FAQ's

Question: What is the difference between an LED and a low level laser?

Answer: Both contain diodes (a little light with two wires connected to a filament inside) that can be made of the same materials, usually silicon with specific minerals added in specific amounts to produce different colors. In lasers the diode is mounted in a well shaped area (like a small tin can with one end removed) that is lined with reflective material that sends on only one wavelength of light. The result is a narrow beam of light that is concentrated into a beam, referred to as "coherent" light. However, when using low power levels (soft lasers) the light energy does not remain coherent and scatters when it hits the skin. This is given as the explanation why LEDs and low level laser devices have similar healing effects. The source of this information is found in studies from the Russian Academy of Sciences published in the journal Health Physics. LED products have an advantage in price being far more economical.

Question: How is light energy measured?

Answer: Light energy is measured in joules, the energy that is generated when 1 watt of power flows for 1 second. It takes only 1 joule of energy to activate an acupuncture point.

Question: What colors of LEDs work the best?

Answer: Red has been used in light therapy for hundreds of years shining sunlight on the bare skin through stained glass. Probably more is known about treatment with red wavelengths than other colors. Research in Russia found biologic effects are most active with wavelengths around 440, 630 to 660, and 880 nanometers, corresponding to blue, red, and infrared (beyond what humans can see). Red seems to stimulate the system, blue to sedate. In recent studies blue light from LEDs has been effective in treating jaundice of the newborn, and a specific wavelength of blue light in treating acne. Other colors may have additional indications, especially when used on specific acupunture points.

Question: Why are your instruments pulsed to Nogier's frequencies?

Answer: We tried out products of several other manufacturers of LED products and discovered for ourselves pulsed devices are more effective than non-pulsed, and those pulsed to the tissue resonance frequencies of Nogier were the most effective. This confirmed the conclusions of veterinary acupuncturists who have been using such devices since 1982. We concur with them that specific wavelengths (color) may be important in specific conditions (as in the acne light), but that pulsing light at Nogier frequencies seems to be more important than wavelength (color) in the healing response for most conditions.

Question: How did Nogier discover his tissue resonance frequencies?

Answer: Dr. Nogier discovered a new radial pulse that is very different than the 12 Chinese pulses. He felt the radial artery with the tip of his thumb, then held things he wanted to test in his free hand and approached the ear. When the energy field of the body is responding to something, subtle characteristics of the pulse change. In one avenue of his work he tested photographic filters of different colors. Lastly he broadcast different frequencies at parts of the body to see how the pulse changed. He gradually found a pattern of responses to frequencies that corresponded to the early embryonic origin of tissues (ectoderm, endoderm, or mesoderm). Although Nogier tested only humans these resonance frequencies later were found to apply to all animals. His reflex test was so sensitive he could accurately tell when a woman was pregnant only 10 days after conception. He also demonstrated to students how the system could diagnosis cancer in its earliest stages (even the stage in which it is nothing more than an electrical disturbance) by using glass slides containing tissue from ground up cancers (confirmed later with standard tests).

Question: Why may treatments with LEDs and the HappySkin phototherapy device fail?

Answer: The more general question is, “Why do any treatments fail?” To be able to launch a healing response the body must be in a condition to respond. If the body is too polluted with environmental chemicals or subclinical malnutrition exists (from eating the Standard American Diet, or SAD) there may be no response to any treatment from any source.

Question: What is the most impressive story you have heard using light for healing?

Answer: A case described in a Spanish laser journal. A man had chronic infections in both tibias for 40 years (osteomyelitis-the most dreaded infection for orthopedic surgeons). An all out effort was made to clear up the right leg ending with a skin graft that was automatically treated with low-level laser therapy (remember, this was in Europe, not the US). On the left side he had an even more devastating problem with a draining fistula tract connecting the bone infection with the skin. After 10 weeks of light therapy on the right leg the osteomyelitis and fistula in the untreated left leg healed completely! The doctors were so surprised they published this single case report as an example of “remote” healing (see ref. #13 in the reference secton of the site).