Natural permanent magnetic fields are not to be confused with the alternating electromagnetic fields associated with high-tension electrical power lines. The human being is bombarded everyday with smaller amounts of electromagnetic charge emanating from electrical conveniences with which we surround ourselves. A restored negative, permanent magnetic field can help counteract these effects.
Many scientists insist that alternating electromagnetic fields are harmful. These fields are positive and negative and have an alternating current frequency of 60 cycles per second. This is 7.66 times too fast for the average body organ resonance frequency of 7.83 and can cause cell fatigue in time.
According to Dr Kyoichi Nakagawa, MD, director of the Isuzu Hospital in Tokyo, the human body is under the influence of the earth’s magnetic field and is in some sort of a balanced relationship with it.
Writing in the Japan Medical Journal, December 4, 1976, he points out that today, thanks to our modern lifestyle, the effect of the earth’s magnetic field has decreased. Consequently, it can be assumed that this lack of magnetism has adversely affected the human body. Therefore, there is need to supplement this deficiency with the external application of magnetic forces. He feels that there is a direct relationship between the decrease in the earth’s magnetic field acting on the human body and the improvement of abnormal conditions of the human body by the application of magnetic fields.
“This is my reason for advocating the presence of the magnetic field deficiency syndrome in living bodies,” he says. “It is not clear if a similar syndrome occurs in living bodies other than human beings. However, from the clinical point of view, I believe that the syndrome does exist in human bodies.”
The clinical image of the symptoms resemble the chronic fatigue syndrome mentioned earlier: stiffness of the shoulders, back and scruff of the neck, uncertain lumbago, chest pains for no specific reason, habitual headache and heaviness of the head, dizziness and insomnia for uncertain reasons, habitual constipation, general lassitude, etc.
“Generally speaking, the specific cause of the illness is not noticeable or no specific relationship between the original illness and the derivative symptoms can be found,” says Dr Nakagawa. “The symptoms neither improve nor get worse, no clue being gained from clinical examination.
Among those above-mentioned, there are, of course, some symptoms, which accompany such illnesses as hypertension, diabetes, disease of the digestive organs, bone and nerve diseases, etc. However, as with the syndrome, such symptoms continue even after the original disease has been treated or cured. So any relationship between such symptoms and the original disease can be excluded.
“In other words, it is a syndrome in which no objective pathological findings can be noticed from routine physical and clinical examinations, but in which the subjective symptoms persist and are hard to improve, resisting various treatments but responding to the application of a magnetic field. An unbalanced autonomic nervous system or part of such might be included in this syndrome.”
Dr Nakagawa props his argument by citing magnetotherapy research conducted in Japan. In tests conducted to relieve stiffness of the shoulders, a reasonably high rate of success was achieved by having participants wear ferrite permanent magnet bands in the form of bracelets. The details of the tests were reported to the first symposium on ‘Magnetism and Living Bodies’ held in 1959. The same year, at the second symposium, it was revealed that similar magnetic bracelets had proved effective in treating stiffness of the shoulders. It was also reported that by using two types of magnetic bracelets having surface flux densities of 470 gauss, the improvement of subjective symptoms was visible without any change in blood serum fat and blood serum protein.
Comparisons were also made with non-magnetised bracelets. One group of 1,163 was given magnetic bracelets and another group of 644, non-magnetised bracelets to check if the magnets really made a difference to stiff shoulders. The magnetic bracelets clearly made a difference.
Foam rubber mattresses containing ferrite permanent magnets were also tested on hospitalised patients. An improvement of subjective symptoms was noticed.
In 1974, questionnaires were distributed with patch-on-the-skin type magneto-therapeutic devices used to treat subjective symptoms. By dividing the 11,648 cases into four groups and investigating each one, an over 90% effective rate was determined.
Using a blind test, a considerable difference was noticed between magnetised and non-magnetised rings. In the treatment of stiff shoulders, magnetised rings showed an 80.2% effective rate, while non-magnetised rings showed a 6.3% effective rate.
A high rate of effectiveness in treating stiffness of the shoulders by using a magnetic necklace with a surface flux density of 700-900 gauss was also reported. At the same time, no ill effects on the human body were noticed in clinical tests. The Japanese continued their research with characteristic fervour. In 1976, the therapeutic effects of the magnetic necklace having a surface flux density of 1,300 gauss with another of 200 gauss was conducted through a blind test. Statistically, the former proved significantly more effective than the latter. Both showed no side effects after various clinical examinations.
The rest of the world, not to be outdone by the Japanese, has its own tomes of research on magneto-therapy.
Magneto-therapy has a long history, all comprehensively documented in the Bibliography of the Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields. Magnetic treatment was documented as early as 1843.
In 1878, K.M. Hansen reported that patients suffering from subjective symptoms of sciatica, lumbago, joint pains etc. found relief when the constant magnetic field from an electromagnet was applied. The report further stated that magnetism was also effective in treating acute inflammatory illnesses and chronic gingivitis. It does not give the strength of the field used, but we can safely assume that it was quite strong. With this therapy, the South Pole was applied to the body for periods of 10-40 minutes, this being repeated several times.
In 1972, I.L. Degen experimented with the application of a constant magnetic field of 450-530 gauss to the hands of patients suffering from Dupuytrene’s contracture, which was incurable with conventional medication. The treatments lasted for 15 to 40 minutes at a time, this being repeated several times depending on the severity of the case. The treatment was found very effective on first-degree symptoms. Considerable improvement was also noticed in several cases with second-degree symptoms.
The earth’s magnetic field is a stationary magnetic field working constandy on the human body. Researchers believe that the strength of the earth’s field has decreased a total of 50% during the last 500 years. If this continues, the earth’s magnetic field will eventually reach zero in 2,000 years. Along with this decrease, the angles of the earth’s magnetic field are also said to be changing. This could well be a serious cause of disorder in the human body.
There are other factors that could play a role in decreasing the effect of the earth’s magnetic field action on the human body.
As the human race has long been living under the influence of the earth’s magnetic field, any change in this field could cause disorder in the human body. If the book The Earth’s Magnetic Field Controls the Weather by Kawai is a signpost to go by, it goes without saying that the human body will be influenced by this change in the weather. The logic is simple: Change in the earth’s magnetic field leads to a change in the weather, which leads to an influence on the human body and consequent disorder of some kind.
Every human body is different. A person could be suffering from a magnetic field deficiency even if there was no decrease in the strength of the earth’s field. However, those suffering from magnetic field deficiency syndrome show improvement when a magnetic field is applied, and it is believed that at least with these people, there is a magnetic field deficiency.
The following definite steps are needed to confirm the magnetic field deficiency syndrome:
• For the human body to be kept in a test room shielded from all magnetic fields, but maintaining the same living conditions as people outside;
• Research to be done to determine if the test subject shows any symptoms;
• If such symptoms do occur, apply an external magnetic field to the body to see if there is any improvement or not.
If the results of these studies are affirmative, then the magnetic field deficiency syndrome can be established.