Alfred Pischinger
Basis for a Holistic Biological Medicine
(Formerly titled - Matrix and Matrix Regulation)
The Extracellular Matrix (ECM) has played a defining role in the European medical tradition since the early part of the twentieth century. Having traced the origin of disease back to the connective tissue, or myofascia, cellular pathologists and biochemists set out to chart the networks of cell communication in the ECM.
Alfred Pischinger (1899-1982) furthered this research and development in works, published from 1926 through the late seventies, drawing the connections between the ECM and both the hormonal and autonomic systems. In the last twenty years Professor and Doctor of Natural Sciences Hartmut Heine and his colleagues have carried on Pischinger's work, here summarized in one volume. Part One encompasses theoretical underpinnings; Part Two and Three address applications and the direction of further research.
This updated English-language translation is not only an account of the work of Pischinger's successors - Heine, Otto Bergsmann, and Felix Perger (the three editors of this volume) and their many colleagues - but it also notes the development of complementary therapies based on a refined understanding of histology. Acupuncture and homeopathy, for example are referenced directly. Both in Europe and the States the work of manual therapists, including Rolfers, craniosacral therapists, and other somatic practitioners, has been informed for many years by Pischinger's understanding that the EMC transmits changes to the central nervous system and the brain, and by extension, to the organs.
Heine's recent work shows that the regulation and construction of the ECM have relationships to cybernetic non-linear systems and phase transitions. Less is known in the United State, Pischinger's work shows the matrix to be vital to all bodily functions, acting as a bodywide support and communication system that regulates metabolic cellular processes. As James Oschman relates in his introduction, "the matrix components are actually semiconducting liquid crystals, materials known to have a variety of remarkable properties for the transmission, storage, and processing of information involved in regulations."
This previously unavailable text invites debate among American researchers, cell biologists, and medical students and should be of interest to physicians concerned with early indications of illness and disease.
ISBN: 9781556436888
