Bioelectricity or bioelectromagnetics has varieties of meanings to Western medicine as well as Oriental medicine. Energy, resonance, pattern, fields, interaction are examples of concepts explaining the physiologic characters of the bioelectricity.
There are enough number of pieces of information that bioelectricity is useful. Pain control, facilitating bone healing, understanding the developmental phenomenon and bringing order out of chaos in neural function are examples.
Most challenging issue is that skepticism still exists within the scientific community due to lack of standardization and homogeneity with trial designs and dosages.
I would like to address views of some Western researchers on the bioelectricity as a new changing concept and how to evaluate the effect in a common scientific way.
Paragraphs listed below are selected copies of key issues raised by researchers in peerreviewed
literature.