Historical survey of energetic medicine.

The oldest texts go back to -2000C.

• The Chinese book of the yellow emperor – use of acupuncture and moxa.
• Uhe Hindu Vedas
• The Egyptian Kahun Papyrus.

They use all kinds of natural magnets as therapy. They often speak of energetic current, which exist as well in the soul as in the body and which they manipulate in one way or the other in order to improve health.

For centuries before Christ Hyppocrates in Greece wrote:

“Illness is not a living being, but a temporary condition of the patient, a fight between the illness and the natural healing power of the body”.

It was his conviction that a life spirit centred in the heart was responsible for life, acting through four liquids: Blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. This spirit had much in common with the Chinese Chi, working through Ying and Yang energy. He also wrote:

“Illnesses which cannot be healed by herbs, can be cured by iron, what cannot be cured by iron can be cured by fire, and what cannot be healed by fire has to be considered as incurable”.

By iron he meant magnets and by fire he meant moxa. Life spirit expresses itself by a balanced energy current, possible to be manipulated by herbs, magnetism and warmth.

His motto was: “Pinum nihil nocere” -(In any case do not damage) – typical for a humble man, being aware of his little knowledge.

That’s why he funded several medical schools, upon which the Aesculapia, where two hundred years later Erasistratos graduated who would be the first to cut in the human body in a scientific way.

He discovered motoring and feeling nerves which led to the brain and considered therefore the brain as the centre of the soul. The heart was only a pump for the blood circulation. Even so he was a spiritual person and called the life spirit the “pneuma” His observations were most of the time correct and if his ideas would have had more influence, then he biological world would have known a quicker start.

Unfortunately a certain Galenus received a diploma somewhat +150 C at the Easculapia of Pergamont. He was the opposite of Hyppocrates, arrogant, persuaded of his rightness, and even capable of deceit in order to achieve his goal. He was the first promoter of the attractive theory that for every illness there existed a cause and an adequate treatment. His book where he described as well atomy, psychology and therapy will control medicine for 1500 years. He disputed the experiments of Erasistratos by pure test forgery and succeeded in this way to have burnt the scripts of Erasistratos. The humanity of Hyppocrates and the logical empire of Erasistratos were banned by the dogmatic rationalism of Galenus, which would put western medicine into dark centuries.

At last, in the first half of the 16th century, Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, nicknamed Paracelcus, took up the fight against the mean falsifier. He studied at almost every university of that time and burnt Galenus’ books publicly. His knowledge “Knowledge is experience”, leaded to the revival of the empirical vision. He used magnets and the spiritual life theory was honoured again. The holistic vision on the human being which was more than a sum of all organs. His books have had an enormous impact on western medicine and together with his phrase “Sola dosis facet Venemum” (only the dosage defines the toxicity! ) he laid the foundation of the homeopathic principle of Hahnemann.

Together with the atomy knowledge of Andreas Vesalius the misunderstandings of Galenus became even clearer and they got more grip on the natural power of magnetism and electricity. More and more two tendencies showed up in the western medicine : the mechanism (Galenus) against the vitalism (Hyppocrates) and the rationalism (Descartes) against the empirical vision (Hahnemann).

When in 1921 Otto Lowei proofed, that the nerve impulse was transmitted via a chemical way and when Paul Ehrlich found a chemical treatment against syphilis, which he called a magic bullet, vitality was considered dead and the invention of a chemical bullet for every disease could only be a matter of time. The rationalism with its chemical-mechanical model was considered as the only right way and every organism was only the sum of a certain quantity of structures, integrated in the centre nerve system. In this system no magnetism nor electricity fitted, and considering these powers existed in nature, they were only considered to harm, if they provoked heat or shock (lightning) otherwise they had not any physical effect.

With the world wars the pharmaceutical industry gathered so much power that the official rationalism medicine was converted into the official representative of this industry. All medical information now rests in the hands of and is financed by this industry.

Electromagnetism was more and more implicated in technologies to facilitate the every day like, believing it could not provoke any biological harm.