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Nordenström, Björn E.
W., MD:
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1.
The book: Biologically Closed Electric Circuits
2.
Book Review by Editor of Investigative
Radiology
3.
Next book: Exploring BCEC Systems
4.
Book Review of second book by Editor of
American Institute of Stress
5.
Extract of Publications on Functional
and Structural Expressions in Biology and Medicine which Depend on
Biologically Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC) and Their Network of
Integrated Mechanisms.
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IABC: International Association for Biologically
Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC) in Medicine and Biology.
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Biologically Closed Electric
Circuits (BCEC)
CLINICAL,
EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL EVIDENCE
FOR AN ADDITIONAL CIRCULATORY SYSTEM |
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By Björn E W Nordenström, M.D.,
Professor Emeritus of Diagnostic Radiology,
Karolinska Institute and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
1983, 295 x 210 mm, XVI + 358 p, ISBN
91-970432-0-6 , Cloth Richly illustrated in b/w and color. Published by
and available from Nordic Medical Publications, Arsenalsgatan 4, S-111 47
Stockholm, Sweden. Telephone: +46 8 6797475, Telefax: +46 8 6797220.
Price: USD 146.- plus postal expenses. Shipping weight 2,1 kg.
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"Nordenström's theory offers
important implications throughout the entire range of normal and
pathologic physiology. With profound conviction, I dare assert that no
vital process can be fully understood without considering this new
electrophysiologic theory. A vast field of multidisciplinary research is
opening before us. Numerous concepts which today are confusing, including
chemotaxis, are here clarified. I cannot resist emphasizing the
fascinating and broad medical scope of this book, i.e. a new view on
carcinogenesis and a therapeutic mode against cancer which theoretically
offers possibilities against diverse inflammatory states, fractures,
atheromas and neurologic complications of various diseases. Moreover, this
book offers new scientific bases which will reorient future research on a
wide range of hitherto poorly understood processes, e.g., acupuncture,
oral galvanism, meteorologic influences on human beings, types of adipose
tissue, diverse secretory mechanisms, diurnal cycles and embryogenesis.
This list of disparate functions leaves unmentioned many other
applications. In particular, extrapolation of the theory at the
intracellualar level offers many possible consequences.
The coming years will see a wealth of
experimentation derive from this new approach to electrophysiology. Its
full importance is today impossible to appreciate. For example,
disparities of findings noted heretofore between in vitro and in vivo work
can now be assessed anew. The implications of Nordenström's theory appear
far-reaching even beyond today's most enlightened suspicions."
Jacques C Hauton, D.M.D.Sc, Professor of
Biochemistry, Institut National de la Santé, France
Content:
I. Summary. II. Radiographic detectability
of corona structures. III. Corona structures around malignant and benign
neoplasms in the lung. IV. Corona structures around inflammatory lesions,
incl. those of silicosis. V. Discussion of the radiological observations
of corona structures. VI. Electric potentials in normal lung, pleura and
liver and in focal pulmonary lesions, incl. bronchogenic carcinoma. VII.
Spontaneous development of the fluctuating injury potential in tissue.
VIII. Concentration-dispersion forces: A brief review of intermolecular
physical behaviour. IX. Water: Electroosmotic transport over closed
electric circuits. X. Corpuscular movements and structrual development:
Effects of molecular and electric field forces. XI. Structural effects on
an artificial tumour in dog lung. XII. Biologically closed electric
circuits (BCEC). XIII. Energetics of BCEC systems, ionars and ergonars.
XIV. Experimental activation of vascular-interstitial closed circuit
effects. XVI. Tissue transformations over BCEC in cancer of the breast.
XVII. Applications of the principle of BCEC for treatment of cancer.
XVIII. Afterword: A discussion of principles and consequences of
biologically closed circuits (BCEC).
From Investigative
Radiology; Book Review
Vol.19, Sept/Oct, N:o 5, 1984:
Editor's
Note
It has not been the policy of
Investigative Radiology to publish book reviews. However, the work by
Nordenström reviewed below presents such fundamental and far-reaching
concepts that a review was deemed desirable in order to call this book to
the attention of those who read Investigative Radiology. The importance of
the concepts presented in Dr. Nordenströms book cannot be overemphasized.
Those who are interested in fundamental biological observations will be
fascinated by the logical progression of this most imaginative work.
Biologically Closed Electric
Circuits, Björn E. W. Nordenström, MD,
(Nordic Medical Publications, Arsenalsgatan 4, S-1ll 47 Stockholm,
Sweden),
This remarkable book introduces a new
physiologic concept that could solve many long-standing biologic problems.
This far-reaching concept evolved from a series of ingenious experiments
that began with the author's search for the explanation of a curious
pattern that he observed on a chest x-ray about 30 years ago. His
investigations carried him well beyond the original problem and produced
original insights into such fundamental processes as wound healing, organ
development and differentiation, and extra-cellular fluid dynamics. The
primary direction of the book is understanding the interaction of
malignant tumors with their surrounding tissues. It leads on the one hand
to a possible mechanism of carcinogenesis and on the other to a proposed
new mode of therapy of malignancies.
Dr. Nordenström has discovered a new circulatory system that is based on
spontaneously occurring electrical potentials. Potential gradients have
long been known to develop in normal organs as a result of metabolism and
in injured or diseased tissue as a result of hemorrhage or necrosis. The
investigations detailed in this book reveal that these potentials are more
than just a source of error in bioelectric measurements, that, in fact,
they drive electric current through what the author calls biologically
closed electric circuits (BCEC).
Blood plasma and interstitial fluid are examples of ionic media capable of
effectively conducting current. Blood vessel walls and the cells and
membranes that surround interstitial spaces insulate these conducting
media from their surroundings. Plasma and interstitial fluid are
electrically joined across capillary membranes. Thus, blood vessels and
interstitial spaces function as insulated electric cables that carry
current and transport charged particles over short and long distances.
Other BCEC probably also exist, but the book examines this particular
circuit in detail, documenting its existence and function with a series of
experiments using physical analogs of biologic organs and organ systems,
animal models, and tumor and tissue specimens obtained at autopsy or
surgical resection. The resultant hypotheses are tested in a series of
careful and humane diagnostic experiments and therapeutic trials performed
on consenting human volunteers with malignant diseases.
Credit should be given to Dr. John Austin who spent many hours revising
the manuscript. The book is written in a lucid, concise prose style and
presents its material in approximately chronologic order. Thus, the reader
is shown the stepwise development of this complex concept in what must be
very close to the way that the author himself arrived at his conclusions.
This method of presentation tantalizes the reader as it builds from the
proposal of a simple hypothesis to its experimental documentation to the
next hypothesis, and gradually but convincingly expands the reader's
understanding as the investigations progress to more and more basic levels
of biologic insight. Like most significant scientific innovations, the
ideas are simple and, once proposed, the reader must wonder why something
so obvious took so long to surface. Yet the originality or the hypotheses,
the thought processes that led to them, and the experiments that prove
them are astounding.
In the mid 1950s Dr. Nordenström observed a peculiar series of radiating
and circumferential patterns surrounding a primary carcinoma of the lung
on a chest radiograph. He called this pattern corona structures, because
of the similarity to the corona of the sun. A prospective study over
several years revealed that corona structures were present with
considerable frequency around pulmonary malignancies, pulmonary granulomas,
and even hamartomas. The book begins the analysis of these structures with
a careful description using radiographs of many patients and using serial
radiographs of the same patient. The alteration of corona structures with
time and the disappearance of some of them with the development of
pneumothorax led Dr. Nordenström to postulate that some parts of this
radiographic pattern resulted from an unexplained effect of pulmonary
masses on distribution of lung water. Thus began a series of experiments
that resulted in his conclusion that fluctuating electrical potentials
originating within lung masses could alter extracellular fluid dynamics.
The author demonstrated that electrical potentials do exist within lung
masses by performing a series of measurements in patients undergoing
needle biopsy. After preliminary experiments, he succeeded in reproducing
corona structures in dogs by inplanting artificial "tumors" that
produced potential gradients similar to those measured in human pulmonary
masses.
The text proceeds to an investigation of
the anatomy and physiology of these phenomena and leads to the development
of the concept of energy conversion over BCEC. Along the way, explanations
of a number of other biologic phenomena are proposed. After demonstrating
that electrical potentials are spontaneously generated in organs such as
the spleen, and that potentials of this magnitude lead to formation of
fibrous tissue at electrical interfaces, the author postulates that organ
capsules and other fibrous surfaces such as pleura and peritoneum are
formed by BCEC.
Platelets and leukocytes carry a surplus
of fixed electronegative surface charges. Thus a spontaneously occurring
positive polarity in injured tissue results in accumulation of platelets
and then thrombosis of capillaries surrounding a site of injury. This
mechanism can also account for attraction of leukocytes to a site of
positive electrical potential in injured or diseased tissue.
To test the possibility that BCEC alter the tissue environment around
tumors in organs other than the lung, the author undertook a series of
experiments with human and animal breast tissue and human breast neoplasms.
He demonstrated in a series of mammograms that corona structures similar
to those that surround lung masses are present quite commonly around
tumors of the breast. Spontaneous electrical potentials occur in breast
tumors, just as in lung masses, and have a similar effect on tissue water
distribution. However, the abundant fat in breast tissue permitted some
even more surprising observations. Histologically normal human breast fat
obtained from mastectomy specimens, when subjected to electrophoresis,
developed fibrosis similar to the desmoplastic reaction that surrounds
breast tumors. Within this desmoplastic tissue, structures developed that
were histologically similar to primitive ductal and vascular channels. The
author suggests that this may explain the mechanism by which tumor
angiogenesis occurs. Similar in vitro experiments produced
microcalcifications similar to those found in breast malignancies in
previously normal breast fat.
This seminal work opens important new
subjects for research and may ultimately explain many heretofore
inexplicable biologic phenomena. However, it is more than a scholarly
report of a massive research effort. It is an interesting, often exciting
account of a brilliant mind in vigorous action. It leaves the reader
exhilarated.
Morton G. Glickman, MD, Professor of
Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine
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Nordenström, Björn E. W., MD:
Exploring BCEC-systems
(Biologically Closed Electric Circuits)
By Björn E W Nordenström,M. D.,
Professor Emeritus of Diagnostic Radiology,
Karolinska Institut and Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Printed in Sweden by Almqvist & Wisell Tryckeri, Uppsala 1998
This book may be obtained from the publisher Nordic Medical Publications,
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From
"Exploring BCEC-systems": Foreword
by Prof George D. O'Clock,
Ph.D:
When I read Dr. Björn Nordenström's
first book Biologically Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC) I did not
understand it. I believed in his basic premise, that the human body has an
additional electrical circulatory system. This system involves the
co-transport of ions and electrons that form continuous electric currents
in various portions of the body. But I had a difficult time reading and
understanding his first book. I read it over and over again, and I still
had difficulties getting "the message". I thought, "Maybe
this material is just too complex for me."
Then, it all came together in a flash. In a moment of inspiration I
realized that my problems with understanding his book was not because it
contained complex material. The real reason that I was having difficulty
understanding Dr. Nordenström's message was because -- - his message is
simple - - - the theory behind it is simple. My preconceived notions were
the source of the complexity that I had imagined. All I had to do was toss
out a few preconceived notions, ignore some of my previous training in
biomedical sciences and use a conceptual model that is not much more
complicated than the electrical circuits involved with an automobile
battery. Dr. Nordenström has a unique talent of observing seemingly
complex phenomena, questioning the meaning of the phenomena and describing
the theory behind that phenomena in relatively simple terms.
Dr. Nordenström sees what others do not see or recognize as being
significant. Next to him, I feel like a blind man. Where others see blips
and artifacts on a cancer patients's radiograph, Dr. Nordenström sees
movement of water and material. He sees (and measures) electric potentials
between a tumor and healthy tissue. He, then, proposes a theory of
Biologically Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC). From this theory, he
develops electrotherapeutic techniques to treat cancer and other diseases.
His theories are "put to the test", and they pass with flying
colors.
Some will look at a colored region on a gel that has been electrically
excited. Most will view the colored region as a blot of color. Dr.
Nordenström sees spiralling vorteces of charged matter. Some people look
into the vastness of space and see it as "empty space". Dr.
Nordenström looks at the vastness of space and sees it as being full of
lifegiving energy. He views space as a vessel storing the energy resources
that serve as the foundation for all living things.
Björn Nordenström has the mind of a medical doctor, scientist, engineer,
poet, musician, philosopher and child who keeps asking; "Why?"
He often tempers his judgements with the realization that "nothing is
as it seems". "We must rigorously test our theories." Dr.
Nordenström is a man with many questions, who is not chained by dogma. If
the dogma is clearly wrong, outdated or does not make sense; Dr Nordenström
has the brilliance and courage to change that dogma or develop a new one.
In doing so, he irritates those who are chained by their dogma and
preconceived notions. This is a man who can have an emotional and
intellectual impact on all of us if we just let him "rattle our
chains".
BCEC concepts and the electrotherapeutic techniques that are evolving from
these concepts are extraordinary developments in the history of medicine.
Many biomedical researchers have expressed the opinion that "If Dr.
Nordenström is wrong, his work and results still provide significant
motivation for us to look at biological systems in a different way."
"However, if Dr. Nordenström is right, he will have made the most
significant discovery and contribution to medicine since William Harvey
described blood circulation more than 350 years ago. "There are many
similarities between the research effort, approach and initial reactions
to the work done by William Harvey and Björn Nordenström. Using what was
known about physiology, mathematics and physics in his time; Harvey's
experiments demonstrated that blood circulated at an unbelievably high
velocity. Blood did not just "ebb and flow" as the dogma of the
time maintained. Many of Harvey's colleagues demonstrated a Stage 1
medical reaction (instant rejection coupled with anger and ridicule). But
the concepts Harvey developed had enough relevance in medicine that, over
a long period of time, attitudes changed; and the Stage 2 medical reaction
(reluctant acceptance) began to dominate medical thinking and practice. In
a similar manner, for the past 30 years, Björn Nordenström has utilized
concepts in physics, mathematics, chemistry, physiology and immunology;
combined with a massive amount of experimentation; to describe a system of
continuous energy circulation and circulating electrical currents in
living systems. Dr. Nordenström demonstrates how "circulating
currents influence structure and function. These currents
participate in maintaining equilibrium and healing processes in living
organisms." Dr. Nordenström's concepts of continuous energy
circulation, the interrelationships between life and death; proliferation
and regression, energy and matter and macroscopic and microscopic
phenomena appear very clear to me.
Dr. Nordenström initially encountered a significant amount of the Stage 1
medical reaction from his colleagues. However, in a manner similar to
William Harvey's experience, Dr. Nordenström's concepts work very well
when they are applied to medical practice. Thousands of cancer patients
have been successfully treated all over the world (Sweden, China, Germany,
Italy, Denmark and Poland) with an electrochemical therapy (EchT) approach
that was initially developed using BCEC concepts. It is just a matter of
time before the Stage 2 medical reaction occurs with respect to Dr.
Nordenström's BCEC theories and the electrotherapeutic techniques derived
from his BCEC concepts.
To appreciate Dr. Björn Nordenström, this is the book you need to read
first. Once you have finished this book, I would recommend that you read
the other one authored by Dr. Nordenström, Biologically Closed Electric
Circuits. But before you read either book, open your mind and try to ignor
your biases. Try to view the author as a brilliant, gentle, wise and
knowledgable renaissance man who is firm in his convictions. Some would
say "stubborn". (I think the word "firm" is more
appropriate). Regard Björn Nordenström as a guide and good friend with a
firm hand, who is going to take you on a very interesting adventure. The
places he takes you may scare you a bit, but your guide and friend has a
strong grip on your hand. He won't let go. And when your journey is
finished, you will have been given the privilege of viewing the next
paradigm in biomedicine by the man who was the first to describe it in a
way that it can be understood and applied.
George D. O'Clock,
Ph.D., Professor College of Science,
Engineering and Technology, Mankato State University
Mankato, MN 56002-8400 USA, May, 1998
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From The American Institute of
Stress; Book Review
By Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Editor:
Exploring BCEC-systems
(Biologically Closed Electric Circuits), by Björn E. W.
Nordenström, M.D., Nordic Medical Publications Arsenalgatan 4, S-111 47
Stockholm, Sweden, 1998, $39.00
The events leading up to this
book began well over four decades ago, when the author became intrigued
about the origin and composition of a "halo-like" disturbance
that could occasionly be seen around lung malignancies on routine x-rays.
It was never present with tumors that were benign. None of his
radiological colleagues could offer an explanation for this curious
phenomenon, nor did elicit much interest. Most consider it to be an
artifact, but Nordenström thought it might represent some sort of energy
disturbance that could provide an important clue to the nature of
malignancy. He has devoted his life to exploring this ever since in a
multidisplinary approach that has required innovative basic research,
animal and clinical investigations. This book is a sequel to his 1983 tome
Biologically Closed Electric Circuits, in which he proposed the
existence of a previously unappreciated electrical circulatory system in
the body. Some reviewers put this on a par with William Harvey's 1628
treatise on the circulations of the blood, and one commented, "If he
is right, he has made the most profound biomedical discovery of the
century". Subsequent events suggest that this prophecy may not be far
from the mark.
Nordenström has proposed that there is a local built-up of positively
charged ions following injury that creates an electrical voltage potential
between opposite ions that are separated. Much as occurs in a battery,
this energy can be tapped once the circuit is closed to permit the flow of
electricity between these charged areas. Based on this, he has
demonstrated how specific DC microcurrents that restore ion electricity
balance can be utilized to treat metastic lung cancer and other
malignancies with amazing success, and his therapeutic triumphs have now
been replicated by others in thousands of patients. His Biologically
Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC) concept has also stimulated research to
explore other possible clinical ramifications, resulting in very promising
picotesla stimulation approaches for the treatment of Parkinson's disease,
epilepsy, multiple sclerosis and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Björn Nordenström's credentials are impeccable. He has served as
Chairman of the Department of Radiology at Karolinska Institute, and
President of the Nobel Assembly that selects the Nobel Laureate for
Physiology or Medicine. He also pioneered the development of the balloon
catheterization and needle biopsy techniques responsable for breakthrough
advances in diagnosis and treatment. One can only wonder how he found the
time to perform so many detailed experiments in developing his BCEC
pathways theory. In this remarkable book, he has dramatically expanded
this to provide a panoramic perspective of how these networks can also
communicate with the external environment. This ranges from explaining why
the tail of a cat acts as an antenna to detect danger and how animals keep
their fur clean, to the origins of life, and the universe. Just as a cat's
tail can receive subtle energy signals, there is good reason to suspect
that the thousands of acupuncture points in the body may function in a
similar fashion, much like a sophisticated radar system. Acupuncture
points that have been known since antiquity have been demonstrated to have
electrical characteristics different from surrounding skin areas. These
electrical properties can be influenced by mental processes and force
fields emanating from chi gong masters, and the latter can be
readily visualized using Kirlian and even conventional photography.
Similar subtle energies generated internally may act in an analogous
fashion. Thus, EEC waves may not simply reflect the noise of the machinery
of the brain, but rather signals being sent to specialized sites in the
body. Such a paradigm could help to elucidate a variety of well
ackowledged but unexplained mind/body phenomena, such as placebo and
nocebo effects, and the spontaneous remission of cancer and other
salubrious rewards reported in individuals with a firm faith, The basic
defect in the cell is that its growth cannot be controlled, because it
fails to communicate normally with its healthy neighbors. Is it possible
that having a strong faith or belief generates a feeling of control, and
that somehow this message filters down to cancer cells through BCEC or
other pathways yet to be delineated?
It is clear that thousands of year ago, a well developed system of
medicine existed based on the premise that health depended on the
circulation throughout the body of chi (Qi), a vital energy that
traveled through prescribed pathways called meridians. Illness resulted
when the normal flow of chi was blocked, and such imbalances
could be corrected by inserting needles (acupuncture), or applying
lodestones (magnetic fields), at specific sites where these meridians were
close to the skin. Health was also impaired if the level of chi
was deficient, or there was a disturbance in th balance of its
complementary components yin and yang. While Western
medicine has generally disregarded or scoffed at such notions, the
numerous benefits of acupuncture, magnetic field and other subtle energy
therapies have been increasingly verified and accepted. The energy
emanating from chi gong masters has been show to exert the same
influence on AT synthesis as a magnetic field, and the ability of
certain healers to produce voltage surges of 100 volts and more in
recipients several feet away has also been convincingly demonstrated in
scientific studies.
Nordenström now suggests that the forces flowing in BCEC's may be thought
of as chi, with positive and negative charges that are comparable
to yin and yang. He offers other analogies with ancient
Oriental concepts of how the chi in Nature can affect human healt,
performance, and possibly aging. Life span varies greatly in animals,
plants, and even different tissues in humans, and it is believed that the
life of a cell is genetically predetermined by limiting the number of
times it can divide and reproduce itself. This process of programmed cell
death, called apoptosis, is specific for each cell. Nordenström suggests
that bioelectromagnetic forces can influence either regression (apoptosis)
or proliferation (regrowth and survival) by explaining how a tree
preserves its life during the cold winter by altering metabolic activities
to sacrifice its leaves in the fall. In the spring, apoptotic regression
is replaced by proliferative regeneration, when energy preserved in the
tree is activated by heat to again produce the same kind of leaf. He shows
in one Kirlian photograph how even a leaf that is "dead", still
ha energy in the form of a surrounding corona or halo. This
repetitive cycle of death and rebirth constantly takes place in other
systems, and in the Chinese view of Nature, are interrelated to provide
balance, as in the Sheng and Ke cycles of ongoing
regeneration and destruction for the five elements and their associated
organs, which is also illustrated.
It is important to recognize that theories don't have to be correct,
only facts do. Some theories are valuable because of their heuristic
merit, in that they stimulate others to discover new facts that eventally lead
to improved theories. And the facts are that Nordenström's cancer therapy
protocol does work. Whether it will be eventually shown that it does so
for reasons other than he proposes remains to be determined. Under
any circumstances, this stimulating book provides a glimpse into what 21st
Century medicine may be like, and the awesome potential for selfhealing
that resides in each of us.
Paul J. Rosch, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Editor
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Björn E.W.
Nordenström
Extract of Publications on Functional and Structural Expressions in
Biology and Medicine which Depend on Biologically Closed Electric Circuits
(BCEC) and Their Network of Integrated Mechanisms
(Numbers refer to
the complete List of Publications)
100. Nordenström
BEW: Electric potential fluctuations in the liver. IRCS 2:1666 (1974).
102. Nordenström
BEW: Electrocoagulation of small lung tumors. In Current concepts
in radiology. Potchen EJ
(ed). Mosby, St. Louis 3:331-347 (1977).
108. Nordenström
BEW: Preliminary clinical trials of electrophoretic ionization in the
treatment of malignant tumors. IRCS 6:537 (1978).
116.
Nordenström BEW: Biologically Closed Electric Circuits (BCEC): Clinical
experimental and theoretical evidence for an additional circulatory
system. Nordic Medical Publications. Stockholm (1983).
117 Nordenström BEW:
Biologically closed electric circuits: Activation of vascular interstitial
closed electric circuits for treatment of inoperable cancers. J
Bioelectricity 3:137-153 (1984).
120. Nordenström
BEW: Electrochemical treatment of cancer. Ann Radiol 28:128 129 (1985).
121. Nordenström
BEW: Biokinetic impact on structure and imaging of the lung: The concept
of biologically closed electric circuits. AJR
145:447-467 (1985).
122. Nordenström
BEW: Direct current treatment of lung cancer. In Neoplasie del
torace. Veronesi U, Pezzuoli G, Ravasi O,
Santoro O
(eds). Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, pp 219-226 (1986).
123. Nordenström
BEW: An additional circulatory system: Vascular-interstitial closed
electric circuits (VICC). J
Biol Phys 15:43-55 (1987).
125. Nordenström
BEW: An electrophysiological view of acupuncture. Role of capacitative and
closed circuit currents and their clinical effects in the treatment of
cancer and chronic pain. Am J
Acupuncture 17:105-117 (1989).
126. Nordenström
BEW: Akupunktur und geschlossene biologische Stromkreise. Akupunktur -
Theorie und Praxis 17:90-97 (1989).
127. Nordenström
BEW: Electrochemical treatment of cancer by activation of
vascular-interstitial channels. In New radiologic imaging and
intervention in general surgery. Ussia G,
Bassi F, Feirucci JT
(eds). Masson, Milano, pp 143 159 (1989)
128. Nordenström
BEW: Vascular-interstitial-neuromuscular activation: Differences in
femoral and sciatic nerves in the rat. J
Bioelectrieity 8:109-117 (1989).
129. Nordenström
BEW: Electrochemical cancer treatment. In Interventional
radiology. Dondelinger RF, Rossi P, Kurdziel JC,
Wallace S (eds). Thieme, Stuttgart, pp 498-504 (1990).
130. Nordenström
BEW: Electrochemical treatment of cancer. 1. Variable response to anodic
and cathodic fields. Am J
Clin Oncol (CCT) 12:530-536 (1989).
131. Nordenström
BEW, Eksborg S, Beving H: Electrochemical treatment of cancer. 11. Effect
of electrophoretic influence on Adriamycin. Am J. Clin Oncol (CCT)
13:75-78 (1990).
132. Eksborg S,
Nordenström BEW, Beving H: Electrochemical treatment of cancer. Ill.
Plasma pharmacokinetics of Adriamycin after intraneoplastic
administration. Am J
Clin Oncol (CCT) 13:164-166 (1990).
133. Beving H,
Eksborg S, Nordenström BEW: Electrochemical treatment of cancer. IV.
Leukocyte and platelet counts in peripheral blood after electrochemical
treatment of solitary lung neoplasms. Am J
Clin Oncol (CCT) 13:167-170 (1990).
134. Nordenström
BEW: Vesicles, basement membranes and the endothelial fibrin film as
possible products of biological electrode reactions. In
Electropharmaco logy. Eckert Gil, Gutmann F, Keyzer H (eds). CRC Press,
Boca Raton, pp 189 203 (1990)
135. Nordenström
BEW: I. Neurovascular activation requires conduction through vessels.
Physiol Chem Phys & Med NMR 21:249-256 (1989)
136. Nordenström
BEW, Larsson H: I1. Slow and rapid electrical pulses in the caval vein at
pain-evoked leg contraction in the rat. Physiol Chem Phys & Med NMR 21
257-264 (1989).
137. Nordenström
BEW: Ill. The action potential; An effect of fuel cell reactions in the
synapse. Physiol Chem Phys 8 Med NMR 21:265-278 (1989).
138. Nordenström
BEW, Kinn AC, Elbarouni J:
Electric modification of kidney function. The excretion of radiographic
contrast media and Adriamycin. Invest Radiol 26:157-161(1991).
139. Azavedo A,
Nordenström BEW, Svane C: Radiological evidence of response to
electrochemical treatment of
breast cancer. Clin Radiol 43:84-87 (1991).
140. Kinn AC,
Nordenström BEW, Elbarouni 3, Nilsson 1: Effects of direct current on
renal function. Urol Res 19:397-400 (1991).
143. Nordenström
BEW: Link between external electromagnetic field and biological matter.
Intern J
Environmental Studies 41:233-250 (1992).
144. Nordenström
BEW: IV. Electrical pulses appear in the inferior vena cava and abdominal
aorta at contraction of leg muscles. Physiol Chem Phys & Med NMR
24:147-152 (1992).
145.
Nordenström BEW, Larsson H,
Lindqvist M: V. Potential differences in the inferior vena cava and
between cava and extravascular electrode at leg contraction in man.
Physiol Chem Phys & Med NMR 24:153-158 (1992).
146. Nordenström
BEW: Rand movements above the unshielded tail of a shielded rat induce
differences of voltage inside the animal. Amer J Acupuncture 20:157-163
(1992).
147. Nordenström
BEW: Impact of biologically closed electric circuits (BCEC) on structure
and function. Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science 27:285 303,
(1992).
148. Nordenström
BEW, Ipavec S, Alfas S: Interferences of electromagnetic field with
biological matter. Intern J
Environmental Studies 42:157-167, (1992).
149. Nordenström
BEW: Vl. Synaptic fuel cell reactions in vascular-interstitial
neuromuscular (VINM) closed circuits. Theory of neuromuscular activation.
Electro- and Magnetobiology 12:99-115 (1993).
150. Nordenström
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151. Nordenström
BEW: Principle of electrostatic voltage impact on ionic membrane pumps
leading to partial dissolution of metastases, followed by total regression
after chemotherapy. Internal Medicine 2:79-91, (1994)
152. The paradigm of
biologically closed electric circuits (BCEC). Internal Medicine (in
press).
153. Nordenström
BEW: Exploring BCEC-systems (Biologically
Closed Electric Circuits). Nordic Medical Publications. Stockholm. (1998).
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IABC
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR BIOLOGICALLY CLOSED ELECTRIC CIRCUITS (BCEC)
IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY
The IABC was officially formed in September of 1993. The membership
consists of medical doctors, biologists, biophysicists, engineers,
educators and business professionals. IABC members are involved in the
development of electrotherapeutic, thermotherapeutic and
magnetotherapeutic techniques, in combination with conventional therapies,
for the treatment of a wide variety of health problems including cancer,
diseases of the visual system, connective tissue disease and neurological
disorders. Approximately 300 members are actively engaged in related
research and clinical studies in a wide variety of locations including
Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Greece,
Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and the U.S.
In 1987, Dr. Björn Nordenström introduced BCEC and Elecro-Chemical
Treatment of Cancer (EChT) to the Chinese medical profession. Since that
time, considerable progress has been made. Numerous EChT courses and
training sessions have been conducted for Chinese medical practitioners.
Clincial studies and research have provided new insight and improvements
into the EChT protocol and therapeutic techniques that are complementary
with EChT. EChT has been widely publicized in the mass media of China.
More than 12 EChT centers and research laboratories have been established.
The first BCEC Symposium was held in Stockholm in September of 1993. Dr.
Björn Nordenström and Dr. Xin, Yu-Ling presented their initial results
at that Symposium.
During the October 1992 Symposium in China, the International Association
for Biologically Closed Electric Circuits in Medicine and Biology (IABC)
was formed. Dr. Nordenström was elected IABC President and Dr. Xin,
Yu-Ling was elected IABC Vice President.
In October, 1997, the Fourth International Symposium on Biologically
Closed Electric Circuits was held in Minneapolis, U.S.A. A 295 page
Proceedings was printed for this Symposium.
In July of 1998, Dr. O'Clock was appointed IABC President, Dr.Nordenström
became IABC President Emeritus and Carl Firley was appointed IABC Vice
President and Secretary General.
In September of 1998, the Third Congress of the IABC and Second
International Symposium on Electrochemical Treatment of Cancer was held in
Beijing, China.
In 1999, the Third Congress on Electro Cancer Treatment and the Fourth
Congress on Biologically Closed Electric Circuits was hosted by Dr.
Friederich Douwes, M.D., Klinik St Georg in Bad Aibling, Germany.
In July, 2001, the Seventh International Symposium on Biologically Closed
Electric Circuits was held in Helsingør, Denmark.
During these two IABC meetings, an IABC Board of Directors was
established, consisting of the following IABC members:
IABC BOARD OFFICERS
President: Jerker Olsson (Sweden)
Founder and President Emeritus: Björn E.W. Nordenström, M.D., Ph.D.
(Sweden)
President Emeritus: George D. O'Clock, Ph.D. (U.S.)
Vice President for Europe: Jörgen Nordenström, M.D. (Sweden)
Vice President for Asia: Xin, Yu Ling, M.D. (China)
Vice President and Secretary General: Carl F. Firley, B.S. (U.S.)
IABC BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Argentina
Julio Templediner, M.D.
Australia
Jennie Burke, M.D.
Brazil
Paulo L. Farber, M.D.
China
Liu, Gan Zhong, M.D., Pang, Hong Bin, M.D., Tang, Bu Jian Wei, Zhang,
M.D., Ye, Yu Kun, M.D.
Denmark
Finn Scøtt Andersen, M.D.
Greece
Photios Anninos, Ph.D., Nikolaos Tsagas, Ph.D.
Hungary
Andras Szasz, Ph.D.
Japan
Katsuki Ito, M.D.
U.K.
Omar Fakhri, Ph.D.
Membership of the International Association for Biologically Closed
Electric Circuits In Medicine And Biology (IABC) may be applied to Mr Carl
Firely, 4976 S. W. Bimini Circle S, Palm Beach, Florida 34990 U.S.A. Fax
No (772) 283-2180, iabc@adelphia.net.
In 2001, Dr. Björn E.W. Nordenström received the International
Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award from the People's Republic
of China. Inaugurated in 1994 by the State Council, the International
Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award is granted to foreigners or
foreign organizations that have made important contributions to China's
scientific and technological advancement. Dr. Nordenström is the first
Swedish scientist to receive this award. For more information, see the
following: (http://www.chinaembassy.se/eng/26481.html
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