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could be that light therapy serves as a corrective of the light emitted by
the patients. Some 30 years ago, while investigating a cure for cancer,
German physicist Fritz-Albert Popp stumbled upon the fact that all living
things emit tiny packets of light, which he called `biophoton emissions'.
He came to believe that living systems maintain a delicate balance of
light, with too much or too little indicating disease. He also uncovered
what he called 'delayed luminescence': when light was shone on living
cells, the cells would take up the light and, after a time-lag, shine more
intensely. Popp considered this to be a corrective effect. Also, in this
instance, when a living system was bombarded with too much light, it
rejected the excess.
Popp has studied these biolight emissions for many years at the
International Institute of Biophysics in Neuss, Germany. During this time,
he has discovered that all of the thousands of chemical reactions in the
body that control each molecule at every moment are regulated and
coordinated by low-level ultraviolet (UV) light (380 nm). Light, in a
sense, is the messenger that is communicating the cells' reactions to each
other.
Popp's more recent investigations concern changes in light production
following medical treatment. In one, medicated ointment was applied to a
spot on a patient's arm. In another, in a patient with psoriasis affecting
both arms, Popp applied the standard treatment for psoriasis, shining a UV
lamp on both psoriatic and healthy parts of one arm for five minutes.
After a few minutes in both these tests, Popp then measured the biophoton
emissions from the treated parts of the arm as well as those from various
untreated parts of the body. Using exacting equipment—devices that count
light emissions photon by photon—they discovered something remarkable. If
emissions from one part of the body either increased or decreased, so did
those from the other parts of the body.
In
his first such experiment, Popp found a large change in the light
emissions not only from where he'd applied the ointment, but also from
distant parts of the body. What's more, the size of the changes correlated
across the entire body; even from those parts where no ointment had been
applied, Popp recorded the same increase in light as from where the
medicine had been applied.
In
the psoriatic patient after receiving the UV therapy, the light emissions
roughly quadrupled from both healthy and psoriatic areas of skin, again
regardless of whether or not they'd been exposed to UV rays. An hour
later, all parts of the body—treated or untreated, healthy or
unhealthy—had reverted to identical light emissions, although the healthy
regions of skin showed twice the amount of delayed luminescence as did
unhealthy regions. This may be because healthy skin didn't `need' the
light and so 'got rid' of it, whereas the psoriatic regions did need it
and so retained it.
Popp believes that he has uncovered a new channel of communications within
the body that uses light as a means of instantaneous, 'non-local',
signalling to the rest of the organism. Popp's research takes us one step
closer to understanding how our body communicates with itself as well as
with the rest of the universe. Parts of the body tell each other the state
of things through tiny notes of light. His findings also suggest why the
tools of modern medicine so often have blunderbuss effects. Even if a
treatment is well-targeted, such a non-local communications system will
cause it to have a global effect on the living organism.
Although light is being explored for healing wounds and other skin
conditions, and for pain relief, light research is still in its infancy.
Each wavelength and frequency appears to create a different reaction, so
it's important to tread carefully at this preliminary stage. Indeed, even
light can have side-effects. Patients may experience hypomania (a state
between euphoria and a manic 'high') or hyper-activation of the autonomic
nervous system, especially early in the treatment (CNS
Spectr, 2005; 10: 647-63).
Nevertheless, this is the first evidence that the signalling and exchange
of photons constantly carried on between living things is not just a means
of communication. As we are truly beings of light, we may also be able to
correct our own light when it goes awry.
