Re: Wellness frequencies

>Find those notes! You could be sitting on top of a fortune in the
>'wellness' business. If aroma therapy can make it, why not something with
>sound? I propose that we honor Ivor Darreg and call it Darreg Acoustical
>Frequency Therapy, or DAFT for short....

There are cultures in the world where the relationship between musical
tones and health is taken quite seriously -- notably China. In fact, there
is a tone which is associated with weight loss. (Talk about a potential
fortune!) Weight loss aside, I have no reason to question this general
relationship between health and music.
>
>Seriously, though, I would not be surprised if composite waveforms were
>found to have specific neurological effects, but single frequencies,
>whether related to biological clocks or resonant frequencies, are probably
>going to vary greatly from from individual to individual and then over
>time, so we are really talking about frequency bands not single
>frequencies*. I'm out of my league here, but are viruses so uniform in
>size that particular strains have fixed resonance frequencies, or are
>these fixed rates of oscillation of some sort?
>
Kidney stones are routinely "exploded" through the use of resonant
frequencies. Of course, they are extremely hard and rigid, unlike most
other parts of the body. If viruses were indeed harmed by a resonant
frequency (and would have to be a HIGH frequency!), I would wonder about
all the other parts of the body which were the same size! There is, in
fact, a doctor who has argued against the routine use of ultrasound in
pregnancy, saying that, although no ill effects have been linked to it, the
long term effects of jostling young cells around may be serious.

Bill

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At 09:30 2/25/99 -0800, you wrote:
>From: alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves)
>
>>Find those notes! You could be sitting on top of a fortune in the
>>'wellness' business. If aroma therapy can make it, why not something with
>>sound? I propose that we honor Ivor Darreg and call it Darreg Acoustical
>>Frequency Therapy, or DAFT for short....
>
>There are cultures in the world where the relationship between musical
>tones and health is taken quite seriously -- notably China. In fact, there
>is a tone which is associated with weight loss. (Talk about a potential
>fortune!) Weight loss aside, I have no reason to question this general
>relationship between health and music.
>>
>>Seriously, though, I would not be surprised if composite waveforms were
>>found to have specific neurological effects, but single frequencies,
>>whether related to biological clocks or resonant frequencies, are probably
>>going to vary greatly from from individual to individual and then over
>>time, so we are really talking about frequency bands not single
>>frequencies*. I'm out of my league here, but are viruses so uniform in
>>size that particular strains have fixed resonance frequencies, or are
>>these fixed rates of oscillation of some sort?
>>
>Kidney stones are routinely "exploded" through the use of resonant
>frequencies. Of course, they are extremely hard and rigid, unlike most
>other parts of the body. If viruses were indeed harmed by a resonant
>frequency (and would have to be a HIGH frequency!), I would wonder about
>all the other parts of the body which were the same size! There is, in
>fact, a doctor who has argued against the routine use of ultrasound in
>pregnancy, saying that, although no ill effects have been linked to it, the
>long term effects of jostling young cells around may be serious.
>
>Bill
>
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>^ Bill Alves email: alves@hmc.edu ^
>^ Harvey Mudd College URL: http://www2.hmc.edu/~alves/ ^
>^ 301 E. Twelfth St. (909)607-4170 (office) ^
>^ Claremont CA 91711 USA (909)607-7600 (fax) ^
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Prof. Alves,

Re your post on Feb 25, you may wish to look into what Selcuk Turks were
doing in the 13th Century in Konya for treating mental disorders with music
therapy. Different 'maqam' s were prescribed for different mental disorders
for effective treatment. I was told by a reliable source about vast
literature on the subject in Konya. The importance of music or sound
therapy is just beginning to be re-discovered in modern medicine in Turkey
and possibly elsewhere in the world.

Sincerely,

Dr. Can Akkoc
Alabama School of Mathematics and Science
1255 Dauphin Street
Mobile, AL 36604
USA

Phone: (334) 441-2126
Fax: (334) 441-3290
Web: http://199.20.31.100/GIFT/

Bill Alves point about kidney (and also gall) stones is right, but I
believe that surgeons use a sweeping frequency ultrasound oscillator to
locate the specific resonant frequency of the stone. Again, there is no
particular frequency which can be said to have a universal effect on well
being, but rather a frequency band.

The Chinese example is attractive at first glance, but really collapses
when one considers that the reference pitch has changed over the years and
from region to region -- from the various yellow bell standards to the
present 440 (and rising). So again, no single frequency can be identified.
If, however, the wellness tone is thought of instead as denoting an
_interval_ within the gamut, I would begin to find the idea more plausible.

Can Akkoc's note about the Selcuk Turks and the use of particular maqam to
treat mental disorders is not an example of single tones, but of some
intervallic system. Again, this is more plausible, but I would refer anyone
interested to the ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget's masterful volume
_Music and Trance_ for a very convincing argument against any material
connection between the music used and the induction of trance. Rouget's
argument, with examples from world and historical musics is simply that the
music serves a function in the entire trance complex but is not of itself
instrumental in the trance.

Gentlefolks
Barbara has been prescribing "wellness intervals" for twenty years
Please visit http://www.lambdoma.com

Bill Alves wrote:

> From: alves@orion.ac.hmc.edu (Bill Alves)
>
>