About 80 years ago, Semyon Davidovich Kirlian conducted his first experiments in high-frequency photography. On August 2, 1949, at 4:30 pm, the first photograph was notarized. The work carried out by the scientist and his followers allowed Professor Korotkov's team to develop a method of gas-discharge visualization and create an apparatus for obtaining gas-discharge photographs of biological objects. Images obtained with this device allow you to determine the functional state of a person (norm, asthenia, neurosis, depression), identify pathological processes in internal organs (preventive express diagnostics), select individual treatment in the presence of a specific pathology, and much more.
The beginning of this research direction, perhaps, was laid by the German scientist Lichtenberg. Back in 1777, while studying electrical discharges on the surface of an insulator covered with powder, he observed a characteristic glow. Subsequently, the patterns of distribution of spark channels formed on the surface of a dielectric material during a sliding spark discharge were called "Lichtenberg figures". In 1882, the discovery of the Belarusian scientist Yakov Ottonovich Narkevich-Iodko was recognized, which made it possible to capture the glow of objects on a photographic plate using an electric device. Narkevich-Iodko called his method of photography electrography. It was he who first noticed the difference between electrographic photographs of identical parts of the body of sick and healthy people, rested and tired, sleeping and waking. The scientist himself explained this unusual phenomenon as follows: "The human body always generates impulses in the nerve tissues and is an individual electric battery that constantly exchanges energy with the surrounding space." Nikola Tesla in 1891-1900 also conducted experiments on the possibility of gas-discharge visualization of living organisms. He received photographs of the discharges by ordinary photography. The camera took pictures of objects and bodies in high-frequency currents. He received photographs of the discharges by ordinary photography. The camera took pictures of objects and bodies in high-frequency currents. He received photographs of the discharges by ordinary photography. The camera took pictures of objects and bodies in high-frequency currents.
At the beginning of the 20th century, under the onslaught of new ideas and revolutionary situations, all these works were forgotten. And only at the end of the thirties, Semyon Davidovich Kirlian and his wife Valentina Khrisanfovna began anew research in this area. In 1939, Semyon Davidovich, while repairing a physiotherapeutic apparatus in which a high-frequency current was applied, noticed a pink glow between the electrodes and decided to try to fix the glow of an object on a photographic film in a high-frequency current field. The first object that was "photographed" in this way was a coin.
For ten years, the Kirlian spouses at home improved the device that allows them to study the glow of objects in an electromagnetic field (a modified Tesla resonance transformer operating in a pulsed mode was used as a source of high-voltage high-frequency voltage). They have taken thousands of high-frequency images to study the mechanisms of this phenomenon. The quality of the images was much higher than that of Narkevich-Yodko and all of his followers. The photographing process takes place in a dark room or under red light. An undeveloped photographic paper is placed on the device that creates a high voltage field. The object of interest is installed on top. For example, a leaf of a plant. When a high voltage is applied, a gas discharge occurs, which manifests itself as a glow around the object - a corona discharge,which illuminates black-and-white or color photographic paper or film. After developing black-and-white photographic paper, the brightest areas become darker. Semyon Davidovich did not have the means to patent the "Kirlian effect" abroad. The country lost priority, and after a while, the discovery began to be widely used in other countries. But the researchers still became famous far beyond the borders of Russia. Abroad, having tested the method and made sure that this is fundamentally new knowledge, the flickering radiation of living and inanimate objects began to be called the "Kirlian effect", thereby inscribing the name of the researchers in the history of science. The country lost priority, and after a while, the discovery began to be widely used in other countries. But the researchers still became famous far beyond the borders of Russia. Abroad, having tested the method and made sure that this is fundamentally new knowledge, the flickering radiation of living and inanimate objects began to be called the "Kirlian effect", thereby inscribing the name of the researchers in the history of science. The country lost priority, and after a while, the discovery began to be widely used in other countries. But the researchers still became famous far beyond the borders of Russia. Abroad, having tested the method and made sure that this is fundamentally new knowledge, the flickering radiation of living and inanimate objects began to be called the "Kirlian effect", thereby inscribing the name of the researchers in the history of science.
Until recently, the Kirlian effect was mainly used abroad. In Russia, they did not pay attention to the prospects for using this effect, although scientists continued to receive interesting results. In 1966, Viktor Adamenko discovered that if the edge of a plant leaf was cut off by a few millimeters, the glow would cover the missing part, and the leaf would remain intact in Kirlian's photograph. By the beginning of the 90s, in the USSR alone, more than 50 copyright certificates were issued for various inventions based on the use of "Kirlianography". Among them, a non-destructive testing method, a defectometry method in a high-frequency electric field, a device for visualizing the magnetic relief on the surface of an object, etc. Professor Konstantin Georgievich Korotkov (St. Petersburg) created a computer complex "GDV-Camera"allowing to visualize the distribution and redistribution of energy in the human body after physical and emotional stress. Currently, further bioenergetic studies of humans are carried out in research institutes and clinics in Switzerland, Germany, Holland, Austria, where they continue to carry out, develop and test methods of energy correction and treatment of various pathologies.