THE INTERNATIONAL JOSEPH H. NAVACH PROJECT
HUMAN ENERGY SYSTEMS LABORATORY
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON
JOHN M. ACKERMAN, M.D.
PROJECT DIRECTOR
BACKGROUND AND MISSION STATEMENT
The
beginning of the 21st century highlights both brilliant Western
medical technical accomplishment and professional networking. However, most
modern approaches to medical care are too expensive and impersonal to assist
comprehensively in the prevention of illness and in the care for those who
suffer.
Joseph
H. Navach, M.D., orthopedic surgeon, devoted his professional life helping
people who were seriously compromised surgically as well as medically to return
to reasonable functioning, utilizing traditional medical techniques and
cutting-edge clinical biophysics.
Navach
was guided by the Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS), a diagnostic acupuncture
pulse technique discovered and developed in the early 1950’s at the medical
school in Lyon, France, by neurologist, Paul Nogier.
The
VAS is a reflex. It is initiated by any stimulus inside or outside a human or
other animal. An outside stimulus can be present in the immediate external
environment of the subject without touching the subject. When a stimulus is
present, the physiological response in the subject is an instantaneous change in
the tone of the wall of all arteries. Clinically, the non-invasive palpation of
the change in the tone of the wall of the radial artery in conjunction with a
Timed Therapeutic Window has been utilized to evaluate the potential usefulness
of acupuncture needles, food, medications, etc. The manual use of
Nogier’s magnificent discovery has been carried forward by several thousand
physicians worldwide over the past forty years.
Few
physicians in the U.S.A. know about the uses of the VAS. Navach did, however,
and he became fascinated with Paul Nogier’s manual Auricular Medicine
techniques, recognizing their usefulness in combination with traditional
medicine and foreseeing their potential applicability to medicine in the future.
Navach believed that the VAS should be considered as a guide regarding the
status of homeostasis and the regaining of homeostasis.
Dr. Navach’s mother, father and sister were pharmacists with great interest in herbal formulations. That influence plus a great interest in physics gave foundation to Joseph’s interest in the medical profession.
Joseph
was a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and practiced
orthopedic surgery in Van Nuys, California. He did his medical training at
McGill University, receiving both Doctor of Medicine and Master of Surgery
degrees, followed by training in General Surgery, Neurosurgery and Orthopedic
Surgery at the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, and at
the Brown University-Rhode Island Hospital Medical Center.
His general medical skills were refined during a three-year practice of
Emergency Medicine. Active duty as a military surgeon for three years was then
followed by private practice.
During
the last 18 years of his life, Dr. Navach, in addition to his surgical practice,
devoted much of his time to basic science research on the Vascular Autonomic
Signal (VAS) to understand its biochemistry, physiology and clinical
applications. He hoped ultimately to develop technology to duplicate,
independent of an operator, the way in which the VAS, when utilized manually,
can help to discriminate clinically which therapeutic vehicles might be useful.
Once automated, the process could help to lead civilizations internationally
toward a more gentle, sensitive, humane and non-invasive approach to diagnosis,
treatment and healing.
In
fact, Navach was one of the first to set scientific precedent at the Group
Lyonnais d’Etude Medicales (GLEM), reporting as early as 1980 at annual
meetings on various topics, including recording of the VAS using infrared
reflection and three types of ultrasound: continuous wave form, Doppler and set
angle reflection. He observed, with the use of a computer, that the changing
area under the recorded arterial pulse wave can be utilized to document the
degree of health or illness of a patient at any moment in time as well as the
category, specific type and amount of medication that might be needed.
Navach
also discovered how to evaluate which aspect of the brain is the farthest from
clinical homeostasis. Once that information has been obtained, a clinician can
discern which acupuncture points on the ear to treat in order to have the
greatest impact on the brain imbalance. Such treatment facilitates healing of
various medical problems. Once treatment of acupuncture points has begun,
finding the greatest area of brain imbalance can also, with the use of the VAS,
help the clinician know which amino acids and other supplements to utilize to
maintain the physiologic and biochemical changes that acupuncture has stimulated.
Navach
claimed he identified and isolated special compounds in acupuncture points that
have the capacity to oscillate (vibrate) when induced by stimulation such as
massage, a laser beam, an acupuncture needle, etc. He believed that the
oscillation of, for example, compound A in a peripheral acupuncture point of a
meridian can induce oscillation of the same compound in the next more proximal
point, and so on. The information contained in the oscillations passed on by the
acupuncture point relay system reaches the thalamus, an information exchange
center in the brain. Navach believed that at the thalamus it connects with the
autonomic nervous system which in turn controls the tone of the radial artery
thereby completing the VAS reflex. Navach
also believed that these novel compounds speed the overall healing process by
accelerating the impact of DNA on messenger RNA.
He
also established a way to use Human Lymphocyte Antibodies
(HLA’s), phenotypes A through D, in conjunction with an individual’s
complete blood count (CBC) and arthritis and chemistry panels to predict which
foods, based on any one individual’s genetics, should be avoided because they
may contribute to the inhibition of the process of healing.
Navach’s
basic science research became the cornerstone for his development of
electromagnetic prototypes to facilitate healing and develop optimal physical,
emotional and intellectual capacities of world-class and wheelchair athletes.
For example, he developed a special seat for quadriplegics which reduces
decubiti (pressure) ulcers by fifty percent. The seat prototype utilizes
knowledge about acupuncture points to produce a system which maintains all
pressure points at less than one pound per square inch (1 PSI). A second
prototype measures changing pressures at strategic areas and utilizes a pump to
change the pressure of each area as the pressure on the respective points
changes. Three additional prototypes are still in experimental stages. To date,
the seats have been able to address the needs of paraplegics who were formerly
bedridden and who, with the help of these prototypes, can now sit and even drive
cars.
In
1997, after her husband’s untimely death, Beverly Navach, M.D., was presented
an award by the Governor of New Mexico honoring Joseph Navach for the special
seat he created. This success reflected the first conversion of a government
contract to civilian use.
Beverly
Navach, their four children and three grandchildren survive Joseph.
She is eager for others to corroborate her late husband’s work.
ANNOUNCING
THE INTERNATIONAL JOSEPH H. NAVACH PROJECT
In
memory of Joseph Navach’s pioneering research and clinical work, the Human
Energy Systems Laboratory at the University of Arizona, Tucson, under the
directorship of Gary Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Medicine,
Neurology and Psychiatry, have initiated the Joseph H. Navach Project (JHNP).
The
JHNP will validate the Vascular Autonomic Signal (VAS) phenomenon and its
clinical application and will develop its eventual automation.
The
Director’s primary responsibility is to contact people internationally already
independently interested in pieces of the following Mission Statement without
knowing such is related to the Project -- and subsequently shepherd a
coordinated effort.
Objectives
for the Project are:
1)
Document the phenomenon that humans without the use of their usual
senses (vision, hearing, taste, etc.) are aware with conscious intent and/or
without conscious intent of objects in the external environment close to but not
touching them. In therapeutic situations, clinicians hold samples of
medication, nutrients, herbs, etc. near to but not touching a patient’s head
while simultaneously palpating the wall of the patient’s radial artery.
Specific timed tonal changes of the vascular wall quickly provide the clinician
with additional information regarding which therapeutic substance(s) to utilize.
This can be extremely valuable in situations such as wartime, national
disasters, rural territory and third world countries. For example, the selection
of the proper antibiotic in an emergency infectious situation prior to the
completion of a microbe culture can provide more concrete information to a
clinician besides the use of medical history and knowledge of a culture’s
endemic medical situation at any moment in time. The scientific recording and
publishing of research data regarding changing physiologic parameters, such as
skin temperature, electroencephalogram, pupillary size, eye movement, variations
in the vascular system, etc. when stimuli, in double-blind fashion, are placed
near to but not touching research subjects will provide a scientific basis for
such clinical utilization of the VAS;
2)
Document that humans when clinically utilizing the VAS can with
conscious intent discriminate whether or not a specific medication would be
therapeutic for any one patient with a particular illness at any moment in the
progression of the illness. For example, which
antibiotic should be utilized for a sudden life threatening infection. Or, in an
acute psychiatric situation where agitation is the main challenge, should the
clinician begin with an anti-depressant; and, if so, which one? Or, should the
clinician initiate treatment with medication for anxiety, psychosis or severe
hyperactivity? It would be helpful to obtain such biochemical/physiologic
information rapidly, inexpensively and non-invasively;
3)
Complete the objective, physiologic recording of the VAS.
Internationally, researchers are exploring how better to record from the radial
artery. This involves the development of sensors that not only procure more
persistent information but also do not require a technician to continually
reposition the sensors;
4) Demonstrate that the objective, physiologic recording of the VAS can be utilized to discriminate whether or not a specific medication would be therapeutic for any one patient with a particular illness at any specific moment in the progression of the illness; then, develop such non-invasive technology. Once the instrumentation for recording over the radial artery is perfected – then, one must scientifically prove that the instrument can reproduce what is described (see #2) with the manual VAS technique;
5)
Validate the existence of the heretofore unidentified compounds that
Navach isolated (see page 2, paragraph 4);
6)
Document the physiology, biochemistry and biophysics of the VAS.
Scientifically document whether these novel compounds play a significant role in
the biological dynamics of the VAS reflex and the overall process of healing
(see page 2, paragraph 4);
7)
Tie the above information to research being done in cellular
communication and parapsychology. Holding a substance that needs to be clinically
evaluated near to a person’s head while palpating the radial artery for VAS
information might depend on a.) radar-like energetic emissions from a person's
ear and/or b.)the emission(s) of that substance’s electromagnetic and possibly
other types of energy signatures. These signatures seem to impact biochemical
receptors of the patient. The signature is composed of non-visible light
(photons) waves that are continually leaving the surface of the substance. These
light waves carry identifying information that special (not yet fully
identified) receptors utilize to help us to discriminate what we can and cannot
tolerate. Such information transfer vis-à-vis invisible photons frequently
takes place in nature (e.g., moths finding a mate using infrared beams and DNA
emission of non-visible photons). Many researchers consider photons to be at
least a part of the phenomena of
communication between cells and other forms of more subtle communication
such as mental telepathy;
8)
Compare the VAS with the discriminating capacity of other subtle energy
diagnostic techniques such as kinesiology, the Vega, the Voll, the pendulum,
etc.;
9) Clinically prove with large, multi-center populations the effective application of the manual and automated VAS in:
(a)
preventative medicine and public health
(b)
clinical medicine
(c) plants, agriculture and environment; for example, identifying which nutrients are missing in a particular soil. This requires specialized diagnostic procedures.
(d)
utilization of the VAS to accelerate pharmacologic research
(e) veterinary medicine. The VAS can be utilized to evaluate animals in just as effective a way as in humans. This requires specialized diagnostic procedures.
10)
Duplicate Navach’s research on HLA’s (page 3, paragraph 3).
People
desiring more information, please contact the Director, John M. Ackerman, M.D.
at 2417 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara, California 93105; Telephone:
805-682-1011; FAX: 805-969-6051; E-mail: j439m@silcom.com.