The Bioelectrical Basis for Healing.

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http://www.mercola.com/2006/aug/8/the_bioelectrical_basis_for_healing.htmThe Bioelectrical Basis for HealingElectric currents applied to the skin could speed up the healing ofwounds. Although this process was observed 150 years ago, it has notbeen investigated since.Cells and tissues function as chemical batteries, with positivepotassium ions and negative chlorine ions flowing across membranes.This creates electric field patterns across the body. Damaged tissuecauses a disruption in the battery, and the resulting altered fieldattracts repair cells to the wounded area.Scientists grew mouse cells and tissues (like corneas) in a lab, thenwounded them. Based on how they applied varying electrical fields tothe tissue samples, researchers found that they could stop

oraccelerate the healing process.The genes that make repair cells move from place to place canapparently be influenced by electric fields. Electric fields candeactivate genes known to prepare repair cells for migration, andgenes that halt the repair process.New Scientist July 26, 2006Dr. Mercola's Comment:For a long time, I've been keenly interested in the work of Dr. RobertBecker, who has studied how bioelectricity affects your body's naturalability to heal itself. Becker used electrical currents to stimulatecell regeneration in the damaged limbs of frogs and salamanders.European researchers have taken Dr. Becker's work an important stepforward by demonstrating how the electrical fields and currents inyour tissues naturally heal wounds.Becker has looked at both the curative abilities of electromagnetism,which can heal without the dangerous side effects of chemotherapy,radiation,

and other mainstream medical procedures, and the potentialdangers of electromagnetic fields from sources such as householdappliances, power lines, and computers.In his book The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation ofLife, Becker looks toward the day when human limbs, spinal cords, andorgans could be regenerated by this method, and details the story ofhis struggle to conduct his ground-breaking research.Biolectrics could lead to new understanding of evolution, acupuncture,psychic phenomena, and healing. It is a vastly underutilized andhighly effective form of treatment.Understanding of bioelectric fields is currently limited, but thatdoesn't mean they don't exist. After all, CAT scans, PET scans, andEMT scans are all designed to monitor the body's energies. There isenergy in all living creatures that has both electrical and magneticproperties.Some electrical fields alter your body's

electrochemical activity bychanging the electrical activity of the central nervous system. Othersaffect your body's magnetic field.The key is that your body's systems are electrochemical. Living thingsare a combination of both electrical and chemical reactions, andelectromagnetic signals are therefore critical in determining thebiochemical activity in the body.Energy healing, therapeutic touch, polarity therapy, and Reiki are allbased on this principle: that every human being is composed of aninterlocking set of energies, including electrical and magnetic ones. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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