Systemic Effect: A New Approach to Magnetic Field Therapy

Marko Markov (), Carlton Hazlewood () and Arthur Ericsson ()
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Marko Markov: Research International
Carlton Hazlewood: Research Consultant International
Arthur Ericsson: Institute of Biological Research

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2005, vol. 25, issue 2, 121-129

Abstract: Summary Despite of decades of successful worldwide use of magnetic/electromagnetic field therapy, the answer to the question of possible mechanisms of action is still lacking. Scientific reports of successful therapeutic use of magnetic/electromagnetic fields are worldwide; however, our understanding of the underlying mechanism is limited. This paper presents a new hypothesis that therapeutic benefit of magnetic fields might result from effects that originated on the level of important systems in human body. It is known now that the life is an electromagnetic event in aqueous medium. Therefore, an appropriate choice of magnetic and/or electromagnetic field may be expected to initiate systemic changes that result in efficacious effects distant from the point of application. Observations of this phenomenon have been reported in at least two forms: (1) neutralization of the pain experience distant to the point of magnetic field exposure; and, (2) various alterations of T-lymphocytes in response to pain and to magnetic fields. Extrapolating these observations to the level of blood-vessel system, one might hypothesize that a “healthy” cell does not respond as readily to the applied fields as do abnormal cells (which are in a disease or injury state).

Keywords: systemic effect; Magnetotherapy; water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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