You mentioned using the Neurophone to induce alpha states and continued
with;
> I was watching a program on the discovery channel about coma's and
> vegetative states and i was wondering whether one could play alpha
> waves through a neurophone and thereby bring the patient back to an
> alert and concious state...
That's an interesting thought and I don't ever recall reading where
anyone had tried brainwave stimulation as a possible means of waking
someone from a coma. There is an interesting file which indicates comas
to be caused by a serious imbalance in the pH of the blood. The
specific quote is;
http://www.keelynet.com/biology/hcl.txt
"There was a case reported before the American Association for the
Advancement of Science by a doctor. He stated a case history; "The
patient was moribund due to the unexpected effects of an anesthetic.
The hydrochloric acid was injected at 10:15 AM, eight minutes later
the lips began to twitch and ten minutes the hands moved and in forty
minutes the patient was talking coherently."
"It is interesting to note that within two hours of the injection of
hydrogen chloride intravenously, 32% of the white cells were showing
pronounced phagocytic activity and engulfing microorganisms.
Twenty-four hours after the injection phagocytic activity showed that
69% of the white cells were in phagocytic activity.
The average human has 7000-8000 white blood cells per milliliter of
blood. Projected out for a 160 pound male with six liters of blood we
would arrive at a white blood cell population of around 48 billion
cells.
With the use of hydrochloride injections we can predictably increase the
white blood cell population by another 2000 milliliter and add around 10
billion more cells into the fight, whatever it may be."
I won't quote the entire file here as I thought there was a specific
instance where a person who had long lain in coma was pulled out of it
by injection of dilute hydrochloric acid. I could not find that
specific reference but it hinged on this comment from that URL;
"If we have too great an excess of carbonic acid we have COMA, as in
diabetes or later stages of pneumonia."
It seems like it would be a simple thing to trickle in small doses of
hydrochloric acid if a long term coma patient did not respond to any
other attempts at awakening them.
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