CHAPTER 5

Electrical sensitivityand allergy

h appears that electromagnetic sensitivity exists as a definite clini-catl"Uty. Its recognition will aid in the treatment of the environ-coentally sensitive patient.

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'0h irllowing is an account of some problems which came the way,d ffic senior author as a result of his work on the bio-medical effects,ddmomagnetic fields. In 1947,he started working in radar research Ifu nrolved electronics and the use of microwave oscillators. Later,1a [955. he moved up the frequency spectrum to ionising radiation and

nrffis biomedical aria when he worked on the intensification of X-raylqs ln the early 1960s his interests moved from the surface of the

&5h to rhe geophysical phenomenon of the sodium light from the twi-

ffi rlr)-. ln Ige4,he joined Salford University and commenced working,-,,e.cti..t high-field phenomena in insulating liquids.'\il7ithin ten years,

h Tork had returned to biological materials and living systems' stimu-

hd t'r the arrival of Professor Herbert Frohlich FRS following retire-trom Liverpool University. This particular research began with

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on enzymes but was soon extended to includeirrtlrl.nc measurements. A number of the effects observed were found

m U. o.o.iated with living systems, so the investigations were extended

n hrreria and yeasts. From 1'979, the work began to acquire wider

uilb;rl and environmental implications. He then recorded a demon-iil,rfn for a BBC-TV programme,The Vital Spark, produced by Dick

86 Ele ctrical s en s itiu ity an d aller gy

Gilling, in which he showed that the sort of magnetic fields used f.:the treatment of non-union in bone fractures by Baiett and Becker cou,-also affect an enzyme reaction. As Hilary Bacon relates in chapter :.she saw this programme and wrote to cyrii smith for assistance in unde :-standing the experiences widespread in her Dorset village of Fishpon:.which seemed to be related ro the power lines which ,r."idl"d it.

The_ next piece of the jigsaw came by serendipity. Following his unsu--cessful affempt to get research funding from the New york State lro...,Lines Project, and no prospe* of funding for such work from elsewhe:.he wrote (smith and Aarholt ,1982) that f ersons exposed to environme :-tal.electromagnetic fields could be experiencing tody currenrs of ::..order of tens of microamps, currents .o-pr.""bl. to those knou.n :be able to produce electro-inaesthesia in deniistry, which in turn is ass - -ciated with the stimulation of endogenous opiaies, pain- and emotrc:..controlling substances manufactured in the brain and elsewhere rn ::..nervous system (Patterson, 1986).

-.During the same year, endogenous opiates had also been linked *::.-

allergies in papers presented ai two intirnational conferences. This -.:Dr Jean Monro to contact him to seek help with the treatment of :.:electrically sensirive multiple-allergy patients. Since then, over 1patients have been tested, first at the wellington Hospital, then ar :.-..Nightingale Hospital and finally at the Lister Hospital, followrng :::moves of Dr Monro's central London facility. we also'tested patre:.:,at her clinic in Hemel Hempstead and in Dr Bill Rea's environmen::unit in Dallas, Texas. Most of these patients were found to have elect: - -magnetic sensitivities which were critically dependent on frequencies or =:a range extending from at least milliH ertz to GigaHertz, wit^h less depe:-dence upon the electricor magnetic field strengtli, so long as this exceec= _a certain threshold value specific for the individual p"atients and th.,:allergic srare at the time of testing.

Dr Monro now directs her own hospital devoted to the care and tre =:-ment of the environmentally sick - the Breakspear Hospital, a forr:._:catholic college, at Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire, England. the.. t.. .have facilities for carrying outicieening resrs for chJmical pollurr.,,and electromagnetic sensitivities. There iJ a controlled environrnenr u:_ :in which the air is filtered and the construction is non-toxic and *-he :.patients can experience a period of withdrawal from common enr.ir, . -mental pollutants.

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rnay now be defined as 'the failure of a regulatory system'. The more;everely.allergic patients have acquired allergic r.rponr., to many chemi-cal, environmental and nutritional substan..r; th.r. may be countedm tens and even exceed a hundred in extreme cases. It appears thata.bout 15 per cent of a given population function ro some ."i.n, belowcreir best performance capability due to a degree of allergy, that is oneor more of their regulatory systems functions inadequatelyl'

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It seems that a new allergic response can be acquired,'or transferred,b'being exposed for a sufficiently long time to some hitherro innocuousiubstance while reacting strongly to an existing allergen. In such circum-stances it seems that exposure to an electromagnetic frequency can sensi-:se the parienr, so that- rheir specifi. prtt.rir of allergic responses is:nggered. on subsequenrly encountering that particul"i ft"qu"rrcy. Ineeneral the pattern of allergic responseris the same whether ih. trigg.,:s chemical, environmental, nutritional or electrical. In principle, J,r".hln accurate 'memory' for frequency is no different to the ,absolute pitch,:aciliry that many musicians possess.

A therapy for chemical and nutritional allergic responses was originally:escribed bv carlton L::

".".4 modified by tviiller (igzz). There ii good

tr-idence from four double-blind studies that it is satisfaciory in the treat-n91t of food allergy and from a further double-blind stuiy in respect1f fgod allergy in migraine (Monro et al., 19g4). Miller s'ho-.d ihat:he diameter of the weal on the skin o{ a patient following a .skin-prick'Lntradermal injection) test with an allergin depended upln the dilutionri. the allergen used. Furthermore, if a whole ,.qu"rr.. o? serially dilutedillergens were applied successively, cerrain dilutions gave larie wealsru! on further diluting there would eventually be a dllution it whichro weal was produced. still further serial dilutions would re-cycleduough similar parterns of response. The dilution at which no weal:esulted was termed the patient's 'neutralising dilution, because it could

- injected to provide neutralisation of rhe ry-pto-, due to that allergen

'od could provide prophylactic prorection-"g"itrrt subsequent environ-

:nental or nutritional exposure.In the course of treating many extremely sensitive allergic patienfs,

DrJean Monro and her colleagues found thai such patienm -lrely

needed:o hold a glass rube containing a dilution of the alleigen for the ry,-p.o-,rr neutralising effects to become manifest. This evJn applied if the tube:ontents were still frozen following deep-freeze rtot"g.. ihe most sensi-:r-e patients could distinguish, double-blind, tubes of allergen from tubes:,t placebo if these were merely brought inio the room. ihi, l.d to the:evelopment of the technique of deseniitisation using surface application:c the skin of antigens in serial dilution. It paralle"led the iniiadermal:zuhnique in provocation and neutralisation of symptoms (Monro e/

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al., 7984). This technique is much quicker to apply, because the dropof antigen can be merely wiped off rhe skin when the iull allergic responsehas been observed; the patient is then ready for testing wlth the nextdilution.

Electrically sensitive allergy parienrsBased on the above techniques, a method of testing and therapy hasbeen devised for the treatmenr of those electrically sensitive,

-ultipt.-allergy patients who experience symptoms which they can describe withina few seconds of being exposed to the allergen or electrical frequency(smith et a1.,1985). However, the testing of ilectrically sensitive illrtgypatients must be regarded as a clinical procedure and not be attemptidwithout the immediate availability of facilities and staff medically compe-tent to treat anaphylaxis (a serious shock reaction arising from a hyper-sensitive condition of the body) should ir occur. The most effectivi andrapid therapy for this is to place a drop of the patient's neutralisingdilution of chemical allergen on the skin.

The procedure for testing and treating electrically hypersensitivepatients is based on the provocation-neutralisation therapies of Miller(1972,1987) and Monro et al. (1984). It appears that increasing a coher-ent frequency has the same clinical effect on electrically sensitivi patientsa.s increasing allergen dilution does on chemically or nutritionalfu sensi-tive patients. Thus, it may be possible to find particular frequencies atwhich the allergic reacions cease, just as a dilution of the allergin (neutra-lising dilution) which results in the cessation of the allergic reacions(neutralisation) is sought in the Miller Technique. In the eleJtromagneticcase, it_is the frequency and the coherence which is important; th; fieldstrength is less important so long as it is above a cirtain threshold.particular to an individual patient.

. one is seeking, in this situation, to produce clinical effects by merelylraying the patient in the same room is the electromagnetic fields thatleak from elecrronic equipment, such as ordinary labor'atory oscillatorsor signal generators which can be borrowed from teaching and researchlaboratories. No electrical connection to the patient is iecessary, norshould be contemplated for safety reasons. Ail that is done is to-alterthe environmental electromagnetic radiation by an amount well withinthe allowed limits for non-ionising radiation and comparable to the radia-tion leakage from a domestic television set, home iomputer, or otherpiece of electronic equipment. If the patient does not iespond to thislevel of signal, then the patient has no problem with eleitromagnericallergic responses. In general, the symptoms provoked on electrical test-ing are the same as those provoked on chemical testing.

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An imaginary electrical allergy testing sessionIn respolse to many requests from medical colreagues to write anextended accounr of the teiting procedures so far deve"l;;;i1r, investi_::J:r^,.1::rltcafJr)'persensitivities, the following i,,ypi."i.i*f,", mightra*e prace du'ng a. testing session, but with nothing in this accountrelating to any actual p.rrorr.

, The consulting room, partic,larly if within an allergy unit, shouldbe located as far "s_possibre

from'the other patienrs in terms of thenumber of solid walri and floors separating ihem. ir,i. ir-ir"porranr1{,"llgrsi.,r..sponses ar€ not_ro.be tiiggered in ail the other sensitivearrergrc sub,ects rhroughout the building during the testing session. Dis_tance alone is not a sufficient criterionie."uri it is possi'ble-to choosea location which is a long way-down the corridors and yet is onry justacross an open well in the.building with windows tookinj aii.ctly intoother rooms. The electrical and t"Lphone wiring may carry the signarsaway from the testing room too. Even with ,rt.i. pir."uiilrr, *, h"u.had patients come int_o_the hospital

"trd ,"y,-,-vdil-;ffi into thebu.ilding this morning I felt just

", t aia *h." i *", L.i"* *rr-.a .t..rri_cally'. This was witliout being aware that .r*rri."ii.rii"g *", u.irrgcarried out in the basement

"t t*h"t particular time.

.tJ7hile it il nossible to provide electrical screening to the practical limitof a ten-million-fold reduction in the ambient fielis withiln-" Lr, ,oo-u{1g wire mesh andmetal sheets at frequencies above 10 kHz and belowf

Hz (Persinger,'t'974), this may still not b. ,r,o,rgh ;;;;;externarfff:^::T i^p.:r:on

at the theoreticat limit of seinsitivity. The regionoerween these trequencies presents especial screening problems "nl

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power r"ppry rr.qr.".i.i;;.";;.nerrar-ing. However, screening also pr.r.r,t, iti^own pi;Lh";.

'utrh'Jn'p"ti.r,t,1-tl *":,ing,, the4 often emit electrical signars themr.r".r; ii-ir,ese arerefle..ec back to them by the very metal which is providing the screening,their allergic reactions may become more severe. r7e found this out whentesting the patients in a chemically clean caravan li"ed with pticelained

steel. r7e gotlgund the.probrem bv placing pl;;;;;k.i, "i,"r,

water(about a handful of cooling or tabie sart tJa gallon .f ;;;t;;suitabrepositions inside the room io absorb electricaT."*sy i.rr*llrr"ri"gelectrical resonances build up.

The room for testing eleclicalry hypersensitive patients should be litby daylight.if po-ssiblelotherwise 6y nL-.n, lamps, "oi*air,"ry

nuo.:l,t.r,i, ligh,tins.' some doctors. keep a fluorescent iigtrt

"u"il;al. in theircrlnrcs to be abre to switch it on to see whether patients react to it,providing a useful screening test for electrical ,.n.itiiiii.*-m.rl i, .o,n"so-called full-spectrum fluorescent lighting *rri.ri a".r'n*-"ip"". .o

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grve rise to these probrems; this has been confirmed in cases where thetubes have been replaced over th"*..k.nd *il;;;;h;JJ.ii"nt, u.inginformed. It is atso reported to -"k.-L"t"ry

h;;, diliilir.il.a .gg,and be more free frorn-disease.

,^I:r.,j.:rll_g purposes, laboratory oscillators, such as would be usedoaty m a unrversiry or school laboratory by siaff

"nd,tuJ.nts, shourdbe set out on a table near convenient power outrets. rf

"u"ii"Ll., battery-powered oscillators are preferable. There

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"d*;r"g". in havingrechargeable batteries which must be r.moued phyri."ilyli."- ,r* instru-ment for re-charging.

Together, these oicillar..^.*9.Trd provide.conrinuous frequency cover-age from 0.1H2 to ar reast l MHz i"a pi.'.r"fuyll;;;;;.;r.r ransethan this in either direction (romiliFteltzto l}GigaHertz). The typesof oscillators in which tn. rr.qu.".y lr .h""g.J;;-,h"";;.ration ofa switch rather than.by turning a diai arenot satisfactory, since merelyoperating the switches can five rise to transients leiect omagneticimpulses) which can affect the iatients in an uncontroiled manner. conti_1u9us[ variable (dial) controis both r* rr.qu";;;;;;;;"tion aredesirable since the swirching

"p.r"rio"r "t th. .r,a, oi ii.-r"rrg., .",also be troublesome. The re-vel'of ,tt" o"apu, signals is not critical butthat typical of laboratory measuring instruments will suffice. Audio fre-quencv oscillators usuaily have an-output which .;;;;; to ,.u.r"rvolts, radiofrequency oscillators uru"ilt, have

-outputs extending toseveral millivolts, and low porver microwave oscinators cover the micro-watts to milliwatts range of o.lplt power. In all cases, no electricalconta* is made to the patient. AII thaiis aon"i, to pr;;;;"';".ontroiledelectrical environmenr.

The procedure is basicalry a question of controlring the coherent fre-quencies present in the patient's electromagnetic environment andobserving any. symptoms triggered. vlith tl. -ost

sensitive patienrs, theremay be sufficient leakage fiJm the oscilrator,s ."r. "nd

p'o*., cord toproduce the minimal symptoms rough,.-For.the less seniitive patienrs,it is sufficient to trail a l-merre rengtfi oi insurated *ir. iro- it. ourputterminal to the floor ro serye as in anrenna; this woulJ Le typicatyat a distance of several metres rro- th" patient. For the microwaveoscillators, a small loop antenna is better and more convenient. Thesignal level at the patieni will be of the oiier .rlo ii ",

;u;;; squaremeffe. There is therefore no rikerihood of getting arrywherJ near thelevels regarded as the limits of thor" r"r. ,o riue and work in,(see chapter9). If this arrangement prod'ces ,ro ,f-pro_s at any frequency, theneither the patient does not have a prfuti,n with electrii sen.itiuity,or the patient has a derayed response i"a rlrorra be watched for reactionsappearing up to 48 hours after testing. If th" ;;ti;;r] i,Jrgi, ," u.

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The tester sirusually be askois unable to scetionerin chargeand facilities ftbut out of sightest is carried oany symptorxtany, are beingalong with any I

In general, 6testing as they rhas forewarniqit is easier and qrthan lt ls to renties tend to havchave usually alrthese other alLulikely to have dities make it dif,then the followimay help the oshould not be ebecause, for thclinvestigation.

I7hen setringlwave oscillatorsin this frequencywave oscillatorsrcavities, they eminexpensive moddo have highly rresponse to any irIil7e have been abcavities (conneein the viciniry olregion. This is thuntil needed. Thsuch patients is d

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rould be usedrdents, shouldlable, battery-ages in having'om the instru-

quency cover-Breater rangee). The typesoperation of

, since merely:crromagneticEnner. Conti-tenuation arer€ ranges canrt critical butr. Audio fre-up to severalextending torer the micro-no electrical

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coherent fre-onment andadents, therecs'er cord totive patients,m the outputbe rypically

: microwavecenient. TheV per squareere near the(see Chapterpenry, thenI sensitivity,for reactionsroughr to be

electrically sensitive from the case history, but does not respond to thefrequencies from the oscillators, a more sensitive test is to make use9f.$e.techniques of kinesiology to assess changes in muscle responsefollowing each frequency change.

The tester sits at the table with rhe oscilrators. The patient, who willusually be asked to sit or lie on a bed on the opposite iid. of ihe room,is unable to see the dials and knobs of the oscillators. The medical practi-tioner in-charge of the case, who will have ensured that an oxygen .ylirrd.,and facilities for ffeatment of anaphylactic shock

"t" ,."diTy available

but out of sight, will be on the patient's side of rhe room so that thetest is carried out 'blind' to both the doctor who observes and reportsany symptoms and to the patient. Neither knows what frequencies, ifany' arc being radiated at any given instant. The tester reiords thesealong with any symptoms.

In general, the patients develop the same symptoms during electricaltesting as they do during chemical or food tesring, so that o"ne usuallyhas forewarnjng oj the likelihood of an extreme reaction; in any caseit is easier and quicker to switch an oscillator off, or change the frequency,than it is to remove an injected allergen. patients with ellctrical sensitivi-ties tend to have many (perhaps 10 or even 50) other sensitivities, whichhave usually .aheady been investigated. If it has been possible to treatthese other allergic reactions succissfully, the electricaf sensitivities arelikely to have disappeared as well. In cases where the electrical sensitivi-ties make it difficult to neutralise the food and chemical sensitivities,then the following protocol for neutralising the electrical sensitivitiesmay _help the other treatments to become effective. Electrical restingshould not be attempted without adequate clinical facilities and staffbecause, for these patients, it is a clinical procedure and not a researchinvestigation.

'v7hen s.9.tting up-the.room for tesring, it is advisable to keep any micro-

wave oscillators physically outside the room until one is ready ro testin this fre.quency region. The old-fashioned, vacuum tube lvalve) micro-wave. oscillators are preferable because, having highly resonant microwavecavities, they emit a much more coherent oicillati,on than many of theinexpensive modern (transistor device) oscillators. However, the formerdo have highly resonant electrical circuits capable of a very coherentr_e-sponse to any incident radiation (in technical terms, ,High-Q'cavities).$7e have been able to trigger allergic responses by runing"su.i, ,.rorr"r,,cavities (connected to an antenna but without anyoscillat"or functioning)in the vicinity of patients with extreme sensitivities in the microwaveregion. This is the reason for keeping these oscillators outside the roomuntil needed. This shows that the limiting or threshold sensitivity ofsuch patients is that level of radiation which they themselves emit. They

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seem to be able to'zap'their environment electromagnetically and senseany resonances within it, rather like electric fish. similarly, iarge metalreflecting surfaces near the patient can cause difficulties. fh"t"i, *hy,when testing in an environmentally clean porcelained steel o,

"lrr-ir,i.r--lined room or caravan,.it helps to place a large, plasti. bu.k.i-o, gr"r,jar filled with saline at about *"-*"t"t .on..rrir"tion, mid-way betweenthe metal surfaces to damp the electrical resonances.

The testing sessionThis should commence with a few questions to get all the relevant infor-mation on one piece of paper: full name, age, the address, which shouldbe that to which repea! prescriptionr .""ir ,.rrt *hen'n..a.a. el*,the general sort of environment in which the patient-li"; : town orcountry' seaside, hills or vales, a new house or an old one, any nearbyindustries or electrical installations including electricity diriiiUutior, ,uU-stations or transformers. Note that overhead power lines are markedon-tfre 1 :50,000 Ordnance Survey maps of Greai Britain.

The a_pparatus is explained ro ihe patient. Ir is conveniently describedas a collection of electronic oscillators which together .oulr most ofthe.electromagngtic frequencies the patient is hkiy to have met in theenvironment, while the strengths of the fields usei

"r, .o-p"rable to

the fields which leak out of a domestic television ser or a home io*puter;enough for the detector vans for unlicenced TVs to work offr'or toenable snoopers to read what is on vDU terminals from outside a build-

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hypersensitive. It is the electrical equivalent of alargereference collectionof environmental, food and chemical allergens. D"uring the testing, theoscillators will be slowly tuned through all tlie frequenciJs th"t th. p"ti.rrtcould encounter in the environm.nt. 'what is wanted is for the patientto report any symptoms felt - if and when_, or, as they come ana go.Any symptoms are likely to be similar to those prorroked *h.r, bri".rgtested for reaction to foods and chemicals.

The reason for asking the patient to sit or lie on a bed rather thanin a chair is that the patient may lose muscle control

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it will be easier for the testing and more comfortable to ,i"rt or i'a position from which the patients can rie down if they feel they wantto. It is all rather like having eyesight tested - ultimately, orrly th. subjectcan say wf-rether they can read the line of letters on the ihart .learly.

'To estimate how electrically sensitive the patient is likeiy io be to

electrical signals, it is worth _finding out what neutratiri"j Jiiutions arecurrently being prescribed. If the neutralising dilutior,r""r.-"ll below

five, there should6rst switch on ant

It is worth tldrsymptoms the chcas: bad headachcyears; somedmes Imove; sometimesagain the padenr rmental tasks; thehead and sinuseq r

The patient's rhypersensitiviry. (to take out the dglass bottles ? Doeor concrete have a

The patient's cobe sought; do any

Typicalcomme!switch them on ftpain in the arm'; '\goes straight ro firthere is nothing writ makes me go slNorth America) inlighting makes me Iare not too bad wh'Some people comill as soon as thev s

These are all rygivity. The dislike oemit many frequernot just light. It is rPerhaps it is jusr hFailure to make elethe patient into euupset the electronirthings electrical. Treports. There are dweather fronts arriemit electrical signacatastrophic if thisand children.

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re relevant infor-ss. n'hich shoulden needed. Also,Iives - town orone, any nearbydistribution sub-Lines are markedo-niently described:f cover most ofhave met in the

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r outside a build-e not electricallyierence collectiong the testing, thes that the patientrs for the patientc.T come and go.rked when being

bed rather thanand strength, sole to start off inry- feel they want, only the subjecthan clearly.s likely to be toing dilutions arens are all below

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five, there should be no great problem. If several are higher, do notfirst switch gn any of the oscillators in the same room as the patient.

It is worth being forewarned of likely trouble by finding out whatsymptoms the chemical and food allergens trigger. These may be reporredas: bad headaches with disturbances of vision which have persisied foryears; sometimes the legs will not work, the patient gets stuck and cannotmove; sometimes the patient becomes completely unable to speak; thenagain the patient may just get all'zombie'-like and cannot do the simplestmental tasks; the patient may also get pains in joints, limbs, shoulders,head and sinuses, ears.

_ The patient's tolerance to water gives a good indication of possiblehypersensitivity. can the patient drink tap water ? Must it be filteredto take out the chlorine, can the patient only drink bottled warer inglass bottles ? Does taking a shower, bath or standing bare-foot on grassor concrete have any effect?

_ The patient's comments on'electrical things around the place'shouldbe sought; do any cause discomfort ? I7hat about thunderstorms ?

Typical comments are, 'I am no good with electrical things, the childrenswitch them on for me if I need them'; 'The electric iron gives me apain in the arm'; 'When I switch on the washing machine the programmegoes straight to finish without doing any of the washing, the m.r, saythere is nothing wrong with the washer'I 'l cannot *."t a-q.r"ttz watch,it makes me go sleepy'; 'At work there are a lot of VDUs (VDTs inNorth America) in the office and I just do not like them'; 'The fluorescentlighting makes me bad, I turn it off and use a desk lamp'; ,Thunderstorms

are not too bad when they break, I usually feel worsebefore they arrive'1'Some people coming into the public part of the office make me feelill as soon as they enter the door'.

ThT-. are all rypical remarks from patients with electrical hypersensiti-vity. The dislike of fluorescent lighting is common; fluoresient tubesemit many frequencies throughout the electromagnetic spectrum andnot_ just light. It is not clear why full-spectrum lighting should be better.Perhaps it is just because the increased spectrum makis it less coherent.Failure to make electrical devices work may be due to them triggeringthe patient into emitting quite strong electrical signals which itr tutrtupset the electronic circuits, rather than the presumed ineptitude withthings electrical. TV remote controls are ofien the subjeit of similarreports. There are electrical changes in the atmosphere some hours beforeweather fronts arrive and more so before thunderstorms. people canemit electrical signals which affect other sensitive persons; it is, of course,catastrophic if this situation arises between spouses or between parentsand children.

It may be possible to find out what first started the hypersensitiviries.

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Did they start after getting sprayed with pesticide or herbicide ? Doesthe patient have a lot of different metals in dental fillings ? The amalgamof 'dental amalgam' contains the element of mercury which is highlytoxic. Mercury metal is generally supposed to be difficult to removefrom the amalgam, but there are reports that it does disappear fromfillings and that electrical potentials can often be measured between dif-ferent fillings in the mouth (zitr,1984). After chewing hot food or chew-ing-gum the breath may contain a high level of mercury vapour fromthe dental amalgam (BSCN, 1985). Kervran (1972) discusses the possibi-lity of bacteria being involved in the removal of mercury from otherbiological systems and concludes that radioactive tracers should not beconsidered to 'behave biologically in a manner similar to stable isotopes'.

The patient has now been sitting in the same room as the pieces ofelectronic apparatus for some minutes; does the patient notice any smellscoming off the paint or electrical insulation ? Are there any cookingsmells, traffic fumes getting into the room ? Are there any unpleasantnoises ? Electrical and chemical reactions may give rise to hypersensitivityto sounds.

This gives an opportunity to find out if anything in the room, whetherfurnishings or fittings or any person, their clothing or their odours, suchas perfumed soap, or tobacco, or outside traffic fumes, etc., are goingto interfere with the testing. If there is any opportunity to get the testingroom checked for geopathic stress before it is used, this should alsobe done so that all the patients' stresses will be due to the electricaloscillators and under full control. Geopathic stress may be located bydowsing (see Chapter 11), magnetic anomaly measurements, air conduc-tivity measurements and background ionising radiation levels (AschoflL986; von Pohl, 1987).

Reactions have been observed in sensitive patients which were trig-gered by the hospital paging ('bleep') transmission signals. If a portableradio receiver works in the room, then it is picking up transmissionswhich have penetrated its screening, and therefore other electromagneticsignals can also penetrate and interfere with the testing.

Still do not switch on any electrical apparatus inside the room withthe patient, since you might get such a strong reaction, even from minimalfields, that it would take a long while for the reaction to wear off; mean-while it would not be possible to detect any weak symptoms producedby other frequencies.

Keeping the fields to a level where the symptoms are just perceptiblemeans that the patient will respond to a frequency within L0 seconds,and all the reaction that is going to occur will have happened withina minute. To determine this level for a given patient, the low frequencyoscillator is taken about 10 metres down the corridor outside the room

and out of sight ,the oscillator on eshow whether thca frequency arourthere will be no cmany chemical serthe oscillator is o{heart-beat frequer'Something feels di

In the former cthe room and worminimum output Ireacts strongly to twith the oscillatorto reduce the levcthe same room :rs I

Loca'A cyclical occrur€rto continue as frit can take threethere are decadeschanges in the curapid. The limitarsymptom changesbe missed or atu'lactually producedin the opposite dirfrequenry whethersome patients rhissymptoms that accuncomfoftable orto tune quickly dchange of dilutioocomfort of the p*so that when thingre-tuned there to g

The patient in tquencies free fror350kHz,}OMIIZducing symptorns.

icide ? Doeshe amalgamich is highlyt to removerppear frombetween dif-pd or chew-rapour from; the possibi-from other

rould not berl€ isotopes'.he pieces of

- any smells

rnv cooking

' unpleasantmsensitivity

rm, whetherrdours, such:, are goingr the testingshould alsohe electricale located by, air conduc-ds (Aschoff,

h were trig-lf a portableansmissionstromagnetic

: room withomminimalroff; mean-ns produced

:P€rceptible10 seconds,ened withinr frequencyde the room

Electrical sensitiuity and allergy 95

and out of sight of the patienr and doctors. A number of tests withthe oscillator on and off and at different output level settings will soonshow whether the parient can detect anything. Experience"shows thata frequency around 1Hz is a good place to ri"rt. with some patienrs,there will be no obvious response. it any frequency. A patieni havingmany chemical sensitivities would be expectedio be-able io tell whetheithe oscillator is off or on at the maximum output setting, and at aboutheart-beat fegue-n9y when it is outside the room. Thiy usually say,'Something feels different, now', or, 'I don't like that !'whin it is on.. In the former case, it is satisfactory to bring the oscillator back into

the room and work systematically_through ail1he frequencies using theminimum outpur seting _(e.g. of the order of millivolts). If the p"ii.rrtreacts-strongly to the oscillator outside the room, tesring should be donewith the oscillator at that distance, or the patient should ieceive trearmentto reduce the level of sensitivity before the oscillator is brought intothe same room as the patient.

Locating the neutralising frequenciesA cyclical occurrence of symptoms and their amelioration will be foundto continue as the frequency is slowly increased. rtr7ith some patientsit can take three hours to go from Hertz to GigaHertz; with othersthere are decades of frequency in which there arJ no symproms or nochanges in the current symptom pamern and the tuning ian be morerapid. The limitation is the 10 seconds or so that it cin take for thesymptom-changes to appear; if the tuning is too rapid, reactions maybe missed or anributed to a later frequency setting than that whiciractually produced the symptom. It is elsy to check-for this by tuningin the opposite direction * the same ry-piom should occur at ih. ,",nIfrequency whether approached from irigher or lower frequencies. vithsome patients this is easily done, with others there are ro--"rry delavedsymptoms rhat accurate repetition is very difficult. If the patient is clearlyuncomfortable or in pain at a particular frequency, ii is much easierto tune q.uickly throush this region than it is to make the equivalentchange of dilution in food and chemical testing. It greatly enhances thecomfort of the-patient if a neutralising frequeqiy ."-n b. quickly locatedso that when things get too uncomforiable, the oscillator can be quicklyre-tuned there to give some respite.

The patient in the above example might have had the following fre-quencies free from all symptoms: 8.4H2, 4S0Hz, 4kHz, 2S"kHz,350kHz, 20MHz,320MHz, with all frequencies above 350MHz pro-ducing symptoms.

96 Electrical sensitiuity and allergy

The above frequencies represent the first attempt at finding the neutra-lising frequencies. It is now possible to go back to each ofthese frequen-cies to check that they really neutralise all the patient's symptoms; thisis necessary because of delayed responses during the preliminary runthrough all the frequencies, but the patient should nor have ro put upwith any more severe reactions because these have now been mappedand the frequencies can be avoided. The patients usually find this exper-ience of having their symptoms turned on and off by an external agencyquite comforting, particularly if they have been told by many doctorsfor many years that 'The illness is all in your mind'i.e. it's your fault!

We now have several frequencies which do not provoke any symptomsand which the patient says 'could be lived with'. The next thing to dois to expose a series of glass tubes containing saline, or other waterthe patient can tolerate, to a magnetic field produced in a coil connectedto the oscillators set at each neutralising frequency for about 4 minutes.

The doctor will explain to the patient how to use the tubes to relieveany reactions due to environmental triggering: 'You should hold oneof these tubes for a few minutes morning and evening to reduce thelikelihood of environmental frequencies provoking a severe reaction, andtold a tube if you are starting to get a reaction. The water will probablyretain a clinical effectiveness for you for one or two months, but patientswho hold a tube to quell a severe reaction report that the tube feelsas though it has been drained. 'S7e know the frequencies to which thetubes have been exposed and can make a replacement and mail it toyou when the first ones cease to be effective. This can usually be donesatisfactorily if the glass tubes are well wrapped in aluminium foil andpacked against breakage. The only times that we have had them arrivein a useless condition was when they were sent by rail, as packagesare carried on an electrified railway line. Road and airmail, even acrossthe world, seem quite satisfactory. You have tubes for several neutralisingfrequencies; I suggest that you use them in rotation like your foodsso that you do not acquire a new reaction to any of them.'

Allergic responses to fabrics and electronic equipmentThe results of some preliminary experiments to determine how reactingallergic patients would respond to a range of fabrics had suggested thatthe ultra-violet absorption properties of the fabrics might be an importantfactor (Smith et al., L986). This would be consistent with the preferenceof allergic patients for natural fibre materials which are untreated oronly coloured with vegetable dyestuffs. This is also consistent with thereported widespread phenomenon of 'ultra-weak'photon (light) emis-sion from living cells and organisms which is very probably coherent

I

and extends into the remission is different ftrreactions and termed b

However, notonlyacally sensitive, they casignals, rather like anto interfere with elecThe electrical signals rare sufficiently strongwho are then liable taequipment. The subfalems is 'Electromagncpatients have describersystem in a factor,v oit. Another has had rcars fail as soon as aa diesel truck in froneguided car failing eachfor'zapping' electronk

One must hope that'status or otherwise ofworld's military instrllgic operator could saTheWar Game,butwending'. A.J.P.TaylorI7orld War in terms ofof Europe. We must enis not already wrineaand merely awaiting 6them. According to a rreckoned to be more lierror than by deliberar

UnrI7hile it is possible for rby having an oscillacroom, this is not a s.in the microwave regiquency is another's alla multiplicity of persortesting as the presence (

'When faced with fii

t finding the neutra-d of these frequen-rt's symptoms; thishe preliminary runnot have to put upnow been mappeddlv find this exper-an external agencyd by many doctors: it's your fault!roke any symptomsr€ next thing to doo€, or other waterin a coil connectedr about 4 minutes.6e mbes to relieveu should hold onening to reduce ther:vere reaction, andrater will probablyonths, but patients&at the tube feelsncies to which thecnt and mail it ton usually be donerluminium foil andre had them arrive'rail, as packagesirmail, even acrossrryeral neutralisingn like your foodsm.t

ric equipmentmine how reactingtad suggested thatht be an importantrith the preferencer are untreated oronsisrent with theoton (light) emis-robably coherenr

Electrical sensitiuity and allergy 97and extends into the urtra-violet part of the spectrum (Li, 19g7). Thisemission is different from the emisiion,.sulti'iin;;;;;;ffi; chemicarreactions and termed bioluminescence.

However, not only are rhese reacdng allergic patients exrremery erectri-callv sensitive, thev can also, when riactin! "it.rgil"it;;;;;

electricalsignals, rather like an erectric fish. These iigr,"tr"."n tL il;. enoughto interfere with electronrc apparatus, as crinical case historls testify.The electrical signals which.m?e it p.rriil" i.;;il6;i.o-p,r,.r.are sufficientlv strong to trigger. ailirgic reactions in sensitive patientswho are then'liable.t-o feed 'i"iu"g.;ilck into the computer or otherequipment. The subject

"r." itr eleironics which d."r; ;rh;;ch prob-lem.s is 'Electromagnetic compatibiliry'. The probrem;;ffi ailergypatients have described are-very wide ranging. ci". p"ri.n, i"a-" ,ouoti.system in a factorv. completely marfuniioi each time he-siood nearit. Another has had the'erectrtnilid;." system on successive newcars fail as soon as an ailergic reactlon was trigger.d it-fu;.s froma diesel truck in front. There-has already been a report of a computer-guided car failing each time itpassed a microwave tower; the possibilitiestor'zapping' electronics by allergic subjects are many.

one must hope that world pea-ce does not d.p*J lpon the allergy-freestatus or otherwise o.f the strategic computer bp"r"to* throughout theworld's military instalations. It ii not inJonceivabre that "

,.r.iing "il.r_gic operator could set. off a s€qu€nce of events like those in the filmThe war Game, but without ttt. dr"-"iirt's ability to provide a ,happy

...ldilgl:,-A.I.p.Taytor,has described the euents t;;did;;'iJ rr,. rirr,ItrTorld war in terms of the rogicar consrqurn"., of the railway timetablesof Europe. wrc must ensure tf,at the '.;;;i;;i;ilffi;;;rld confli.tis not ah.eady written inro compur., piogr"-, ihro.rjhout-ih. *orld

f*.:lty:!11stt'e right sequen.. iriorruirou, .u.it, to implementurcm. Accorolng to aJecent report (Smoker, 19gg), nuclear wai is ,rowreckoned to be more likely.to be triggered dy;;;;;?;;;; humanerror than by deliberate action.

Unexpected effects in waterrvhile it is possible for the patient to gain rerief from the allergic responsesby having an oscillator set to a niutrarisrng trequency reft on in theroom' this is not a satisfactory or .or..r.3riu.-:;iffi;,;a"rti.urarryin the microwave region.. Furthermor., on" patient's ,r"uti"lirirrg t .-quency is another's allergic trigger and in a ciowded ho;;ir"r ;, crinic,a multiplicity of personal oscifi'tors would u.

"r]o"Jffi;'"; ailergytesting asthe presence of perfume.

when faced with this froblem in respect of a patient who courd onlv

98 Electrical sensitiuity and allergy

be neutralised at a frequency in the microwave part of the electromagneticspectrum' Dr smith and Dr Monro remembered that the homoeoiathicMateria Medica lists potentised water exposed to electric currents, mag-netic fields and X-rays. Dr Monro had already used dilution of waterexposed to ultra-violet radiation as a therapy foi hypersensitiviry to light.A simple test confirmed that water which was tolerated by the p"tlrrtandwhich was exposed to a magnetic field at the frequen.y *t i.t ,r.utr"-lised. the patient's allergic responr.s was crinically as effective as havinga microwave oscillator switched on in the patient,s room. s7ater soexposed to electromagnetic radiation can be used as a neutralising dilu-tion of allergen, and resembles in its effects a potentised homeolathicpreparation (see section in chapter 7). It is eisier to keep a tube ofsuch potentised water_away from other allergy patients than to providean electrically screened room to shield

"n or.ill"to, from affecting them.

It seems that such water retains this effectiveness for at least one ortwo months (Smith ey a1.,198s), although the experience in Dallas isthat it has a considerable shorrer period of-effectiveness 1Rea,i9g7;.-_when

patients use a tube of potentised water ,o ,r.urr"lire a srrongallergic reaction the tube seems zubsequently to have become ineffective.S.uperimposjng a triggering

-frequency and a neutralising frequenry on

the. same tube produces a rube o] *at., which riggers "li.rgi.=i.".tior*rather than neurralising them. patients and othJi p.rronr""r. able to

overwrite the water in their tube with their own elictromagnetic emis-sions when reacting strongly. It does seem that an extended #tal surfacen€ar a reacting allergic patient,, acting as a mirror for the patient's ownelectromagnetic emissions, makes th-ese reactions worse. A large glasscontainer of salt water (approximately sea water concentration) nearthe patient helps to damp tliese effects.'This may also explain the'prob-lems that some patients experience in cars and other vehicles of metalbox construction.

some years before this, Dr smith's laboratory had found that the lyso-zyme solutions 'remembered'the frequencies and fields to which iheyhad

-been exposed long enough for measurements to be carried out in

a different building. Homoeopathic remedies based on electric currentsand. magnetic fields, as well aJ x-ray and urtra-violet and coloured lightradiation, are well known

"mongsi_its practitioners; potentisea prlp-

arations from tinctures exposed to these radiations ^ppr^,

in homoeo-pathic Materia Medica (pharmacopoeia). The action'of homoeopathicremedies could be explained in physical terms if warer, alcohol and lac-tose could be shown to take op io-. structure having the propertiesof an electrical resonator which matches electrical freq"uenciJs-presenr,or missing, in the body. This would be the electromagnetic equivaleniof the string or pipe of a musical instrument which".remembers' the

frequencies to wlhas suggested S;for homoeoparhl".

Homoeopathyno chemistry shcbeyond 1024 (in hof the original tirfivefold diludonsphysics and chemcountries it is callrcules in one gram-

Although electrparts of the non-ipossible to do a lolator covering a iThe testing of patirout using the 6eldthe frequency of rserial dilution ofthe allergic reactiquency can be traknown to be tolerafield at this neur:to be clinicall;- efprevent or relievethe tube; it can alr{

Clinically, watercoherent frequenciApart from the clindemonstration is p

A capacitance brat a bridge frequenelectrodes to minining anything, the sthe water to an alrthe same frequencrto the bridge, it rwill measure the oslightly; 50.020 ktinally balanced at jand 49.990kH2. Iunless it is possibleto parts-per-million

Electrical sensitiuity and allergy 99dectromagneticc homoeopathicc currents, mag-ilution of waternsitiviry to light.d by the patientcy which neutra-irtive as havingoom. Water socuralising dilu-od homeopathickeep a tube of6an to provider affecting them.at least one ornce in Dallas isRea, 1987).nralise a strongpme ineffective.g frequency onIlergic reactionsons are able tormagnetic emis-od metal surfacec patient's owna A large glasslntration) nearplain the prob-fricles of metal

rd that the lyso-; to which they: carried out in{ectric currentsI coloured lightotentised prep-ear in homoeo-ihomoeopathicilcohol and lac-; the propertiesrencies present,nic equivalentcmembers'the

frequencies to which it has been tuned. Dr smith (smith et al., 79gs)has- suggested that such a mechanism could provide a physical basisfor homoeopalhy. This is further elaborated in bhapter 7.

'

Homoeopathy is clinically effective ar potenciei or dilutions whereno chemistry should remain. Porencies produced by serial dilutionsbeyond 1024 (in homoeoparhy,24x or tic potency) should have none9f tlrg original tincture molecules remaining. In airergy therapy usingfivefold dilutions (1 + 4) this is equivalent io 53a, or"i+ diluiions; iiphysics and chemistry it corresponds to Avogadro's Number (in somecountries it is called Loschmidt's Number), which is the number of mole-cules in one gram-molecular weight of any substance.

Altholgh electrically sensitive patients react to frequencies in mostparts of the non-ionising region of the electromagnetic spectrum, it ispossible to do a lot of clinically valuable work with a high-quality oscil-lator covering a freq'rency range from lmilliHertz to"2}MegaHertz.The testing-of patients for electromagnetic hypersensitivity c"r, bL carriedout using the field leaking_from an oscillator-. It appears that increasingthe frequency of the oscillator produces a similai^clinical effect to thiserial dilution of an allergen. A frequency may be reached at whichthe allergic reaction is neutralised. The neutralising effect of this fre-quency can be transferred to a glass phial of *"tei or saline which isknown to be tolerated by the patient, by exposing the phial to a magneticfield at this neutralising frequency. watei tt."t-"d in this way appearsto be clinically effective for l-2 months. This water can be uiid toprevent or relieve an aller-gic reaction by just having the patient holdthe tube; it can also be applied sub-linguaily, or.*tra- or intia-dermally.

clinically, water seems to have a memory for past exposures to highiycoherent frequencies which have taken place since it was last distified.Apart from the clinical effects described above, some degree of laboratorydemonstration is possible.

Acapacitance bridge can be balanced with a test cell containing warer,at a bridge frequency of,_for example, 50.000 kHz, using chloridJd silveielectrodes to minimise electrode polarisation effecis. tf,ivithout disturb-ing anything, the same oscillator is connected to a coil which exposesthe water ro an alternating magnetic field of about l Gauss at preiiselythe same frequency for-some minutes then, on re-connecting the oscillatorto..ghe bridge, it will be Jound to have gone 'off-balancJ'. The bridgewill meas_uJe_ the. original capacitan.. u"-I,r. if the frequency is alterJdsliglrdy;50.020kH2 or 49.980kH2 will suffice if the bridge was orig-inally balanced at 50.000 kHz. It will still be off-balance

"t"so.oto ui"

and 49.990kH2. There is no point in taking this experiment furtherunless it is possible to use an oslillator which l"tt ..produce frequenciesto parts-per-million.

100 Electrical sensitiuity and allergy

. In Paris, Dr Jacques Benveniste and his co-workers have followedimmunological experiments rhrough serial dilutio". t"i in .*.ess of Avo-gadro's Number (see Conclusion a-nd postscript).

.The.only other branchesof physics which "iprrr.rr.

r.em to be capabreof probing the mysteries of water structure are convection, neutron scat-tering and X--ray diffraction. There have been reports from Russi" thatconvection phenomena are affected by exposure of th. *"t..to electro-magnetic fields.

In my own laboratory, work on ice formed by freezing water in astatic or an alternating magnetic field shows an asymmetry ii the crystals

1_::.T^.^1,t_lilfl ". perpendicular to the magnetii field directi,on. X-ray

drfiraction pamerns from this ice have been o6tained.Professor Mu Shik Jhon, from S9o.ul, South Korea (Moon and Jhon,1,986; l.hon 1987) has considered the importance oi *"t., srructure

i1 crygliolggy and cancer and his medicar co-worker, oi Hid.-itr.,Hayashi (1988), from Kobe, Japan has been ,u...rrljty lppfyi"g

""'electric water reformer' in cliniial siruations. Til.rtJ;i:.Jii..,rolyr.filtered but mineral-contain_ing water in ..llr urinj.l*rr"a* *rrich arealso ferrite magnets giving fiells in excess of r.2rJrr",

""a *i*i" whichthe anions and cations_produced are separated by

-.-Li"*r. ilr.

"rroai.water is used externally for bathing, the cathodic water i, ,r.a for allwater ingested by the patienrs.

Electromagnetic emissions during allergic reactionsobjective tests for the existence of erectromagnetic emissions from livingsystems are difficult to achieve.. Radiofrequency emissions from dividinfiyeast cells have already been discussed.

, Electromagnetic emissions in the audio-frequency part of the spectrumby, reacting allergic subjects may be readily d.-orr*r"r.J tf-g.rring ,t .T^b,_.-.: ::,hold a plastic-cased i"p. ,..orier with ,il;;ilffi;ing andthe recorder rn the 'record' mode, but with no microphone connected.If the subject is reacting strongly enough, there will il;ffi;i.;;i't.rf.._ence passing.through the prastic case-to be_picked up by ihe

"mplifi.,circuits. A wide variety of signals may be obiained ." ,*f"" ""d

theseu1?

Tot only fro.m patient to patieni but differ on ditr i.ri o.."rion,wrth the same patient. sometimes there is a continuous sinusoidal oscilla_tion,. perhaps with distinct sidebands, on other o.."riorrr-there will bea series of clicks; both these electrical waveforms h"";"[; b;;JJbr.ru.dwith species of electrical fish. The waveform of the clicks resembles thatof a 'squegging' oscillator, for which the same piece of electronic circ,ritrycan function both as an oscillator and

", th" highrt;;;il;., super-

regenerativethe wireless r

The specrholding a ta;tions on a rshow the &emissions. Tilevel of a clczcal interfererwith nobodrwhether dthose notedIf tape reorrecorder is nand, if batuanalysis facilrpatients aredone, but ftmostly orignown oscillatithese are picpatient. The 1qutte coare c

On the onusing a spectnposed on rhewere obtainerments were tIlead of the qsubject's meareactance, thcable, enoughlogic) and feecof spikes exasignals were prbecause no eran electricallyscreened laborextremely lowparticular subregion of the q

A test for eelectromagneti

have followedexcess of Avo-

n ro be capable, neutron scat-m Russia thatater to electro-

mg water in a

'in the crystalsrection. X-ray

oon and Jhon,;ater structureDr Hidemitsuy applying ances electrolysedes which areI t'ithin whichres. The anodicis used for all

reactlons

rns from livingtrom dividing

f the spectrumbv getting thee running and,ne connected.icient interfer-'the amplifier>lav and thesernt occasionssoidal oscilla-; there will bebeen observedresembles thatronic circuitryrsitive, super-

Electrical sensitiuity and allergy 101regenerative type of receiver which was in vogue in the early days ofthe wireless set, because it gave high sensitivity riith a single u"lu... The spectrum of the signals obiained from a ,.".rinfitt.[ic subyectholding a tape recorder.can be analysed over a ,"rrg. oirp.ctial resolu-tions on a commercially available audio ,p..truri

"rr"lyr.r, so as toshow the detailed frequency spectrum with ail ,h. ;;Gty of the

emissions.,The spectrum_ axarysir can be zeroed on ,t . u".igiound noiselevel ot a clean section of the tape, and checked for environm"ental electri_calinterference against a r..oidirrg made with th. ,..ord.ii.ft ru.rrrirrgwith.nobody in the room. It has-not yet been p;r;ibh;irt..-in,whether the frequencies seen in the recorded ,pi.rru-l"rrerate withlli:r_ T"d

during the resting of electricalry sensitive ailergy patients.It tape recorder testing can be shown to have clinical u"'iu., a raperecorder is much more portable than a spectrum analyser, ."ri.r,o ur.and, if battery-opeylted,.electrically r"f.. Ho*.";;;-;il;";pecrrumanalysis facility would need to be avaiiable if the frequen.i.. oi irraiuiau"tpatients are to be measured for clinical use. This still remains to bedone, but there is electromedicar equipmelt (..s.MORA arrd ntcolrt;,mostly originating from west c9p"1r, whici,i"k., u* Jih. p"ti.rrt,,own oscilladons for testing andf or therapeutic purposes; in zuch casesthese are picked up, filterid, phase-inverted and ,rt.n iJ L".k to th.patient. The patient's emissions are likery to be highlf *i.r.r, so thatquite coarse electrical filtering will suffice.

on the one occas-ion that it was possible to make a measuremenrusing-a spectrum analyser (Hp-ss53B) directly, electrical,ig;"1,,"p..i--posed on the-sp€crum of the medium waveband r"ai"?""r-issionswere obtained; they ceased when the subject left the room. Th.

-."rur.-menrs were made with rhe subject holding the 50 ohm impedance inpurlead of- the spectrum analyser. A signar ir goo rrv ;;;;iJi".a. rr,.subject's measured d.c. skin resistanie was 50 kohm ,. ,rr"t, *grectingreactance' there should have-been an open circuit voltage of b.s v arrail-l^b]::,."o,".th

to trigger. the. less sophisticated .o-p.rte? .i..ri,, (TTL_log'c) and teed rn false signars ('g-a1b1ge'). The observed'comb, specrrumof spikes extended to

"i l."st)Mliz.'In this .";,-;;;;

"Jrectrical

l^gT! *.:* probably needed to trigger the allergic,.".tion iirh-e subject

because no emission was obtained with the subject and apparatus inan electrically screened laboratory. It should f,rrthe, b;;;r;i';at mostscreened laboratories ,1. T9i screened against ttt. g.o."!rroi. n.ta o,extremely lowfrequencies (ELF) below th-e power ruiply friquency. Thisparticular subject was clearly sensitive to'frequenc'iJ"'ouirla.-irre ELFregion of the spectrum.

A test for estimating the region of the frequency spectrum in whichelectromagnetic interactions aie occurring requires'a iet of metal sieves

102 Electrical sensitiuity and allergyor meshes graded in size, such as can be obtained from laborarory sup-pliers for grading powders and granules. rh"

-"J", -rrr-f" metailic

lsood electrical conductors), nyil' mesh will ,ror ao. io-.timirr"t. "ltbu.1 $e EL-F p1I of the ,?:.tru-, it should nrrt b. a._on-rtr"t"d th"tsolid metal will screen oif the inieraction; tt.r, on.-riouia progr.r,from the smallest mesh 1!9 to larger mesh sizes until an effect is observed.Dividing the velocity.of risht 1sl ro8m/;tlt;#;; aperuremeasured in meffes gives the lo_west frequency, in Hertz, which can passthrough each mesh. Thus, the first onset'of rh;i"r;;;;i;"'."n u" brack-eted between rwo mesh sizes, and hence two frequen;i;;.

-- -..Edgal Brown and Kave Behrens (Brown

""d ilt;;;;, rgssr have usedas pendulum bobs copper rods cut to h"lf ;;.il;;i';;;"t rengthscorresponding to the microwave region. Theycan, f;;;;;;i.lsaywhich

foods react with the- subiect "t

*f,i.h resonant waverength. Fotowingthe suggestion that they ihourd use metal mesh firters to check that themesh size and the resonant le-nsth of the pendulum bob;;;o"sistentin grvinq the same wavelengthlth"y *.r.

"ut. to ."rrrrr;;; this wasindeed the case. This experlment with metal meshes could also be triedusing a muscle-resr as described in the section on kinesioffiir, ct

"pt., z.A metal mesh acts.as a high_pass filter to electrom;;:il;""es. Forexample, _the (1-millimetre)

-.ih o' the door or

" -i.-*au. cook.,passes light waves (wavelength 0.5 micrometres), and the food can beseen inside. very little of the.longe, wau.r.rrgth trzl-r--crowaveenergy leaks out, so.long as rhe dior is no, j"_"gJf-h, .rr.rgy i,reflected back to cook thJ food. rf

"ny ofr.*.d biomedicar interactionis electromagnetic in origin, it shouli be completery screened by soridmetal. one can only say 'should' because th.tr

"r! ..ir"i'i.ra,

"nafrequencies (ELg which need a .o"riari"ut. thi.krr.rs oi m"t.ri"r t..g.6inches of solid aluminium) or one of the special -"g;i;;iioys

(e.g.mumetal) for near-coqplete screening- (persinger, tgi+1. i{i, ail fre-quencies, from those of .ultra-violer liihi ,igt t 7t il"gl, ii' ,i.luu_rr.""of geomagnetic fluctuations and circa"dian ihythms, ;;; ;; *"sideredas being of possible biomedical significance, "rrd

b. i";;r;i;";J

Chemical and electromagnetic allergensEvery chemical bond has a coherent ere*rical oscilation which character-ises it. This. represents the duality whicrr- must exist b"r*..r, p"rticresarrd waves, between chemical ,tr,r.trrr.

""a ir.q".".y. il i;;;r";;ffi;this chemical analysis by, spectroscopy woul{ not be possible. It mayeventually.become_possible io show th"t the whole

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of erectronics equipmentin its ability to detect signars'in noise. Here, again, th. ,.-"ik.i dualitybetween frequencyand ihemical b;;;;;."rs. The effects of the macro-current therapies described par alrer tt r' rr..rr. 9i;i#il.'iir.r"pirr,while the efrec* of micro -curient therapiei parailel the effectsof homoeo_pathic remedies and other'ArternativJ M.^di.i;;; ;ilr;G?r.rrr"a i"the next chapter. The reasons why bottt *.i"pi.s work can be understoodonce the enormous dynamic range of ir,. Li"-r."ro;-il ilil"onrrotsystems of livine orsanisms is appieciated. This il^ply drirJrrrrr","dbv the dark-adiotaii.o" oi th.-6; f-;lunhght to starlight, and theadaptation of the ear from pristine peace to rhe roar of a jet engine.