INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE TODAY 2023 10 19 20  Nagyszeben
Channel: Impulzus
Date: 2023-10-16

Over the past millennia, it is not human physiology that has changed much, but our perspective. Observation dominated science for a long time, and just over 100 years ago this was replaced by the experimental model of medicine we know today.
We have undoubtedly learned about the endocannabinoid system's physical existence using modern technologies. THC research has led to the discovery of CB receptors embedded in the cell membrane, endocannabinoids, and the enzymes that produce and break them down. A consensus soon emerged that this system was predominantly responsible for maintaining homeostasis.
To date, the mechanism has not been described beyond doubt, and this is only partly since our analytical science, although it knows the components, still has difficulty interpreting their interactions.

In traditional medicine and folk medicine, no such dilemma existed. They relied on their powers of observation, intuition, and the guidance of those with special skills. These included seers, healers with their hands, summoned shamans, and shamanic practitioners. They guided observations, revealing inner connections that modern science cannot.
Although we consider the changes in our science to progress, in this area, we can speak of a regression. The knowledge of the ancients was impressive, both in terms of homeostasis and the spiritual etiology of certain diseases. It is fair to say that in the old days there were health sciences in which today's diseases are almost exclusively detailed regarding terminal conditions.
The Ayurvedic concept of Samprapti, the description of the progressively deteriorating stages, shows a richness of detail in the unfolding of disease processes that modern prevention is incapable of interpreting.
The aim of the different approach was not to name and differentiate diseases as end states, but to understand the process by which homeostasis is increasingly disrupted. The forces at work sought to be understood, named and neutralized at an early stage when the disease was far from the forms we know today.

There is perhaps no traditional system of medicine where homeostasis has not been described as a process.

We should do the same in studying the functioning of the endocannabinoid system.
The process can best be described in terms of the minute features of its functioning.
This can be done by a method of condition assessment for which we know the main features in both diseased and healthy states.
Current diagnostics is inadequate for this purpose because it cannot distinguish between conditions that appear normal and describe disease primarily in terms of anatomical features, which are the same when a condition worsens as when it improves.
After a long search and selection process, Voll's meridian balance measurement proved to be a suitable tool for monitoring conditions with this need.
I had been using it for a long time when I was recovering from a serious illness and experienced highly unusual amplitudes, on which I could build a monitoring model.
I supplemented this with questionnaires integrated into a database that is subjective but can be analyzed using biometric methods. Thus the measurement itself is an exact parameter and the questionnaire data are the subjective but standardizable parameters. This is the model I would like to present in this presentation.

The multiple verifications also revealed that the cell membrane and the skin show analogous behavior. What can be visualized as stability by measuring the electrical activity of the skin using Voll electroacupuncture is analogous to the electrical activity of the cell membrane, where the endocannabinoid system is the dominant receptor network.
This idea is a starting point for many, many studies. It is not a hypothesis, but rather a conjecture, as they say in mathematics, all the more so because it is already supported by many observations. Still, we only have conjectures about the overall functioning of the endocannabinoid system itself. It is not true that the skin and the cell membrane are analogous systems, but we do not know how the endocannabinoid system can maintain and restore homeostasis.

The latest hypotheses are that the endocannabinoid system is a kind of intelligence and that it is the first to be damaged, which then manifests itself in the form of disease, and not the other way round. So it is always a good therapeutic direction to tone the endocannabinoid system, which can be done most effectively by building on the empirical knowledge of traditional medicine, not by today's chemical manipulations. Chemical manipulations are being shown time and again to destroy this molecular network,  that is to say, to degrade the tone of the endocannabinoid system.

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wZbKmIqDHLBH2oabT6oF8dZPd9w3DHb2LwsUwS-JuxI/edit?usp=sharing
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