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| From baby to elder people land their cure-osity on the rail tracks |
Why are they doing this? Most the inhabitants of Rawa Buaya believe that the electrical energy from the railway tracks will cure them of various illnesses ranging from diabetes to arthritis. The tracks in this western part of Jakarta, the capital, have gained popularity among those who are too poor to afford conventional medical treatment. As always happened in Indonesia, the cost of healing the disease in Indonesia could reach millions of rupiahs or even more. The poor can not afford this amount of money in a year.
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| People curing them self while alerted by the train coming from opposite direction |
However, many people have claimed that the tracks brought relief from pain. Maybe in below paragraphs could give some scientific explanation:
Electric Healing
A Mildly Shocking Discovery By Jonathan Kolber November 14, 2007 Scientists are now confirming that electrical fields can promote wound healing. As long as 150 years ago, the German physiologist Emil Du Bois-Reymond reported that small electric currents could speed healing.
New Scientist reports that Dr. Josef Penninger of the Austrian Institute of Molecular Biotechnology and Dr. Min Zhao of the University of Aberdeen, U.K., have shown that electric fields in tissue play a vital role in the wound-healing process. They attract cells to damaged areas responsible for repair. According to Penninger, “It's not homeopathy, it's biophysics.”
They have identified the responsible genes. All cells and tissues function as chemical batteries, based on positively charged potassium ions and negatively charged chloride ions. When tissue is wounded, this is a kind of short-circuit. This unusual condition attracts and guides repair cells to the damaged area. Using mouse cells and larger tissues such as corneas, Penninger and Zhao found they could speed up or stop the healing process by modifying electrical fields.
Essentially, they confirmed that the electric fields could control the healing process at the cellular level. They identified specific genes involved in the process. Interfering with migration “promoter” genes slowed the healing process. On the other hand, when the migration “blocker” gene received electrical interference, then healing became faster. Subsequent research will focus on optimizing the phenomenon to accelerate healing.
According to Mark Ferguson, a wound expert at the University of Manchester, “For many years there have been anecdotal reports of the effects of electrical currents on wound healing.
This paper not only demonstrates the effects of electrical currents on cellular migration to wound defects, it also provides a mechanistic understanding of how such signals alter cell behavior.” Others are doing some interesting work in bioelectric healing. I am currently exploring several devices, including the Perkl-Lite and a device based on the Archimedean spiral. A device patented by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine removes blood from the body. It then passes a 50 microvolt current through the blood and returns the blood to the body.
According to the researchers, a variety of pathogens — including viruses — were killed by the current without harming the blood itself. "
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