Your skin is your body's Early Warning System!
Modern medicine has described in great detail how nerve conduction passes information to and from the brain, and also, between body organ systems. We have both a conscious and a much larger, unconscious nervous system. The latter is termed the “autonomic nervous system”. This autonomic nervous system has two main branches: the parasympathetic and the sympathetic systems.They have competing functions. The parasympathetic system signals “Calm down” , while the sympathetic branch says “Wake up”. All organ systems, except one, have almost equal parasympathetic and sympathetic innervation. The sole exception is the skin.
The skin is the only organ innervated by the sympathetic system alone. Therefore, when something anywhere in the body is going wrong or moving away from equilibrium, a “wake up” signal is generated from the sympathetic system and transmitted to all body organs. However, only in the skin can the signal be most clearly interpreted because there can be no competing parasympathetic signal present to confuse the message. Hence, we monitor the skin to detect imbalances, however slight. Modern medicine does the same. Devices exist to predict imminent seizures through ElectroDermal monitoring. Work is progressing in detecting early warning signs for heart attacks and recent research is identifying other areas of predictable problems before they manifest themselves as debilitating disease. Thus, the skin is an early warning system which signals when homeostasis is even the least bit disturbed and the Besanna scanner provides feedback of the skin’s warning.