apropos Cancer update ... and cell death

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Taking off from WM " preventative medicine " as all too often an excuse

to market more high-tech and lucrative testing procedures, another

recently reported curious note ...

 

" Treating the dead " (an article in either NEWSWEEK or NEWS AND WORLD

REPORT magazine, last week)

 

Research has recently, to the great surprise of the investigators,

confirmed that the body's cells do not die in a matter of minutes

when the heart and lungs cease normal function and the system lacks

oxygen, as was the previous dogma. Rather, they go into a state of

shutdown as to the need for oxygen, sort of a hibernation, and remain

alive, at least not dead, for several hours.

 

Furthermore, they found that the heretofore standard treatment

strategy (in ERs) of attempting to flood the system with oxygen

actually precipitates cellular self-destruction / death (some kind of

immune reaction that destroys cells rather like the way the immune

system deals with cancer cells, if I recall correctly).

 

So their investigating new strategies such as cooling the body and

then ways of slowly and carefully reintroducing oxygen. A study found

treatment of, say heart attack victims, by the new method

successfully restored life 85% of the time, while formerly accepted

ER procedures worked 15% of the time!

 

This has other ramifications, which I'll not go into to deeply here,

but possibly suggesting that some sort of state, albeit static, of

consciousness may also accompany that condition of lack of zong-qi

function (ht & lu) but the body's cells not dead. Maybe some sort of

steady clear white light?...

 

Anecdotally, two years ago my mother " died " about 3-4 hours before I

got there. She was still warm, and the skin had color, tone -- but

all very still. I spontaneously put fingers to Ren-17 and Du-20 for a

while. Maybe I had, without remembering, read that somewhere before;

but did confirm later, with Jeffery Yuen, that that's a traditional

technique for helping the shen / hun release. He also has mentioned

that the " front shu points " -- Ki/foot shao yin points on the

thorax -- map to the zang organs in similar way and order at the

" back shu " , and have traditional functions relating to preparation

for / guidance through death. The names of those points are certainly

evocative.

 

So my sense that my mother experienced my farewell may have some

scientific basis.

 

 

 

 

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