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1. Biophotonic Therapy is the use of light to activate the healing properties of the blood. BT is photomedicine and has a well-characterized clinical profile. A dozen books and some 400 articles in the medical literature describe Biophotonic Therapy. Other common names for BT are Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation and Photoluminescence Therapy.
2. In BT’s extracorporeal form, ultraviolet and visible light are used to treat a small amount of blood, which is then reinfused.
3. In BT’s intravenous form, a low-intensity laser (generally at 632.8 nm) shines through a waveguide inside a needle into the blood. BT can also be administered sublingually. Continue reading »

Drug-resistant microorganisms, major infectious diseases, looming influenza pandemics, and scary biowarfare agents all call out for development of new antimicrobial drugs. While scientists are combing the plant and animal realms for promising candidates, quite a few of their efforts remain hit-and-miss. After many years of testing, the outcomes often disappoint. Meanwhile, even excellent drugs like artemisinin in the treatment of malaria risk losing their effectiveness as poor and ignorant people around the world use them in ways that conduce to the rise of drug resistance.

So there is a palpable need for a source of novel antimicrobials that can keep one step ahead of the rise of drug-resistant bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites. Here is one idea for how to obtain them. Continue reading »

Finding an effective, low-cost therapy for early-stage HIV should be a priority of international efforts to control this devastating epidemic. While the price of protease inhibitors in developing countries is dropping because of concessions by pharmaceutical companies and market penetration by copycat generic drug manufacturers in India and elsewhere, protease inhibitors have many drawbacks:

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[For a fuller discussion of Biophotonic Therapy and the underlying science, including citations to the medical literature, see Close-to-Nature Medicine, Intriguing Anomalies: An Introduction to Scientific Detective Work, and Healing Photons: The Science and Art of Blood Irradiation Therapy.]

Biophotonic Therapy uses light in an extracorporeal or intravenous mode to activate the chemiluminescence of the blood cells, a form of immunity inherited from humankind’s distant oligocellular ancestors. BT has an instructive 80-year history (see below); a range of modalities; well-characterized mechanisms of action; a wide array of indications; several counterindications; well-understood, limited side-effects in certain cases; and a scientific literature that now includes some 400 articles as well as a dozen books. No drug resistance to BT has ever been reported. Continue reading »