ANALYSIS AND Monitoring OF AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM ACTIVITY
measuring energy fields and states of consciousness with electrophotonic (GDV) Technique - K. Korotkov,   Ph.d., Professor
Abstract
In the history of Science, the development of a new instrument has always resulted in a new understanding of reality. Microscope, telescope, X-rays, tomography, ultra-sound - without these instruments modern science is powerless. Now a new instrument has been developed – Computerized Electrophotonic Imaging based on Gas Discharge Visualization technique, - modern development of the well-known Kirlian effect. Modern scientific means such as electronics, optics, CCD matrix and image processing with powerful computers have created a new base for introducing this technique into scientific practice.

The EPC/GDV technique proved to be effective in rapid diagnostic evaluation of the health and psycho-emotional state of patients in conventional and complementary medicine. This feature of the technique, coupled with its ability to identify the bases or indications of developing diseases and to monitor the influence of different drugs, medicines, exercises and meditation is of great importance in gaining insight into pathways to healing. Promising results were obtained in express-diagnoses of cancer by evaluating the dynamic of changes of the pictures. Examples of experimental results and conceptual scientific approaches are presented in the technical background of this paper.  


Introduction

Approaches in complementary medicine, energy treatment, vibration medicine, and other forms of healing are increasingly being recognized as a fundamental life issue. Serious debates on the efficiency of the given “non-chemical” methods of the influence on the organism are gradually leading to statistically valid clinical data, conceptual approaches and practical applications of acupuncture, homeopathy, Systematic Medicine and low-energy treatments. The process of complimentary treatment may be very complicated, comprising several different phases with often worsening symptoms in the process of treatment and slow improvement of the patient’s overall condition. During this process it is very important to have the means for objective monitoring of a patient’s condition. This may help in both correcting the treatment process and in demonstrating the positive effect of treatment to the patient. The latter would help to encourage the patient in the effectiveness of complementary and alternative therapy, leading to better results due to the influence of a positive mood and the confidence of the patient. Surprisingly, in modern medicine we have quite a few instruments which allow constant monitoring of the patient’s condition in a non-invasive, non-expensive way. Instruments used for this type of monitoring focus primarily on the activity of the cardio-vascular system. Other means may be extremely useful for analysis but for monitoring purposes they are either invasive (X-ray, ultrasound, blood tests) or very complicated and expensive (computer tomography). A new quantum biophysical approach to human functioning analysis, - Electrophotonic Capturing (EPC), based on Gas Discharge Visualization (GDV) Technique, offers a set of new opportunities for medical and biological practice.  

epc/GDV TECHNIQUE

Electrophotonic is a promising direction in the construction of new non-invasive automatic procedures that assess the body's condition during minimum interventions into vital functions. The diagnosis of predisposition to some diseases, the choice of the most adequate treatment policy and the monitoring of human bioresponses to various environmental factors are important aspects in preventive health care services. Electrophotonic method investigates human functional states, by assessing electro-optical parameters of the skin that are based on the registration of physical processes emerging from electron components of tissue conductivity. This technique allows one to capture the image of Electrophotonic impulse around human fingertips and extract information about sympathetic and parasympathetic activities. The quantitative difference in parameters between two systems, which is equal to autonomic tone, and called activation coefficient can be used as the indirect measure for cognitive function. Integral area of Electrophotonic impulse is a presentation of calculated fractality level and consistency of the captured image. Integral entropy is a measure of the deviation from the functional physiological and psycho emotional balance. Thus, Electrophotonic approach can then be used as a model to bridge the gaps in health disparities by creating an innovative approach to address health aspects in real time measurements, which will improve rural health outcomes.

The EPC/GDV camera is presently the state-of-the-art in bioelectrography1.  It utilizes a high frequency (1024 Hz), high-voltage (10 kV) input to the finger (or other object to be measured), which is placed on the electrified glass lens of the EPC camera. Because the electrical current applied to the body is very low, most human subjects do not experience any sensation when exposing their fingertip to the camera. In practice, the applied electric field is pulsed on and off every 10 microseconds, and the fingertip is exposed for only 0.5 seconds.  This causes a corona discharge of light-emitting plasma to stream outward from the fingertip. The light emitted from the finger is detected directly by a CCD (charge-coupled detector), which is the state-of-the-art in scientific instruments such as telescopes to measure extremely low-level light. The signal from the CCD is sent directly to a computer, and software analysis is done to calculate a variety of parameters that characterize the pattern of light emitted, including brightness, total area, fractality, and density. The software can also provide color enhancement to enable subtle features such as intensity variations of the image to be perceived. The underlying principle of camera operation is similar to the well-known Kirlian effect2 but modern technology allows reproducible stable data with quantitative computer analysis. Purposeful investigations allowed the discovery of the parameters that are optimal from the point of obtaining critical information on the biological object’s state with the minimum of invasiveness. These findings are described in more than 200 research works in the international scientific literature, 15 patents, 7 books in English, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.

This biophysical concept of the principles of GDV measurements is based on the ideas of quantum biophysics3. This is a further development of well-known ideas of A. Szent-Gy?rgyi concerning the transfer of electron-excited states along the chains of molecular protein complexes. The EPC technique measures the level of functional energy stored by the particular systems of an organism. This level is defined by the power of the electron-excited states and the character of their transport along the chains of albumin molecules. The level of functional energy is correlated with health status, but it is only one of many of the components that define health. It works together with genetic predisposition, psycho-emotional states, environmental loading (food, water, air, ecology) and other factors. This approach may be associated with the oriental notion of the energy transfer along meridians.

EPC/GDV bioelectrographic systems have had practical applications in the following main areas:

Medicine

– analysis of a person’s psychological state;

– analysis of a person’s psychological and physiological state;

– analysis of the body’s autonomous state and individual functional systems;

– monitoring the body’s reactions during therapy;        

– assessing the probability of organic systemic abnormalities;

– the presence of changed states;

–assessing the risk of allergens according to GDV parameters of the glow of blood samples.

The GDV system is certified by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation as a medical technical device. More than 200 papers are published on the medical aspects of GDV analysis.

Sport

– assessing the level of emulative alertness of sportsmen. By order of the State Agency for Physical Culture and Sport, a GDV system is being fitted in the colleges of Russia’s Olympic reserve.

Research into fluids and materials

– clarifying the difference between natural and synthetic oils4;

* assessing the quality of cosmetics5;
* researching human hair6;

– researching homeopathic remedies7;

– researching precious stones and their influence on people8;

– researching geoactive zones and their influence on people9.

Such a wide range of applications is conditional on the high sensitivity of the GDV method to changes in the emissions parameters of the researched object, located in a high-intensity electromagnetic field, and the methods used for processing information based on modern theory approaches and artificial intelligence methods.
Energy fields, meridians and chakras

All of the principles cited are based on concepts of Western science and Western medicine. The disenchanted reader interjects, “But where is all the charm of fields, energies, meridians and energy channels? For all those years we studied the Kirlian effect and EPC so as to be able to measure these mysterious yet appealing parameters. Has all that really been forgotten and lost?”

Of course not. We do not intend to turn away from the axioms and catchwords advanced in previous years. We have more grounds than ever for continuing to affirm that we really are objectively measuring the energetic activity of fields, meridians and energy canals. At the same time we are also measuring the activity of the autonomous nervous system. How do these two things fit together?

For thousands of years, health and longevity have been the subject of extensive research in all of the world’s civilizations. Doctors, practitioners and astrologers tried to penetrate the mysteries of life and death. There followed concepts trying to explain illness and ageing, temperament and character. The majority of these have been lost in the sands of time, and only faint echoes have reached us through scraps of manuscripts. But the manuscripts which did reach us are based on principles which differ from the Western materialistic outlook. These are the principles of the Earth, the energy of trees, grass and people. During the expedition to the land of the Sierra Nevada Indians in Columbia, we spoke to them in the language of energy, and they accepted us, opened their soul and sanctuary to us. So when we speak about energy fields, about meridians and chakras, we are using a language created by other civilizations – a language which, on an intuitive level, hands down ideas which have been proved by the practice of thousands of years.

The EPC method bridges the gap between logical Western science and the intuitive science of the Orient. It makes it possible to present the same phenomenon in different languages, in different systems, and to look at the same phenomenon from different points of view.

If you are familiar with the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, if you accept the ideas of meridians, energy channels and energy fields, then the EPI method is for you – particularly since the concept of electropuncture is already well integrated into modern Western medicine. Whilst the theory of biological fields recently had its sixtieth birthday10. If you feel close to the ideas of Ayurvedic medicine, you can successfully use the EPC Chakra program which carries additional information in comparison to the other programs. And in any language it is possible to speak of energy measurements and of the energy potential of organs and systems. The concepts set out above provide these ideas with modern Western analogies and connect them to the current scientific paradigm.

We hope that the data obtained through the EPC method broadens that paradigm, giving it new content and a new language.

Practical Applications of EPC/GDV
In assessing human subjects, the EPC-grams (emission patterns after computer processing) of all ten fingers are made and analyzed. A typical measurement from a normal healthy subject is shown in Fig. 1. All 10 EPC-grams from the fingers then undergo analysis via another software program creating the model of Energy Field around the body and the diagrams showing the energy distribution in the various organ systems (fig. 1-2). This is based on the map correlating the human fingers with different systems and organs of the body in accordance with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) approach. This map was first proposed by Peter Mandel9 in Germany and then further developed by Dr. Korotkov.


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Fig.1. GDV images of the human finger and the Human Energy Fields (before and after acupuncture treatment) with calculated parameters.    

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Fig.2. Diagrams showing the energy distribution in the various organ systems.                                             

The variance in the reproducibility of the GDV patterns of emission and the calculated diagrams is about 10% for human fingers, and about 3% for materials11. The 2-3% variability pertaining to materials testing is considered to be random error.  However, the 10% variation with respect to human fingers reflects not only standard error, but the fluctuations in the energy dynamics of a living being, i.e., the “flicker of the flame of life.” As it is shown in numerous studies, the pattern of emission, which determines the relative energy distribution in the person’s organs, remains constant from day to day. That is, each adult displays an “energy pattern signature” in this method of testing.

Scientific research in GDV carried out in medicine revealed correlations of GDV parameters with other measurable characteristics of the organism. Several correlations have been found: first of all, with age; with the level of blood pressure and blood formula; with cardio variability indices, and others. Reliable statistical differences of GDV parameters of groups of healthy individuals and groups of patients with various nosologies have been observed.  

Clinical trials in medicine

Medical applications of EPC/GDV technology are based on the results of numerous clinical trials, where of EPC conclusions have been correlated with results conventional diagnostic techniques. Several recent studies have been published in 2005-2009 in the Proceedings of the annual International Congress “Science, Information and Spirit”.

For several years group of doctors from the Moscow Medical University developed the application of EPC/GDV for diagnosis of patients with hypertension. They were able to study 1253 patients in 2006-2009 with different stages of hypertension plus control groups comparing EPC data with conventional diagnostics12.

Discriminate analysis demonstrated selectivity and sensitivity of EPC analysis as 70.6% - 72.4%; 71.3% - 71.4% and 77.2% - 81.1% for patients with the 1st, 2nd and the 3rd stages of hypertension, accordingly. As you see the highest numbers have been demonstrated for the 3rd stage of hypertension. Based on these results mathematical regressions for the prediction of hypertension from EPC measurements have been developed. For different stages of illness the selectivity of these predictions were 77-86% for women and 66-85% for men, while sensitivity varied from 76% to 85% for women and from 79% to 89% for men.

Similar results have been found in research by a group of doctors from Sochi University13 . 542 patients with different clinical situations have been studied in two groups: 1st group: in the beginning - EPC diagnosis, then clinical analysis and correlation of the results; 2nd group: in the beginning - clinical analysis in accordance with symptoms, then – EPC and correlation of the results. Clinical analysis of cardio-vascular system (with daily monitoring), bronchial system, digestive tract, spine and muscular-skeleton system, blood, urine and hair tests were performed for every patient. Results are presented at the fig.3. As you see from the graph, correlation with conventional analysis was from 80% to 94%, the highest – in the case when EPC diagnostics was later confirmed by the conventional analysis.

Results of several other research projects are presented in books [1-2]. It is important to note that in all papers published in different countries on the results of EPC/GDV applications conclusions were only positive – all the researchers received gainful results from using the technology. Let us observe some of the results.  

Monitoring of oncology patients in the process of treatment14

For the statistical analysis the following subjects diagnosed with III stage of cancer were selected: 109 subjects of both genders with lung cancer and 140 women with breast cancer; the control group consisted of 44 practically healthy people and 54 women with different non-oncological conditions. All patients were diagnosed with cancer by conventional means including biopsy; GDV measures were taken from 10 fingers of both hands before any oncology treatment and at 2 and 6 weeks after complex treatment including surgery, chemotherapy, irradiation and psycho-rehabilitation. Blind studies have shown statistically significant differences between GDV parameters of oncology patients and non-oncology groups. After treatment, the statistical trend of GDV parameters towards healthy population parameters was revealed. An example of the experimental data is presented in fig.4. The conclusion was that the GDV technique presents objective measures for evaluation of cancer states and for monitoring the patient’s condition after treatment. During several years of use, the GDV device shows good potential for the development of a method of early evaluation of the probability of potential cancer. This approach should be based on computer data-mining multiparametric comparison with database of nosological cases.


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Fig.3. Results of correlation between EPC and conventional diagnostics. 1,2,3 – correlation of EPC analysis with the clinical data in the 1st group;
4 – predictive power of the  EPC analysis; 5 – correlation of EPC analysis with the clinical data in the 2nd group.




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Fig.4. Averaged GDV Areas for the groups of patients with breast cancer before (B) and after (A) combined treatment and group of practically health women (W).
The examination of the bronchial patients of various course of disease15

362 patients have been examined at the Clinical Therapy department of St. Petersburg State Medical University on a clinic treatment: 295 bronchial asthma (BA) patients, 20 pneumonia patients, 27 hypertonic and afflicted with the ischemik heart disease patients, 20 patients afflicted with chronicle pathology of the hepato-biliar system (hepatitis, holicistitis).

Among the pneumonia and bronchial asthma patients (BA) the changes in the lower sector of the 5th (little) finger EPC-gram – meridian projection of the respiratory system - were registered. Among the patients afflicted with heart disease the outburst of glow in the upper sector of the 5th finger EPC-gram – correlating to the projection of the coronary vessels – was observed. Among the BA patients the emission and form coefficients of the EPC-grams were considerably lower than those among the healthy. The increase in the severity of BA was followed by the decrease of these parameters and correlated with the dysfunction of the lung perfusion according to the scintigraphic data, prothrombin indices and thrombin time. These data give evidence for the considerable role of the micro-circulation dysfunction in the pathogenesis of the EPC-gram changes.  

GDV APPLICATIONS IN COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE, ACUPUNCTURE, MASSAGE AND AROMATHERAPY

Acupuncture16

In this study, subjects were 33 randomly-chosen, clinically healthy people of both sexes.  Data from GDV device were gathered before and after double-blind needling at both true and sham acupuncture points. The study required two visits by each subject for needling at five different acupuncture points, one for true and one for sham needling. Indeed, the GDV instrument passed this test with flying colors and provided much useful adjunct information as well. The GDV device, as seen by the results of this study, can be used to conduct a comprehensive meridian stress assessment and to determine appropriate ways to achieve healthy energetic balance. The GDV instrument was able to distinguish authentic acupuncture needling from sham acupuncture needling. For healthy subjects, the GDV instrument detected a larger response to authentic needling compared to sham needling on the right side of the body relative to the left. This body asymmetry effect could be related to the direction of electron channeling through the body and the relationship between the mental physical manifestation through the right and left hands.

Massage

Although various complementary treatments were monitored using the GDV technique, the focus was primarily on a regular massage service. Based on the results from the GDV programs, one could observe a potential change in a tested individual’s condition (before vs. after the regular massage treatment). These results, based on 125 participants, would determine if the regular massage treatment had an impact on the participants, an overall increase or decrease in energy levels. Results clearly show a significant increase (p?0.05) in panelists’ energy states after a massage treatment was performed. The increase in energy levels, as measured by the GDV programs, confirmed the overall effectiveness of the massage treatment.  In turn, this study demonstrated the potential use of GDV as a diagnostic tool to monitor the change in one’s condition as a result of a massage treatment.

Aromatherapy

The most distinguishing capabilities of GDV involve the measurement of subconscious reactions and of subtle biological phenomena. This makes it an intriguing tool with which to study the phenomena of human smell, which has a significant subconscious component.

Any data on subconscious reactions to aromas gain value if compared with data on accompanying conscious reactions. Alongside our GDV testing of essential oils, we performed preference tests in which participants rated and ranked the oils. Examining the GDV results in light of these conscious measurements gives us a new way of viewing the olfaction process over time, and shows the value of GDV as a way to describe the subconscious component. Previously, most odor tests have required the participant to verbally describe sensations. Using the GDV technique can eliminate the need for this verbalization, instead recording subtle physiological changes directly.

Twelve samples of essential oils, each representing a conventionally and an organically produced oil, were provided under double-blind conditions to the testers; they were identified to testers and panelists only by number. Each sample of each pair was purified to the degree that the gas chromatography profile was identical. In other words, the six oils in this test showed virtually no difference in the analysis between the two samples, meaning they are extremely similar chemically. Testing showed that panelists in this study could not detect any difference in aroma between the samples produced by conventional processing and those processed organically. In all cases, panelists were unable to distinguish between chemically identical pairs. This result leads us to the conclusion that the GDV response was observed for subconscious reactions to smell.16.

study of allergy reactions in blood with the gdv technique

The GDV technique enables one to identify specific reaction of antibodies with a complimentary antigen, called agglutination reaction. The technique is based on the registration of dynamics of parameters of blood samples of GDV glow in time – from the moment of combination (mixing) of specific components (antigen and antibodies to it) to the moment of completion of their interaction and formation of the so-called immune complexes. As a result of such interaction, physico-chemical characteristics of the investigated material, and consequently, GDV-gram parameters change17. Fig. 5 demonstrates the example of GDV blood reaction to different allergens: 1 – initial blood plasma, 2 – blood plasma with egg albumin and 3 – blood plasma with marjoram flower essence. As we see from fig. 5, there was no reaction to albumin and significant reaction to the flower essence. The technique can be applied for the investigation of nontransparent biological liquids when it is not only difficult, but even impossible to implement the agglutination reaction in its classical form (visual registration of results); for example, the study of blood with the purpose of revealing etiology of human allergies.

Fig.5. GDV blood reaction to different allergens: 1 – initial blood plasma, 2 – blood plasma with egg albumin and 3 – blood plasma with marjoram flower essence. Every point is averaged on 10 measurements.

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Experimental approach to early cancer diagnosis has been developed on the basis of measuring GDV parameters of blood. Comparison of concentration curves of GDV parameters of blood diluted with neutral solution from cancer and healthy patients demonstrated statistically significant reproducible difference between curves. This creates basis for the development of simple and fast technique of non-specific cancer markers in blood by measuring the GDV parameters.

Remote detecting of human emotions

New “Electrophotonic Sensor” has been developed based on EPC technology which allows to record remotely the changes of entropy of the environment under the influence of geophysical processes or human emotions. Measurements conducted during religious ceremonies, yoga meditations, public lectures, musical performances demonstrated that the signal of the Sensor statistically significantly changes during measurements and these changes are correlated with the course of event. Let us give some examples.

13 and 14 September, 2008 in Los Angeles a series of measurements have been conducted during Reconnection Healing workshop led by Erick Pearl and Dough DeVito. Fig.6 demonstrates time dynamics of the Sensor parameters for the first day of workshop with marked moments of interest. As we see from the graph, all significant moment of presentations were reflected by the Sensor signal. Parallel measurements at this workshop were conducted by the group of Professor William Tiller with a special PH water sensor18 [7]. They were able detecting the change of signal during speaker on-stage presentations to the audience, which correlated with our data.  

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Fig.6. Time dynamics of the “Electrophotonic Sensor” parameters for the first day of workshop (September 12, 2008) with marked moments of interest.  

The most interesting moments of the presentations 09/12 were as follows:

7.31 -  Doug DeVito on podium “Essence Lecture” and then introduces practitioners – jump in Intensity, strong variations in Area (sector 2).

8.35 - Eric arrives – increase in Area, which lasts till the end of Eric’s presentation (~10.10) (sector 6).

10.10 – 10.31  Eric recaps and summarizes + conveys practical processes for the day….always laughter and then concludes (sector 7).

A series of experiments with musical performance were conducted together with the professor of musical theory from John Hopkins University (USA) Dr. Ildar Khannanov. In a series of experiments with different types of music it was demonstrated that variations of the “Electrophotonic Sensor” signal depended on the style of music.  It was possible to compare elements of musical form with the segments of the graph. For example, the graph of area for the opening page of Piece No. 1 in Schumann’s Kreisleriana mirrored the melodic directionality. The higher the melody reached, the more intense was musical condition, the smaller was the area of the signal. This was in strict agreement with other observations presented above.  

CONCLUSIONS

EPC/GDV technique provides simple in use, non-invasive, convenient and objective method for diagnostics, condition analysis and monitoring of individual reactions as well as early detection tool for various pathologies. The technique offers objective measures for evaluation of cancer states and for monitoring the patient’s condition after treatment. Additionally, GDV shows promise for the development of a method of early evaluation of the probability of potential cancer. Through measuring EPC/GDV parameters, a basis has been established for a simple, fast technique for detecting non-specific cancer markers in the blood. GDV offers a new look at the patient state through the holistic estimation of the energy homeokinesis, providing a deeper understanding of the mechanisms of medicamentous and non-medicamentous methods of treatment and leading to optimized therapeutic courses through different phases of disease, enhancing the patient’s quality of life. The EPC/GDV technique provides valuable means for measuring subconscious reactions and subtle biological phenomena, making Electrophotonics a powerful tool for studying the significance of the conscious and subconscious dimensions of the human olfactory system and its potential applications in aromatherapy. Finally, due to its transportability, ease of use, efficient measurement capabilities and inexpensive implementation, GDV provides a means for rapid diagnostics with inclusive public access in a broad range of applications, from diagnoses through treatment planning, patient monitoring and treatment adjustment. These features enhance the promise of this technique in contributing to new understanding and applications of pathways to healing.

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