Das Herz - mehr als nur eine Pumpe

Zusammenfassung

A.T. Still wies dem Herzen eine zentrale Rolle zu. Er glaubte, dass es „Wissen” auf das Blut übertragen würde. Diese Idee wurde von P. Pearsall aufgegriffen, der die Gedächtnisfunktion des Herzen erkannte sowie „eine Stimme, die zu uns spricht, wenn wir bereit sind zuzuhören”. Gibt es wissenschaftliche Beweise dafür, dass das Informationsfeld des Herzens dem Gehirn bei der Kontrolle von Aktivitäten hilft und dass diese Informationen hormonell, elektrisch und rhythmisch enkodiert werden, um an jede Zelle des Körpers weitergegeben zu werden?

Summary

A.T. Still assigned a central role to the heart. He believed that it transports ”knowledge” to the blood. This idea was followed up by P. Pearsall, who recognized that the heart possesses a memory function, as well as ”a voice which speaks to us, if we are prepared to listen.” Is there any scientific proof that the heart's information field helps the brain to control certain activities, and that the information contains hormonal, electrical and rhythmical coding, to allow it to be transported to every cell in the body?

Résumé

Le coeur - plus qu'une pompe

Le fondateur de l'ostéopathie, A.T. Still, attribua au coeur une fonction centrale. Il croyait, qu'il transmettait au sang du ”savoir”. Cette idée fut reprise par O. Pearsall qui reconnut la fonction de mémoire du coeur ainsi ”qu'une voix qui nous parle quand nous sommes prêts à l'écouter”. Existe-t-il des preuves scientifiques à savoir que le champ d'information du coeur aide le cerveau à contrôler nos activités et que ces informations peuvent être décodées du point de vue hormonal, électrique et rhytmique afin d'être transmises à chaque cellule du corps ?

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