La ciencia misma está mejorando constantemente, y nuestra comprensión de la conexión entre el mundo y la ley está mejorando constantemente. Por lo que no podemos reconocer y decir poco claro por el momento, no podemos negarlo fácilmente porque no lo entendemos. Así como todavía no podemos explicar cuál es la esencia del meridiano, cuál es su anatomía, pero no podemos negarlo. La acupuntura de la medicina tradicional china es una casa del tesoro, no se puede negar su efectividad, su naturaleza científica es digna de mi generación para continuar utilizando las herramientas científicas y tecnológicas que ahora están disponibles para entenderlo.
- Ji-Sheng Han, MD
Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician who introduced “animal magnetism” or “mesmerism” and was a pioneer in magnetism and its effect on the human biofield. He expounded the ancient idea of a universal "magnetic fluid" or force that could be found in and have a physical effect on all living things. This is a concept akin to “Qi” in Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and “Prana” in Ayurveda. He explored ways to manipulate this “fluid” with magnets and hands-on techniques to promote well-being and eliminate disease.
Early Life
Mesmer was born May 23rd, 1734, in the village of Iznang (now part of the municipality of Moos), on the shore of Lake Constance in Swabia, in southwestern Germany. He was the third of nine children of a gamekeeper and forest warden to the Archbishop of Constance. His father was Anton Mesmer (1701–after 1747), and his mother was Maria Ursula (1701–1770).
At the age of eight, he began his education at the Green Mountain Monastery, where he learned, among other things, Latin, which was an important language for anyone destined for a university education. In fact, it was intended that Franz would become a Catholic priest. At age 12, he was sent to the Jesuit College in the university city of Konstanz. At age 16, he moved to the Jesuit Theological School of Dillingen where he studied Logic, Metaphysics, and Theology under the guidance of the archbishop of Konstanz.
In 1754, at the age of 20, he began studying at the Jesuit College of the University of Ingolstadt where he took classes in Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Theology, French, and Latin. At the end of his studies, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He declined the possibility of life as a priest.
In 1759, at the age of 25, he enrolled to study Law at the University of Vienna in Austria. Mesmer became influenced by the views of the 16th-century alchemist Paracelsus. After a year, he decided to drop law and study medicine instead. He attended the University of Vienna in 1759 and graduated in medicine 1766 at the age of 32. He joined the medical faculty at the University of Vienna in 1767. He published his doctoral dissertation with the Latin title De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum (On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body), in which he discussed the influence of the moon and the planets on the human body and disease.
It is said his dissertation was largely derived from the English physician Richard Mead's De imperio solis ac lunae in corpora humana et morbis inde oriundis (1704). Mesmer’s dissertation was about the gravitational effects, principally the moon, on human beings, which was first put forward by Richard Mead, a friend of Isaac Newton. He was impressed by the universal gravitation by which our bodies are harmonized. Mesmer developed this into a general theory of universal magnetic fluid that explains the influence of heavenly bodies on human beings and indeed all earthly creatures. In fact, the existence of the Earth’s magnetic field has been known since ancient times, but a formal analytical and scientific expression of it was obtained about 20 years after Mesmer’s death. Specifically, he theorized about the influence of planets and living beings on each other's bodies, and how imbalances in these forces could lead to illness.
In January 1768, Mesmer married Anna Maria von Posch, a widow from an affluent family, and established himself as a physician in Vienna. His wife’s fortune supported his career, though her cautious family placed increasing constraints on his access to it.
In the summers, he lived on a grand estate in the Landstrasse district of Vienna and became a patron of the arts. Mesmer was a music enthusiast, an amateur cellist, pianist, and glass harmonica player. He was on friendly social terms with Haydn and Mozart. Between 1768 and 1774, he hosted musical soirées, befriended the Mozart family, and reportedly premiered Mozart's opera Bastien und Bastienne in his garden.
In 1775, Mesmer was invited to give his opinion before the Munich Academy of Sciences on the exorcisms carried out by Johann Joseph Gassner, a priest and healer who grew up in Vorarlberg, Austria. Mesmer said that while Gassner was sincere in his beliefs, his therapy was effective because he possessed a high degree of animal magnetism. This confrontation between Mesmer's secular ideas and Gassner's religious beliefs marked the end of Gassner's career and, according to Henri Ellenberger, the emergence of dynamic psychiatry.
Iznang (Birthplace of Franz Anton Mesmer, 1734)
Jesuit College of Ingolstadt engraving
Old University Square, Vienna
The Grand Estate of the Landstrasse District of Vienna
Vida familiar
La acupuntura y la electroacupuntura como medicina complementaria y alternativa se han aceptado en todo el mundo principalmente para el tratamiento del dolor agudo y crónico. La exploración del mecanismo fisiológico de la acupuntura comenzó alrededor de 1950, tiempo durante el cual se publicó un estudio farmacológico en la Universidad de Pekín. El estudio demostró que se requiere un tiempo de inducción de 15 a 20 minutos para el desarrollo de efectos analgésicos y que las sustancias químicas están involucradas en las manifestaciones analgésicas. El estudio farmacéutico señaló que los péptidos opioides endógenos son los principales candidatos para un papel en la acción de la acupuntura, ya que la analgesia de electroacupuntura es antagonizada por el antagonista del receptor de opioides naloxona.
La acupuntura excita receptores o fibras nerviosas en el tejido estimulado que también se activan fisiológicamente por fuertes contracciones musculares, y los efectos sobre ciertas funciones de los órganos son similares a los obtenidos por el ejercicio prolongado. Tanto el ejercicio como la acupuntura producen descargas rítmicas en las fibras nerviosas y provocan la liberación de endógenos.
neurotransmisores, incluidos opioides, monoaminas,
oxitocina y otros neuropéptidos: sustancia P (SP), péptido relacionado con el gen de la calcitonina (CGRP), galanina (GAL), corticoliberina (CRF), neuropéptido Y (NPY): importante en el control de los elementos sensoriales, afectivos y cognitivos del dolor .
El profesor Han se ha dedicado a la investigación de mecanismos básicos de terapia de acupuntura y anestesia desde 1965. Después de una investigación exhaustiva de los fenómenos de la analgesia inducida por la acupuntura en humanos y en modelos animales, comenzó a estudiar sus mecanismos neuroquímicos. El profesor Han fue el primero en describir el patrón de distribución espacio-temporal de la analgesia de acupuntura en el cuerpo humano. Descubrió además que la serotonina y los péptidos opioides (endorfinas y dinorfinas) son las dos sustancias químicas principales que median el efecto analgésico de la acupuntura.
Se ha demostrado que la analgesia por electroacupuntura (EAA) en sujetos humanos tiene un efecto incremental en los péptidos opioides endógenos (EOP) en plasma o líquido cefalorraquídeo. La investigación de la Universidad de Pekín del profesor Han demostró una participación dependiente de la frecuencia de diferentes EOP en la analgesia inducida por electroacupuntura (EA). Esto se logró mediante el uso de diversas metodologías para identificar los diferentes receptores de opioides y sus agonistas endógenos. Con base en varias líneas de evidencia, se concluyó que el EAA de baja frecuencia (2 Hz) es inducido por la activación de los receptores opioides mu y delta a través de la liberación de encefalina, beta-endorfina y endomorfina en las regiones supraespinales del SNC, mientras que Los efectos del EAA de alta frecuencia (100 Hz) implican las acciones de la dinorfina sobre los receptores opioides kappa en la médula espinal. Una combinación de las dos frecuencias produce una liberación simultánea de los cuatro péptidos opioides, lo que resulta en un efecto terapéutico máximo.
Este hallazgo se ha verificado en estudios clínicos en pacientes con varios tipos de dolor crónico, incluido el dolor lumbar y el dolor neuropático diabético.
También descubrió que cada mediador tiene su contraparte que juega un papel opuesto para mantener un equilibrio fisiológico. Por ejemplo, la nor-epinefrina en el cerebro actúa contra la serotonina en términos de control del dolor, mientras que el neuropéptido conocido como colecistoquinina (CCK) muestra un efecto anti-opioide en todo el sistema nervioso central. Fue el primero en encontrar el equilibrio funcional entre los péptidos opioides y los péptidos opioides (CCK y algunos otros péptidos con actividad anti-opioide) que determina la eficacia de la analgesia de acupuntura en diferentes individuos. Estos hallazgos coinciden con la filosofía de la medicina tradicional china del equilibrio de Yin y Yang.
El profesor Han también descubrió que el efecto analgésico después de la acupuntura no es evidente de inmediato: que se necesitan entre 20 y 30 minutos para lograr el mejor efecto. Después de retirar las agujas, el efecto anestésico no desaparecerá inmediatamente, sino que disminuirá lentamente. En la práctica clínica, la anestesia general de acupuntura recibe un "tiempo de inducción" durante media hora antes de que pueda iniciarse la cirugía.
Imperial Astronomer Maximilian Hell
Estudios Postdoctorales
La acupuntura y la electroacupuntura como medicina complementaria y alternativa se han aceptado en todo el mundo principalmente para el tratamiento del dolor agudo y crónico. La exploración del mecanismo fisiológico de la acupuntura comenzó alrededor de 1950, tiempo durante el cual se publicó un estudio farmacológico en la Universidad de Pekín. El estudio demostró que se requiere un tiempo de inducción de 15 a 20 minutos para el desarrollo de efectos analgésicos y que las sustancias químicas están involucradas en las manifestaciones analgésicas. El estudio farmacéutico señaló que los péptidos opioides endógenos son los principales candidatos para un papel en la acción de la acupuntura, ya que la analgesia de electroacupuntura es antagonizada por el antagonista del receptor de opioides naloxona.
La acupuntura excita receptores o fibras nerviosas en el tejido estimulado que también se activan fisiológicamente por fuertes contracciones musculares, y los efectos sobre ciertas funciones de los órganos son similares a los obtenidos por el ejercicio prolongado. Tanto el ejercicio como la acupuntura producen descargas rítmicas en las fibras nerviosas y provocan la liberación de endógenos.
neurotransmisores, incluidos opioides, monoaminas,
oxitocina y otros neuropéptidos: sustancia P (SP), péptido relacionado con el gen de la calcitonina (CGRP), galanina (GAL), corticoliberina (CRF), neuropéptido Y (NPY): importante en el control de los elementos sensoriales, afectivos y cognitivos del dolor .
El profesor Han se ha dedicado a la investigación de mecanismos básicos de terapia de acupuntura y anestesia desde 1965. Después de una investigación exhaustiva de los fenómenos de la analgesia inducida por la acupuntura en humanos y en modelos animales, comenzó a estudiar sus mecanismos neuroquímicos. El profesor Han fue el primero en describir el patrón de distribución espacio-temporal de la analgesia de acupuntura en el cuerpo humano. Descubrió además que la serotonina y los péptidos opioides (endorfinas y dinorfinas) son las dos sustancias químicas principales que median el efecto analgésico de la acupuntura.
Se ha demostrado que la analgesia por electroacupuntura (EAA) en sujetos humanos tiene un efecto incremental en los péptidos opioides endógenos (EOP) en plasma o líquido cefalorraquídeo. La investigación de la Universidad de Pekín del profesor Han demostró una participación dependiente de la frecuencia de diferentes EOP en la analgesia inducida por electroacupuntura (EA). Esto se logró mediante el uso de diversas metodologías para identificar los diferentes receptores de opioides y sus agonistas endógenos. Con base en varias líneas de evidencia, se concluyó que el EAA de baja frecuencia (2 Hz) es inducido por la activación de los receptores opioides mu y delta a través de la liberación de encefalina, beta-endorfina y endomorfina en las regiones supraespinales del SNC, mientras que Los efectos del EAA de alta frecuencia (100 Hz) implican las acciones de la dinorfina sobre los receptores opioides kappa en la médula espinal. Una combinación de las dos frecuencias produce una liberación simultánea de los cuatro péptidos opioides, lo que resulta en un efecto terapéutico máximo.
Este hallazgo se ha verificado en estudios clínicos en pacientes con varios tipos de dolor crónico, incluido el dolor lumbar y el dolor neuropático diabético.
También descubrió que cada mediador tiene su contraparte que juega un papel opuesto para mantener un equilibrio fisiológico. Por ejemplo, la nor-epinefrina en el cerebro actúa contra la serotonina en términos de control del dolor, mientras que el neuropéptido conocido como colecistoquinina (CCK) muestra un efecto anti-opioide en todo el sistema nervioso central. Fue el primero en encontrar el equilibrio funcional entre los péptidos opioides y los péptidos opioides (CCK y algunos otros péptidos con actividad anti-opioide) que determina la eficacia de la analgesia de acupuntura en diferentes individuos. Estos hallazgos coinciden con la filosofía de la medicina tradicional china del equilibrio de Yin y Yang.
El profesor Han también descubrió que el efecto analgésico después de la acupuntura no es evidente de inmediato: que se necesitan entre 20 y 30 minutos para lograr el mejor efecto. Después de retirar las agujas, el efecto anestésico no desaparecerá inmediatamente, sino que disminuirá lentamente. En la práctica clínica, la anestesia general de acupuntura recibe un "tiempo de inducción" durante media hora antes de que pueda iniciarse la cirugía.
Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer's treatise on "The Discovery of Animal Magnetism," 1779 National Geographic - Photo by Granger/AlbumDr. Franz Anton Mesmer's treatise on "The Discovery of Animal Magnetism," 1779 National Geographic - Photo by Granger/Album
Vida familiar
Inside the Mesmeric salons was an atmosphere of drawn curtains, thick carpets, and astrological wall decorations. Mesmer himself dressed impressively in a lilac taffeta gown. Patients gathered, joined by ropes, around baquets, tubs filled with bits of glass, metal, and water, from which flexible iron rods protruded. This was an early type of electro-bath. Thus, in the middle of the room was placed a vessel of about a foot and a half high called a baquet. Some were large enough that twenty people could sit around the edge of the lid, which covered it. There were holes pierced corresponding to the number of people who participated. Into these holes were introduced iron rods, bent at right angles outwards, and of different heights This allowed the rods to touch the part of the body to which they were to be applied. Besides these rods, there was a rope that communicated between the baquet and connected the patients to each other. Most individuals pressed these rods to their left hypochondria (upper abdomens) and joined their thumbs to increase the communication of the “magnetic fluid”. Mesmer used a wand to increase the magnetic flow through the individual.
Through these elaborate practices, he provoked the notorious mesmeric “healing crises or reactions”. For especially intense reactions, mesmeric salons included separate rooms lined with mattresses.
Mesmer began to believe that he could transfer some of his personal surplus of magnetic fluid into inanimate objects by touching them. He would magnetize patients’ clothes and beds so they could receive the “healing fluid” constantly throughout the day. Unable to attend to all the ailing Parisians who arrived in droves at his doorstep, Mesmer decided to create a surrogate: he "magnetized" a tree near the Porte Saint-Martin to accommodate the overflow of people.
Mesmer concluded that magnetism has a two-fold nature: the mineral magnetism present in metals and the animal magnetism present in the human body. Some people are endowed with unusual amounts of animal magnetism. This animal magnetism issues from their fingertips in such quantity that it can be sent as a healing force into afflicted parts of other human bodies. Mesmer later made no further use of actual magnets, and he stressed that the baquet, which he used in his salon in Paris, was only an accessory.
In his early years in Paris, Mesmer tried and failed to acquire either the Royal Academy of Sciences or the Royal Society of Medicine to provide official approval for his doctrines. He soon found one physician of high professional and social standing, Charles d'Eslon, to become a disciple. In 1779, with d'Eslon's encouragement, Mesmer wrote an 88-page book, Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, to which he appended his renowned 27 Propositions. According to d'Eslon, Mesmer understood health as the free flow of the process of life through thousands of channels in our bodies. Illness was caused by obstacles to this flow. Overcoming these obstacles and restoring flow produced crises, which restore health. When Nature failed to do this spontaneously, contact with a conductor of animal magnetism was a necessary and sufficient remedy. Mesmer aimed to aid or provoke the efforts of Nature. To cure an insane person, for example, involved causing a fit of madness. The advantage of magnetism involves accelerating such crises without danger. These propositions were designed to explain his theory of animal magnetism and outlined his ideas of the flow of vital energy through thousands of channels in our bodies. This was like the concept of Qi flow through the acupuncture meridians of traditional Chinese medicine.
He talked of a responsive influence between the heavenly bodies, the earth and all animated bodies, a subtle fluid universally diffused which underwent an ebb and flow and a reflux which was experienced by the animal body directly by its insinuation into the substance of the nerves. What follows are his propositions 9 and 10:
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In his text, Mesmer claimed that animal magnetism provided a material foundation for sensation itself, a subtle fluid acting upon the nerves. This, too, was a direct extrapolation from contemporary sensory physiology, from the nervous “aether” common to post-Newtonian theories of sensation. Mesmer also, at times, called the animal-magnetic basis of sensation a "sixth sense" and invoked its sensory nature to explain why he could neither describe nor define it. Senses were prior to ideas and could only be "experienced." Mesmer's sixth sense, the basis of all sensation, connected the individual to the whole universe and to the past and future, bringing people into "rapport" with all of history and with the minds of others.
Here, again, Mesmer drew on physiologists' accounts of sensation as the interface between aethereal fluids inside and outside the brain. The subtle fluid of light, for example, according to the prevailing view, impressed itself upon the eye, setting the eye's nervous fluid in motion toward the brain. In the same way, Mesmer's sixth sense registered the movements of the universal fluid through which all events reverberated. These reverberations could reflect the past, foretell the future, and receive the imprint of human thoughts.
According to Mesmer, for the internal sense to function at its peak, the other senses must be silent, as was the case during sleep or hypnosis, a technique developed by one of Mesmer's disciples, the marquis de Puységur. He claimed his hypnotized subjects or "somnambulists" perceived hidden facts about their own and others' states of health by means of a "true sensation." Hypnotized subjects were further able to "pre-sense" their future sufferings and the dates of their cures.
The French King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette were impressed by Mesmer’s work and gave him money to support his practice. Mesmer's followers were prolific, publishing hundreds of tracts and treatises on animal magnetism. Apart from Puységur, his two leading disciples were Nicolas Bergasse, a lawyer from Lyon, and Guillaume Kornmann, a banker from Strasbourg. Bergasse and Kornmann helped Mesmer establish the Société de l'harmonie universelle. Within two years, the Society had earned almost 350,000 livres and spawned three provincial societies.
Queen Marie Antoinette had joined Mesmer’s social circle. By the spring of 1784, mesmerism had become such a popular phenomenon that King Louis XVI was pressured by sceptics to appoint a scientific committee to investigate animal magnetism. The King also feared Mesmer might wield a sinister influence over the Queen. The committee ultimately published a report debunking the methods of Mesmer and other practitioners of animal magnetism as nothing more than the power of imagination. At his instigation, Baron de Breteuil, minister of the Department of Paris, appointed two commissions to investigate Mesmer’s practice. One was drawn from the Royal Society of Medicine and the other from the Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine.
The chemist Antoine Lavoisier and Benjamin Franklin, experts on the imponderable properties of heat and electricity, respectively, chaired the Academy and Faculty commission. The inquiry resulted in the questionable basis of nonmaterial science. Science then was still trapped in Newtonian physics and void of ideas of quantum physics. However, Mesmer's practice and theory continued to attract a wide following and had some influence until the end of the 19th century.
Print of Mesmer’s Baquet, Paris 1784
Based on his theory of animal magnetism, Franz Anton Mesmer conducted therapy sessions in which his patients gathered around a large baquet.
Photo by Josse/Scala, Florence
Propositions 9 & 10 from Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal
Followers of Mesmer's teachings assembled in Paris
Marie Antoinette and King Louis VI
Vida familiar
Tomb of Franz Anton Mesmer in Meersburg (Lake of Constance)
Vienna had grown too controversial and heated for Mesmer seven years earlier. Now Paris was also uncomfortably warm. His response, once again, was to move on. Mesmer left Paris and led a nomadic journey across France, Germany, Great Britain, Austria, and Switzerland. Parisians seeking treatment by mesmerism were still able to get it. By the time Mesmer left the city, thousands of copycat mesmerists had set up shop, taking full financial advantage of “Mesmeromania”. He returned to Vienna in 1793 only to suffer the indignity of being deported from the city. The reason given was that his political views were suspicious.
During the French Revolution, he lost almost all the money he had made in France, but afterward, he successfully negotiated with Napoleon's government for a pension. He kept an unprecedentedly low profile for the remainder of his life and eventually settled in Frauenfeld, Switzerland, near Lake Constance, his childhood home. He continued to practice for several years.
He died on March 5th, 1815, at the age of 80 from a stroke in Meersburg, near Lake Constance. He rests in the town’s graveyard, overlooking Lake Constance. His death preceded science’s formal explanation of his hypnotic successes in Vienna and Paris by three decades. Mesmer was a conscientious scientist in his beliefs and a sincere, compassionate physician who treated the poor free of charge.
In 1843, the Scottish doctor James Braid proposed the term "hypnotism" for a technique derived from animal magnetism; today, the word "mesmerism" generally functions as a synonym of "hypnosis". Today, numerous organizations and medical and psychological practitioners are devoted to advancing medical and psychological hypnosis. Mesmer died three decades before science formally acknowledged hypnosis and his hypnotic successes in Vienna and Paris.
Biophysics is a vast interdisciplinary branch of science generally involved with applying the principles of physics (electromagnetism, bioelectronics, nanotechnology, and quantum mechanics) to the study of biological and cellular structure. Biomagnetism is a subset of bioelectromagnetism which investigates the phenomenon of magnetic fields produced by living organisms. Magnetobiology is the name given to the study of the effects of magnetic fields on organisms, although the word biomagnetism is also used. Indeed, the word biomagnetism seems to encompass any combination of the words magnetism, cosmology, and biology, such as magneto-astrobiology.
If Mesmer were alive and practicing today, he would be a magnetoastrobiophysicist. All the above are now considered mainstream scientific endeavors. It is now understood that magnetic fields can affect the ferritin (iron) in our bodies by making it paramagnetic, which would seem to somewhat vindicate biomagnetic therapy as well. Mesmer’s animal magnetism undeniably laid the groundwork for modern electromagnetism and biophysics, though history has not given him the recognition he deserves.
"By the expression Animal Magnetism I mean one of the universal operations of Nature, the action of which, when directed on our nerves, offers a universal means of curing and preserving man."
— Franz Anton Mesmer, 1781
Vida familiar
Works
Mesmer, Franz Anton. Aphorismes de M. Mesmer: dictés à l'assemblèe de ses élèves, & dans lesquels on trouve ses principes, sa théorie & les moyens de magnetizer. Paris, 1785.
Mesmer, Franz Anton. De Planetarum influxu, dissertatio physico-medico. Vienna, 1766. Published in translation as "Physical-Medical Treatise in the Influence of the Planets" in Mesmerism (1980), 3-20.
Mesmer, Franz Anton. Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal. Paris, 1779. Excerpt published in translation as "Dissertation on the Discovery of Animal Magnetism" in Mesmerism (1980), 43-76.
Mesmer, Franz Anton. Mémoire de F.A. Mesmer, docteur en médicine, sur ses découvertes. Paris, 1799. Excert published in translation as "Dissertation by F.A. Mesmer, Doctor of Medicine, on his Discoveries"
in Mesmerism (1980), 89-130.
Mesmer, Franz Anton. Le Magnétisme animal. Oeuvres publiés par Robert Amadou. Notes et commentaires par Frank A. Pattie et Jean Vinchon. Paris: Payot. 1971.
Mesmer, Franz Anton. Mesmerism, A Translation of the Original Scientific Writings of F.A. Mesmer. Translated by George Bloch. Los Altos: William Kaufman, 1980.
Mesmer, Franz Anton. Précis historique des faits relatifs au magnétisme animal jusqu'en avril 1781. 1781. In Le magnétisme animal (1871), 93-194.
Aphorismes de M. Mesmer (1785).
Mesmerismus oder System der Wechselwirkungen. Theorie und Anwendung des thierischen Magnetismus als die allgemeine Heilkunde zur Erhaltung des Menschen [Mesmerism or the system of inter-relations. Theory and applications of animal magnetism as general medicine for the preservation of man]. Edited by Karl Christian Wolfart [de]. Nikolai, Berlin (1814) (in German). View at Munich Digitization Center, from the Bavarian State Library.
Youtube Videos
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