Georges Lakhovsky, Bioelectric Pioneer (1869-1942)
By Ken Adachi
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On our Forbidden Cures page, we briefly
touched on the work of Georges Lakhovsky, a Russian engineer who
had emigrated to France before World War I. In 1929, Lakhovsky published
a book in French called The Secret
of Life. A few years later it was translated into Spanish, German,
and Italian, but it was not until September, 1939 that it was finally published
in London in English; precisely the month when Hitler attacked Poland and
kicked off World War II. The book received almost no attention in the English
press or from the North American medical establishment.
What Lakhovsky discovered was simply mind boggling: He postulated that
all living cells (plants, people, bacteria, parasites, etc.) possess attributes
which normally are associated with electronic circuits. These cellular
attributes include resistance, capacitance, and inductance.
These 3 electrical properties, when properly configured, will cause the
recurrent generation or oscillation of high frequency sine waves
when sustained by a small, steady supply of outside energy of the right
frequency. This effect is known as resonance. It's easiest to compare
it with a child swinging on a playground swing. As long as the parent pushes
the swing a little at the right moment (the correct 'frequency'), the child
will continue to swing high and continuously. In electronics, circuits
which generate these recurrent sine waves can be called electromagnetic resonators,
but more commonly they are referred to as oscillators. Lakhovsky
tells us that not only do all living cells produce and
radiate
oscillations of very high frequencies, but they also receive and
respond to oscillations imposed upon them from outside sources. This
outside source of radiation or oscillations are due to cosmic rays
which bombard the earth continuously. This stupendous realization, achieved
during the golden years of radio, not only led to a new method of healing
by the application of high frequency waves, but broadened appreciation
for the newly emerging field of hidden science known as Radionics or
Radiathesia.
When these outside sources of oscillations are in sympathy, that
is they are exactly the same frequency as that produced by the cell,
the strength and vigor of that cell will be reinforced and become stronger.
If, on the other hand, these outside frequencies are of a slightly different
frequency, rather than reinforce the cell's native oscillations, they might
dampen or weaken them, resulting in a loss of vigor and vitality for that
cell. The cells of disease causing organisms within an infected person,
produce different frequencies than that of normal, healthy cells. For people
or plants suffering from disease conditions, Lakhovsky found that if he
could increase the amplitude (but not the frequency) of the oscillations
of healthy cells, this increase would overwhelm and dampen the oscillations
produced
by the disease causing cells, thus bringing about the demise of the
disease causing cells trying to set up shop in the body. If he pumped up
the amplitude of the disease causing cells, their oscillations would
gain the upper hand and cause the person or plant to become weaker and
more ill. Lakhovsky viewed the progression of disease as essentially a
battle between the resonant oscillations of host cells versus the oscillations
emanating from pathogenic organisms.
He initially proved his theory using plants. In December, 1924, he inoculated
10 germanium plants with a plant cancer that produced tumors. After
30 days, tumors had developed in all of the plants. He took one of the
10 infected plants and simply fashioned a heavy copper wire in a
one loop, open-ended coil about 30 cm (12") in diameter around the
center of the plant. and held it in place with an ebonite stake . The copper
coil acted as an antennae or a tuning coil, collecting and
concentrating oscillation energy from extremely high frequency cosmic
rays. The diameter of the cooper loop determined which range of
frequencies would be captured. He found that the 30 cm loop captured frequencies
that fell within
the resonant frequency range of the plant's cells.
This captured energy
reinforced the resonant oscillations naturally
produced by the nucleus of the germanium's cells. This allowed the plant
to overwhelm the oscillations of the cancer cells and destroy the
cancer. The tumors fell off in less than 3 weeks and by 2 months, the
plant was thriving. All of the other cancer-inoculated plants-without
the antennae coil- died within 30 days. In his book, Lakhovsky shows pictures
of the recovered plant after 2 months,
6 months, and 1 year. Three years later, with the original coil left in
place, the plant grew into a very
robust specimen.
Taking his cue from the germanium experiments, Lakhovsky then fashioned
loops of copper wire that could be worn around the waist, neck, elbows,
wrists, knees, or ankles of people (or animals) and found that (given enough
time) much relief of painful symptoms were obtained. These simple coils,
worn continuously around certain parts of the body, would invigorate the
the strength of the human cells and increased the immune response which
in turn took care of the offending pathogens. At the time, when news spread
of the success achieved with these "Lakhovsky Coils", many Europeans
were clamoring to get their own and often had to wait for months due to
the backlog. One of the
main reasons why so many people find copper wrist bracelets effective and
beneficial is because the bracelet is functioning as a Lakhovsky Coil (it's
also providing minute trace amounts of copper to the body, which helps
too). To achieve the Lakhovsky effect, it's important that the coil (or
bracelet) is "open" and made of copper. Closed rings simply don't work.
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Lakhovsky's Multi-Wave Oscillator (MWO)
Geroges Lakhovsky publication of the English version of The Secret
of Life at the very outbreak of World War II went unnoticed and little
reviewed, but Lakhovsky's reputation for obtaining dramatic results with
his amazing Multi-Wave Oscillator gained
world wide attention nevertheless. By 1941, he had made his way to New
York, escaping the Nazi occupation of France. Mark Clement, in The Waves
that Heal, describes how Lakhovsky was approached by many people and
organizations hoping to capitalize on his MWO therapy. A film was
made by an " enterprising beautician" which featured several cases following
treatment with the MWO that "proved to be both interesting and convincing"
. Lakhovsky was also approached by several hospitals in New York hoping
to test his apparatus experimentally. Remarkable results were obtained
from a seven week clinical trial performed at a major New York City
hospital and that of a prominent Brooklyn urologist in the summer of 1941.
Later editions of The Secret of Life detailed many of these cases.
What seemed like a promising development in the use of the MWO in America
quickly faded after Lakhovsky unexpectedly died in New York in 1942
at the age of 73. His equipment was removed from the hospital and
patients were told that the therapy was no longer available. Except for
this brief trial in New York, Lakhovsky's work remained completely unknown
to the American public. Even the spectacular success of the New York cases
were quickly forgotten; an unlikely lapse of memory in the natural scheme
of things. It seems that hidden hands were at work when it came to obliterating
the memory of Lakhovsky's Multi-Wave Oscillator in America.
The Beck Rescue
Lakhovsky's name and achievements probably would have continued to remain
unknown in America had it not been for the efforts of Dr. Bob
Beck, D. Sc.. In1963, Bob found an original Lakhovsky
MWO stored in the basement of a well known hospital in southern California.
He managed to gain access to the machine and opened it up to see what was
inside. He undoubtedly examined Lakhovsky's US patent of the Multi-Wave
Oscillator as well (US patent # 1,962,565). He then wrote a series of articles
which were published in the Borderlands Journal that explained how
the MWO worked. A number of people began building their own MWO's based
on Beck's articles in Borderlands. Later, in 1986, Borderlands put together
a big manual called The Lakhovsky Multiple Wave Oscillator Handbook which was updated and revised again in 1988, '92, and '94. The Handbook
includes
a compilation of informative articles by many authoritative researchers
on the MWO, including translated articles by Lakhovsky himself.
MWO in Operation
The MWO works by producing a broad range of high frequency pulsed signals
that radiate energy into the patient via two round resonators: one resonator
acting as a transmitter and the other as a receiver. The resonator is constructed
from a series of open ended circular copper tubes terminated with ball
shaped knobs. The copper tube rings nest one inside the other, but none
touch each other. The ring assembly is held in place with silk thread in
Lakhovsky's original design. Each ring has its open ended termination placed
180 degrees opposite from its adjacent ring. The machine generates a very
wide spectrum of high frequencies coupled with static high voltage charges
applied to the resonators using spark gaps.. These high voltages cause
a corona discharge around the perimeter of the outside resonator ring that
Nikola Tesla referred to as an "electric brush", but Lakhovsky used the
French word, "effluvia" or "effluve". The patient sat on a wooden stool
in between the two resonators and was exposed to these energies for about
15 minutes. These amplified, artificially produced multiple frequency waves
sped up the recovery process by stimulating the resonance of healthy cells
in the patient and in doing so, increased the immune response to the disease
organisms. Lakhovsky early experiments with radio frequency generators
used a device he called the Radio Cellular Oscillator, but later
switched to an older 19th century design static generator called a Rhumkorff
Coil which was able to sufficiently excite the resonator coils while
avoiding the potential for thermal damage to the patient, which greatly
concerned Lakhovsky. The MWO produced fundamental waves from 750,000
cycles per second up to 3 billion cycles per second with the harmonics
of these fundamental frequencies extending the covered range much higher
yet.
The circuit design and materials used by Dr. Beck are not exactly the
same that Lakhovsky used, but Beck's design reportedly achieved good results.
The design of Beck's resonators vary in a number of ways from Lakhovsky's.
Bob mounted his nesting rings as flat copper foils on a PC laminate board,
rather then using open suspended copper tube rings as Lakhovsky did. Bob
was looking for a strong enough discharge energy to cause corona flashing
between each of the copper foil rings while Lakhovsky's corona was only
seen on the outer ring of the assembly. Lakhovsky's tubing coils hung suspended
in space by the silk thread, allowing them to physically and electrically
vibrate
at their natural resonant frequency, a significant point of design..
Other contributors to the Borderlands Handbook, such as
Eric
Dollard, Tom Brown, Peter Lindemann, Michael Theroux
and Jorge Resines suggested circuit designs and materials that are
probably closer to Lakhovsky's original equipment. The MWOHandbook
is the best source of information that I'm aware of for building the Multi-Wave
Oscillator. For more information about the MWO Handbook, contact
the Editor.
Educate-Yourself offers a reprint of Lakhovsky's The
Secret of Life and The Waves That Heal by Mark Clement.
(My gratitude to Milan Medvic and Curt Kobylarz for making their Lakhovsky
libraries available to me)
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