| Infrared light has been purported to relieve pain, | | | | potential and Chinese researchers consider the |
| aid the body in releasing its toxins, improve | | | | band from 2-25 microns as the most therapeutic. |
| circulation and metabolism. How can light have that | | | | That's 2-25 microns of far infrared radiation. The |
| supposed ability? | | | | Japanese too have spent years investigating the |
| Infrared heat application isn't new. It's produced | | | | effects of light on human health and have made |
| by the sun too. This is the heat you feel | | | | great advances. |
| penetrate your skin when you stand in the sun - | | | | Infrared light is an important energy force that |
| and miss when you walk into the shade. Infrared | | | | promotes healing - a raising of the white blood cell |
| energy is also given off as body heat. | | | | count. Why is that good? Because more white |
| Have you ever been outside on a partly cloudy | | | | blood cells mean greater immunity. Greater |
| spring day of about 50F and felt quite | | | | immunity means greater health and a better |
| comfortable until the sun was suddenly obscured | | | | quality of life. |
| by a cloud? Although the air temperature had not | | | | Today we're seeing new technologies employing |
| had time to drop, you felt chilled, as the cloud | | | | far-infrared energy in health care products an din |
| would not let the warming infrared rays through | | | | clinical protocols such as hyperthermic therapies |
| to reach you. | | | | for detoxification and cancer treatment. |
| Incidentally, panels that produce similar infrared | | | | Energy medicine is an ancient practice and Chinese |
| rays are used in hospitals to warm newborn | | | | health practitioners would use healing touch |
| babies. Even NASA has used infrared heat to | | | | therapies for improved cell growth, DNA synthesis |
| keep their astronauts warm. So no need to | | | | and protein synthesis in cells. Although these |
| worry. Infrared energy has nothing to do with | | | | ancient practitioners did not know the technical |
| either ultraviolet radiation (which gives you a | | | | terms as to why their therapy improved health, |
| sunburn and damages your skin) or atomic | | | | they were sure their patients got better. |
| radiation (the kind from a nuclear bomb). | | | | Yes, the human heat from their touch increased |
| The infrared segment of the electromagnetic | | | | immune defense response in which white blood |
| spectrum occurs just below or infra to red light | | | | cells surround and ingested small living things (like |
| as the next lowest energy band of light. This band | | | | bacteria) and cell wastes. |
| of light is not visible to human eyes but can be | | | | Far-infrared heat follows the same principle: warm |
| seen by special cameras that translate infrared | | | | the injury site to speed healing. Why is infrared |
| into colors visible to our eyes. We can, however, | | | | heat better than say, a heating pad? Because the |
| feel this type of light that we perceive as heat. | | | | vibrational energy of far-infrared light is unlike that |
| And according to the "9th edition of Clayton's | | | | of the heat energy we use for everyday |
| Electrotherapy", "infrared is the only antidote to | | | | functions, like cooking. Boiling water could actually |
| excessive ultraviolet radiation." Far infrared heat | | | | damage our skin but it doesn't heat internal |
| energy is also capable of neutralizing the negative | | | | organs. |
| effects of toxic electromagnetic frequencies | | | | Sunlight heats us in a profound way, however, |
| (EMF's). | | | | because it contains penetrating far-infrared rays |
| Because it uses infrared radiant energy to directly | | | | as well as the full range of energy in the |
| penetrate the body's tissues to a depth of over | | | | electromagnetic spectrum. |
| 1.5", researchers have worked at harnessing this | | | | |