatherapy and Essential Oils
Medicinal Herbs
Marine Plasma
Frequencies from Atoms
Conclusions
Afterword: Clarity and Consensus Continue to Emerge from a Historic Tangle of Controversy and Confusion
Sensitivity of Living Systems to Tiny Energy Fields
Consensus Continuing to Emerge
Appendix I: The Regulation of Devices Used in the Practice of Energy Medicine
The Roles of FDA
Patents and Scientific Literature
The Anti-Alternative Press
Ethical Standards
Health Freedom Laws
Safety of Consumer Products
Freedom of Religion
The World of Claims
Substantiating Health Claims
Avoiding Health Claims to Avoid FDA Turf
Modifying Claims, Reporting Problems
The Regulatory Process: Getting FDA Clearance
The Biofeedback Exemption
Consumer Products
Appendix II: Legal, Ethical, and Other CAM Resources
Index
Dedication
This book is dedicated to Nora
And to fond memories of Candac