News November 2005

Biophotonik und "Aura"

HUMAN HANDS EMIT LIGHT


>Subject: Fwd: HUMAN HANDS EMIT LIGHT
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> For your information. You may be interested to know that our
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> Andrew Michrowski
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> STUDY: HUMAN HANDS EMIT LIGHT
> By Jennifer Viegas
> Discovery News
> September 6, 2005
> externer Link http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050905/handlight_print.html
> Human hands glow, but fingernails release the most light,
> according to a recent study that found all parts of the hand
> emit detectable levels of light.
> The findings support prior research that suggested most
> living things, including plants, release light. Since
> disease and illness appear to affect the strength and
> pattern of the glow, the discovery might lead to
> less-invasive ways of diagnosing patients.
> Mitsuo Hiramatsu, a scientist at the Central Research
> Laboratory at Hamamatsu Photonics in Japan, who led the
> research, told Discovery News that the hands are not the
> only parts of the body that shine light by releasing photons
> , or tiny, energized increments of light.
> "Not only the hands, but also the forehead and bottoms of
> our feet emit photons," Hiramatsu said, and added that in
> terms of hands "the presence of photons means that our hands
> are producing light all of the time."
> The light is invisible to the naked eye, so Hiramatsu and
> his team used a powerful photon counter to "see" it.
> The detector found that fingernails release 60 photons,
> fingers release 40 and the palms are the dimmest of all,
> with 20 photons measured.
> The findings are published in the current Journal of
> Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology.
> Hiramatsu is not certain why fingernails light up more than
> the other parts of the hand, but he said, "It may be because
> of the optical window property of fingernails," meaning that
> the fingernail works somewhat like a prism to scatter light.
> To find out what might be creating the light in the first
> place, he and colleague Kimitsugu Nakamura had test subjects
> hold plastic bottles full of hot or cold water before their
> hand photons were measured. The researchers also pumped
> nitrogen or oxygen gas into the dark box where the
> individuals placed their hands as they were being analyzed.
> Warm temperatures increased the release of photons, as did
> the introduction of oxygen. Rubbing mineral oil over the
> hands also heightened light levels.
> Based on those results, the scientists theorize the light
> "is a kind of chemiluminescence," a luminescence based on
> chemical reactions, such as those that make fireflies glow.
> The researchers believe 40 percent of the light results from
> the chemical reaction that constantly occurs as our hand
> skin reacts with oxygen.
> Since mineral oil, which permeates into the skin, heightens
> the light, they also now think 60 percent of the glow may
> result from chemical reactions that take place inside the
> skin.
> Fritz-Albert Popp, a leading world expert on biologically
> related photons at The International Institute of Biophysics
> in Germany, agrees with the findings and was not surprised
> by them.
> Popp told Discovery News, "One may find clear correlations
> to kind and degree (type and severity) of diseases."
> Popp and his team believe the light from the forehead and
> the hands pulses out with the same basic rhythms, but that
> these pulses become irregular in unhealthy people. A study
> he conducted on a muscular sclerosis patient seemed to
> validate the theory.
> Both he and Hiramatsu hope future studies will reveal more
> about human photon emissions, which could lead to medical
> diagnosis applications.

See also:
Cohen, Sophie / Popp, F.A.: Low-level luminescence of the human skin. Skin Research and Technology, Vol.3 (Sept. 1997), pp.177-180.

Cohen, Sophie / Popp, F.A.: Biophoton emission of the human body. Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B:Biology, Vol.40 (1997), pp.187-189.

Cohen, Sophie / Popp, F.A.: Biophoton emission of human body, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology, Vol 41 (May 2003), pp. 440-445