Abstract
Since 2006, we have been working to develop new measuring methods for non-contact healing power, and have succeeded in constructing a biophoton measurement method and a gas measurement method using cucumber pieces as bio-sensors; the former measures biophotons emitted from cucumber pieces and the latter measures odor generated from them. This paper shows a third method to measure fluorescent material which is produced on the cut surfaces of the cucumber pieces. After gas measurements of cucumber pieces, we measured intensities of fluorescence emitted from the cut surfaces of cucumber pieces using band pass filters. There was a significant difference in fluorescence J values in the 562nm band between healing and blank tests (p=0.005, two-tails, t-test, n=32). Also, fluorescence J values correlated negatively with gas J values only in healing tests. In both biophoton and gas methods, we found it was difficult to detect healing effects if in winter because winter cucumber fruits were not reactive. However, the fluorescence measurement method was considered useful even for winter cucumbers.
