Hemaview

In the blood the main constituent is plasma, which makes up about 55% of the blood volume. This plasma is about 90% proteins, 1% organic acids and 1% salts. The plasma has a critical role in immunity and clotting activity. The fluid that remains after clotting has occurred is called serum.

Healthy blood should have around 97% red blood cells, 3% white blood cells and some platelets

The red blood cells are sacs of haemoglobin, (which gives blood its red colour), and is the substance which carries the oxygen to the bodies tissues. Another action of the red blood cells is to collect the CO2 that is the waste product of metabolism and carry it back to the lungs where it can be filtered out and breathed out.

Every one should be familiar with the usual blood tests carried out by the pathology lab that are done when one is ill to find the various levels of material that the blood is carrying around. These tests are done using blood that is dried, stained or treated in a manner to detect specific components so they may be measured.

But there is another way of looking at blood that presents a different aspect.
This system is called ‘live blood analysis’, and is done using a powerful microscope coupled with a monitor so the make up of the blood can be viewed in real time.

Live blood analysis has been around for many years but it is only recently that with the use of monitors and computers patients are able to view their blood easily on screen in real time.

This system allows you to view the particles that make up the blood and to see the quality of these constituents. It does not replace the normal blood tests done by a GP but you can see variations in the white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, as well as microbial forms. It is good to see a whole screen of nicely formed red blood cells moving about in a quiet easy manner, but a screen that shows the cells with jagged edges, misshaped bodies or surrounded by large numbers of white blood cells, is a good indicator that further investigation is required and may well act as a pointer as to where the problem is coming from.

The emphasis of live blood screening is very much on the nutritional side of things and will clearly show the state of the blood in terms of:

• Antioxidants
• Essential Fatty Acids
• Iron
• Immune support
• Vitamin B12 or folate
• Lipotropic nutriments
• Digestive enzymes
• Gut permeability

There are three main contributors to degenerative disease:

• Genetic predisposition: which may give rise to the inability to produce a certain enzyme;
• Stress: which will include social conditions (family,work etc.), temperature, infection
• Nutrition: since all body tissues are replaced every 5 to 7 years it is imperative that the regenerative cells are given the optimal conditions to work under or disease and aging will accelerate.

Live blood analysis assists your practitioner to work out a programme that can include nutrition, homoeopathic medicine, herbs or some associated treatment regime such as Osteopathy or Acupuncture that will help with your problems.

More importantly, if a follow up screen is done you should be able to see the changes occurring in the live blood that will indicate that improvement is taking place. It is important to remember that live blood analysis does not treat any thing. What it does do, is allow you to see the state of your blood, in the sample, at a specific time.

Equipment:

• The basic equipment is a microscope with darkfield illumination. This is a special light that allows the blood to appear bright on a dark background.
• The image is then passed to a TV monitor so the state of the blood can be seen by both the patient, and the practitioner at the same time.
• All that is needed from a patient is a spot of blood, that is placed on the slide and viewed through the lens.

The procedure generally takes only a few moments, but so that a clear picture of the condition of the blood can be built up, the practioner will normally take several views of the same slide (called screens) so any isolates, (things that appear only once for unknown reasons), can be eliminated.

So in the big overall picture it is worth remembering that orthodox medicine has a long history of development from trauma care, especially from battlefield injuries, so the great strength is in acute care and symptom management. Nowadays, however, chronic degenerative disease has supplemented trauma in the western world as the major cause of morbidity and mortality.

In the care and management throughout life three main features stand out as major influences in how we age,

Genetic disposition - we are born with this and have to work with it
Stress….we impose this on ourselves through our social conditions

Nutrition - what we eat will effect the way we age significantly. Now there are two major prerequisites in the successful prevention and treatment of chronic disease;

Detection - identifying the disease process operating in the individual;
Compliance, which means the patient takes the necessary steps to reverse the degeneration.

This is where the live blood analysis is of assistance, in that in conjunction with other quantitative tests, it provides a practitioner with the means of identifying how a regenerative regime can be instigated to improve health and secondly allows an easily viewed means of seeing if the body is responding to treatment.

 

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