How Photonic Acupuncture Works
(The following is an extract from Jan Couper's Take Part series on Photonic Acupuncture)
The nervous system works by an interchange of sodium Na+ and potassium K+ ions - a slow process which could never follow these high pulse rates. What has been demonstrated is that the end effect depends upon the total energy into the acupuncture point. This can be mechanical, heat, electrical, chemical, sound, magnetic or here, light energy. It has to be above a certain threshold, or the brain ignores it - so the rate at which the energy is injected multiplied by the time of application is the key to success. To explain this better, a little physics review follows.
The Energy in Light
Early in the 20th century, Albert Einstein and Neilss Bohr pointed out that in some contexts, it is ligitimate to describe light as electromagnetic waves; but when light interacts with matter, it behaves as if its energy is contained in packets of value hf where h is Plank's universal constant of action, and f is the frequency of the light. The energy packet hf is referred to as a photon. This is Quantum Theory.
The present view is that light has a dual character. In its propagation it consists of electromagnetic waves, but when it interacts with matter in emission, absorption and scattering processes, we must consider it as composed of photons. The photo-puncture or photostimulation of acupuncture points using the red light process consists of the emission of light from a semi-conductor chip, its scattering through the flesh, and absorption into the nervous system, so it can only be sensibly described as a stream on photons.
Terms such as coherence and collimation describe waves, not particles, so are meaningless with photons. When a photon decays, it becomes an electron with the same energy level.
In photopuncture / photonic stimulation / photonic acupuncture, most photons decay in the tissues, but those which encounter the acupuncture point stimulate it electrically, thus sending patterns of stimulus to the brain.
Photons are fundamental particles and differ from each other only in their energy level, i.e. their perceived colour. A red photon from a laser is identical with a red photon from a GaA1As chip or from a burning match. Ascribing other properties to them would probably be contrary to modern Physics.
The objective is to achieve levels of stimulation which the brain cannot ignore.