Alfa Thermography is an instrument that measures body temperature, with the results of the test displayed on a graph. Since early times, physicians have felt the body surface of their patients with the backs of their hands, and particularly warm or cold areas of skin have indicated an inflammatory or degenerative illness in the organs that lie underneath.
Humans actively keep their internal body temperature as close to constant as possible, which helps us survive changes in seasons and climate zones. This constant body warmth is produced by cellular metabolism, especially within the metabolically active organs of the liver and muscles. To maintain a relatively consistent internal body temperature, there is a constant balancing of heat production and heat emission.
Detailed investigation reveals that one finds different surface temperatures at different bodily locations. Every person has his own temperature pattern which is typical for him, and hardly changes day by day or week to week. It only changes during illness or regulation, or in cases of substantial change in living patterns. The diagnostic possibilities of Alfa thermography are based on that an individual’s temperature pattern can be directly affected by irritations, which extend from our internal organs.
What happens when the human body is exposed to a cooling influence? The skin begins cooling already after 1-2 minutes, and the regulation of thermal values to its new level is reached after 5-10 minutes. Staying unclothed at an ambient temperature of 22 degrees demands a controlled adjustment to the new situation.
A thermal diagnosis assumes that illnesses of internal organs and disturbances of their functions project as temperature patterns on the skin’s surface and are here diagnostically detectable. Nerve reflexes reach the skin zones which are affected by internal disturbances (so-called Head zones).
Through electronic thermos –sensors, we are in a position to determine the temperature at different skin locations, very fast and with great accuracy. An attached computer notes determined values, thus, each deviation from the physiological standard value can be found and interpreted as an inflammatory or degenerative change in the associated neural segment.
