title: A possible physical basis for the healing touch (biotherapy) evaluated by high voltage electrophotography.
abstract: We performed a series of experiments to examine the possibility that a theoretically proposed and indirectly empirically confirmed form of electromagnetic field emission from living beings appears to modify physical characteristics of water. We pursued three types of experiments. In the first one, we tried to examine whether and in what way water exposed to growing and dying spruce seedlings through a quartz test tube (therefore with no chemical contact), influences the germination of seeds and the growth of seedlings of the same species. The second type focused on the issue of whether and in what way distilled water, equally exposed to growing and dying spruce seedlings as well as to different ontogenetic phases of mealworm beetle, can be modified and this modification later on reproduced through a specially developed method of electrophotography. The third type of experiments presented here attempts to find out whether an emission from human hands can non-chemically modify the physical characteristics of distilled water. Their statistical analysis revealed the existence of two different groups of people: those capable of imprinting some form of highly reproducible radiation into water and those at most capable of imprinting only some sort of highly variable radiation. In the future this line of research could provide a scientifically based testing of the actual capabilities of the so-called biotherapists to perform this kind of unconventional healing. The present experiments also represent further indirect evidence for a form of electromagnetic emission from living beings and that such emission alters water in an as yet unknown way.
authors.affiliation: BION, Institute for Bioelectromagnetics and New Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Berden
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jerman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Skarja
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D004594:Electrophysiology; D006225:Hand / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods*; D011827:Radiation; D019124:Therapeutic Touch / Q000592:standards*; D013997:Time Factors; D014867:Water / Q000502:physiology; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology* / Q000528:radiation effects
chemical_list: D014867:Water