Since ancient times, people have known that sound has miraculous powers. A war cry, prayer, meditation exercises, some miraculous methods of psychoregulation are, first of all, sound. The Greek physician Aesculapius treated sciatica by playing a pipe in front of a patient.
Pythagoras healed diseases of the spirit, soul and body, playing special musical compositions composed by him and reading excerpts from Homer and Hesiod in the presence of the patient.
At his university in Craton, Pythagoras began and ended the day with singing: in the morning, to clear the mind of sleep and stimulate activity; in the evening to tune in to rest. On the vernal equinox, Pythagoras gathered his students in a circle, in the middle of which stood one of them, conducting the choir and accompanying the lyre.
And today many doctors, although it seems so far unbelievable, claim that soon symphonies and sonatas will be prescribed to patients instead of pills. Scientists have found that the whole world is in constant musical vibration.
Our ear alone distinguishes 1378 different tones in different ranges, and outside the audible spectrum there are millions of sounds. But even the smallest changes in their frequency affect the state of our internal organs.
Susan Alexander, an American woman, had the idea to record the radiation emanating from a person. Using mathematics and physics, she tried to voice them.
It turned out that our body is literally stuffed with various vibrations: heart contractions, endocrine cycles and much more. And if all these vibrations exist, then can they not only be registered, but also listened to?
For help, Alexander turned to University of California biologist David Deimer with the question: can DNA molecules sound?
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Deimer measured DNA vibrations with an infrared spectrometer, then converted invisible vibrations into a sound spectrum - and got music. And imagine, the recording of the DNA melody resembled the meditative melodies of India.
The researchers are currently planning to record the melodies of human organs. But even now it is already clear: each of us has his own symphony inside.
What is the practical purpose of using music in medicine? Already now, it happens that an anesthetic drug is replaced with it. In Europe's largest sports medicine clinic in Lüdenscheil, music therapy is used in the preoperative, the most stressful period for patients. Special musical compositions reduce the level of stress hormones in the blood, speed up the treatment.
Canadian scientists from McGill University in Montreal have discovered that music is perceived not by one, as previously thought, but by different zones of the human brain. Moreover, each style has its own section of the head cortex.
However, what kind of music has the greatest therapeutic effect? Cardiologists prefer the classics. Listening to Mozart's Piano Sonata allows Alzheimer's sufferers to better navigate space and time. Some experts predict that CDs of this kind of music will be sold in pharmacies as aspirin.
And here is a list of recipes that some doctors recommend to use for patients for various ailments.
"Ave Maria" by Schubert, "Moonlight Sonata" by Beethoven, "Swan" by Saint-Saens and "Snowstorm" by Sviridov help with alcoholism and smoking. From stomach ulcers - "Waltz of Flowers", from chronic fatigue syndrome - "Morning" by Grieg, "Dawn over the Moscow River" (a fragment from the opera "Khovanshchina" by Mussorgsky), as well as the romance "Evening Bells" and "The Seasons" by Tchaikovsky.
Shostakovich's Waltz, Pursel's orchestra, Leah's Man and Woman, Sviridov's Blizzard will help get rid of depressive states. For insomnia - suite "Peer Gynt" by Grieg, for gastritis - Beethoven's Sonata No. 7. In the treatment of epilepsy, an effective remedy is the works of Mozart. They reduce the risk of seizures by 21 to 62%.
Blood pressure and cardiac activity will normalize Mendelssohn's Wedding March, Chopin's Nocturne in D minor and Bach's Violin Concerto in D minor. Listening to Oginski's Polonaise, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody or Beethoven's Fidelio will remove your headache. It takes a long time to write out musical recipes. But maybe we'd better include a CD?
And passing news or no longer news.
Japanese scientists have announced the possibility of using DNA to store text, music and other data in digital format inside living organisms.
Masaru Tomit and his colleagues at Keio University in Tokyo have said that DNA-encoded information that is inherited can be safely stored for hundreds of thousands of years. In fact, we are talking about an almost perfect information carrier. At the same time, CD-ROMs, flash memory or hard drives are easily damaged and lose information.
The researchers described a method for copying and fixing data encoded like artificial DNA into the genome of Bacillus subtilis, the most common and common soil bacteria. "Thus, we have obtained a universal storage of information with reliable transmission in time."