WHY DOES MUSIC CURE

WHY DOES MUSIC CURE?

Khodzhieva Zamirahon Kuchkarovna

Andijan State University

Faculty of Art History

Lecturer at the Department of Music Education

Abstract: Almost everything that happens in nature is connected with the world of sounds. In any case, in nature. It can be considered proven that music affects you and me, plants and animals.

Music increasingly serves health. A special, albeit not very extensive yet, area of ​​medicine has appeared - music therapy. First of all, it is used to treat neuropsychic diseases: sessions of music therapy under the guidance of psychotherapists have become firmly established in medical practice.

Key words: music therapy, music, piece of music, enzyme, biochemical processes, enzymatic reactions.

Almost everything that happens in nature is connected with the world of sounds. In any case, in nature. It can be considered proven that music affects you and me, plants and animals.

Music increasingly serves health. A special, albeit not very extensive yet, area of ​​medicine has appeared - music therapy. First of all, it is used to treat neuropsychic diseases: sessions of music therapy under the guidance of psychotherapists have become firmly established in medical practice.

And in recent years, sound effects are increasingly used for the treatment of somatic, bodily diseases. So, the journal "Inventor and Rationalizer" recently told in detail (in No. 5 for 1986) about the experience of the doctor A.R. Guskov: with the help of sound he removes stones from the ureter.

There is a lot of experimental material on the healing effects of music; there are much fewer works that reveal the mechanisms of its impact on humans. But without penetrating into the essence of the phenomena that take place in the body when exposed to sounds, it is difficult to develop and improve music therapy.

So let's try to speculate about these mechanisms, taking into account the data of biophysics, biochemistry and medicine.

Let's imagine a piece of music as a certain sequence of signals - mechanical vibrations in an elastic medium, lying in the frequency range of 10-20000 Hz. For some processes in the human body, and, above all, for enzymatic reactions, the same frequencies are characteristic.

The work of the enzyme is associated with a change in its shape, that is, with the mechanical movement of a part of the protein macromolecule: it contracts and expands during the processing of each molecule of the substrate substance. The number of such molecules processed by an enzyme molecule per unit of time is called the number of enzyme revolutions; it is a measure of the rate of the enzymatic reaction.

Back in 1968, Professor S.E.Shnol (Institute of Biological Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR) compared the number of revolutions of enzymes with the frequency characteristics of a musical scale. It turned out that for many enzymes involved in the most important metabolic processes, these numbers correspond to the frequencies of musical notes of the European sound range.

So, in cytochrome reductase, which is turned on at the most important stage of providing the body with energy - during the assimilation of oxygen, the number of revolutions per unit time is 183 Hz, which is very close to the note of fadies of a small octave (185 Hz).

Enzymes that promote the assimilation of glucose, the universal energy store in the body - phosphorylases and glucomutase, have a speed of 676, 1600 and 280 Hz. For comparison: the E of the second octave is 659Hz, the G of the second octave is 1567Hz, the C sharp of the first octave is 277Hz.

Since the frequency characteristics are so close, is it possible to assume the possibility of a direct influence of music on certain biochemical processes?

The joint work of enzymes creates an acoustic field of the cell. Probably, the regulatory effect of music on the body is due to the fact that its acoustic field is superimposed on the body's own acoustic field.

The analogy may be somewhat crude, but an enzyme can be compared to a tuning fork that begins to sound - in our case, catalyze a biochemical reaction - under the influence of sound, the frequency of which coincides with its natural frequency, which leads to resonance.

Biochemical processes are systems of coupled enzymatic reactions. To regulate the work of these systems, it is enough to influence the single, slowest reaction that holds back the process as a whole.

For processes occurring in different organs, the enzymatic reactions that determine the overall rate of transformations are different, therefore, the sensitivity of the organs to sounds of different frequencies should be different.

But if so, then each organ system should have its own "musical score" - the most effective set of sound vibrations, the frequency of which is determined by that very restraining, slowest reaction.

Analyzing the number of revolutions of enzymes, it can be assumed that the stomach is most sensitive to a low register (in digestive enzymes, the frequencies of revolutions are very low, of the order of 10 Hz), while respiration and transmission of a nerve impulse, on the contrary, correspond to high frequencies (the enzyme carbonic anhydrase - 40,000 Hz, acetylcholinesterase - 14,000 Hz) ... Changing the reaction conditions changes the frequency of revolutions: a full stomach "sings" in a higher voice.

Direct action on enzymes is, of course, not the only possible mechanism for the biological action of music. Studies of cell membranes have shown that in some cases, the channels through which the ions necessary for its normal operation enter the cell behave like oscillatory circuits, the natural frequencies of which lie within the acoustic range.

Thus, the effective frequency that changes the rate of release of Ca2 + ions is 15 Hz, and if the cell is affected by the sounds of this frequency, a sharp jump in the concentration of calcium ions can be expected. Indeed, under the action of electromagnetic oscillations with a frequency of 15 Hz on artificially cultured brain cells, a multiple acceleration of the release of calcium ions was observed.

Let us recall that calcium ions are the most important regulating agent of cellular metabolism. And since the cell membrane is charged (its potential is about 100 Mv), similar results can be expected in the case of electrical or mechanical vibrations.

Of course, this still looks like a fantasy, but, nevertheless, it cannot be ruled out that in the not so distant future, a completely scientific musical pharmacopoeia will be created for the needs of music therapy - a set of sound recipes. Played by musical instruments, they will directly affect the diseased organ ...

List of used literature:

1.    Sergey Shushardzhan. "Guide to Music Therapy" -M., Medicine, 2005

2.    Sergey Shushardzhan. "Methods of music therapy (manual for doctors)", Moscow, 2003.

3.    Sergey Shushardzhan. "Music therapy and the reserves of the human body", Moscow, publishing house "Antidor", 1998

4.    Sergey Shushardzhan. Health by Notes ", Moscow, JSC" Perspektiva ", 1994

Internet resources used:

1.    https://psylogik.ru/114-muzykoterapija.html

2.    https://www.yugzone.ru/brainmusic/music_and_health.htm

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