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15/01/2024

The matrix system [essential base tissue] is a functional unit consisting of the capillary bed, the connective tissue cells and the autonomic nerve endings.
The area of activity consists of the extracellular fluid and the extracellular spaces. The lymphatics are connected to this system.
It is part of all inflammatory and immune processes.
The very existence of all organ cells depends upon the intact functioning of the system. Disease results from dysfunction of this system. The extra cellular matrix system reacts either locally of generally. Chronic disease is maintained by [1] stress factors and [2] reaction processes of the matrix system.
A cell cannot be considered by itself without taking its environment into account.
Bechamp’s work shows that the cause of disease lies within the blood, cells and tissue fluids. Lipton says the intra and extra-cellular fluids are highly significant in genetic changes [‘it’s the environment’ that affects cells].
The organisation of the extracellular matrix can be seen in the connective and supporting tissues including the blood. The matrix is bound by sugar-protein polymers in a variety of forms with protein and lipid binding forms of intercellular substances. Proteoglycans [PG] predominate EG collagen, elastin etc., within the matrix. The proteoglycans, glycos-aminoglycans and glycoproteins form a molecular sieve through which the entire metabolism of the capillaries must pe*****te. The pore size is determined by the concentration of proteoglycans in the tissue compartment, the PG molecular weight, the electrolytes and the ph. The negative charge on the PG has a crucial effect upon fluid movement and guarantee ionic and osmotic homeostasis.
Connective tissue has more than a mere supporting and filling function; it carries out nutritive and regenerative tasks in the service of specific organ function, as well as being a mediator of circulatory and nerve functions. The connective tissue substance is a vital binding substance. Nerves and blood vessels do not come into direct contact with functioning cells but the connective tissue facilitates support that allows nerve impulses and nutrition to move throughout the body. Only the connective tissue has direct contact with all bodily parts.
Parenchymal cells require nutrition via the blood; in turn involving the capillaries and nerves. Parenchyma has a role in transmission of nutrients throughout their canaliculi [channels]. Lymphatic vessels are found everywhere throughout the connective tissue.
The connections between the cell and the capillary bed is through the extracellular matrix. Disruptions to the matrix are the cause of disease.
Connective tissue cannot be considered separately from the capillary vessels, blood and blood formation. Specific diseases are misleading as they only consider only one of the components of the connective tissues – either the fibres or the fluids. The cell is the central point in the connective tissue. The cell and its reactions are the visible expressions of the ANS activity and the reactivity of the connective tissue.
Tissue is thermodynamic with open energy throughout the cells; this energetic exchange allows nutrition to spread through the body. Minerals spread nutrition throughout the entire system.
The extracellular matrix is connected into the endocrine gland system through the capillaries and to the CNS by peripheral autonomic nerve fibres which end blindly in the extracellular matrix. Since both systems are connected to each other in the brain stem; the higher regulatory centres can be influenced through the extracellular matrix. Capillaries, nerves and connective tissue cells that regulate the ground substance can reciprocally be influenced through wandering tissue cells – macrophages, leucocytes and mast cells. The same capillaries, nerves and connective tissue cells can be influenced through information from released cell products EG cytokines, prostaglandins, proteases etc. This creates a vast interlinked humoral system. The advantage of this system lies in a considerable increase in adaptability that cannot be achieved by adding the single properties of the components.
Extracted from ‘Herbal Medicine Keys to Physiomedicalism including Pharmacopoeia’. 3rd Ed. 2023. Christopher Menzies-Trull. Available from

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15/01/2024

MATRIX SYSTEM after Pischinger [2007] et al.
The matrix system [essential base tissue] is a functional unit consisting of the capillary bed, the connective tissue cells and the autonomic nerve endings.
The area of activity consists of the extracellular fluid and the extracellular spaces. The lymphatics are connected to this system.
It is part of all inflammatory and immune processes.
The very existence of all organ cells depends upon the intact functioning of the system. Disease results from dysfunction of this system. The extra cellular matrix system reacts either locally of generally. Chronic disease is maintained by [1] stress factors and [2] reaction processes of the matrix system.
A cell cannot be considered by itself without taking its environment into account.
Bechamp’s work shows that the cause of disease lies within the blood, cells and tissue fluids. Lipton says the intra and extra-cellular fluids are highly significant in genetic changes [‘it’s the environment’ that affects cells].
The organisation of the extracellular matrix can be seen in the connective and supporting tissues including the blood. The matrix is bound by sugar-protein polymers in a variety of forms with protein and lipid binding forms of intercellular substances. Proteoglycans [PG] predominate EG collagen, elastin etc., within the matrix. The proteoglycans, glycos-aminoglycans and glycoproteins form a molecular sieve through which the entire metabolism of the capillaries must pe*****te. The pore size is determined by the concentration of proteoglycans in the tissue compartment, the PG molecular weight, the electrolytes and the ph. The negative charge on the PG has a crucial effect upon fluid movement and guarantee ionic and osmotic homeostasis.
Connective tissue has more than a mere supporting and filling function; it carries out nutritive and regenerative tasks in the service of specific organ function, as well as being a mediator of circulatory and nerve functions. The connective tissue substance is a vital binding substance. Nerves and blood vessels do not come into direct contact with functioning cells but the connective tissue facilitates support that allows nerve impulses and nutrition to move throughout the body. Only the connective tissue has direct contact with all bodily parts.
Parenchymal cells require nutrition via the blood; in turn involving the capillaries and nerves. Parenchyma has a role in transmission of nutrients throughout their canaliculi [channels]. Lymphatic vessels are found everywhere throughout the connective tissue.
The connections between the cell and the capillary bed is through the extracellular matrix. Disruptions to the matrix are the cause of disease.
Connective tissue cannot be considered separately from the capillary vessels, blood and blood formation. Specific diseases are misleading as they only consider only one of the components of the connective tissues – either the fibres or the fluids. The cell is the central point in the connective tissue. The cell and its reactions are the visible expressions of the ANS activity and the reactivity of the connective tissue.
Tissue is thermodynamic with open energy throughout the cells; this energetic exchange allows nutrition to spread through the body. Minerals spread nutrition throughout the entire system.
The extracellular matrix is connected into the endocrine gland system through the capillaries and to the CNS by peripheral autonomic nerve fibres which end blindly in the extracellular matrix. Since both systems are connected to each other in the brain stem; the higher regulatory centres can be influenced through the extracellular matrix. Capillaries, nerves and connective tissue cells that regulate the ground substance can reciprocally be influenced through wandering tissue cells – macrophages, leucocytes and mast cells. The same capillaries, nerves and connective tissue cells can be influenced through information from released cell products EG cytokines, prostaglandins, proteases etc. This creates a vast interlinked humoral system. The advantage of this system lies in a considerable increase in adaptability that cannot be achieved by adding the single properties of the components.
Extracted from ‘Herbal Medicine Keys to Physiomedicalism including Pharmacopoeia’. 3rd Ed. 2023. Christopher Menzies-Trull. Available from www.rainbowherbs.co.uk

10/10/2023

Disease is a tissue state
Thurston [13] says, ‘Any substance or influence that will change the normal vital standard of functional potency in the living matter of cells must secondarily and proportionately pervert the functional integrity and harmony of the organised tissues and structures. No substance can alter the functional activity, except as it changes the conditions of the cell’. If conditions are normal, then normal physiology follows. If a substance produces abnormal conditions in the cell it is inimical to the cell and perverted functional cellular activity will result. When the cell is invaded by any abnormal influence, it will increase the functional activity to elevate eliminative functions. ‘This altered vital action ensues from some extrinsic inimical influence’.

Symptoms can arise from two sources

[1] Functional secondary effects within the tissues as a result of disturbance within the cell
[2] The Vital Force resisting disease will produce effects on any of three levels:

• Cellular level
• Within the whole body at a level within the capacity to adapt and heal
• Where the body produces symptoms because it is under threat

Other effects that occur such as inflammation, fever, irritation and pain always follow cellular disease changes within the cell. These effects are functional aberrations and are symptoms and signs of an abnormal tissue state. The mitochondria generate ATP energy and become impaired due to mercury, statins, oxidative stress, tissue fluid encumbrance and genetic disturbance [891].

Thurston’s principia calls us to ‘demand a readjustment of old ideas and principles to a clear hypothesis that will admit perfect harmony and rational continuity of each and every known fact into an exact and scientific system of medicine’ [13].

The more recent study of quantum physics explains: Matter is solid and has a force field [wave]. When looked at in terms of energy, we describe them as voltage potentials; energy waves [823. 989. 990]. The radiesthesia technique and electro-magnetic therapy is now proved by science [991]. Radiesthesia is an analytical method allied to radionics.

Electromagnetic regulation [1431] regulates
[1] DNA, RNA and protein synthesis
[2] alters protein shape and function
[3] controls gene regulation
[4] hormone secretion
[5] cell division
[6] cell differentiation
[7] morphogenesis
[8] nerve growth and function [823. 992].

Scientists and researchers proposing a materialistic bias in treatment with their theories being messenger, hormone, infection, cytokine etc., have completely ignored the role that energy [Vital Force] plays in health and disease. Researchers have discovered that acquired traits can be inherited without DNA. They tested roundworms without RNAi [without mRNA] and infected them with a virus; the worms were still able to protect themselves against the virus [993. 994]. Epigenetic change refers to the heritable changes in the expression of the gene. This does not involve changes to the underlying DNA. Epigenetics suggests that genes that are expressed in our phenotype can be affected by the cellular environment, age, environment, lifestyle, diet and exercise [995. 1431. 2475]. About 8% of human DNA is made up of endogenous retroviruses [ERV’s], which are DNA sequences from viruses that pass from generation to generation. The finding suggests that the same viruses that infect us today have their origins in our ancestors, and the link establishes the possibility for research into whether modern diseases like HIV and cancer have origins in the past [2516. 2517]. Physiomedical philosophy has a significant update with biophoton and vibrational activity causing contraction in the DNA whereby energy is emitted [2647].

Extracted from 'Herbal Medicine Keys to Physiomedicalism including Pharmacopoeia'. 3rd ed [Copyright]

10/10/2023

Extracted from 'Herbal Medicine Keys to Physiomedicalism including Pharmacopoeia'. 3rd ed [Copyright]
Disease is a tissue state
Thurston [13] says, ‘Any substance or influence that will change the normal vital standard of functional potency in the living matter of cells must secondarily and proportionately pervert the functional integrity and harmony of the organised tissues and structures. No substance can alter the functional activity, except as it changes the conditions of the cell’. If conditions are normal, then normal physiology follows. If a substance produces abnormal conditions in the cell it is inimical to the cell and perverted functional cellular activity will result. When the cell is invaded by any abnormal influence, it will increase the functional activity to elevate eliminative functions. ‘This altered vital action ensues from some extrinsic inimical influence’.

Symptoms can arise from two sources

[1] Functional secondary effects within the tissues as a result of disturbance within the cell
[2] The Vital Force resisting disease will produce effects on any of three levels:

• Cellular level
• Within the whole body at a level within the capacity to adapt and heal
• Where the body produces symptoms because it is under threat

Other effects that occur such as inflammation, fever, irritation and pain always follow cellular disease changes within the cell. These effects are functional aberrations and are symptoms and signs of an abnormal tissue state. The mitochondria generate ATP energy and become impaired due to mercury, statins, oxidative stress, tissue fluid encumbrance and genetic disturbance [891].

Thurston’s principia calls us to ‘demand a readjustment of old ideas and principles to a clear hypothesis that will admit perfect harmony and rational continuity of each and every known fact into an exact and scientific system of medicine’ [13].

The more recent study of quantum physics explains: Matter is solid and has a force field [wave]. When looked at in terms of energy, we describe them as voltage potentials; energy waves [823. 989. 990]. The radiesthesia technique and electro-magnetic therapy is now proved by science [991]. Radiesthesia is an analytical method allied to radionics.

Electromagnetic regulation [1431] regulates
[1] DNA, RNA and protein synthesis
[2] alters protein shape and function
[3] controls gene regulation
[4] hormone secretion
[5] cell division
[6] cell differentiation
[7] morphogenesis
[8] nerve growth and function [823. 992].

Scientists and researchers proposing a materialistic bias in treatment with their theories being messenger, hormone, infection, cytokine etc., have completely ignored the role that energy [Vital Force] plays in health and disease. Researchers have discovered that acquired traits can be inherited without DNA. They tested roundworms without RNAi [without mRNA] and infected them with a virus; the worms were still able to protect themselves against the virus [993. 994]. Epigenetic change refers to the heritable changes in the expression of the gene. This does not involve changes to the underlying DNA. Epigenetics suggests that genes that are expressed in our phenotype can be affected by the cellular environment, age, environment, lifestyle, diet and exercise [995. 1431. 2475]. About 8% of human DNA is made up of endogenous retroviruses [ERV’s], which are DNA sequences from viruses that pass from generation to generation. The finding suggests that the same viruses that infect us today have their origins in our ancestors, and the link establishes the possibility for research into whether modern diseases like HIV and cancer have origins in the past [2516. 2517]. Physiomedical philosophy has a significant update with biophoton and vibrational activity causing contraction in the DNA whereby energy is emitted [2647].

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02/10/2023

The herbalist's Physiomedical application of tissue conditions. [Copyright]. Extracted from 'Herbal Medicine Keys to Physiomedicalism including Pharmacopoeia'. 3rd Edition

19/09/2023

VITALITY AND THE VITAL FORCE

Vitality and Vital Force are terms often confused when put side by side. They mean two quite different things.
Vitality, reserve vital energy and life tenacity are terms used to consider the prognosis of the patient. Consideration is given to their relevance in herbal practice.

Vitality means an individual’s hold on life [Oxford dictionary]. Thurston says ‘vitality relates to the force and vigour of vital action as manifest by the general functional activities’ [13]. An individual has a level of vigour that is part of their personality. One may be said to be vigorous, full of pep and energy. Vitality levels are dependent upon a healthy functioning of the central nervous system [CNS]. The vital and vigorous types are less susceptible to disease aetiology.

‘Vitality is a measure of vital expenditure’ say Priest and Priest [6. 13. 254].

Vital Force is a term used by Physiomedicalists to explain the amount of energy within the bodily tissues and organs.
Vital Force is one form of cellular energy present in the cell nucleus and mitochondria [890]. The Vital Force is the life force.

Liebig gives his comments on the Vital Force. ‘It is a great and comprehensive law of matter that its particles possess no self-activity, no inherent power of originating motion when at rest. Motion must be imparted by some extraneous cause. The Vital Force is manifested in the form of resistance, in as much as by its presence in the living tissues, their elements acquire the power of withstanding the disturbance and change in their form and composition which external agents tend to produce: a power which as chemical compounds, they do not possess. The laws of life cannot be investigated in an organised being which is dead or dying’ [6].

The Vital Force is ‘a form of energy ordering the movement of matter at an organic level’ [6]. In some of these individuals when one condition clears, another condition replaces it. There may not be enough vital energy to remove the causative condition permanently [985].

‘Vitality builds up the frame, repairs it and maintains its motions, this power also resists the influences of destruction and preserves the body against other forces that incline it to decay’, explains Cook [11]. We experience vitality as resilient when an individual feels healthy and robust together with the absence of negative emotional disorder. Negative emotions such as fear, worry or depression all deplete vitality and immune response, and induce illness. Some individuals maintain a very strong hold on life, even in the presence of severe disease; such people keep on struggling, never giving in to illness. Where depleted vitality is encountered, frequent illness can be found. Lowered vitality is a primary cause of disease [42].

Typology [somatotype] enables the herbalist to assess the levels of potential energy within the tissues. Asthenic types expend their energy rapidly due to autonomic instability. Pyknic types have more direct control over their energy because of greater autonomic stability. Typology supports the view of autonomic nerve balance in the individual.
[See Chapter Diagnosis: Typology].

Vital resistance ‘The resistive and eliminative capacity of the Vital Force as manifest in the individual under exposure to disease causations’ [13]. Vital resistance enables the cell to resist disease environments.

Reserve vitality ‘The reserve vital energy remaining in the cell during the functional activities in health and disease’ [13]. Resting or potential energy is held in the tissues as reserve energy. In disease conditions, the potential energy becomes kinetic energy and some is used to neutralise disease.

Life tenacity is expressed as ‘one's will to live’. ‘The persistence with which an individual clings to life under adverse environments and severe disease conditions’ [13].

The attributes of Vital Force, vital resistance, etc., if related to the constitution [typology and level of trophicity] will be valuable when making a forecast as to the patient’s prognosis.

Flower remedies for the emotions are found useful in such cases of depleted vitality with emotional disorder.

Extracted from Herbal Medicine Keys to Physiomedicalism including Pharmacopoeia 3rd ed.

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