Laser acupuncture takes on locals

The system, invented by the Russian Space-center scientists who worked on the program for more than 35 years now, requires exposure of the human skin tissue to a laser light at a certain frequency, which plays in detecting any change in the skin impedance level, thus attaining a scenario of how the flow of energy within the body is getting distributed. The system has been made available for public use recently.

"This laser picks on any irregular change of the body impedance, or any imbalance in the usual energy flow within the body, thus causing an alert from the system's external output devices," explained Saleh Rahman, managing director, SOL. "Only after detecting such imbalance, you may work towards correcting it," he added, pointing to the traditional Chinese acupuncture practice.

Thus, CMD is a system built on the frameworks laid out by ancient Chinese medicine practitioners, according to which biological energy, known as "chi" in traditional Chinese medicine, is generated in internal organs and flows through channels near the skin surface, known as meridians. Acupuncture points, generally located on meridians, are where the flow of the energy can be manipulated. The stimulation at these points by various means affects the energy circulation, thus producing secondary effects in connected organs and systems.

While the Chinese practitioner would make use of his needles to pock on these acupuncture points for producing a beneficial stimulation, the latest therapy includes a laser exposure, as mentioned earlier. Energy regulation takes place and the organ is seen fixed in due time.

"There was a competition between Russia and USA towards better achievements on space-missions and maintenance of proper health conditions of the astronauts in these missions, which played a very significant role in the development of the system," said Rahman.

To maintain proper health status while in the space probes, the Russian astronauts were dosed with CMD on regular basis, and the therapy was continually tested for eleven consecutive years on departed astronauts in the space, proving them a good health. "Laser has its own benefits over the traditional procedures," Rahman stated, citing how chances of bacterial or fungal infections become totally non-exhibiting in such conditions.

A few years back, the system was used on Russian astronauts only and was priced at a million USD per dose. But in time the fractal has dropped down to a sum of USD 20 in current times. "You may call it consumer economy, but when they decided on putting it out for the commons, the demand created its own supply from the manufacturer, thus pulling price down," Rahman mentioned.

Currently, a total of twenty districts in the country, including Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, Bogra, Rajshahi, and Sylhet has outlets using CMD facilities in their medical fronts. "These medical institutions buy what we call 'measurements' from us," Rahman said, while the individual institution gets a complete instrumental and software setup provided by SOL towards providing the laser detection on a patient.

Individual measurements from each patient are then sent, via the internet, to the central CMD-center database located in Germany, one of the countries to whom Russia decided on selling its CMD products at its downfall of communism.

These readings are then compared with data collected from more than 12 million people of similar age and gender under various health-conditions. An instant evaluation is sent back to the host computer with results displayed. "It also suggests places on your body which is in need of the laser exposure corrections," Rahman said. Members may take several readings daily and send them for evaluation, thereby building a health profile that will reveal trends and patterns.

"Until now we have had about fourteen thousand local patients in Bangladesh, and it has just been a year since its official launching last year," the director stated. These figures show a well-expected trend to follow in on such patterns of medical procurements in the local medical sectors.

"If you know that you can protect any of your organs by simply reacting before-hand, why will you not use it?" the director said. Prospects of the diagnosis include prevention from cancer and heart attacks too.

"CMD's objective is to promote an optimum quality of life and longevity," he defined, mentioning how it is essentially about understanding and managing the balances of life-energy forces and stress factors within the human body. "Thus you know why regular checks are important," Rahman continued, "because if treated at an early stage, the onset of a disease may be prevented." More information on the product is available at the company's website www.softalk-online.com.