A review of current research in microwave resonance therapy: Novel opportunities in medical treatment

Microwave Resonance Therapy (MRT) is a novel medical treatment, which repre sents a synthesis of the ancient Chinese traditional knowledge in medicine (acupuncture) and recent breakthroughs in biophysics. By affecting the appr opriate acupuncture points by the generation of high frequency microwaves ( 52-78 GHz), remarkable clinical results are being achieved in surgery, orth opedic and traumatology, cardiovascular disorders, urology, gynecology, der matology, gastroenterology, pulmology, upper respiratory tract, cardiology, neurology, and oncology during the last decade - the MRT being contraindic ated only in the cases of acute pain in the abdomen demanding an operation, pregnancy, and menstruation cycle. In this paper the quantum-like macrosco pic biophysical basis of the MRT and its technical details are elaborated t oo, offering a new insight in the mechanisms of the assembling gap junction hemichannels upon the internal microwave (MW) electromagnetic field spatio -temporal maximums at the temporary position of the acupuncture system, and , hence, the very biophysical nature of the temporary psychosomatic health or disease. The quantum-like coherent characteristics of the MRT (sharply-r esonant sensory response of the disordered organism, extremely low-intensit y and low-energy non-thermal biologically efficient MW radiation, and negli gible MW energy losses down acupuncture meridians) might be viewed as a con sequence of the existence of biological nonlocal selfconsistent macroscopic quantum potentials, which can give rise to nonlinear coherent EM MW long-r ange maser-like excitations of biological nonlinear absorption medium with the cells as active centers - with acupuncture meridians related to eigenfr equencies and spatio-temporal eigenwaves distributions of every individual biological quantum system. This suggests that a healthy condition might be considered as an absolute minimum (ground state) of the nonlocal selfconsis tent macroscopic quantum potential of the organism. Some disorders of an ac upuncture system correspond to higher minimums of the (spatio-temporally ch angeable) potential hypersurface in energy-configuration space, which possi bly explains the higher sensory responses of the more excited (more disorde red) acupuncture system and the poor MRT sensory response of the healthy ac upuncture system being already in the ground state. Such a picture also sup ports the EM/ionic "optical" ultralowfrequency modulated MW quantum hologra phic neural network-like function of the acupuncture system (similar to com plex-valued oscillatory holographic Hopfield-like neural networks), and its essential relation to consciousness, as strongly suggested from biophysica l modeling of altered states of consciousness. Finally, the ionic aspects o f the acupuncture system are considered, too, as well as the relation of ul tradian (similar to 2-hour) nasal rhythm recognized in Indian swara yoga an d circadian (similar to 24-hour) acupuncture rhythm recognized in Chinese t raditional medicine, and their significance for maintaining the ionic balan ce within acupuncture system, as related to overall health.