ECTWO Biology and theFuture of Mediclne

This paper is based on a preseDtation ta the 2nd lnternational Congressof ECTWO Biolog\/ in aslo in 1992

SummaryAcupuntture ti. icrosystems have proved clinicallysuccesslir, deJpite being apparcntly based on littlenore lhan emPirical (lescriptions of poinl relationships with tlrc bocly as a whole. ECIWO bialogy(which stands for Enbryo Containing Infomation ot'tlrc Whale C)r1anistll) su1Sests a cahetentlivt)othesis to explain the micrcsystens, which arccreditecl with provicling a natural, stimulatorycontral lor patholo1y throuthout the bady

be in a signif icant physiological relal jonship to thecorrespondinB organs, a relationship which can beusecl for diagnostic and lherapeutic pLlrposes f- l)I t is str iking to see how these different bio

holographic methods, founded on the samenrinc-iple, have been developed in difterent parts ofthe rvord on empirical gfounds- Although thevalidity of some of them may be disputed, the.() l lective evidence indicates that such aholoBraphic principle rnust be of Sreat and largelyunexplored .nedical impotance and have abioloeical signif 'cance that merits further discussion.Quiie a number of such bio ho ographic methods

have now become known, and quile a lot moreclinical and experimenial evidence has beengathered. Methods have been discovered for theixternal ear (ear acupuncture and ear medicine)(,1,5J; lhe nose and the nasa mllcosa (noseacuDunclure and nasal reflex therapY); the hands(Koiean hand acupunctule and hand rei lexology)f6); the feet (foot reflexoloBy); the scalp (oldand Yamamoto's new scalp acupuncturc) (7); lheretroauriculaf and jugular areas (Yamarnoto); theleeth and denta mucosa (oral acuplrnctufe ollochen Cleditsch) lB); lhe retromolar area (Cleditsch);and the periorbita area (eye acLlpuncture).These methods, discovered and developed inde-

uprd.r lr oi T{ .Wu oiolo!,) rare p'or.d eff ' ' i rc. r , i n i ' ' l l m ' d i , i r e . l r l \ O h io log i F ' . : dd "dnew, similar methods, l ike Yingqing Zhang's secondmelacafpal system f2), and Siven these bio-holographic methods a broader basis in biologicaltheot. Al l these methods are in accordance with theECIWO principles, exemplifying how the part. o1 " r - t \ o i n .o m, r ' nn o . t re \ ^h , , ' l c o r8 " r ' . _

ho\, cofresponding zones of the different EClWosare related by the bio-holographic law, and how thepart has embryonic propert ies and may exert aregererative effect on the whole Tal<en toSethef,these methods oifer a good argument lor the ECIWOhypothesis and provide cl inica and experimcntalevidence for i ls medical siSnit icance.

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IntrcductionAccofding to ECIWO (Embryo Containing Informatjonof the Whole Organism) biology, a l iving orBan'srn isa mult i level mosaic, wheTe each unit, or ECIWO,conlains the informaLion of the whole organism andhas an errbryonic potential which has been called"totipotential". In planls and lower animals this isexpiessed in the potential for generatin!, a new,si.ni lar individual from a port ion of the ofiSinal lnhiqher animals and humans lhe totipoiency oi theeitwo ls no longet found as a true, foetal potent'alfor generatinB a new jndividual, bl l t is expressed inthe potentia for regeneration 47,21.This regenerative aspect of ECIWO totipotency is of

immense signjf icance to nredicine, Lroth in i tsDractical and its theoretical irnpl ications lt Slves usa new underslandlng oi the biological relationbetween a whole organism and its parts, andprovides us with a new scientif ic basis lo explainregenerative and healing processes-

R io-h ol osra phic me lh od sl l^, L, l"$O t\eol e'pl r ir ' hF di l arFrl bio-holographic" nelhods that have been discovered ino ' r ' i i . o l r . o ' ' i np re d l , ' r g o d r f l ' n n l ' l \ O ' o l: h ' r u -dn noo \ . l hp c -p t rods l i l e ea rJ, Jpun' lLr ' ]J fool el la\olu\\ are oa'po on lrp, o m m o n p , I , i p l c , r n t r " \ d , o u . . ' 8 1 1 . . r n d p J l .

of the organism are ref lected Sraphical ly as points of

smal l zones within the boundaries ot a clrcum-

scr ibed part of the body. These zones are found to

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are able to repair damage, regenerate new tissuesand regain vital functions. A better understandin€l ofthese pfocesses of self repair and self heaiing wouldgreatly promote medicine as a healing aft. So farthese processes have proved too difficult to beexplained scientif icalJy. They are apparcntly highlycomplex, integfated, physiological processes that arevery hard to unravel anal),t ical ly. How may the theoryof ECIWO help us towards a bettef undefstand;ng?There is cl inical evidence that bio-holographic

therapy using the di i lerent EClWOs, or acupuncturernicrosystems, gives an integrated physioloBicalresponse that prornotes self-healin8. ExperimentaJstudies confirm this, aJlowing a mofe analyt icalapproach to the physiological parameters invoived.

An i l lustrative study of this kind was done by CuoQifgtanS ei a/. at the Third Mil i tary Hospital inChina. They treated 3BB patients with gall stonesdiagnosed by ultrasound or;.v. Cholangiography, byauricular pressure therapy, l .e. bio-holographictherapy of the ear-EClWO. The cl inical results werevery good. In neafly 9B% of the cases Sall stoneswere expelled. All patients felt an improvementduring treatment and none had colic. In 182 ofthese patients the size and diarneter of the gallbladder and bi le ducts were measured by uJtrasoundduring therapy. l t was found that pressure therapy ofthe eaf points was f irst foJlowed by a signif icantcontraction of the gall bladder, then I0 20 minutesaiierwards by a di lal ion of the bi le duct (andpresumably by relaxation of the sphincter of Oddi),thus causing the gall stones to be expelled naluraily f9).

lr] lhis case the physioloEiical responses are o{ amechanical natufe, which makes an analyl icaldescript ion easier We see that they are coordinated intime and space to expel the gall stones, that is to servea physiological purpose o{ self-repair When we Icrckat the choice of ear points used and the integratedphysiological response achieved, $,e realise that thiscan not easily be explained by mere mechanrcalref ex activity via known neural rnechanisms.Another interesting stLrdy on ear acupunctufe, irorn

the Insti tute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion at theHarbin Medical Universit, invoived a chemrcaparameter. In this study recurrent aphthous ulcefs oithe oral cavity were treated by bloodlett ing frorn themost electroactive point of the ear, which invariablywas found in the mouth zone of ear acupuncture. lnthe treatment group, 23 patients were treated in thisway, whiJe 11 patients in a control group weretreated randomJy. The posit ive therapeutic resultswere statist icalJy signif icant, and the recuTrence rateof the treatrnent group was onJy 12.57., versus72.7'/. iot the control group. For al l patients thecontent oi zinc in the hair was measured before andaiter ireatment. The patients in the controJ groupwefe given 20mg of zinc gluconate oral l , taken 3times a day for 14 days, while those in the treatmentgroup received none. The mineral zinc is known toprotect mLrcosal cel ls fror. damage. Surprisingly, i twas found that the arnount of zinc in the hair ofpatients in the trealment group was signif icanily

raised towards normal, and ihat bloodlett inB of theear point was found to give a better response thanoral supplen ents of zinc (70).These stLrdies show the complexity of healing

responses to bio-holographic therapy, involvingdifferent physiologicai parameters. Frornacupuncture research much more is known aboutsuch physiological responses; involving the immunesystem, the endocrine system, neryous regeneralion,neurotransmitter substances, the fespiratory andcardiac systems, afterial circulation, stomach andbowel movements, blood corpuscles, blood l ipids,efc. Most of this research, however, has oeen ooneon body acupuncture, and we do not know to whatextenl the acupLrncture points used conform 1(] ihebio holographic rule. We can therefore not str jct lyknow whether these results also apply to ECIWOtherapy. We have, however, some very good reasonsto believe that they do in Senefal appJy; and someof the experimental studies presented to the international congress of ECIWO biology in Singapore in1990 contirm this.

Experimental studiesln a study presented by Yue Baosheng theimmLrnoglobins l8C, lgA and lgM as well ascomplement C3 were measured in 43 in patientsreceiving bio-holographic acupuncture of thesecond metacarpal system (SMSJ. A signil icantincrease in al l of these immunological parameteTswas observed, indicating that the therapy inducedan increased responsiveness of the immune systeafl/ /). Wang Wenfeng observed radiological ly aneffect on stomach peristalsis in 52 patients bypressin:j the ECIWC) stomach acupoint f72J.Yunzhou Li ei a/. recorded a substantialimprovement of respiratory function measured bypeak expiratory fJow rate in 42 cases ot acuteasthma treated by ECIWO acupuncture of the SMSf73). And in their analys's of I20 cases of headachetreated by SMS rnassage, ZhanB Ruojen ef a/.measured a si€inif icanl increase both ln arteflalelasticity and in the microcircLrJation ol6lood (14).

Mo fe r . r . J1h o the r " ou r n \ r . i . l o t ' " l ' n " , t .of ECIWO bio holographic therapy is certainJyneeded, but lbei ieve we already have suff icientevidence to concllde that the general effect of suchtherapy is to reinforce or induce coordinaled physio-logical responses, serving organic processes ofself repair and self-healing. Such processes arediff icult to explain analyt ical ly, and it is throuSh thelack of satisfaclory scientif ic models to explainther., that modern .nedicine has tended to deny thaithey r.ay be an object of serious scientif ic research.This att i tLrde has also been a main reason why theresLrlts of.nodefn acupuncture research have notbecome more widely known and accept€d.Perhaps ECIWO biology may change aII that.

ECIWO biology has a sol id scientif ic loundalion inbiological and embryological research, and it gives usa radical new explanation of why the primary effed ofbio+olo8faphic therapy is that of regeneration- Jt

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[udhcr provide. L5 wil l some \ implc, bul eff i ' ientcl ini.dl merhods lhal r rn ed\rl) be le5led dnd \c-i l iedAt the congress in Singapore, Wang Jiel in er a/

reoorted reiarkable fesults in treatinB cases o{severe infanti le cerebral paralysis by bio-holoeraphi, SMS dr upJ'1(lurc , / 5) from thP oo nto f r i "w o f oo ind r ) med i ( r l unde r \ l r , l o rnS su rhresults are simply not possible. They are, however,given a rational scientif ic explanation with;n theaontext of ECIWO biology. These highly posit iveresults in the tfeatment of chi ldren suffering fromcerebral paresis are supported by evidence Satheredin other parts of the world using similar methods.Fxcellent results in the lreatment of such cases wereachieved by laser acupuncture at the KazakhHo5pildl lo' CerFbrd Pdrcsi ' .r Alrra Ara whirh I\ s t d i n l q7b , and ' im i l a r r c<u l l s a re d l . o nowachieved in Hungary and Czechoslovakia by the useof ar uplrn( lLre and later o.upun, ture a) repo ledb \ La ;b r i l . l l d He8 \ i and M i ,hae la L id i c .a a theICMART Symposium in Munich in 1991, at theICMART congress in Budapest in 1992 and again atthe ICMART Symposiurn in Bath in 1993 ai6).

I n my o \ ^n ( l l n i ra l p rd ( l i , e I hdve to mt su rp r i sehad very good results treating cases of endometriosiswrl r dr u-punc u'e. Tne\e \ ome1 hdve nol orl\bero-e f '"e of cymplom\. r,r i lh normal mens,tua-rion, but they have also been able to conceive andhave normal preBnancies. Endometriosis is due to ananomaly of cel lLl lar differentiat ion, where utennemucosa is found in places outside the uterine wallFor a western trained physician it is hard toLrnderstand that acupuncture can have any real effecton such a disease. ln the l i8ht of ECIWO biology i i is,however, not at al l unl ikely that sl lch a disease asendometriosis may respond well to acuprrn.ture.

LC I \ O b ;o loe \ ma \ I I L ' impro \e ou r med icd li ns ieh t r1 ra r rou - r i e lo . o l p ra , l l ( r l med ic ine dndeive us new scope for medical intervention Oneiuch f ield is the possible regeneration of ai l ing anddamaged or8ans, improving their vital functions. Atihe International Congress oi Acupuncture InColombo in 1981 , t lvo experiments were presentedbv lapanese scientists in which the l ivers ot micehid been damaged by carbon tetrachlorideDoi'o"ri1s; and lhere r la' dnother nJdy "l*o tromiop rn , * -h " r " d iabc res had been d r l i l i r i a l l ) i ndL , edin mice by al loxan poisoning, causinS damage tothe insulin producing cells of the pancreas ln al lthree of these experiments acupuncture treatment ofthe mice gave a siSnif icant improvement of organfunction c;mpared to control groups of untreatedmice; and these beneficial resLll ts ot acupuncturewere verif ied by histological examination of theoqan cells (17-19).Furlher research needs to be done on the healing

and resenerative effects of ECIWO therapy anda!uoun;lLlre on ai l ing ard daraged organ'. su'hmethod, ma\, for in,tar, ", redu.e lhe med { al nPedfor organ transplantation, which is a dramatic butexoeniive method associated with economic andethical problems, unlike bio-holographic techniques

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A major cause of human misery and loss of socialresoLrrces in the world today is druB addict ion. Inthis f ield also, ECIWO biology has an importantcontf ibution to offer world medicine Through 20years of cl inical research the American psychiatr istMichael Smith of Lincoln Hospital, New Yofk, hasdeveloped a programme for treatinB druS addictsbased on ear acupuncture (20). The results achievedbv this method have been considered "Light-years

ahead of other treatment methods and proceduresnow bein7 used in the field of drug abuseteatment" (21). They have been dLrplicated in othertreatment centres and are now well documented. Theh igh l ) po . i l i \ e re ru l l s " (h ie \ed b \ ea r d .upu r ( l u "e i nthe treatment of different forms of drug addiction arein facl the main reason why acupuncture research isnow geft ing public suppon in the USAAnother f ield of promising research is opened lry

the Eclwo theory of cancer and YinSqing ZhanS'sstrategy of treating cancers by means ot increasingcell dif ferentiat ion. So far cl inical experience showsthat bio-holographic SMS acupuncture has anexcellent symptomatic effect in cancer patients, thati t may possibly reduce cancerous growths and evendecrease their malignancy. Much more research is,rlowever/ neeoeo.

Physical hasisfci\ tO biolos) i : a sr ient,f i , di*, iplr ' ]e in i ts edrl)phase of development. Many questions afe st i l lunanswered and may only be clarif ied throughfuture research. One such question concerns thephysical l ink between the bio-holo8faphic zone thatis beine treated and the responding part of thewhole organism, or: "What actually is the physicalbasis of the bio-holographic /awl" PresentInovrl"dge of nouropht. ioloS) the humoral sv't .- 'dnd b lood L r r (u ld l : on r . ha rd l l . u r l i c i " r t Lo S ive asatisfactorv answer. Cybernetics explain theouicome of the interaction, but what actuallymediates the transfer of biological information?At the present state of ECIWO biology, such a

phvqr, al e'.planation is nol required. Sim;lal rplr l ion-.h ip . a r " k rown t rom b io log i , a l and "mbr lo lo8 i ,a lresearch and are accepted as biological facts,although we are not at present able to Eive them anadequate physical explanation. The fol lowing are afew l ines of investigation that seem promising andmav lead to new insight into these matters.

In bio holographic diaBnosis there are t\ 'vo mainparameters Lrsed to identify the affected zone in anLCIWO, cotresponding to an ai l ing part of thewhole organism. The f irst of these is increased painsensitivity to pressure. The other is increased elec-troactiviiy, in general a marked decrease Inelectr ical skin resistance.The increased sensitivity of affected bio-

holographir zo'1eq lo pre' icurP mav re'\e d bioloSi, Jlpurpose. for erample the 7o1o\ of fool rPl le\olo8yr ' r i l i be ,on r inJou5 l \ mdssaged du r inB wd l l i nE l h i tmeans that the increased sensit ivity may selectivelyserve to strengthen the corresponding ai l ing parts ot

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the body by a feedback mechanisrn. A similarfunction wil l apply also to other bio-holoSraphicsystems of the body. Thus the zone systemsapparently have an important biological function,restorinB homoeostasis and stimulating regenerativepfocesses where these are needed.The increased electrical conductivity of affected

points may serve a similar purpose. Looking from abioelectr ical point of vieW the body may be suckingup unwanted electrons from the surroundings, ordischarSing superf luous electrons through thesepoints. The increased electroactivity of affectedpoinis may thus promote homoeostasis and regener-ation. A prerequisite for such a hypothesis would bethat we have a bioelectrical system in the body thatregulates homoeostasis and reSeneration and thatthis system could account for the electroactivity ofbio-holographic zones.Such a bioelectrical system has in fact been

discovered by the American orthopaedic surSeon,Robert Becker. Measuring electr ical skin potentialsduring the regeneration of amputated forelegs insalamanders, Becker discovered in 1958 a negativeelectr ical cufreni concurrent with the regenerativephase. Through his further research Beckerdiscovered that this "rcgenefttive" current, is adirect electr ical current of semiconductive type thatis mediated by the nervous system. lt is, however,not mediated by the nerves and nervous cellspropet but by the Schwann cells of the perineuralsheaths in the peripheral neNous system and theglial and ependymal cel ls of the central neryoussystem 122). I t is thus a perineural system, and itapparently serves as an analogue electr icalinformation system, regulating regenefative andhealing processes in the body. This t ies in with theresearch of Professor Nordenstr6m of UppsalaUniversity in Sweden on biological ly closed electr iccircuits (23). Such functions may not be restricted tothe physical modalit ies of pressure and electr icity.Other physical st imuli may play a similar role,exerting an effect on the organism through the bioholographic zone systems.

From a biological point of view these functions oflhe bio holoSrdphi. orSanr'rt ion of rhp orSanirnmlrst be of Sreat signif icance. They help to explainthe resi l ience of l iving organisms, and how l ivingsystems, in spite of far greater complexity, mayoutJast mechanical ones. This inbuil t resi l ienceexplains how we actually preserve and strengthenour health through activity and interaction with oursunoundings. ECIWO theory supports a dynamicview of human health.

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