You may have heard of low-level laser healing. Stories are that now in India surgeons use these devices more than they operate for certain conditions!

However we don’t need lasers to get healing. We are, by nature, “light beings”, meaning that we emanate biological light (see the Acuvision post).

A few years ago, scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee harnessed the healing power of light with the help of technology developed for NASA’s Space Shuttle. They used powerful light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, originally designed to grow plants in space, to heal wounds and produce other miraculous recoveries.

LEDs don’t heat the tissues the way lasers do; because LED uses longer wavelength (redder) near-infrared light, it penetrates the tissues deeper.

The LED healing devices certainly works against hard-to-heal wounds, such as diabetic skin ulcers, serious burns, and severe oral sores caused by chemotherapy and radiation. A wound-healing device was placed on the submarine USS Salt Lake City, and doctors reported 50-percent faster healing of crew members’ lacerations when exposed to the LED light. Injuries treated with the LEDs healed in seven days, while untreated injuries took 14 days.

The wound-healing devices are a small, 3.5-inch by 4.5-inch (89-millimeter by 114-millimeter), portable flat array of LEDs, arranged in rows on the top of a small box. Biologists have found that cells exposed to near-infrared light from LEDs, which is energy just outside the visible range, grow 150 to 200 percent faster than cells not stimulated by such light. The light arrays increase energy inside cells that speed up the healing process.

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Readers will probably think right away about the Russian SCENAR (or SKENAR), a small hand-held device that uses electromagnetic therapy for fast amazing healing.

One of the great applications has been the rapid healing of painful mouth ulcers caused by cancer therapies such as radiation and chemotherapy. This is a very miserable condition, sometimes so uncomfortable the patient cannot eat and has to be fed IV.

Now the treatment is quick and painless. A nurse practitioner places the box of LEDs on the outside of the patient’s cheek about one minute each day. The red light penetrates to the inside of the mouth, where it seems to promote wound healing and prevent further sores in the patient’s mouth.

Clinical trials are ongoing.

The device also has healing possibilities where certain chemo agents are sent to the tumor selectively and then activated by infrared light transdermally. It has already had great success in kids with brain tumors.

Of course you can expect Big Pharma to attack the effectiveness of something so simple. They want to sell more chemo drugs, not heal lives.

Still, this is a development well worth following. I’ll keep you posted.

NOTE: The Bemer 3000 uses similar LED therapy, coupled with their patented and very effective Bemer frequencies.