Empiric and Theoretical Study on Chee as a Fundamental Biomarker with New and Broad Implications for Physiology, Diagnosis, Therapy, and Whole-body Health

Since 1990, healthcare systems in advanced nations have been degrading rapidly, with rising costs, rampant chronic diseases, and aging demographics. In response, governments and private sectors have been seeking solutions from untapped fields, such as the 47-century old Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM is based on the conceptual theory of qi (or chi) stating that the vitality of human body relies on adequate qi continuously circulating and permeating throughout the entire body. Today, TCM is included in the national health care systems of major countries in East Asia, used by 60-75% of the population. Elsewhere TCM operations are still in back alleys. TCM’s dilemma is rooted in its inability to meet the standards of science and evidence-based modern medicine. In 2018, this author began to develop the scientific theory of Chee and its field equations based on modern sciences. (“Chee” was coined to differentiate from the commonly used “qi.”) TCM procedures were distilled and synthesized, one by one, to metamorphose TCM to Scientific TCM (STCM). Theoretical results were presented [1-4] and published [5,6], during 2022-2023. Empirical validation and preliminary characterization of Chee were published recently [7]. This short communication reports the latest findings that are very important and intriguing.

First, the Electromagnetic (EM) component of Chee, χEM, has been tested to be a robust periodic function with a stable frequency of 60 Hz, as exemplified in (Figure 1), at the left bottom in gold colour “Freq=59.9 Hz”. The 0.1 Hz deviation from the 60 Hz rhythm is consistent with the rough feature of the signal in the display. We speculate that the 60 Hz rhythm in the biomarker Chee is the outcome of the biological evolution process over millions of years. Thus, TCM can be extended to mammals. Indeed, test data on a 10- lb cat exhibited amplitude and 60 Hz frequency similar to those of adult human in (Figure 1). Our speculation is also supported from another perspective: Power supply in the late 19th century in the development of AC (Alternating Current) systems from DC (Direct Current). The frequency of 60 Hz was chosen from generation, distribution, efficiency, cost, etc. for the electric power in America and several other countries. While χEM is found out to be very robust, its amplitude can vary widely from person to person—and also in a person—probed at a point from time to time, driven by the person’s emotion, activity, and will, etc. Nevertheless, both amplitude and frequency of χEM are very uniform throughout the skin surface of any individual human body. Experimental validation of χME and χTH, which are the ME (mechanic) and TH (thermal) component of Chee, respectively, were also successful. Efforts on experimental validation of other components of Chee, ME (mechanic) and TH (thermal), were started in January 2025 with satisfactory results [7].