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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS

Nonlocal effects of biophoton emission from the human body


Sophie Cohen, Fritz-Albert Popp and Yu Yan The authors were the first time successful in showing evidence of biological rhythms of the biophoton emission from the human body (S.Cohen and F.A.Popp, 1997). Over several months one of them (S.C.) registered daily the biophoton emission (bpe) and the delayed luminescence (dl) from her hands and her forehead by use of our whole-body-biophoton-counting equipment (G9417845.3, see also "Technik" at our homepage). It turned out that there is a strong and significant correlation between the bpe of both hands, the dl of both hands, as well as significant anti-correlation between bpe and dl of both hands, and even significant correlation between bpe and dl of hands and forehead. The reason is the clear dependence of bpe and dl on biological rhythms like weekly and monthly rhythm. There is no doubt also about the correlation between bpe and dl and day-night rhythm. We know also from this work that the bpe and dl of all points of the body follow the same rhythms, but different phases as far as the points are not symmetrically located (like right and left hand). In the last time we investigated the bpe and dl of the human body after local treatment of the skin, i.e. rubbing ointment into the skin of a definite part of the right arm or exposing a definite part of the arm over some minutes to UV. To our surprise, the change of bpe or/and dl after treatment did not only appear on the position of treatment, but there were significant changes also on other places of the body. These non-local effects depend on the treatment itself, individual properties of the proband, the locations under investigations and several not completely known environmental conditions. This effect shows the first time a new communication channel in the human body on the basis of biophotons. It indicates that biophotonics provides a powerful tool for understanding health and disease in terms of intra- and also intercellular communication within the living system under investigation. One of the striking examples shall be displayed in this announcement. A patient suffering of Psoriasis on both his arms treated his right arm by use of a UV-lamp, type hanseatic, for 5 minutes. The illuminated place on the arm consisted of a sick and a relatively healthy region. We measured the bpe and the dl before treatment, immediately after treatment and one hour after treatment. The values are displayed in the following Table: treated (right)arm unhealthy region bpe (c/s) before treatment 11.0 dl(c/s) 1030 670 920 healthy region bpe (c/s) 9.9 39.5 13.6 dl (c/s) 1105 975 1695

after treatment 44.4 1 hour later 13.6

untreated (left) unhealthy arm region bpe (c/s) before treatment 11.2 dl(c/s) 920 1000 1060

healthy region bpe(c/s) 9.7 14.5 9.7 dl(c/s) 995 1160 1450

after treatment 12.2 1 hour later 11.0

Fig. 1 represents these results again in terms of the changes which are induced by the therapy. Since the accuracy of these data (where always about 1000 measurement values have been registered) is of the order of 5%, all these changes are significant. They show evidence of the following results: 1. Information of local influences on the body is transferred by a biophotonic communication channel to other places of the body. 2. These signals contain valuable information about the health state of the proband as well as of therapeutic effects. 3. The method provides a new and powerful tool of investigating and understanding health and disease in therms of biophotonics. We have reason to believe that this communication system is based on coherent states in living systems which have been analyzed, for instance, not long ago in terms of "hyperbolic" light-oscillations (Popp

et.al., 2002). References: 1. S.Cohen and F.A.Popp: Biophoton emission of the human body. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B 40 (1997), 187-189. 2. S.Cohen and F.A.Popp: Low-level luminescence of the human skin. Skin Research and Technology 3 (1997), 177-180 3. F.A.Popp, Y.Yan: Delayed luminescence of biological systems in terms of coherent states. Physics Letters A 293 (2002), 93-97.

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