Changes of fever, stiffness and pain by receiving MOA purifying therapy are quantified for 48 subjects, who took part in a health promotion seminar. Fever and stiffness are quantified by areas determined by drawing on a human body figure using a pen tablet PC. Pain scales are also evaluated subjectively by 10 steps. The quantity of fever, stiffness and pain can represent the effect of MOA purifying therapy well.

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The purpose of our study was to investigate the effect of normalizing the vagus nervous function in subjects who received external Qi emission (MOA purifying therapy). In control group, 230 healthy subjects were seated in chair while their electrocardiographs (ECG) were measured. HF (High Frequency) component was analyzed by fluctuation of the r-r interval of the ECG for each subject, and standard HF values for every age were determined. In the external Qi group, 17 subjects seated in chairs while emissions were given to their neck and shoulders for 30min. HF component increased by external Qi emission in the subjects who had HF of less than or equal to the standard HF value. HF component decreased by administration of external Qi emission in those subjects who had more than the standard HF value. We suggested that the administration of external Qi had the effect of normalizing the vagus nervous function.

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The International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) seeks to realize the paradigm shift from material-oriented science and technology to a new paradigm including the consciousness, spirit and mind through the research based on empirical and positive scientific methodology, and consequently, to promote the development of health, social welfare, and education as well as social and personal peace of mind, and to contribute to the making of a peaceful world, at one with nature. Since the founding of ISLIS 1995, 16 symposia have been held and issues of the Journal of International Society of Life Information Science (ISLIS) have been published periodically, for which ISLIS has received worldwide praise. As further development from the "Human Potential Science" International Forum held in Japan in 2002, we will hold the "Mind Body Science" International Forum in Seoul in August 2004. To promote constant research activities in this field, the International Research Institute (IRI) was founded in 2001. The situation of "Human Potential Science" and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is reported here.

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The physiological effects of multiple field-irradiation (MF irradiation) on 14 healthy adult males were studied by the double blind cross over method. After providing written informed consent, subjects were asked to take a supine position while they received MF irradiation from a source located 30 cm above the navel for 5 minutes, then their physiological changes were monitored for 10 minutes. The same subjects participated in the control and active studies in a random order. Blood pressure, heart rate, electrogastrogram (EGG), electroencephalogram (EEG; F3, F4, P3, P4), cerebral circulation, and skin temperature of the abdominal wall and face were monitored. EEG and EGG waves were analyzed by FFT, and the right-left coherence of the EEG was calculated. LF (0.04 - 0.15 Hz) and HF (0.15 - 0.4 Hz) components of R-R variability were calculated to estimate the autonomic nervous balance. The results from active and control experiments were compared with each other after key open. Only active studies showed: 1. increase of amplitude and frequency of EGG; 2. predominance of HF power of R-R variability; 3. changes of the cerebral circulation; 4. changes of EEG (α_1 wave power and right-left coherence of β_2 wave). The skin temperature of the irradiated abdomen did not change, nor few subjects noticed any warm sensation. These results indicated definite physiological effects of MF irradiation on our body.

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This report involves a case of thalamic hemorrhaging that was successfully treated using Qigong therapy. The patient was a 52-year-old housewife. On the day of her hospital admission, she was feeling lightheaded and had dysarthria with right hemiplegia. She was admitted to hospital as a result of losing consciousness. A CT brain scan was immediately performed and revealed hemorrhaging to the left thalamus. She was treated with an intra-cranial decompressive agent and a hemostatic agent, and the clinical course was followed. Qigong therapy was performed for at least 20 minutes every day. She regained normal consciousness on the second day in hospital, but had right hemiplegia, sensory disturbance, and hearing impairment, among other symptoms. On the 14th day in hospital, the hemiplegia had almost disappeared and the patient was able to walk without assistance. A CT brain scan performed on the 37th day in hospital revealed that the hemorrhage had been absorbed, and the patient was discharged. This patient's symptoms were treated using modern medical care and Qigong therapy. Further studies of a larger number of cases using this method are required to determine its usefulness.

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EEGs and other physiological measurements were carried out on students of a public senior high school, where a qigong lesson was adopted as part of the physical education program. Although enrollment in the qigong class was open to only the second and the third year students, the measurements were performed on several students for each of the three years each semester. As the first and second year students at the first measurement are still participating in the study this year, the results reported here are of one-year-progress for three third year students who graduated from school in March 2003. The α amplitude on the occipital area became gradually larger with repetition of the measurements. Relaxation level of the subjects seemed to go up with each measurement. Lag time of α phase of the frontal to the occipital region became slightly shorter during qigong, compared with in the resting state; it could be considered the subjects concentrated on qigong practice. However, trends of the changes for measurements were different for two methods of qigong. Further analysis will be made with additional data of other students.

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Qigong therapy has only recently become more widely known, with some university hospitals beginning to incorporate it into their treatments. There are several methods of Qigong therapy. When internal Qigong was performed on oneself in a 40-minute session the levels of adrenaline, noradrenaline, and cortisol decreased, while the levels of natural killer (NK) cell activity and interleukin (IL)-2 increased immediately. These results indicated that internal Qigong decreases the level of sympathetic nerve activity, relieves stress, and increases immunogenic potential. In the case of external qigong, NK cell activity decreased immediately after the treatment before increasing again after 40 minutes. A similar trendeney was observed after remote qi emission. Many of the Qigong therapists who achieved the most marked results utilize spiritual energy. Further investigation into spiritual healing needs to be made.

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The theory of Oriental traditional medicine and evolution share on a commom point in the philosophy of life. It is that life energy theory is based on intuitive knowledge. Analyses by a single square voltage pulse method suggest that the meridian theory is related to the remaining structures of evolution.

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Meridian theory is important in Oriental traditional medicine. In order to demonstrate that the meridian is functional, reactions wqere tested in which light emitting diode (LED) signals were radiated at meridian point and measured using electroencephalography (EEG) and the single square voltage pulse method. Results had a significant difference according to wavelength. The effectiveness of traditional medicine theory could be examined with a painless photo-signal.

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The purpose of the present work was to investigate a mechanism of life energy from the viewpoint of cosmology based on the theory of relativity and the uncertainty principle. Human beings have an ultra-complicated living-body system of Atomaterials that are highly harmonized atomic materials, and their self-organized existences show negative entropic characteristics. In the present work, vibrational life energy E_<life> = hv - mc^2/(1-v^2/c^2)^<1/2> consisting of minute waves with a high frequency v (v > mc^2/h(1-v^2/c^2)^<1/2>) was proposed. Two models for life energy E_<life> were then proposed. In the first, E_<life> corresponds to unknown dark energy for the advanced cosmology, and is related to the cosmological constant ∧g_<μv> with negative pressure and antigravity for Einstein's equation R_<μv> - g_<μv>R/2 + ∧g_<μv> = 8πGT_<μv>/c^4. In the second, dark matter in cosmology corresponds to life energy E_<life>, and dark energy corresponds to conscious energy. Further discussion on the mechanism is expected.

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Traditional Oriental medicine includes a manual treatment called external qigong therapy. It is desirable to mechanize this manual treatment, that is, to develop a reliable scientific apparatus having ability higher than that of the manual treatment. This development would also relate to solving the emission mechanism of external qi, which is only a proposition in Oriental qi-ideology. The author proposed a qi-emission mechanism by considering bioelectricity, and made some apparatuses based on this proposal. Biomedical influences of multiple electromagnetic fields (including interference fields) emitted from the apparatuses were determined. Although the biomedical influences were different for different kind, intensity, frequency, etc. of the components of the fields, all of the apparatuses produced biomedical influences including cure effects. It was experimentally confirmed that NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) spectra, viscosity coefficient, and optical absorption of non-living material such as mineral waters, etc. were changed by irradiation with the fields emitted from some of the apparatuses. These effects for living bodies and non-living material were similar to those induced by qigong therapy. Therefore, the experiment results suggested that multiple electromagnetic fields functioned like external qi.

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In this study, we found that when walking a person generated a quasi-electrostatic field with change of electrification and capacitance and furthermore the field could be measured by remote sensing. We developed a method to measure the electric field for each leg separately in order to eliminate fluctuation due to movement of each leg. Results obtained by the method showed that the quasi-electrostatic field generated from the human body during walking reflected the individual characteristics of the walking pattern. These individual characteristics could be clearly distinguished even using a quasi-electrostatic field including right and left legs.

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Several technologies to prevent falling asleep at the wheel have been developed. One well-known approach uses imaging sensors to count eye blinks or detect particular fluctuations of the vehicle. Such sensors could be effective at preventing accidents by giving a warning. We developed a technology to detect driver's sleepiness by analyzing heartbeats. We studied a regression model with parameters including heart rate variability to estimate driver's sleepiness .

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Dopamine (DA) neurons originate midbrain and innervate to the striatum, hypothalamus, pituitary, limbic, and neocortex. The DA system is involved with not only motor control but also learning, memory, and reward/motivation. From the viewpoint of the dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia, the DA networks through the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system have been a widespread concern. Recent technological developments in positron emission tomography in particular, have increased knowledge on psychiatric and psychological understanding of the mind through in vivo experiments in humans. A recent proposal to measure DA release in situ with an apparent binding potential of DA receptors as an index is a promising tool for understanding the DA systems in psycopsychiatrical entity.

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The Pockemon shock is a well-know incident in the history of the Japanese broadcasting industry. In this study, we evaluated electrocardiography (ECG), arterial blood pressure (BP). Eight healthy adult volunteers participated in this experiment with satisfactory informed consent. ECG and BP were recorded for each subject during three different protocols: resting condition (RS), healing video contents shown on a screen (HS), and a mosaic picture shown with inverted music on a screen (IS). All tests were done while subjects were sitting. Time length of the software was about 15 minutes. All data were recorded in a digital data recorder. Fast fourier transform (FFT), and nonlinear mathematical analyzing methodologies including chaos and fractal theory were utilized to evaluate the fluctuations in the hemodynamic parameters. Spectral analysis was performed to evaluate the heart rate variability (HRV) and BP variability during the experiment, however, there were no significant changes during because of wide standard deviation. Fractal dimension of HRV was significantly lower in HS (1.61±0.09), but significantly higher in IS (1.53±0.07) than in RS (1.57±0.04, p<0.05). We must continue our study aiming at safe audiovisual stimulating equipment.

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Kurita's Speed Reading System was proposed in 1987. A consistent education started in 1991, and 418 classes ended by July, 2003. The purpose of the training is to shift the conventional paradigm of character information to a new method. The degree of understanding of reading through a beginner's training class was examined in this study. Subjects were 66 adult participants of a five-day biginners classes. The reading speeds before the training were 830 characters/min on average. The reading speed after the training was 23919 characters/min on average, and the magnification became 31 times on average. The degree of understanding of the conventional reading before the training was 31% on average. It was directed at the 10th step that subjects read the same length of the sentences within 1 minute, and the degree of understanding of the reading was 67% on average. This suggested that the ability of understanding increased. The degree of understanding of the speed reading at the 10th step was 59 %, 51%, 44%, and 38% on average with respect to 2000, 3000, 4000, and 5000 characters/min speed reading, respectively. This means that the degree of understanding of 5000 characters/min speed reading was higher than that of conventional reading. Moreover, at 10 step, it was directed that subjects performed speed reading with the constant degree of understanding. The results were 9151, 7002, and 5664 characters on average (I.e., 11, 9, and 8 times on average) with respect to degree 30, 40, and 50% of undrstanding, respectively. This means that speed reading with degree 30% of understanding (which is almost identical to that of the conventional reading, I.e, 31%) was faster by ten times than the conventional reading. These results shows that the participants of Kurita's speed reading attained not only the high speed of reading but also high degree of understanding of reading.

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Our previous study demonstrated immediate changes in eyesight in response to a method of training in free stereo viewing. In the present research we observed the same changes in another group and investigated the effects of the training for five weeks. [Method] The subjects were a group of nine adults attending Kurita's eyesight recovery course employing "training in free stereo viewing" (3D viewing) once a week for five weeks. Eyesight was measured before and after each training session, and the average value of the eyesight measurements for the five weeks was used as data. [Result] The results are shown as average values. The 3D viewing brought about an improvement in the naked-eye eyesight (without glasses) of both eyes from 0.14 to 0.19 (difference of 0.04, increase of 30%), and an improvement in the corrected eyesight (with glasses) of both eyes from 0.79 to 0.94 (difference of 0.15, increase of 19%). After the five-week period of the training, the naked-eye eyesight of both eyes changed from 0.12 to 0.27 (difference of 0.14), for an average increase of 2.2 times (increase of 2.21 between the two average values), and the corrected eyesight of both eyes changed from 0.71 to 0.94 (difference of 0.24), for an average increase of 1.34 times (increase of 1.43 times between the two average values). [Assessment] The 3D training had the immediate effect of eyesight improvement. The results also suggested that when the method is continued for five weeks, the improvement can be expected to increase during the period of training.

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Hemoglobin concentration change of cerebral cortex during Qigong has been studied by the relatively new technique multi-channel near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS). We measured concentration change for six Qigong experts and twelve normal controllers using NIRS instruments from two makers. We analyzed the left frontal area (Fpl) and found the oxygenated hemoglobin and total hemoglobin concentrations of cerebral cortex during Qi-emission task were of two types, compared to the control task. Both concentrations had statistically significant increase (p<0.01) for three Qigong experts and decrease (p<0.01, both concentrations) for three others. Moreover, there was statistical significance (p<0.01, both concentrations) between Qigong experts and normal controllers. These results agreed with results of a previous report that observed and analyzed the right frontal area (Fp2). One Qigong expert also showed a strong correlation (r=0.94) between oxygenated hemoglobin concentration change and respiration frequency during a Qi-emission task. The specialized breath control could influence blood volume of the cerebral cortex.

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