The only place this is typically done is in Japan. In Ryodoraku, they use direct current for both diagnosis and treatment. Typically they use 12 volts. Typically the treatment only lasts for seconds, not minutes. But their machines also let you use 6 and 21 volts also. Recently, the Chinese have developed a treatment for cancerous tumors using 3 volts. Dr. Becker, in his research on regeneration, he used direct current to kill bacterial infections (even those resistant to antibiotics). He also used it to cause fibroblasts to degenerate (thus becoming the equivalent of stem cells) to stimulate regenerative healing. You can find Ryodoraku machines on the market but not D.C. machines.You could use an adjustable voltage regulator but it is not advisable to hook a patient to a machine that plugs into the wall. I have designed a machine that runs on a 9 volt battery and am trying to build it now but that is proving difficult with one hand. I have a bunch of machines I want to build. But that will take time (You try soldering with one hand). I want to try treating scars and other skin blemishes with D.C. And even if it doesn’t work, we will learn something about regeneration that wasn’t known.
In Ryodoracku, they are measuring the current that flows in the circuit compared to a short circuit adjusted to 200mamps. In diagnosis they compare the reading they get at a “representative measuring point” for that channel to the “average” that they have determined by measuring that point on a number of people. If the reading is below the average then the channel is said to be deficient and if above the average it is excessive. They say that the diagnosis thus arrived at corresponds well to more traditional methods. The ebb and flow of electrical energy at acupuncture points has been shown (so I have read) to correspond with the balance of the autonomic nervous system (sympathetic vs. parasympathetic). And even corresponds to the 24 hour cycle in TCM.
D.C. treatments can have various effects depending on how they are done. First and most obvious is a change in charge of the tissues. Depending on how it is done, it can treat both inflammation and degeneration. Then there is the effect at the needle. At the positive side there will be a loss of electrons and ions of the metal (mostly iron and nickel for stainless steel needles) move into the nearby tissues. Those metal ions may be toxic to the tissues. You will also get water driven away from the needle. That is how Dr. Nordenstrom killed inoperable lung tumors by desiccating them electrically. You may also get a “freckle” on the skin where the needle was. It may take months to go away since the effect goes deep in the tissues, but it will go away. On the negative side, the electrolysis will cause water molecules to break into their constituent parts of hydrogen and oxygen gasses.The hydrogen gas in particular changes the pH of the tissues. The cancer cells do not like it.
Now the Chinese use all of these effects to kill cancerous tumors. They have done it in the lab on rats I think. The toxicity of the ions of the metal (especially iron), the change in pH of the tissues (mostly due to the Hydrogen gas) and even explode the cells from the gas blowing them up like an overblown balloon.
Polarized waveforms are like D.C. in that in both you will get a movement of charge and electrolysis at the needles. But in the hands is someone who knows what they are doing, you can do a lot.
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