As discussed in this abstract, there are some very interesting properties of the heart muscle that go beyond its function as a "piston pump". The authors, from the Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science, University of Arizona, describe two additional properties:
1. The rotational contraction, producing torsion.
2. The production of electrical and magnetic fields, with each contraction, that extend within and outside the body.
They point out that there has been little exploration as to the potential therapeutic value of heart generated field activity. They hypothesize that these heart generated fields may transfer information that is pivotal to normal body function, and, that the source of the information is based on the following physiological actions: vortex blood flow in the left ventricle, electrical and magnetic fields, heart sounds, and pulse pressure generating amplitude and frequency information.
Reference
Med Hypotheses. 2005;64(6):1109-16.
Cardiac torsion and electromagnetic fields: the cardiac bioinformation hypothesis.
Burlesion KO, Schwartz GE.
