Ko te PBMT he rongoā rama taiaho, rama LED rānei e whakapai ake ana i te whakatikatika kiko (ngā patunga kiri, uaua, uaua, wheua, io), e whakaiti ana i te mumura me te mamae i ngā wāhi katoa e pāngia ai te hihi.
Kua kitea te tere o te whakaora a te PBMT, te whakaiti i te kino o ngā uaua me te mamae i muri i te whakakori tinana.
I te wā o te Waka Rererangi, i hiahia a NASA ki te ako i te tipu o ngā tipu i te wāhi. Heoi, kāore i rite ngā pūtake mārama i whakamahia hei whakatipu tipu i runga i te Ao ki ā rātou hiahia; he nui rawa te mana i whakamahia, ā, he nui rawa te wera i hangaia.
I ngā tau 1990, i mahi tahi te Wisconsin Center for Space Automation & Robotics me Quantum Devices Inc. ki te whakawhanake i tētahi pūtake mārama whai hua ake. I whakamahia e rātou ngā rama-whakaputa mārama (LED) i roto i tā rātou mahi hou, te Astroculture3. He rūma tipu tipu te Astroculture3, e whakamahi ana i ngā rama LED, i whakamahia angitutia e NASA i roto i ētahi misioni Waka Ātea.
Kāore i roa, ka kitea e NASA ngā whakamahinga pea o te rama LED, ehara i te mea mō te hauora o ngā tipu anake, engari mō ngā kairangi hoki. I te noho i te wāhi iti te taumaha, kāore ngā pūtau tangata e tere te whakahou, ā, ka ngaro te wheua me te uaua o ngā kairangi. Nō reira, ka tahuri a NASA ki te rongoā photobiomodulation (PBMT). Ko te rongoā photobiomodulation he momo rongoā rama e whakamahi ana i ngā pūtake rama kore-whakakotahi, tae atu ki ngā taiaho, ngā diode tuku rama, me/ranei te rama whānui, i roto i te whānuitanga hiko e kitea ana (400 – 700 nm) me te tata-infrared (700 – 1100 nm). He tukanga kore-wera tēnei e uru ana ki ngā chromophores taketake e whakaoho ana i ngā kaupapa photophysical (arā, te raina me te kore-raina) me te photochemical i ngā tauine koiora rerekē. Ka hua mai i tēnei tukanga he hua rongoā whai hua tae atu ki te whakaiti i te mamae, te immunomodulation, me te whakatairanga i te whakaora patunga me te whakahou kiko. Kei te whakamahia inaianei te kupu rongoā photobiomodulation (PBM) e ngā kairangahau me ngā kaimahi hei utu mō ngā kupu pēnei i te rongoā laser taumata iti (LLLT), te taiaho makariri, te rongoā taiaho rānei.
Ka whakamahia e ngā taputapu whakaora mārama ngā momo mārama rerekē, mai i te mārama e kore e kitea, te mārama tata-infrared mā roto i te whānuitanga mārama e kitea ana (whero, karaka, kōwhai, kakariki, me te kikorangi), ka mutu i mua i ngā hihi ultraviolet kino. Tae noa ki tēnei wā, ko ngā pānga o te mārama whero me te mārama tata-infrared te mea tino rangahauhia; he maha ngā wā ka whakamahia te mārama whero hei rongoā i ngā mate kiri, engari ka taea e te mārama tata-infrared te uru hohonu atu, ka mahi i tōna ara mā roto i te kiri me te wheua, tae noa ki te roro. E whakaarohia ana he tino pai te mārama kikorangi ki te rongoā i ngā mate, ā, he maha ngā wā ka whakamahia mō te hakihaki. Kāore i te tino mārama ngā pānga o te mārama kakariki me te kōwhai, engari ka taea e te kakariki te whakapai ake i te hyperpigmentation, ā, ka taea e te kōwhai te whakaiti i te photoaging.
