Healing with Electricity - Research into the Resonance Therapy and Rife Microscope, Rife Research - Europe

The Biological Effects of a Pulsed Electrostatic Field with Specific Reference to Hair - ElectroTrichoGenesis
W. Stuart Maddin, M.D., F.R.C.P.(C), Peter W. Bell, B.Sc. (Pharm.), M.B.A., and John H.M. James, M.D., C.C.F.P.C. - Division of Dermatology, University of British Columbia School of Medicine, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This comparative, controlled study demonstrates the positive biological effect on hair regrowth of a pulsed electrical field administered according to a regularized treatment schedule over 36 weeks. Mean hair count comparisons within the groups significantly favor the treatment group, which exhibited a 66.1% hair count increase over baseline. The control group increase over baseline was 25.6%. It is notable also that 29 of the 30 treatment subjects (96.7%) exhibited regrowth or no further hair loss. The process is without side effects and untoward reactions. The rationale of this phenomenon is unclear but is considered to be due to an eletrophysiologic effect on the quiescent hair follicle, similar to that documented with respect to bone fracture and soft tissue repair enhancement. The electrical pulse may cause increased cell mitosis through calcium influx, involving both the hair follicle sheath and dermal papilla cells. For more than 30 years the relationship between electrical effects and the growth of mammalian tissue has been a subject of interest and conjecture. Starting with studies of electrical signals arising from nonexcitable tissues, exogenous signals have been applied to cellular and animal models to determine biologic response, and electrical stimulation has been used clinically to enhance hard and soft tissue repair.1 This study presents data on a hair regrowth method utilizing the proximal application to the scalp of a pulsed electrical field. Previously, Gunn and Lee2 reported an experiment involving four men with early hair loss being treated with a commercially available transcutaneous electrical neural stimulation (TENS) device, resulting in a reduction of shedding, an improvement in hair texture, and a gradual resumption in growth rate. Also, in two open, uncontrolled trials involving 25 and 40 subjects, respectively, Bell3 reported that 84% of the former group and 70% of the latter showed regrowth after 60 days, utilizing the electrical modality being tested in this study. Disciplines within the medical profession are familiar with the use of electrical modalities in a variety of circumstances, but the suggestion of electricity stimulating hair growth or regrowth has not been properly investigated. The use of certain frequency and current values in a specified treatment regimen may meet the need for an effective, new form of treatment of a troublesome cosmetic condition, androgenic alopecia, to which increased attention has been paid in recent years. The terminology "electrotrichogenesis" (ETG) aptly and conventionally describes the phenomenon.

Bioelectromagnetics Applications in Medicine
Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., Robert O. Becker, M.D., Robert G. Flower, M.S., Carlton F. Hazlewood, Ph.D., Abraham R. Liboff, Ph.D., Jan Walleczek, Ph.D.

Bioelectromagnetics (BEM) is the emerging science that studies how living organisms interact with electromagnetic (EM) fields. Electrical phenomena are found in all living organisms. Moreover, electrical currents exist in the body that are capable of producing magnetic fields that extend outside the body. Consequently, they can be influenced by external magnetic and EM fields as well. Changes in the body's natural fields may produce physical and behavioral changes. To understand how these field effects may occur, it is first useful to discuss some basic phenomena associated with EM fields.

In its simplest form, a magnetic field is a field of magnetic force extending out from a permanent magnet.fields are produced by moving electrical currents. For example, when an electrical current flows in a, the movement of the electrons through the wire produces a magnetic field in the space around the wire (fig.1). If the current is a direct current (DC), it flows in one direction and the magnetic field is steady. If thecurrent in the wire is pulsing, or fluctuating--such as in alternating current (AC), which means theflow is switching directions--the magnetic field also fluctuates. The strength of the magnetic fieldon the amount of current flowing in the wire; the more current, the stronger the magnetic field. An EMcontains both an electrical field and a magnetic field. In the case of a fluctuating magnetic or EM field, theis characterized by its rate, or frequency, of fluctuation (e.g., one fluctuation per second is equal to 1 hertz [Hz], the unit of frequency).

Mechanisms and Therapeutic Applications of Time-Varying and Static Magnetic Fields
Arthur A. Pilla, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, Department of Orthopedics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York

It is now commonplace to learn of the successful use of weak non-thermal electromagnetic fields (EMF) in the quest to heal, or relieve the symptoms of, a variety of debilitating ailments. Thiswill attempt to give the reader an introduction and assessment of EMF modalities whichdemonstrated therapeutic benefit for bone and wound repair and chronic and acute pain relief.review will concentrate on the use of exogenous time-varying and static magnetic fields.is, however, a large body of research, including many clinical studies, describing theapplication of electrical signals via electrodes in electrochemical contact with the skinpain relief and to enhance wound repair.

Consideration of these modalities is beyond the scopethis review. The reader is referred to several excellent reviews of such electrical stimulation(1-5). Electroporation (6-8,372), which applies high amplitude (>100V/cm), short(?1 msec), voltage pulses with electrodes in contact with the target, allows controlledopening of the cell and other membranes, and has shown promise for gene transvection (9) and treatment of certain cancers (10), is also beyond the scope of this review. Finally RF (>100) and microwave signals are also beyond the scope of this review since these modalities areutilized to enhance bone or wound repair, but rather for tissue heating, thermal ablation or astools. Non-thermal bioeffects at these frequencies have been reported, but there are manyfindings. Excellent reviews are available for the reader interested in more detail.