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Preface

This book was written based on my experience as a pediatrician. Having studied and worked within the paradigm of allopathic medicine for many years, it was by no means comfortable to leave the tradition of a university career and venture into unknown territory where the safety of scientific evidence soon disappears.

At one point in my career while I was working for a university hospital, I started to feel unsettled. Having chosen the allopathic medical discipline, I was becoming increasingly specialized in a particular field of medicine. I felt, however, that I was losing what had originally motivated me to study medicine and become a physician. I was an expert in medical philosophy, which in fact seemed to serve only the scientific process (whatever that means). Its original mission—to help the ill—no longer seemed that important.

I was preoccupied with these kinds of thoughts and feelings for quite some time. Consequently, I abruptly quit my university career. Hoping to be in immediate contact with patients and realizing my ideals of a medical practitioner, I opened my own private pediatric practice.

Even then, the joy of working independently and maintaining my personal integrity soon diminished. I was growing increasingly unsettled again.

At first I employed the conventional medical training I had received at university. This was a paradigm that gave me the impression that it was primarily concerned with mastering the implementation of the list of medications sold by the pharmaceutical industry. Indeed, “fundamental chemistry” usually had a remedy for each ache and/or pain.

Having spent many years at the university hospital, I was not young in years when I began my pediatric practice—still I was optimistic. My initial optimism, however, quickly turned into despair when I saw and realized that many patients I treated according to allopathic medicine were not able to truly regain and/or maintain their health. Instead, many children developed a deceptive state of health (it might be better to say “visibly free from symptoms”). They would suffer recurring illness, often with different symptoms to those initially treated. These symptoms then required additional treatment.

During one of many sleepless nights I was thinking about how human beings existed and survived before we benefited from chemical pharmaceuticals. At that time it was not possible to treat (i. e. suppress) fever with antipyretics, infections with antibiotics, a cough with antitussives, etc.

I realized then what Paracelsus meant when he spoke about an “internal physician.” Our bodies possess inherent defense mechanisms without which human beings would have become extinct long ago.

These rather depressing experiences and reflections led to the next and final step in my medical career: my turning toward holistic medicine with its naturopathic approach and its completely alternative way of thinking. This paradigm is not about suppressing symptoms, but rather about supporting the healing powers inherent in an organism. Rather than looking at histopathological end conditions, it deals with regulatory processes that directly influence the cycles of the animate and often precede the actual illness itself.

In her book Die Quintessenz der Naturheilverfahren (The Essence of Naturopathic Medicine), Jutta Rost writes about her introduction to this healing modality: When we get started in naturopathic medicine, the different therapy methodology itself is not that important. It is far more significant that a profound process of rethinking take place: It is not the different healing “technique” that brings success, but rather an expanded view of the course of a disease. A view we were not previously taught.

In the past physicians regarded this view as a matter of course. Modern medicine, however, usurped this way of thinking and it was forgotten. Nevertheless it is just as valid and necessary as ever!

The previously mentioned process of rethinking, changing ones attitude toward illness and all phenomena of the animate, ultimately gave me a paradigm from which to practice as well as fostering a completely new fascination with the medical profession I had chosen.

There are impressive healing results using: high potency homeopathic preparations; the oscillating balance between the opposing forces Yin and Yang according to the teachings of Chinese acupuncture; regulatory thermography offering deep insights into an organism's regulatory processes; electro-acupuncture bringing about fascinating phenomena; and finally the almost implausible possibility, electromagnetic oscillations as used by the bioresonance modality to cure illnesses. Finding out about these kinds of modalities was fascinating new territory that provided me with successful experiences. Reassured I was now able to practice medicine in a way that did not simply “treat” illness, but rather began and concluded healing processes.

I specialized in allergies and their subsequent problems more or less by chance. I heard about a patient with neurodermatitis, who, following a very strict diet, cured herself of her illness. In conventional medicine, neuroder-matitis has always been considered a multilayered illness with an uncertain pathomechanism. It was definitely not considered a food allergy.

I kept thinking about this discrepancy, particularly because I had been unable to successfully treat patients with neurodermatitis. This had always been difficult for me. Initially, I worked with physics-based test methods. In many ways they proved superior to the currently practiced immunolog-ical methods.

A time of incredibly exciting, fascinating discoveries began. I came across phenomena that seemed inexplicable unless one revised one's view of the world, the body, the enigma of the animate, sickness and health, etc.

Thus I was introduced to biophysics, a world of visionary yet fundamental realizations, not easily accessible for a traditional physician, as he or she simply does not have the theoretical foundation. This knowledge cannot simply be understood, but, with an open mind, can be embraced. Confronted with this dilemma of not being able to understand facts which have proven to be fundamentally important, I created a technique called thought modality used throughout this book. It is meant to serve as an aid for an overextended mind. It may not make difficult ideas more understandable, but hopefully more palatable and practicable.

At this point I would like to ask a favor of the true experts of physics, quantum physics, and biophysics, etc. I have oversimplified many facts of biophysics in this book and am asking you to be lenient in your judgment. Please consider that a layman of physics is trying to explain phenomena which are still baffling to the experts as well as to other laymen.

I do think that it is not necessarily that critical to understand all correlations of complicated facts. It seems more significant to be able to put diffi-cult-to-comprehend phenomena into practice. This methodology will come up continuously in this book and has proven quite useful.

For those skeptics who cannot overcome their doubts about some of the incomprehensible phenomena described, I would like to quote a sentence Hippocrates supposedly coined more than 2000 years ago:

”If we do not understand a phenomenon, it is usually due to our limitations and is not the problem of the particular phenomenon!”

Getting involved in the physics angle of medicine completely changed my attitude toward the animate in general. Most rewarding was the immediate application of knowledge gained through therapy, bringing about results that previously would have been looked upon as unbelievable and unfathomable.

Over time an image emerged of a promising new field of medicine, its effects as yet unforeseen. This book is meant, in part, to present a sketch of that image.

Even though I am personally very committed to this subject matter, I do not want to create the impression that I am claiming sole authorship for any of the findings discussed in this book.

This book cannot be written without mentioning and thanking three men, who as pathfinders opened our eyes. They were instrumental in pioneering this methodology.

All three were independent medical practitioners without the support of the greater scientific institutions. Exclusively based on the interaction with their patients, relying upon their personal intuition, each one of them found new treatment methodologies. Way ahead of their time, they were initially frowned upon, largely misunderstood and ignored. We will reveal the actual significance of their achievements later, when we present the further development of medicine via the direction outlined in this book.

First there is Samuel Hahnemann. About 200 years ago he discovered (or rediscovered) not only the Law of Similars, but also showed that information containing no actual matter (in the form of homeopathic high potencies) can indeed have an effect on an organism. He showed that even if the principle is initially incomprehensible, it is possible to learn how to implement it in practice.

Reinhold Voll deserves a mention here as well. Using a discovery made in the 1950s to identify functional processes and energetic conditions in an organism by means of electrical measurements conducted upon the epidermal layer of the skin, he created the impressive therapy modality of electro-acupuncture. The information derived from and made accessible by this procedure (based solely on practical experiences) has opened important doors to areas we are just now becoming familiar with.

Last but not least we should not forget Franz Morell. Based on the principles of electro-acupuncture, he had the ingenious idea to use the body's information directly for therapy. In this way he created a link between the homeopathy by Hahnemann and the latest findings by Voll. Thus bioreso-nance therapy, also known as MORA therapy, based on the patient's own oscillations, was born. Today bioresonance therapy, tested and documented, certainly looks like one of the most significant therapy modalities of the future.

Without these practical men and, of course, the fundamental knowledge of the “Great Sages” like Planck, Einstein and all those erudite professors of physics, quantum mechanics, and biophysics, the biophysical aspect of medicine as expressed in this book would be as unthinkable as during Hah-nemann's days.

When I talk about myself in this book, my experiences and convictions, I primarily use the plural “we” as many factors are interconnected and need to be considered in a medical practice: my excellent staff, constantly thinking on their feet; my patients and their families, who took heart and trusted me enough to jointly venture into often new and foreign territory.

At the same time there are many colleagues—doctors and naturopaths— whom I have had the pleasure to introduce to this new and unaccustomed aspect through a variety of seminars. Their experiences, exchange of ideas, suggestions and last but not least their enthusiasm gave me courage and supported me.

Innsbruck, Fall 2004 Peter Schumacher, M.D.