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Physical Therapy Research of Health Keeping House With Renovation Function J.Q. Luo1, Q.S. Li*1, J. Wu2 Key Laboratory of Metastable Materials Science and Technology, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province, 066004, P.R.China 1
Health and Longevity Academy of China, No.1 YanYuan Building, No.10 WangFu Road, BeiJing City, 100110, P.R. China 2
624543070@qq.com; *1qsli@ysu.edu.cn; 215000119843@163.com
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Abstract Health keeping house with renovation function is a kind of steaming room decorated with health stone/polymer composites. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether the health keeping house with tourmaline steaming room can improve the health condition. Six volunteers participated in this study, and each volunteer received the physical therapy in health keeping house for 30 minutes. The physical condition was measured with Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector. The results showed that the sub-health state could be improved for each volunteer. Since the tourmaline steaming room could significantly improve the sub-healthy state of the human body, we would suggest that tourmaline steaming room may have broad market and research prospects. Keywords Health Keeping House; Tourmaline; Chinese Medicine; Main and Collateral Channels; Physical Therapy
Introduction Tourmaline was found at Sri Lanka firstly, and it was treasured as preciousness as diamonds and ruby in the early 16th century. There are different kinds of tourmaline with yellow, red, green, pink, black, purple, white, or colorful color. In 1880, Pierre Curie brothers in France found that this kind of precious stones would gather charge on both ends, producing electrical poles, which is similar to permanent magnetic pole of permanent magnet. The static voltage of electrical poles is quite high, however, as the resistance of tourmaline being very high, the testing results of electricity showing little value (an order of magnitude of 0.06 mA, which is in line with the human body's biological current). The electrical properties are helpful in improving the environment. What’s more, tourmaline can radiate far-infrared radiation from 4 to 14 microns, thus playing an important role to human body health[1]. Nowadays, there are blue tourmalines, colorful tourmaline, tourmaline opals and its like in the gem market, among which red tourmaline is the most popular. However, in the 21st century, the most popular tourmaline is the one used in environmental protection and health industry. The functions of the tourmaline steaming room are introduced as follows. The Function of Infrared Ray As a kind of specific wavelengths of electromagnetic waves, infrared ray has the main function of thermal effect[2]. Some scientists think that there are some non-thermal effects of infrared ray, and the function of it to biological tissue arouses great attention. However, the mechanism of biological effect is not very clear. The biological or medical professionals at home and abroad have put forward a variety of different interpretations, and there are three interpretations which have scientific basis. The Radiation Absorption Theory of Human Body The human body is a natural radiator and good absorber. The electromagnetic radiation emitted by objects below 1725 cm-1 is mainly in the infrared spectrum[3]. The radiation of human skin is within the scope of infrared
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spectrum accordingly, and the emission rate at high temperature can reach to 0.98, closing to the blackbody radiation. The peak wavelength of the radiation of human skin is 9.35. When appropriate infrared ray within the energy around 2 ~ 20μm effecting on the human body, the body will absorb electromagnetic energy effectively, resulting in a corresponding biological effect. Function Adjustment Theory of Biological Molecular From the basis of the level of molecular structure and chemical bond, analyzing the structure characteristics of the bioactive macromolecular and the basic laws of molecular motion, finding out the matching area and applying the corresponding energy playing the role of functional regulating[4]. This theory is based on the relationship between the chemical composition and space conformation of various bioactive molecules (nucleic acid, protein, sugar, fat and the functional activity of molecule. So it’s important to figure out the energy transfer mode, find out the molecular structure and the relationship between the special vibration frequency of the hydrogen bond and the functional activity of molecule. When the energy applied to biological macromolecules is consistent with the special vibration frequency, it can be absorbed by biological molecules, and through energy transfer way, such as the vibration energy state, charge distribution and transfer or proton transfer, the energy is transmitted to the body (including the deeper tissue), thus promoting the recovery function of biological molecules, preventing the structure mutation, improving the inside and outside environment of the cell, finally, achieving disease prevention effect. Polaron Oscillation Theory of H.Frohlich Biological Systems After the absorption of electromagnetic energy, H.Frohlich biological systems will have some biological changes, which are not attributed to the change of temperature. That is called non-thermal effect, also known as the specificity effect of the field[5]. Scientists have found that the use of low energy of electromagnetic wave radiation(special frequency) in active organism can cause obvious biological effect after a large number of experiments at the molecular and cellular level. What’s more, it can produce effect to the organ or tissue of the human body even by long distance radiation, and these biological effects appear in the form of non-thermal effect [6]. Thermal Effect and Mechanism of Physical Therapy of Infrared Ray Under the influence of electromagnetic field, the dipole and charge of organism have the trend of arranging in the field direction. In this process, molecules and atoms move a lot randomly in producing heat. When the infrared radiation is much stronger than the cooling ability of the organism, the temperature of part of the body being radiated will rise accordingly. This is the thermal effect of infrared ray. Activate the Activity of Biological Macromolecules Under the action of infrared ray, with a number of biological molecular energy levels being activated to high vibration level, this will activate the activity of biological macromolecules such as nucleic acid, protein. This process realize the function of the biological macromolecules regulating the body's metabolism and immune activity, which is beneficial to recovery and balance the body function and achieve the purpose of disease prevention and cure[7]. Improvement of Blood Circulation Once infrared ray effects on skin, most of the energy absorbed is converted into heat energy, leading to increasing temperature and stimulating the internal sensors of skin[8]. On one hand, blood circulation improved the relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and vasodilation of blood vessel through the thalamus reflex. On the other hand, vascular active substances released due to the thermal effect, resulting in the reducing of vascular tension and the expansion of superficial vein, superficial artery and shallow capillaries. Ultimately, blood circulation gets improved [9].
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Increment of Metabolism If disorder has taken place in the body's metabolism, which means the disorder of material exchanges in vivo and in vitro, a variety of diseases would come, leading to great trouble to the human body. Water and electrolyte metabolism disorder will bring danger to life and sugar metabolic disorder will cause diabetes, while ester metabolic disorders will result in hyperlipidemia, and obesity and Protein metabolism disorder will lead to gout. Thermal effect of infrared ray can strengthen the vitality of cell, adjust humoral mechanisms of nerve, strengthen metabolism and balance the material exchange in vivo and in vitro[10]. Improvement of Immune Ability Immunization is a physiological protective reaction of the body, including cellular immunity and humoral immunity, which play an important role in the defensive function to the human body and the anti-infection. Through clinical observation, infrared ray does improve the phagocytosis of macrophage of the body and strengthen the body's cellular immunity and humoral immunity. The Mechanism of Eliminating Inflammation and Swelling As the thermal effect of infrared ray can eliminate pathological process of inflammation by neurohumoral reaction, physiological balance destructed originally would be recovered and the function of disease resistance and immunization would be improved[11]. The phagocytosis of white blood cells and the reticular endothelial cells can be strengthened, achieving the goal of anti-inflammatory and antibacterial function finally. Additionally, the thermal effect of infrared ray increases the skin temperature, decrease the ability of sympathetic, release vascular active substances and relax blood vessels. Meanwhile, blood flow is accelerated, blood circulation is improved, histotrophic nutrition is enhanced, organic metabolism is activated and oxygen supply of cell is enhanced. Therefore, blood and oxygen supply of the focus area is improved and the ability of cells regeneration is strengthened, which can have a control over the development of inflammation and accelerate the process of repairing the focal region. The improvement of the microcirculation, establishment of the collateral circulation, enhancement of the stability of cell membrane, adjustment of the concentration of the ions, improvement of the osmotic pressure, promoting of the excretion of toxic substances, accelerating of the absorption of effusion caused by the infrared ray lead to the subsiding of inflammatory edema. The thermal effect of infrared ray can also reduce the excitability of nerve endings and increase the pain threshold. Experimental Procedure
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As the fig.3-1 shown above, figure (a) represents health keeping house(0.6mĂ—0.5mĂ—2m)ďźŒand figure (b) represents the third generation of Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector1. The experiment carried out in accordance with the three steps. Firstly, obtain the meridians of volunteers in detail by the third generation of The third generation of Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector is a machine to detect the customers rapidly in 3 to 5 minutes of health, including the insides of the disease, physical strength, mental pressure, the Yin and Yang of the actual situation of traditional Chinese medicine, cardiovascular, cancer, endocrine and so on all aspects of the human body health. The information mentioned above can be converted to precise figure by computer. 1
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Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector. Secondly, have the volunteers being treated in the health keeping house for 30 minutes at the temperature ranged from 38℃ to 45℃. Thirdly, obtain the meridian data of volunteers by the third generation of Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector. Results and Discussion
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Fig.3-2 is the testing reports measured by the third generation of Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector. The pictures (A～F) on the left represent the meridian condition of six volunteers before physiotherapy. Pictures (a～f) on the other side represent the meridian condition of volunteers after physiotherapy. X-axis from left to right represents Lung Channel, Large Intestine Channel, Stomach Channel, Spleen Channel, Heart Channel, 5
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Small Intestine Channel, Bladder Meridians, Kidney Meridians, The Pericardium, Triple Burner, Gallbladder Meridians, Liver Meridians. The value on Y-axis is a relative result and the color of the bar graph is determined automatically by the third generation of Chinese Medicine Main and Collateral Channels Detector. The red color of Histogram reflects heavier symptoms, while yellow color reflects solid syndrome (the upper shaft) or deficiency syndrome (negative half shaft). Meanwhile, blue color reflects weaker solid syndrome (the upper shaft) or weaker deficiency syndrome (negative half shaft), and green color reflects health status. Comparing the six groups of histogram we found that the heavier symptoms had improved and solid syndrome (the upper shaft) or deficiency syndrome had eased after the therapy, due to the reduction in the number of red column. TABLE 3-1 MERIDIANS DATA
Volunteer Number
Gender
Age
1
man
23
2
man
65
3
man
24
4
women
24
5
women
45
6
women
37
Volunteer Number
Gender
Age
1
man
23
2
man
65
3
man
24
4
women
24
5
women
45
6
women
37
Lung Channel -14,-13 2,12 -14,-13 -4,-2 -13,4 -11,0 -19,9 3,20 8,15 0,2 -1,0 -12,-16 Bladder Meridians 30,34 18,27 30,34 18,16 18,24 10,5 32,27 18,32 11,-9 2,6 -3,-1 0,-3
Large Intestine Channel -12,-15 -23,-19 -12,-15 -9,-6 -15,-17 -13,-6 -12,2 -20,-10 7,2 1,2 -3,3 -5,-3 Kidney Meridians -15,-15 -16,-13 -15,-15 -10,-8 -2,-12 -18,-2 -22,-21 -17,-25 -35,-32 -22,-20 -3,-1 3,5
Stomach Channel
Spleen Channel
Heart Channel
-13,-12 -12,-9 -13,-12 -5,1 -17,-6 -3,0 -9,-2 -10,1 -7,-12 0,-2 -6,0 -6,2 The Pericardium -11,-12 1,5 -11,-12 0,-4 -6,9 -2,-3 -15,1 2,11 -1,9 -4,4 -3,1 -8,-6
32,37 17,26 32,37 -5,14 18,18 7,9 17,25 2,23 15,20 9,9 -3,3 -1,0 Triple Burner -13,-7 -16,-18 -13,-7 -3,-5 -14,-14 -10,1 15,15 -22,-5 -6,7 2,2 -2,14 -6,-6
-15,-15 -1,-3 -15,-15 7,-4 -10,-8 -6,-3 -16,-6 -14,24 6,5 -2,6 1,5 -6,0 Gallbladder Meridian -12,-11 -24,-10 -12,-11 -8,-5 -8,13 4,13 -23,1 -14,-30 -24,-29 -18,-18 -5,2 17,15
Small Intestine Channel 28,38 16,25 28,38 9,20 12,11 1,2 5,9 10,29 22,20 13,15 -1,6 -8,0 Liver Meridian -13,8 -7,27 -13,8 -6,-5 3,21 0,14 -4,-2 -13,10 -2,-6 4,2 1,5 20,21
Table 3-1 shows all the meridians data, and there are four data at each intersection between every volunteer and each meridian. The intersection separated into two lines, and the upper two data represent the meridian data before physiotherapy, while the nether two data represent the meridian data after physiotherapy. There are two data for each meridian as the aspect of the traditional Chinese medicine. Take volunteer 1 as example, as for his lung channel, -14,-13 is obtained before physical therapy, and -4,-2 is gained after physical therapy. As negative value represents the deficiency situation and positive value represents solid situation, the subjacent data is lower compared with the upper data on their absolute value. Comparing nether data on their absolute value of all volunteers from corresponding upper data we can find most of them are lowered down for volunteer 1,2,3,5. Some data get higher for volunteer 4 and 6, however, the histogram D, d for volunteer 4 and histogram F, f for volunteer 6 show red histogram disappeared which means their heavier symptoms get improved. Perhaps there are some reasons leading to higher data, but we will continue to study in the subsequent experiments. Conclusions Health stone can launch far infrared ray in high emissivity in 38 ~ 45 ℃, the wavelength range of which is of match
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to the 8 ~ 14 micron band of human body. Under the action of infrared light, energy levels of biological molecular are inspired to high vibration level, which will activate the activity of biological macromolecules, such as nucleic acid protein. In this way, biological macromolecules are able to regulate the body's metabolism and immune function, which is beneficial to the recovery and balance of body function, finally, achieving the purpose of prevention and cure. Once infrared ray effects on skin, most of the energy absorbed is converted into heat energy, leading to the increase of temperature and stimulating the internal sensors of skin. On one hand, blood circulation improved accompanying the relaxation of vascular smooth muscle and vasodilation of blood vessel through the thalamus reflex. On the other hand, vascular active substances released due to the thermal effect, resulting in the reducing of vascular tension and the expansion of superficial vein, superficial artery and shallow capillaries. Ultimately, blood circulation gets improved. The physical therapy effect of tourmaline mentioned above is reflected by the histogram intuitively. Nowadays, the top three death causes are almost heart, cerebrovascular disease and tumor all around the world. Before the onset of the disease, the body may be in a state of sub-health. Although there is no significant lesion of human viscera system, there are various disorders, such as chest tightness, shortness of breath, dizziness, insomnia, forgetfulness, heart palpitations, nameless pain, etc. Because these symptoms do not raise people's attention, serious diseases appear later. Therefore, the sub-health state should be regulated once appeared. Health keeping house seems to significantly improve the sub-healthy state of the human body, and may have a broad market and research prospects. REFERENCES
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