Re: what are biophotons?what do they do?(biophysics question)

Dear Mauricio

I am very sorry for the long delay until we could answer your questions.

My background
I am scientist working on cellular communication and sensory systems since about 
12 years. 

I try not to judge "esotheric" believes, but I clearly regard the biophoton 
theory as one of them. As far as I understand the whole theory, it is based on 
the assumption that cells communicate via photons that they produce.

The last decades of biological and physiological research have shown that cells 
communicate via electrical currents and via a multitude of chemical messagers. 
I do not know even a single example of research published in any scientific 
journal that shows involvement of light in cellular communication.
Even the light receptors in the eyes do use exclusively chemical substances and 
electrical currents to communicate with other parts of the same cell or with 
other cells.

So to answer to your questions: 
What are biohotons? No physical reality but a unproven esotheric idea.
What do they do? They can not do anything as they do not exist. Of course the 
idea is used to make money in selling equipment and offering experimental 
treatments. Published studies of any benificial effect are not known to me.

You will find contrary statements to mine easily by just seraching the internet 
for:     biophoton .
Websites of companies selling the equipments will give you many "witnesses" how 
well it works, usually in the stile: "Dr. C.D. from Alabama wrote about a 
successful treatment of ... "so there is no way of proving or disproving the 
claims.

I browsed through some of them.  Nowhere I could find any explanation how the 
cells should produce light, and what the receptors for the lights should be. 
Instead I found claims that "red blood cells have consiousness", "light travels 
along nerve strands" (how?), or "photons stimulate other photons of unhealthy 
cells" and others.
I do not want to give a specific link here, as I can not recommend the sites I 
visited as providing reliable scientific information.

If you visit these sites, please compare their claims with information on 
cellular communication, also available on the internet.
 a commercial site   or use
 as a startingpoint to many good cell biology sites. 

If you have more specific questions, please ask again.
Hope that helps
J Ziesmann