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Energy Medicine: Current Status and Future Perspectives.
1Wake Forest Center for Integrative Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Global Advances in Health and Medicine
|March 6, 2019
Summary
Energy medicine (EM) uses subtle energy fields to diagnose and treat imbalances, promoting homeostasis. Integrating physics with biochemistry is key for EM
Area of Science:
- Biophysics
- Quantum Physics
- Allopathic Medicine
Background:
- Current medical diagnostics utilize quantum field dynamics (nuclear medicine, radiology).
- Treatments often revert to biochemistry, overlooking biophysics for subtle energy disturbances.
- Quantum physics principles highlight the inseparability of energy and matter, emphasizing resonance in biological systems.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the therapeutic potential of energy medicine (EM) in assessing and treating energetic imbalances.
- To advocate for the integration of physics principles into allopathic medicine for a comprehensive approach to health.
- To expand current medical understanding to include the human biofield and its role in disease and aging.
Main Methods:
- Utilizing principles of quantum field dynamics for diagnostics.
- Applying biophysics therapies to address subtle energy disturbances.
- Investigating biophoton emissions, signal transduction, and cell signaling.
Main Results:
- Subtle energy fields can be therapeutically assessed and utilized to restore homeostasis.
- Disturbances in energy pattern coherence correlate with disease and aging.
- Understanding cellular voltage potentials and endocrine-chakra system overlap offers future therapeutic avenues.
Conclusions:
- The future of EM lies in merging physics with biochemistry within allopathic medicine.
- Recognizing the human biofield is crucial for understanding health, disease, and aging.
- EM can enhance psychoneuroimmunology and mind-body medicine through therapeutic interventions.
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