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Оглавление1 The Physics Aspect in Medicine
Twentieth Century Medicine
In medical history, the twentieth century will be recorded as the century in which empirical medicine evolved into the scientific-based rational allopathic tradition. It is the century of cellular pathology, biochemistry, astonishing progress in surgery, and increased life expectancy made possible by newly developed treatment methodologies based on chemical, antibiotic or like methods.
Looking at its success rate, it is by all means appropriate to admire the progress made. However, one cannot help but notice that, at least in the last quarter of the century, scientific medicine has slowly started to circumambulate despite its terrific results which, to date, are uncontested.
Researching ever more complicated relationships in more and more detail is doubtlessly important and scientifically intriguing, but at the same time we run the risk of becoming super specialists who get lost in the details. Consequently, we will not be able to “see the forest for the trees.” Systems thinker F. Vester describes this in considerably more scientific terms: “Studying the individual elements of a system in more and more detail increasingly impedes the ability to recognize its patterns” (Vester 1984). Indeed, in order to get medicine to cease this circumambulation, we need a new approach that surpasses our current ways of thinking.
According to scientific theoretician T.S. Kuhn, “revolutionary processes, not continuous improvements” cause real progress in science (Kuhn 1976). Kuhn coined the now commonly used term paradigm shift. In this context paradigm signifies theorems and methodologies employed by a particular group of scientists and regarded as valid during a specific period of time.
Physics, the basis of natural science, has seen several of those paradigm shifts in the twentieth century, as have other branches of science except medicine. “Medicine is the exception” (Hanzl 1990). Physicist H. P. Dürr says that “a natural scientific view of the world mainly characterized by traits of the old mechanistic-deterministic world view of the 19th century” dominates even today (Durr 1988).
Development, however, does not stop. Sooner or later even medicine will have to take into consideration the revolutionary findings occurring in the basic sciences, in particular quantum physics and quantum mechanics. One can already see some rethinking starting to take place. Thanks to the “new physics” view of the world, some methods of the so-called alternative medicine, previously outside the mainstream of conventional medical thought, are now experiencing a revival. For example, the effect of a high-potency homeopathic remedy greater than D23 would have been unthinkable in the context of the old biochemical materialistic paradigm as it only allows for “measurable quantities.” This includes the physio-scientific aspect in the observation showing that the exclusive informational content of a substance is responsible for the effect, a substance that is an unmeasurable physical entity.
The physics aspect of information, in particular, has proven extremely fruitful. It will play an important role in this book and will profoundly influence the medicine of the next century, as did cellular pathology and biochemistry in the medicine of the 20th century.
We live in a “time of change” (Capra 1983). The process of replacing materialistic paradigms with new, more flexible thought modalities requires of everyone a certain rethinking, or at least a willingness to understand. This is, of course, more difficult for people who are strongly attached to the old paradigm. A scientist who has become an expert in a particular field knows his subject matter inside and out like few others (that is why he holds the professorship). However, he is usually the one least willing to consider, let alone accept, completely different approaches.
We could say that experts are the most effective impediment to progress, or as the famous Max Planck said:
”Newly discovered scientific knowledge does not gain acceptance by convincing its opponents. Rather they slowly fade away.”
What is expected of a “new medicine” that is to shape the 21st century? It is to dismantle well-worn prejudices and create the openness required to embrace new approaches to thinking: networked thinking rather than solely linear thinking, including functional and cybernetic models in the conceptualization of how living systems work. Also, it is to finally bring about, after half a century, the acceptance of the quantum revolution in physics and its most important consequence: the dualism of matter. Up to now, medicine based on natural sciences functioned under the premise of physical matter that we can count, weigh, and measure. This idea was easy to understand and has not been proven wrong per se, but is only a partial aspect of our existence. The other aspect, not easily acceptable for a lay physicist, is the nature of frequency oscillations and their inherent possibilities of interference and resonance.
Admittedly, the idea that everything we are dealing with, including the human body, is supposed to comprise tangible matter and intangible radiation is somewhat difficult to accept. Complete comprehension is not expected of a lay physicist. Specifically, however, physicians should not ignore this fact. Very few people who use their television know exactly how it operates. What they do know is that pictures and sound can be transmitted over long distances, however this may work. They accept this fact and make use of it. Medicine ought to do the same: accept the principle and use it. As we will see later, simple thought modalities will assist our understanding.
The Phenomenon of “Life” and Basic Physiology
Life is only possible under three conditions:
1. Matter
2. Energy
3. Information
This is the key to understanding the phenomenon of life. It seems self-evident but is slow to enter people's awareness. Scholars of natural sciences seem to have a particularly difficult time accepting this reasoning. Ever since Isaac Newton expounded that matter is the origin of all existence at the end of the 17th century, materialistic thinking was the basis for all natural sciences. The scientific materialistic aspect is also emphasized in medicine even though the subjects of its treatments and research are exclusively living beings. Scientists and physicians have studied the body, tissue, and cells in submicroscopic detail. We know of innumerable biochemical reactions that continuously take place in the body. Altogether we know a lot about the material side! Despite a cornucopia of detailed knowledge, the phenomenon of life is still incomprehensible. This way of thinking did not change much, even after the quantum revolution in the first half of the last century discovered that:
The real origin of all life is energy. Matter is just a particularly dense form of energy.
In order to truly understand life, another factor needs to be considered. Something intangible that enables the system to function. Something that is responsible for initiating, maintaining, and controlling the innumerable processes taking place on the material level. In her book, which is worth reading and taking to heart, Jutta Rost writes about the subject of life (Rost 1990): “How can we best define ‘life'? How can we describe it? There is nothing to see, nothing to measure, nothing to weigh, and even x-ray does not show anything. This ‘life per se' escapes all of our modern diagnostic and scientific methods.
We can experience it, however: Looking at effects or non-effects, we recognize its presence or absence. A living organism has motion, functions. Animate objects react to stimulation. Inanimate objects do not react.
Being alive means: to be able to move.
Being alive means: to be able to react.
Being alive also means: to be able to regulate.
Being alive also means: to be able to regenerate.”
In those terms life is not a condition but a function. This function would be impossible, even unthinkable, without integrative regulations. We know today that several million biochemical reactions per second are taking place in a regulated order in each living cell. Physicist F. A. Popp unequivocally states: “The fact that life does not end up in a chaotic mix of chemical reactions can only be explained by the existence of control functions based upon the principles of physics.”
Any attempts to hypothesize based on biochemical principles have proven untenable to date. In any event, the slow rate of chemical reactions would not support such gigantic numbers. Moreover, any biochemical explanation would not answer the central question about a superior coordination of biological functions.
Popp compares biological functions with the performance of an orchestra: “When playing at a concert, each musician is expected to play his instrument expertly. That is not the only important criterion. The quality of the artists' performance is determined by the coordination among each instrumentalist when each note is being played, in what manner, their harmonies, and on which instrument.”
It took a surprisingly long time before scientists asked a question as obvious as the one about superior control of living processes. Scientists in the former Soviet Union were the first ones to conduct research on this subject matter. In fact, the Russian biophysicist A. G. Gurwitsch discovered mitogenetic radiation back in 1922. He observed that the root of an onion, which is in the process of growing, can increase the rate of cell division of another root significantly, even if the two onions are separated by glass (Gurwitsch 1932). This opened the door to the amazing field of bio-information. Based on his findings, Gurwitsch postulated the existence of a regulating biofield. His idea, however, was largely ignored at the time. His compatriot G. La khovsky, who introduced the concept of electromagnetic resonance in the transference of biological information and considered life “to generate from and be maintained by radiation,” remained an outsider to the scientific community. At that time, people were not yet ready for the thoughts proposed by Gurwitsch and Lakhovsky. The scientific materialistic paradigm was still too omnipotent.
More than 30 years passed before physicists of the western hemisphere started to consider biophysical influences on living systems. Biological Effects of Magnetic Fields (Barnothy 1964) was the first publication to discuss this subject in the United States. In 1970, Electromagnetic Fields and Life was published by biophysicist A. S. Presman, also in the United States. During that time, the Russian biophysicists continued with their research. A summary of their work, Ultra-weak radiation in intercellular interaction, was published in 1981 by V. P. Kaznachejew and L. P. Michailowa. They conducted very exact and fundamental research on how biophysical information is transmitted, received, and stored in cells and organs; thus proving that electromagnetic intracellular and intercellular interactions (i. e. electromagnetic bio-information) were valid. These works were the first to clearly show that in order to comprehend life, “considering metabolic functions alone (= exchange of energy and matter) is insufficient. Particularly important is the analysis of information transmitted within living systems.”
Since the 1970s the German physicist F.A. Popp has studied the phenomena of how information is transmitted within living systems. He too encountered plenty of resistance and disrespect from the established scientific community, but was able to conclusively prove that photons transmit information within a cell and between cells. A photon is generally understood to be a light particle without mass. He showed that the DNA of living cells stores and releases photons (biophotons). These frequencies are inconceivably weak. Their intensity is about 1018 (the number 10 followed by 18 zeros) times lower than regular daylight. To prove the existence of such intracellular luminescence he developed a device called a photon multiplier. It is so sensitive that it can register the glow generated by fireflies from a distance of 10 km (16 miles). Using this technique of magnifying light to an extremely high degree, Popp was not only able to prove that photon rays are ubiquitous in all living systems, but also that:
All biochemical reactions in living organisms are operated and regulated by ultra-low electromagnetic frequencies.
This process is regulated by an oscillation field; the human mind cannot fathom the complexity of all its information. “If we wanted to understand the information content of just one single cell, we would need more than 100 years, reading day and night about the different possibilities containing information” (Popp).
Information as a Universal Entity in Physics
The term information is commonly used today. In the physical scientific sense, however, it is hard to define.
R. N. Wiener (1963), founder of cybernetics, unmistakably recognized the superiority of information as compared to matter and energy:
Information is neither energy nor matter. It is a third, intangible entity comparable to a “message” emitted by a sender (or a system that contains the information) to a receiver.
For example, the signals transmitted may be letters, numbers, symbols or the like. In the field of bio-information, they are the electromagnetic frequency patterns as previously mentioned.
When transmitting information, concordance between sender and receiver is crucial. That is to say the sender/receiver must be able to understand the message. Let us use a common example to illustrate this. To have the desired effect, a message delivered via letter must meet a number of criteria. The receiver must be able to read, has to know the characters that were used, and understand the language. The size of the characters (i. e. individual signals) may also make comprehension difficult. Text containing characters several meters in size would be legible only from great distance. Text containing micrometer characters would be legible only using optical devices. Moreover, the receiver must not be blind.
Thus information can only be effective if it resonates with the system it is meant to influence. It must be “suitable for the system.” This applies to the kind of signal as well as its intensity (the size of the letters as in the above-mentioned example).
Physicists (see above-mentioned photon research by Popp) have shown us that ultra-weak signals transmit information in living organisms. These signals are oscillations, their intensity well within the range of the so-called broadband noise. Broadband noise is signals that occur in each material caused by the movement of elementary particles, molecules, and atoms. (As particle movements are dependent on temperature, the expression thermal noise is also often used.)
To date researchers assumed that signals below the noise level do not affect anything. In any case, these kinds of signals are no longer measurable using common measuring devices and receivers.
Meanwhile it is certain, however, that biological systems selectively register information even within the frequency range and far below the measuring ability of technical devices commonly used today.
Research has shown that biological information seems to have an effect only when it is that subtle!
When experimenting with cerebral cells from chicks, the American physicist W. R. Adey (1988) discovered that they only respond to a certain frequency (about 10 Hz). At the same time, the amplitude must lie within a very specific (low) range. No reactions are measurable below or above that range. This limited range (obtained from the ratio of amplitude and frequency), within which a biological system is able to respond to electromagnetic signals carrying information, is known as the Adey window.
Apparently, transmission in the so-called molecular chain conductors is possible only if the frequency and amplitude of a signal fall within this small “window.” If the amplitude of a signal is too low, it lies below the point of resonance and is ineffective. If it is too high, the protein chains will break up and the signal will be blocked (Ludwig).
The idea, intrinsic to scientific medicine, that weak signals cannot be effective when similar strong signals show no measurable results has been proven wrong.
Let us remember:
Information is neither matter nor energy. It operates in biological systems via ultra-weak electromagnetic signals and therefore plays an important part in all life processes.
Modern biophysics considers information today as “a latent, but potent causal factor inherent in molecules, cells, tissue, and the environment. It enables all these entities to recognize, select, and instruct each other, to construct each other and themselves as well as regulate, control, and determine events of any kind” (Oyama 1985).
Experts continue to debate the actual biophysical nature of biological information. The most modern and promising aspect for the future might be the concept of the morphogenetic field phenomenon. Rupert Sheldrake devised the brilliant and revolutionary thought modality of the, to date, be wildering process of how Nature uses fields to create forms. These fields have the ability to store the “knowledge” of individuals in a species. He defined a morphogenetic field as “a non-material zone of influence of physics” (Sheldrake 1990).
Sheldrake and many other physicists postulate that, besides the commonly known gravitational field that causes the force of gravity, there are a great number of other fields that structure and organize the entire universe, from subatomic particles to the farthest galaxies in some kind of hierarchical layers. Considering the latest physics research, it is acceptable to think of the cosmos as an entirely oscillating space, structured by intangible forces. The material spectrum we are used to living and operating in is just a tiny part of the whole. All of its parts are subject to these intangible forces.
All these ideas are almost inconceivable for a layperson. As previously mentioned, it is more important to accept a substantiated subject and incorporate it into one's own view of the world rather than understand it completely. In order to make the discoveries of science more accessible and palatable for laypeople, simple thought modalities have been introduced. They do not claim to be absolutely correct within the framework of the presently accepted scientific paradigm, but offer tremendous illustrative ideas that facilitate often complicated interrelations.
Fig. 1.1 Even though the “thought modality” of two levels separated by space is surreal, it facilitates the understanding of many biophysical regulatory processes in living systems.
One of these proven thought modalities is the idea of two distinctly separated ways of operating. Both affect and order our entire world:
On the one hand there is the material level, with its dimensions directly accessible to our senses: substance, form, cells, tissue, biochemical processes, etc. This is what we are accustomed to and the premise allopathic medicine operates under.
On the other hand there is the idea we are less familiar with of a sphere of intangible control and regulatory processes. This is the informational level that the material level is subject to (Fig. 1.1).
The term level was used to better illustrate the idea. We could also use the term field. This would be closer to the reality of physical science, but would place us between the opposing sides of the physicists still vehemently debating the term.
Our previous findings support the fact that everything in this world that operates in one way or another is subject to the controlling and regulating forces of the informational level. In terms of all areas dealing with living organisms, medicine included, this means that all processes regarding life, growth, development, metabolism, sickness, health, even death and decomposition occur on the material level in biochemical ways. However, they receive their regulatory information from the level above. Without exception, all processes pertaining to matter are subject to the informational level. This also signifies that all processes can be influenced from that level. Therefore a medical evaluation, be it diagnosis or therapy, that can affect the informational level has to be far superior to any method restricted to the material level!
It is easy to come to this theoretical conclusion. In practice it is difficult to obtain access to a system. We have to find a “code,” just like with a computer, certain information that opens the system like a key and creates the possibility to influence it.
A homeopathic simile, for example, would be compatible information. Searching for the greatest possible congruity between the patient's symptoms and the effect of the medicine is nothing more than looking for this codification. It allows access to the regulatory level, the patient's informational system.
Homeopathy as a Physical Therapy Modality
Samuel Hahnemann, a gifted and brilliant man, intuitively recognized 200 years ago that a substance's intangible information can bring about a profound effect in the body assuming it is the right information at the right potency. The simile and potency principle belong together and are law-governed, as physicist W. R. Adey postulated 200 years later: “Frequency (informational content) and intensity of a biological signal must lie within a certain limited range (Adey window) in order to have an effect on a living system”(Adey 1988).
Hahnemann and the teachings of homeopathy were too far ahead of their times to be commonly acknowledged. Homeopathy existed in the paramedical arena and was not completely understood, even by its own devotees. Now we know that a purely physical scientific principle had been found empirically and developed into an effective healing method. The healing principle is based on specific physical scientific information, the physics codification, of a medicine interacting with the intangible controlling and regulatory processes of an organism.
For a medicine to work in the physical scientific framework, it is necessary to largely eliminate its chemically material elements. This is done with the potency process. As is generally known, beyond D23 a potentized substance no longer contains any molecules at all. This fact is the main argument proponents of the materialistic paradigm use against homeopathy (“where there is nothing, there can be no effect”).
However, it is precisely this fact that is one of the main presuppositions as to why it works. Homeopathy dissects the phenomenological symptoms of illness and medicine into the minutest details and uses them as the key to open the patient's informational system. The more exactly the key fits, the better the medicine works.
Acupuncture as Informational Therapy
Acupuncture is an alternative method of treatment, but has the same goal: influencing functional processes in organisms.
The fascinating teachings of Chinese acupuncture are a particularly impressive example illustrating discoveries that were first recorded by subtly watching functional interrelations. East Asian philosophy, wisdom, and patience collected extensive knowledge regarding energetic processes and interrelationships within organisms. The knowledge of two opposite forces (yin and yang) continuously interacting as well as energy flowing throughout meridians (a complex structure subject to clear laws) opens the possibility to selectively influence harmonic and functional disruptions of the entire system. Physical stimulation such as pin pricks, warmth, and pressure applied locally—even laser light of a specific wavelength—can bring about astonishing results when applied at specific points on the body.
In modern computer studies, I. E. Dumitrescu proved that acupuncture points empirically found and known for hundreds of years indicate “ channels carrying information between an organism and its electrical environment” (Dumitrescu 1989). If that type of channel is stimulated by a pin prick, an electrical field that serves as an information carrier is established. This allows the exchange of information from both ends of the channel and also between channels (when treating several points).
The essence of ancient acupuncture can therefore be considered in terms of modern research to be a completely physical methodology operating in the informational and regulatory system of an organism.
Electro-acupuncture, a Window into the Future
In the early 1950s some interested physicians (R. De La Fuye, J. E. H. Niboyet in France, W. Schmidt in Germany) thought of combining the basics of Chinese acupuncture with the possibilities of modern electronics. They started to measure the classical acupuncture points electrically.
The actual founder of electro-acupuncture, however, is the German physician Reinhold Voll. Thanks to his diligence and extraordinary energy we now have the impressive teachings of EAV (electro-acupuncture according to Voll). Voll and his coworkers created a system of specific points used to measure organs and their surrounding areas. This system far exceeds the original Chinese acupuncture system. Generally speaking, electro-acupuncture uses a special device that emits very low electricity to measure the tension of an organism at specific acupuncture points. Voll was able to prove that there are interconnections between certain points and their respectively assigned organs and corresponding areas. According to Schmitz-Harbauer (1992), they realized that, “pathological response signals at electrically significant points on the skin correlate with pathological changes in organs, systems, or subsystems.”
Measuring the acupuncture point is not exclusively meant to measure the electrophysiological properties of tissue in and around the area of the point, rather it is meant to measure the regulatory field interrelating to the point.
The ability to electrically measure functional and energetic conditions of an organism on the epidermal layer of the skin is a medical sensation. Unfortunately, it has not been recognized as such by other than a few insiders of the electro-acupuncture community.
Even more sensational and important was the discovery of the so-called drug testing. In 1954, Voll accidentally observed that a drug held by a patient changes the measurements at the acupuncture points. Initially, this phenomenon seems unbelievable as this change also took place when the substance was contained in a glass tube. The same happened with homeopathic high-potencies, solutions that no longer contain any molecules of the substance, but only intangible information.
Kramer showed that the “energetic frequencies” of a particular substance are transmitted via metallic conductors. He corroborated that the same information can also be transmitted without a conduction medium, solely “by air” over a short distance. He concluded that the effect of the “drug test” must be caused by “electromagnetic frequencies, similar to radio wave” (Kramer 1979).
The question arose as to whether the physical information of the test substance could be transmitted by a sender-receiver system. Experiments to that effect were positive. A device was subsequently developed. This device proved to be very worthwhile in clinical practice as it simplified the drug test and saved time. A brass plate attached to the sender registers the electromagnetic information of the tested substance and sends a wireless transmission to the receiver via an amplitude modulated frequency. The patient is connected to the receiver by cables and electrodes. As is customary, the acupuncture points are measured and show the same results as if the measurement were taken via direct contact with the patient and the substance.
Toward the end of the 1950s we already had a simple procedure, comprehensible for physicians, which proved that the specific physical information of a substance can be tapped. This information clearly possesses the properties of electromagnetic oscillations and unequivocally creates measurable changes in the informational system of a patient.
These findings were breathtaking and exciting, but too far removed from the well-worn path of traditional scientific thinking. They were not able to find broad acceptance in the medical community. Despite impressive success in diagnostics and therapies, electro-acupuncture remained a medical outsider. It eventually found many supporters among open-minded German naturopaths.
Unerringly, Voll expanded the method, discovering ever more correlations and new epidermal points related to organs. EAV soon became a very complex field of knowledge not easily accessible for most people. Voll's autocratic leadership style also created resistance within the EAV community. Aspirations to improve and simplify the method soon split the association. New groups started up that developed different methodologies, but never denied the intellectual heritage of Reinhold Voll.
In the early days of electro-acupuncture a physician from Nurnberg, W. Schmidt, had his own ideas and co-founded a new independent “Arbeits-und Forschungsgemeinschaft fur bioelektronische Funktionsdiagnostik und -therapie” (BFD) (Research Community for Bioelectronic Functional Diagnostic and Therapy) with H. Vill.
The BFD developed successfully. It endeavored to simplify test methods (e.g., measuring skin conductivity, electro-impulse dermography, decoder dermography) and emphasized regulation diagnosis (Bergsmann, Maresch, Pflaum, Vill, and others).
Also interested in simplifying the EAV method, H. Schimmel pursued a different path yet again, in the early 1970s. He aimed to replace the time-consuming method of measuring many organ-specific points customary with Voll with simpler and more elegant methods. Using test ampoules of potentized organ preparations as diagnostic indicators, he found it was possible to measure just a few arbitrary points. Now known as the Vega test, this method has proven useful in practice and has found numerous proponents (Schimmel 1991).
Thanks to the various electro-acupuncture techniques, progress was made particularly in the diagnostics field. Now it was possible to show relationships between certain epidermal points and internal organs as well as functional correlations (i. e., between foci and other organisms). Using the method of drug testing, it was possible to predict the effect of homeopathic substances and allopathic drugs for the first time.
Bioresonance Therapy, Therapy of the Future
The most important contribution to the therapy, based on experiences with, and knowledge of, electro-acupuncture, was made by the German physician Franz Morell. He himself was a committed proponent of electro-acupuncture and was familiar with the phenomena observed via EAV. He knew that biophysical information, obviously oscillating, lies within the “ultra-fine”* energy range, but shows all the properties of electromagnetic waves.
At that time, the research done by Popp was unknown and hardly anyone in medicine was considering superior regulatory operations in living processes. Thanks to his seemingly clairvoyant perception and intuition, Morell recognized the correlations. He assumed that all processes within an organism must be accompanied, regulated, or caused by electromagnetic oscillations. Just as each substance shows specific electromagnetic information (demonstrated by the aforementioned drug testing), in the same way, each living being possesses a codified informational base consisting of many specified pieces of operational data. This particular frequency spectrum, specific to a patient and valid only at a particular moment in time, should contain all information relevant for this living being. There are physiological, healthy “harmonious” as well as pathological “disharmonious” oscillation patterns. The latter are meant to be weakened or eliminated. Illness, therefore, is an imbalance in an organism's oscillation pattern where pathological “disharmonious” oscillations dominate! Morell's postulations were something to this effect.
* The term ultra-fine in connection with electromagnetic oscillations was coined by H. Brügemann. It depicts the most subtle energies in living systems that are extremely weak physically (below the noise level), however quite effective biologically.
He had the ingenious idea to use the complex spectrum of electromagnetic oscillations intrinsic to a patient for treatment. He would use electrodes to measure the electromagnetic signals of a patient. These would then be modified electronically in a device and returned to the patient as effective healing oscillations. Just as in regular electrical engineering, cables conduct the biological signals from the patient to the therapy device and vice versa.
The patient's frequency pattern is selectively (depending on the device settings) inverted. That is to say, it is electronically converted into its exact mirror image. Subsequently, it can be amplified, attenuated, and specific frequencies can be filtered out, etc. These procedures do not change a specific characteristic, that is to say the actual physical “code” of the frequency spectrum. The patient's frequency spectrum, when confronted by its own code, can and must react to it. As the information is the patient's own, it is ultimately suitable to the patient's system. This does not apply to any other known therapy modality except the true homeopathic simile. The essentially new aspect about this therapy is that it exclusively uses the body's own individual oscillations without adding any foreign energies or chemical substances, etc. This is indeed the purest biophysical therapy possible! (The therapy device uses electrical current only for its electronics to function. Patient signals and supply current are strictly separated.)
A completely new aspect in therapy was also to make use of a self-regulating cybernetic feedback loop that occurred during therapy. The therapy device does not use the patient's information collected at the beginning of the therapy throughout the course of the therapy. Instead, the device converts patient's oscillation patterns into therapeutic treatment oscillations. Their effect immediately influences the organism and changes the patient's wave patterns. Subsequently, the therapy continuously adapts itself to the new situation it initiated. Patient and therapy device together form a complete and perfect cybernetic feedback loop.
Morell first introduced the therapy modality using the patient's own signals in 1977. This was initially called Mora therapy (a combination of the first letters of its inventor Morell and of Rasche, an electronics engineer and his son-in-law, who designed the first therapy device) (Morell 1987).
The development of other devices eventually necessitated a more neutral name. These days the term bioresonance therapy is commonly used as a collective name for this type of therapy modality. The devices developed by Rasche continue to be called Mora.
Morell's hypotheses and conclusions, initially theoretical, have proven correct in practice with regards to the content. Meanwhile the experiences of several thousand physicians and therapists with their patients speak for themselves.
A therapy modality using the patient's own oscillations, as does the bioresonance therapy, is automatically universally applicable. In principle, all kinds of illnesses or disturbances may be treated, be they acute or chronic, organic or functional, already manifest or without symptoms. In effect, the patient treats him/herself. Some of the information relating to the illness that comes into play is unknown to patient and therapist, but already a stressor within the body. This prophylactic aspect mentioned is particularly important in pediatrics. Using bioresonance therapy on a child signifies more than simply treating the symptoms; rather it acts as a preventative measure for the future.
Our experiences and observations span more than 10 000 patients, primarily children as we are a pediatric practice. Meanwhile, in addition to other specific treatments, we routinely apply bioresonance therapy to each patient who is in need of any therapy, for whatever reason. Particularly with children, the therapy is often extraordinarily effective. Almost daily, for several years now, parents have been bringing their sick children to our practice requesting bioresonance therapy, knowing that it usually provides rapid improvement. Concurrent treatment with homeopathic remedies and other naturopathic modalities almost always eliminate the need for the use of chemical drugs, particularly antibiotics. We use them very rarely now.
Bioresonance therapy plays an important role in “reversing” a child's susceptibility to infections and general immune deficiencies. Daily we listen to the often tragic stories of children who have not been able to escape a series of infections for months, even years. The pathogenic mechanism is the same in many cases: imprudent treatment suppressing the symptoms of each and every small disturbance, starting from infancy. This inhibits, sometimes prohibits, normal “immunological learning processes” and the establishment of effective defense mechanisms. Antibiotics have to be taken in continuously shorter time intervals. Often the child becomes dependent on the medication.
A disastrous cycle begins: an illness characteristic for the times we live in. There could not be a more typical example demonstrating the erroneous development of our medical paradigm. The only chance these patients, primarily children (of any age), have is to reverse their therapies: Abstain from applying chemically suppressive therapies wherever it is deemed responsible. Instead, stimulate and support the body's own defense mechanisms. This is the only way to train and strengthen the immune system, which will eventually enable the patients to overcome illnesses of their own accord.
In our opinion, bioresonance therapy has turned out to be an invaluable tool for this important process of reversal. Addressing the organism from a higher level, the regulatory and informational level, toxins can be eliminated, blockages overcome, and the organism can be brought into a state of balance.
The aforementioned example, from our practice, regarding the susceptibility to infection is meant to highlight the possibilities a therapy offers that is based exclusively on the patient's own bodily regulatory codification. It has the potential to assess and treat the source of an illness by addressing the preceding or accompanying disturbances in the regulatory system. Older patients are often dealing with much more diverse and severe stressors that have accumulated over the course of their lives: disruptive conditions which are a consequence of inflammatory processes that have never healed completely or have become chronic, scars of any kind, disruption of intestinal bacterial flora or intestinal function, disturbances of the mineral or acid-base metabolism, toxic stresses caused by environmental toxins, heavy metals, etc. Finally, there are many exogenous interferences such as technical force fields, weather changes, geopathic stress, and the many unnatural accumulating influences that our modern world offers. We know of no other therapy that is more suited to our times than the bioresonance therapy with its concept of the elimination of toxins and harmonization.
The specific and impressive potential of the bioresonance therapy to treat allergies will be covered extensively in this book. Before going into detail, I would like to present a general overview of the method, its technique, and its manifold possibilities.
The technical aspect of the therapy is easy and in no way additionally stresses the patient. At least two electrodes, which are connected to the therapy device via cables, are placed on the patient's body. One of these cables is the input cable, usually black. It is attached to the input beaker of the device and transmits the patient's frequency patterns to the device. A second cable, the output cable (always red to avoid confusion), returns modulated therapeutic frequency patterns (signals inverted in the device or via other methods) to the patient via the output electrode (Fig. 1.2)
Electrodes come in all shapes, sizes, and forms. Each can be placed on various parts of the body. In our practice it is customary to run a basic therapy on each patient, regardless of diagnosis and treatment indication. This serves to collect the complete spectrum of a patient's information. Everyone familiar with acupuncture knows that all acupuncture meridians start or end at the hands or feet. Therefore the basic therapy usually uses hand and/or feet electrodes. Electrodes can basically be simple conducting metal plates. The development of multicoated electrodes, which use a permanent magnetic field and act like antennae, subsequently have a deep-reaching effect (BICOM electrodes, Regumed, Inc.). They have brought about significant improvement. These magnetic electrodes are flat and come in different sizes. Flexible electrodes for uneven body parts (including the head) have proven rather useful as well.
Fig. 1.2 Schematic representation of the bioresonance therapy. The patient's own frequencies are transmitted to the therapy device via cables where they are electronically modulated (i.e. inverted) and are returned to the patient as therapeutic frequency patterns.
As children are generally unable to keep their feet still, we almost always use hand electrodes. Commonly used electrodes are the brass cylinder electrodes, as is customary in electro-acupuncture (Fig. 1.3). For babies (in their mother's or father's lap), we tend to use clamp electrodes as used in electrocardiography (Fig. 1.4).
Following the basic therapy that primarily aims at altering and bringing the entire body into balance, the second step primarily directs treatment to the focal infection. Various specialized electrodes are available for this localized therapy. When treating children we found the so-called gold-finger electrode with its rounded tip most useful. It is suitable for point and surface therapy. The patients also seem to like it a lot (Figs. 1.5–7).
Special roller or point electrodes can also be used for these indications. A magnetic depth probe is used when a particularly deep-reaching effect is required (Fig. 1.8).
While the basic therapy aims to improve the patient's general condition, subsequent therapies aim to register the primary and disruptive oscillations with as much detail as possible and then address them. It is possible to treat painful areas or cramps directly or via acupuncture points and meridians. Other proven indications of the bioresonance therapy are focal infections, scar tissue, and interferences.
Placement of the electrodes depends upon the location and the type of illness. In the case of acute inflammations, the body's entire frequency spectrum is fed to the input of the device via hand or feet electrodes. The output leads to the area of inflammation. In case of chronic degenerative illnesses, the problematic area is interfaced to the input. The output is connected to the entire body via a surface electrode. This procedure, recommended by Morell more than 10 years ago, takes into consideration the basic differences as to how an organism reacts. This distinction is no longer an issue with newer bioresonance devices. They collect the information from the problematic area and carry it via a magnetic mat to the points of the bladder meridian along the back (BICOM 2000, Regumed, Inc.).
Fig. 1.3 Applied basic therapy using two hand-held electrodes. The pathological fluid (i.e. cotton swab with saliva, nasal discharge, ear fluid, throat swab) is placed in the input beaker of the BICOM device.
Fig. 1.4 ECG clamp electrodes are used for this basic therapy on a baby.
If possible, the basic therapy should already include the body's own corresponding “pathological fluid.” At the least, it should be part of any subsequent therapies. We use cotton swabs with the patient's saliva, tonsil secretions, nasal discharge, puss, urine, etc. To avoid contamination of the electrode, the cotton swab is placed in a small bag of parchment paper in a beaker that is plastic on the inside, brass on the outside. It is attached to the input of the therapy device.
Using the body's own fluids, secretions or excretions, in the input of the device has proven effective and illustrates the therapy principle of physical oscillations to a lay person. This method illustrates to the patient the particular pathological portion that is part of the body's own complex frequency spectrum (received via the input cable). Consequently, the therapy signal also reflects this ratio more clearly.
Fig. 1.5 Localized therapy using the gold-finger electrode applied around the nose.
Fig. 1.6 Local therapy for otitis: gold-finger electrode in the auditory canal, ear fluid in the beaker electrode connected to the input of the BICOM device.
Fig. 1.7 Therapy for bronchial asthma at the acupuncture point Bladder 13 (corresponds to the lung).
Fig. 1.8 Treating bronchial asthma using magnetic depth probe (point cv 17).
Theoretically a very interesting phenomenon, and one commonly used within bioresonance therapy, is the possibility to charge liquids with physical information.
Early on the developers thought of storing therapy signals, fed to the patient via the output cable of the device, in some way in order to extend the therapy's effect over a longer period of time. It turned out that water's ability to carry information was ideal for this purpose. Due to particular physical properties, water molecules are able to build “clusters” and in this way store electromagnetic information. Informational input via the patient and processed in the device is “charged” onto (that is to say stored in) a vial containing water or a water-based solution (usually diluted alcohol) that is connected to the output of the bioresonance therapy device.
This liquid now contains the patient's vibrational information used during the therapy for remote use. The patient can take it drop by drop on days when he/she is not receiving therapy. According to physical law, other carrier substances can be charged with this vibrational information, for example ferrite or iron alloys. The BICOM 2000 uses BICOM chips made from stainless steel, which the patient can attach to a body reflex zone correlating to the therapy.
Later, we will address dosage issues for allergy therapy in greater detail. For now, I would just like to point out that these drops—in no way chemically altered, which an analysis can confirm—have been transformed into a highly effective therapeutic substance for the patient.
Veterinary medicine favors this option and uses it routinely when the application of therapy encounters technical problems. Animals respond particularly well to bioresonance therapy. In many cases a single therapy session followed by taking the drops is sufficient to bring about expedient healing of all kinds of illnesses.
The therapy device has to comply with certain criteria. For many years we used the MORA device designed by Morell himself. In 1987, we switched to the BICOM device (Brugemann, Inc.) that offers many advantages to the original device.
Being able to attenuate vibrational information is an important advantage in pediatrics. Children usually are patients with very high electrical conductivity and respond well (according to Chinese acupuncture they are usually more yang than yin). Rather weak stimulation may cause strong reactions with these patients. Experience has shown that they often benefit more from an attenuation of the body's own oscillations rather than amplification, which was commonly used in the past.
The BICOM technology makes it possible to select specific portions of the entire frequency spectrum for the therapy. A “separator” separates the so-called harmonic (healthy) frequencies from the disharmonic (unhealthy) frequencies. All unhealthy frequencies are converted and thus transformed into their mirror image. Harmonic frequencies can be separated and amplified selectively, or inverted in conjunction with disharmonic frequencies.
A third important setting on the therapy device is the frequency range. It is based on the patient's own frequency spectrum and will be returned to the patient via the device. In the experience of many bioresonance therapists, it is more effective to return a narrowed range of the frequencies registered by the patient instead of the whole spectrum simultaneously. One of the significant improvements of the BICOM device was the possibility to return such a narrow frequency range to the patient. This thought was based on the observation that the therapy seemed to be more effective when the therapy signal the patient received was as “pointed” or as specific as possible. Brugemann compares the method to homeopathy (Brugemann 1990). Out of the many possible potencies of a substance, one specific potency is particularly effective, whereas the others show little or no result.
In addition, the BICOM technology offers a so-called sweeping bandpass. The advantage of the sweeping bandpass is that all frequency ranges in question can be administered to the patient at a predetermined rate. According to C. Smith (1985) “each body reacts to beneficial frequencies in a very short time, while harmful frequencies require a significantly longer time to become effective.” Selecting the correct rate for the frequency sweep ensures that beneficial frequencies will positively influence the body, while harmful frequencies are passed before they can have a negative effect. This makes optimal use of a patient's therapeutic frequency range whereas the unsuitable frequencies remain ineffective.
While in the past it was necessary to set the frequency range manually, the sweeping bandpass considerably simplifies setting the frequency range, at the same time increasing efficacy and safety.
Early on Morell observed that the required therapy time can be shortened if the therapy course is interrupted by short breaks. The body seems to react favorably when allowed a break to regulate those impulses received.
Based on these observations, an interval setting was added to the therapy device. Initially it was variable and selected manually. Over the course of the years a rhythm of 3-seconds therapy time with a 1-second break has proven to be a favorable setting. This rhythm is now permanently integrated into the device. It is possible to switch to a continuous therapy mode when needed for special indications.
The duration of therapy can be set using the device. For adults it is usually 3–8 minutes. For children it varies according to age: babies one-fourth, infants one-half, and school children three-quarters of the time intended for adults.
The therapist individualizes the therapy to the patient and his/her illness. The following settings are adjusted on the device:
1 The type of frequencies out of the entire spectrum that are returned to the patient (harmonic, disharmonic, or both), selectively inverted as a mirror image.
2 Amplification or attenuation of individual signals.
3 Frequency selection (frequency sweep or individual frequency setting).
4 Intermittent and continuous therapy.
5 Duration of therapy.
When choosing one of the therapy programs stored in the BICOM device, manual selection of the above data is not necessary.
This book does not aim to explain in detail all the possibilities and facets of bioresonance therapy. Anybody who is interested in applying this resourceful, ingenious therapy should attend training seminars to obtain the necessary skills. Further information can be obtained from Regumed, Inc., Gräfelfing, Germany.
The most important, basic precepts to understand this methodology are summarized in 10 short sentences as follows:
Basic Principles to Aid the Understanding of Bioresonance Therapy
1 In and around the human body are electromagnetic frequencies. These are superior to the biochemical processes and regulate them. Cells and organs oscillate at certain frequencies. This creates the frequency spectrum of an organism.
2 In addition to physiological frequencies, each human being also has pathological frequencies caused by toxin stressors, injuries, inflammations, lingering illness, iatrogenic damage, etc.
3 Together physiological and pathological frequencies are called the patient's individuated frequencies.
4 The patient's individuated frequencies can be picked up from the surface of the body and channeled to a therapy device via cable.
5 The patient's individuated frequencies are transformed into therapeutic frequencies using modern electronics (BICOM device). No technically or otherwise generated frequencies are added.
6 The BICOM device returns the therapeutic frequencies to the patient. Therapy takes place within the patient's body, not within the therapy device.
7 Therapeutic frequencies reduce the pathological frequencies in the patient's body. They also stimulate and/or strengthen physiological frequencies.
8 Bioresonance therapy aims at reducing and/or eliminating pathological frequencies as well as strengthening physiological frequencies.
9 Once the biophysical energy situation improves, biochemical processes improve and become more balanced.
10 The chief objective of bioresonance therapy is to activate the body's own regulatory powers and to free the body from disturbing pathological influences so it can restore itself to a state of health.
Popp once pointedly remarked “we live in an ocean of electromagnetic interplay that we know little about” (Popp 1984).
Indeed it is not necessary to understand everything in detail in order to use it. For centuries ships crossed the oceans, long before Archimedes discovered why they did not sink.
The rules of Chinese acupuncture were established without knowing what happens in the body physically. Homeopathy proved an effective healing method even though it was not possible to explain its workings to doubters for 200 years.
Slowly but surely we are opening doors to areas that initially seemed like fantasy and in the realm of the impossible, the reality of which, however, we experience daily in practice. Electro-acupuncture, particularly bioresonance therapy, allows a vision of a medicine that is able to treat illness before it actually manifests, that heals without side-effects or suppression of symptoms. Lastly, a medicine that eliminates stressors rather than adds them and creates a state of health that promotes harmony in the entire living being, and not simply the absence of disease. Decades will likely pass until the findings of modern biophysics become part of a newly formed medical paradigm. It will be impossible to stop the fundamental shift in thinking. Developments in nature and science appear on the horizon, have their pathfinders and predecessors, but only when their time has come will they prevail.
As Victor Hugo aptly stated:
”Nothing has more power than an idea whose time has come.”
We believe that the significant progress in medicine in the 21st century will be made in the field of biophysical research. The correlations in the field of bio-information are presently barely understandable. Nevertheless, we can already clearly see the implications and benefits physicians and patients can obtain from the discoveries in quantum physics and biophysics. The physical diagnosis and treatment of allergies serves as an excellent example.
Today we are in a position to largely eliminate allergic reactions using exclusively physical methods. The “how and why” will be discussed in the following chapters.
