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THE ULTIMATE HEALTH Background to correspond closely in reaction and: MACHINE? The electrocardiograph (ECG or _ resistance level except in certain patho- 7 EKG) illustrates the function of the logical conditions. Hemilepsis, during By Duncan Roads heart by displaying the small voltages quiet periods, tends to show high palm enerated by the contraction of the prea ha —— apes rf 1 i i i art muscle. The basis for the electro- affected side." Brown observed that is not often tat 1 will describe rdogram as developed by @ bush — the soundness of constitution’ core time I am really impressed. physician as far back as 1903. sponded to the resistance. Cattell 1 journeyed recently down to Byron _. While the ECG uses small voltages observed that good physical condition Hat hee Thad booked | , YTON for measurement, Transcutaneous elated to a stable resistance. Tiller ion wn a mnachine I was recommended Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) developed models that showed the skin aan ade = and Neuromuscular Electrical functioned as a dynamic electrical cir- de tnt Stimulation (NMES) use large voltages Cuil. es I, like pee mute, Ya — for treatment. During the 1970's it = Beginning in the 1940's, Voll mea- of many wonderful gadgets and -enorted that post-operative pain, ileus sured the "body energy” using skin en i Las and the duration of intensive care by _ resistance. He discovered:- = » using TENS had decreased. By the late 1. The resistance of the body is not the digital readouts of the acupuncture 1980's, TENS had become an accepted homogeneous. - energy points being measured, dis- way for reducing pain and NMES had 2 . idians sh lectrical fields played on a computer screen. What1 been accepted for the treatment of dis- a: | eT really liked about this was the under- se atrophy 3. Meridians generate the body's standing that I was receiving a totall 1 : energy. uni ane individual ‘dingnosis’ of Uiggow, Brown, Cattell, Tiller and 4. The skin (epidermis) is a semi- q 1 8 Voll found important applications for. A where my body was ‘at’. ates mee- insulator to the external environment. surement. During a skin conductance measure- Darrow, who is ment, the body becomes part of a considered the Closed circuit. The conductance instru- father of mod- ™ent contacts two areas of the body. ern psychophys- Often the ground electrode contacts a iology, wrote !arge area, such as the palm of the — that "the hand, while the probe touches a specif- decreased resis- i¢ point. After completing the closed tance typical of circuit, a known electric current is out- the galvanic Put from the instrument through the skin reflex is a Probe, through the body, and back to function, just as the instrument through the ground elec- are many other ‘tode. The instrument then measures physiological the amount of electrons that flowed changes, of the While the circuit was closed. The breakdown of amount represents a conductance value. the semiperme- However, this is not an ordinary mea- able membranes Surement because the body, especially of the body. It at an energy point, does not behave like is not due to the 4 Static, unchanging electronic compo- mere presence nent. A dynamic measurement is of conductive taken. moisture of the For the last 50 years, physicians have skin." He wrote studied the electronic properties of the that “records body. A physician, Dr. Reinhold Voll, from symmetri- found each acupuncture point had some cally opposite unique characteristics when he applied parts of the acurrent. Normally it had a lower body are shown resistance value than the tissue around it, but the value would change depend- MACHINE? By Duncan Roads something so glowingly, but this time I am really impressed. I journeyed recently down to Byron Bay, where I had booked in for a "ses- sion" on a machine I was recommended to see, and try. Now I, like many readers, have heard of many wonderful gadgets and machines before, but this is the only machine to date, where I could watch the digital readouts of the acupuncture energy points being measured, dis- played on a computer screen. What I Teally liked about this was the under- standing that I was receiving a totally unique and individual ‘diagnosis’ of where my body was ‘at’. I: is not often that I will describe “ay ISaac Aw + we any ——— mn * 46¢NEXUS THE ULTIMATE HEALTH DECEMBER-JANUARY '93