Polarity vs. Depolarization: Definitions

Polarity

Polarity simply means that there is an electrical difference between two points, a separation of charge, like the poles of a battery. In living tissue, the outside of a cell membrane is usually more positive. The inside is more negative. This creates a resting potential (typically –70 mV in nerve or muscle cells). This resting polarity is essential for cellular metabolism (ATP synthesis), ion transport, tissue repair, signaling, and normal meridian (Qi) flow. When polarity is lost, tissues lose their bioelectrical “organization” and the energy blueprint that governs healing.

Depolarization

Depolarization means a temporary loss or reduction of polarity, a flattening of the voltage difference between inside and outside the cell membrane. It occurs naturally when cells fire (nerve impulse) and when tissues are injured (the “injury potential”)

At the site of injury, cells leak ions, and local voltage collapses toward zero. This “injury current” actually serves as a healing trigger. It activates repair pathways, attracts fibroblasts and immune cells, and starts regeneration. But for healing to be complete, the tissue must repolarize and restore its normal electrical polarity. Depolarization begins the healing process (activation phase). Repolarization completes the healing (organization and recovery phase).

Why Polarity Maintenance Is Crucial

In Bio-electrode Therapy, the applied electrodes replace or reinforce the body’s natural injury current. Their correct polarity alignment helps tissues repolarize more quickly and completely.

If electrode polarity or Qi flow is reversed:

• The tissue’s natural current-of-injury can collapse or invert,

• Cell membranes remain unstable,

• Healing slows or may even reverse. Reversal worsens the condition.

Thus, BeT aims to restore and sustain polarity, not merely to stimulate current.

Sequence in Healing

Phase	Cellular Polarity	Electrical Action	BeT Role
Injury (Depolarization)	Voltage collapses; positive ions flood in	Natural DC field forms (injury current)	BeT mimics and supports this by applying external polarity
Repair (Repolarization)	Polarity re-establishes as tissue heals	Restored negative interior potential	BeT stabilizes and aligns the field for closure and tissue order
Regeneration	Full polarity restored	Ion channels normalize, ATP increases	BeT maintains polarity through low, steady DC microcurrent

So, while depolarization starts the process, it is polarity itself that heals, restores order, voltage, and directionality.

In Practice: BeT Polarity Strategy

“Any reversal of Qi flow or electron flow would worsen the healing process.”

In BeT, maintaining the natural polarity orientation ensures that electron flow and Qi flow remain complementary, not conflicting.

A reversed setup could:

• Drive current against the meridian’s natural electrical field,

• Cancel local repair currents,

• Increase pain or inflammation.

Therefore, the BeT practitioner’s goal is to re-establish tissue polarity and support the body’s endogenous field.

Summary for Your Manual

Concept	Meaning in BeT	Therapeutic Aim
Polarity	Natural charge separation that organizes tissue healing	Preserve and reinforce it
Depolarization	Local collapse of potential during injury	Brief and necessary to initiate repair
Repolarization	Restoration of normal electrical potential	Essential for full recovery
Reversal of Qi/electron flow	Misalignment of meridian and tissue polarity	Disrupts natural healing; must be avoided

 Polarity, therefore, is not just an electrical property. It’s an organizational axis of life, uniting physical, energetic, and informational domains.

Therapeutic Implications in BeT

• Healing = restoration of polarity.

  Disease, inflammation, or pain represent local depolarization and electrical chaos.

  BeT restores charge separation and current directionality.

• Correct polarity = correct Qi direction.

  When electrode polarity matches meridian polarity, the body re-establishes its natural DC and Qi field coherence.

• Polarity coherence = health coherence.

  When every level cell, meridian, and organ maintains proper orientation, communication, and regeneration resumes.

Polarity at the Cellular Level

At its most fundamental, polarity is the spatial organization of charge. Every living cell is an electric dipole:

• Outside: Slightly positive due to sodium (Na⁺) and calcium (Ca²⁺) ions.

• Inside: Slightly negative due to potassium (K⁺) and organic anions.

• Resting membrane potential: about –70 mV in nerve cells.

This charge separation:

• Powers the Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase pump, maintaining homeostasis.

• Enables nerve signaling and muscle contraction.

• Directs cell migration, growth, and tissue repair, cells move and orient themselves according to tiny electric field gradients (this has been proven in bioelectric wound-healing studies by Becker, Borgens, Levin, and Oschman).

Thus, cellular polarity = vitality. Loss of polarity = disease, degeneration, or death.

Polarity in Tissue and Organ Systems

When millions of polarized cells align, their potentials sum forms tissue-scale fields. These are coherent DC voltage gradients measurable across wounds (injury currents), organs (e.g., cornea, heart), and the meridians (longitudinal conductivity pathways).

Each tissue or organ maintains an internal polarity map, guiding nutrient flow, cellular migration, and regeneration. This map is not static; it constantly renews itself through ionic movement and electrical coherence.

Polarity as Meridian Directionality

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) terms, meridians are polarized energy channels defined by the direction of Qi flow and the polarity difference between their extremities:

• Jing-Well points (fingers, toes) are points of charge entry or exit.

• Source points and Back-Shu points: intermediate regions of potential difference.

From a BeT and electrophysiological standpoint:

• Each meridian functions like a living electrical circuit.

• The polarity difference between its distal (Jing-Well) and proximal (organ) ends drives the current flow, Qi flow.

• The meridian’s direction (Yin ascending or Yang descending) corresponds to the vector of the body’s DC field.

Maintaining correct meridian polarity means ensuring the electrical field aligns with the body’s innate direction of Qi flow from Silver (–) to Copper (+) in terms of electron movement, and from Copper (+) to Silver (–) in terms of Qi/field direction.

Polarity as a Hierarchical Principle

Level	Form of Polarity	Function	BeT Correspondence
Cellular	Membrane potential (–70 mV)	Enables metabolism & signaling	Microcurrent resonance; cell-level repair
Tissue	Regional injury/recovery gradients	Directs regeneration	Electrode straddling for local EF
Organ/Meridian	Longitudinal DC gradients	Directs Qi, blood, function	Jing-Well to Yuan-Source configuration
Systemic	Whole-body field (head–feet polarity)	Maintains vitality, emotional coherence	Global Jing-Well BeT circuits

Polarity is not just an electrical property; it’s an organizational axis of life, uniting physical, energetic, and informational domains. Healing = restoration of polarity. Disease, inflammation, or pain represent local depolarization and electrical chaos. BeT restores charge separation and current directionality. When electrode polarity matches meridian polarity, the body re-establishes its natural DC and Qi field coherence.

Summary

Polarity is the axis of order in living systems, the electrical geometry of Qi.

From the membrane of a single cell to the flow of the Lung or Liver meridian, the body’s vitality depends on maintaining clear, stable charge separation and directional flow.

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