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STANDARD hospital blood microscopy involves studying the blood's component parts, such as serum or platelets, or drying the blood sample, then staining it. Although this technique has many uses, it kills the cells and modifies their appearance and there is a limit to what the clinician can see. The patient however never sees the blood under magnification.

In this article you can see the power of our StarGate Nutrition vitamin and mineral nutrients to cause the blood to dramatically shift from a diseased state to a state of health over a period of weeks.

Human blood continues to live for up to an hour after leaving the body. Live Blood Microscopy is a technique in which the blood is viewed immediately in its living state reflecting what is happening internally. Viewing living human blood under a microscope may prove to be a useful clinical tool for GPs and patients working together. Live Blood Microscopy (LBM) is not available on the National Health Service but is a valuable tool in the treatment of patients as they can see themselves what is going on in their bodies. The blood is the pathway to the seven physical constituents and tells all - it is the best place to find quick answers. You can determine if a particular therapy will be effective. In addition a patient may see his or her progress from taking herbs or prescribed nutrients.

Research indicates that 90 per cent of our society has underlying nutritional deficiencies contributing to health problems. Using the LBM we can evaluate the properties of individual blood cells thus allowing a multitude of nutritional deficiencies and disorders to be detected. These disorders include some conditions that cannot be easily detected with traditional blood analysis.

During a consultation a tiny drop of blood from a fingertip is taken using a diabetic needle. This is a painless procedure. The blood sample is magnified up to 1000 times under a microscope. A camera displays the result on a high-resolution tv monitor. Both practitioner and client then study the appearance of the living blood together.

Every client is given a recording on a VT-IS video cassette and he will compare this recording with further recordings taken after weeks or months of therapy. LBM provides an immediate visual picture of the health of the blood and patient. There is no waiting game and the client can see exactly how their health is improving. The visual impact of your blood on TV and explaining what is going on in your blood, has a profound effect on the healing process. The method is both totally engaging and fascinating.

In a normal sample the red cells are the same size, round and floating freely in the plasma. The cells have strong, smooth cell walls a circular shape and do not stick together. The plasma is clear and free of debris. When the blood is not doing so well 'Rouleau' is seen. This is the term used to describe the blood when the red cells are stuck together in columns like a stack of coins. It can vary widely in its severity from only a few cells stacked on top of each other to large chains of cells.

Trauma, allergies, infection and inflammation have all been linked to increase in Rouleau. A decrease in the surface area of the red blood cells, due to them being stuck together, reduces the transportation of oxygen to the cells of the body. This results in common symptoms including fatigue, poor digestion.

Copyright Ralph Quinlan Forde 2008

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