An Early Warning for Health Screening — the Hyper-microscopic Examination System and Its Medical Application
Pingxintang Clinic has brought in a new examination instrument that can deliver a comprehensive, timely, accurate, fast, and painless health diagnosis from a single drop of blood. From it, the doctor can give whole-body health guidance, point out sub-health states, and so prevent and control disease, ruling out hidden danger. This is a wholly new clinical examination method and equipment.
Dr. Bai Yongquan, a noted specialist at the Center, explains: the system is called Hyper-microscopic True-Color Image Analysis System — hyper-microscopic examination system for short. The technique developed only in the 1990s — a multi-function (phase-contrast, polarized light, dark-field, bright-field) microscopy that sits between the biological microscope and the electron microscope. It absorbs both microscopes' strengths and offers high magnification (8,000–15,000×, some up to 34,000×).
Its multi-functionality allows observation of sub-cellular structure. Phase-contrast illumination gives the cells and their structures a three-dimensional sense. The cold-light source preserves the cells' living state. The current device is called the Hyper-microscopic True-Color Image Analysis System; its inventor is Dr. Robert Bradford of the American Biological Center — so it is also called the Bradford microscope. The system has wide use across natural-science research (medicine, forestry, agriculture, and many fields).
Robert Bradford was the first to apply the system in medicine. He is both inventor of the instrument and one of the founders of the free-radical theory. He synthesized cellular morphology with the oxidative-free-radical doctrine and the holographic theory of the body — joined with immunology, bacteriology, mycology, pathology, physiology — into a medical theory of diagnosis and prediction of pathological change; using the technique, he realized a wholly new clinical examination method.
The system combines optics, electricity, electronics, imaging, and multimedia. Primarily qualitative, it integrates highly sensitive blood-information whole-extraction into comprehensive screening — overcoming the single-focus, narrow-scope, complex, and poor-predictability defects of conventional examination, and minimizing missed diagnosis. Through cellular-morphology observation, detecting micro-biochemical changes from one drop of blood, it can early-diagnose 110 possible physiological-pathological changes — comprehensively evaluating health state and tracking treatment and health-keeping results. It is especially significant for catching common micro-circulation obstacles and early tumor changes.
The oxidative-free-radical doctrine holds that the body constantly produces free radicals during life; birth, growth, illness, death is an oxidative process — an expression of free radicals and the reactions they induce. When metabolism is disordered, free radicals rise; they affect gene expression and prostaglandin action, affect cyclic-AMP messaging, can damage DNA — they relate clearly to disease. Some experts equate the doctrine in importance to the germ theory.
Bradford's holographic-embryo theory of the body comes from Chinese-medicine theory. Its essence: any part of the organism is a miniature of the whole, holding all the body's information; any part has informational correspondence with the whole. Blood is the carrier of information units; in drop form, the information shows in a special pattern. Per Bradford, each blood drop can be drawn into eight concentric circles of differing size and equal spacing; each part represents a different body region. By observing cellular and sub-cellular elements, morphology, structure, and content in different parts of the drop, the health state of corresponding regions can be diagnosed. Bradford's eight concentric circles representing eight body regions has, over tens of thousands of examinations, been confirmed consistent with the regions implied.
Dr. Bai stresses: holographic theory is a traditional theory of Chinese medicine, now world-recognized. A branch, a seed, a cell, a tissue contains all the organism's information — proved by plant cutting and grafting and by modern cloning. For the visible features of one blood-drop, we say not all the hologram is visible — not that the hologram is incomplete, but that some information may have no visible morphology, or needs another method to elicit. Or it may already be expressed but unrecognized. For example, Bradford could detect from a drop which breast has pathological change — we cannot yet.
In tumor and stress states, the large ROTS masses also mask other information. So we must explore, validate, and continually perfect this new field.
Hyper-microscopy is broad, sensitive, and practical — the 21st-century stethoscope, complementary to traditional instruments — much enhanced in guidance and specificity. In Europe and America it is promoted as health's guardian and early warning. After its 1995 introduction to China, Beijing Kemite Tech-Trade Co. developed a new-generation intelligent system.
In sum: the technique, only some ten years old, already shows strong life-force and practical value — a great step in sub-clinical science. With its spread, it will surely contribute to humankind's health.