User:Redecke~enwiki/bioresonance

alternative work-version for bioresonance therapy. Please contribute and correct my spelling errors. Redecke 15:55, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

test-version
Bioresonance therapy is a controversal and an alleged diagnostic and therapeutical method of alternative medicine. Due to an absence of evidence of effect it is not part of scientific medicine. It is however popular and accepted in alternative medicine in some countries.

history
At the end of the 19th century, when electricity became more and more available and popular in industrialized countries, the use of electricity was checked for diagnostic and therapeutical purposes in medicine and many medical applications appeared during that period. The lie-detector was developped as a result of research in psychology.

French physician Roger de la Fuye (1890-1961) was interested in acupunture and was one of the first to introduce it in France. He developped a first electric acupunture device. French Niboyet was convinced that the specific aupunture point of TCM had a different skin reistance.

The first concept that can be linked to the later bioresonance therapy was the invention of radionics in the early twenties of the 20.th century, when the us-american Albert Abrams (1863-1925), who claimed to be a physician, published a radionics device (ERA). Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard claimed later to have developed such a radionics device, and his name is related to the E-meter used until today within Scientology. George de la Warr from Oxford (England) developed a more sophisticated version of a radionics device during the fourties, these are still sold today by Bruce Copen Labs. The BEV, or Bioelectronics according to Vincent (Louis Claude Vincent french engineer 1906-1988) was introduced by him in France in 1948, and is also known as biological terrain analysis. His R-value is the specific electrical resistance of a fluid and it was used experimentally in a test of body fluids for cancer detection and other purposes such as water-quality tests.

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German physicians W. Schmidt (Dachau) and Schick (Stuttgart) introduced the principle of an electroacupunture to Germany. During the fifties, german physician Reinhold Voll received a electroacupunture device from a collegue and together with engineer Fritz Werner he made research with this device and developped his own Electroacupunture according to Voll EAV, based on measuring the skin-resistance of a patient and which is still popular in some alternative medicine circles.

Bioresonance therapy was invented in 1977 and introduced on the market as MORA-therapy by the German physician Franz Morell and his son-in-law, engineer Erich Rasche and was named after them (MOrell RAsche). This method is based on former developped EAV of Voll.

Morell (who died in 1990) was a senior menber of scientology in Germany, and many companies producing BR-devices over here are linked to scientology (Regumed/Brüggemann). Morell was described in a german scientology-newspaper (College) as a high rank scientologist, and Brüggemann is member of IAS international association of scientologists as a Patron (>40.000 USD donations to COS).

Mode of Operation
Usually electrodes, linked to a box, are applied to the patient's skin. According to the manufacturer of these devices, they emit alternating currents which are claimed to be healing. They describe cells as resonating objects (with unknown frequency and energy however) having a natural resonance (ie bio-resonance).

Due to the complexity of the electrical signals in an electrically noisy environment and the range of frequencies utilised, the response is sometimes read though an extended period, in order to average to increase the accuracy of the results. In some of these devices a modern signal processing techniques, usually PC-based, is able to analyse the response' multiple parameters, and interpret the results. The analyst is then supposedly able to make an assessment/summary of the physical and mental health of the patient.

Treatment is also considered possible by practitioners, claiming to be able to invert the process generating the correct elements to stimulate the change of bioresonance in the cells. The devices would need to be able to isolate and pinpoint pathogen's responses from the mixture of responses the device receives via the electrodes. These pathogen's signals may then be compensated by their opposite. Transmitting these transformed signals over the same electrodes generate healing signals that are claimed to have the curative effect. With this action/reaction, practitioners claim to be able to detect and cure a variety of diseases without needing for drugs.

Detection and Healing
Example of symptoms/features that are claimed to be detected:
 * Energy level / Vitamin deficiencies / Cell oxigenation
 * Mental health / Stress / Adrenal activity
 * Hormonal disorders / Immunity response

Examples of diseases that are claimed could be healed:
 * allergies
 * Sleep disorders
 * Chronic pain / Chronic Fatigue
 * Stress
 * Hormonal disorders

Controversy
Bioresonance is a controversial subject, due to the difficulty in clearly demonstrating how its operation works. Many studies have tried to prove or disprove the viability of Bioresonance.

There are also proven cases of abuse of the unsanctioned diagnostic method. For example, in one case, when a bioresonance device was opened, an electronic circuit measuring skin-resistance was detected, akin to the E-Meter used by Scientology or older lie detectors.

To add to the controversy, so far, manufacturer of bioresonance devices do not disclose how they may use the amplitude, phase angle or frequency range of these signals.

The given mode of operation (pathogen / healthy signals) is linked to similar concepts in Traditional Chinese Medicine and especially acupuncture. Bioresonance has nothing in common with bio-feedback concepts.

Scientific studies       showed however that the bioresonce therapy could not show effects suppassing placebo-effects, and that the results were not reproducible.

Some BR-devices have been opened and analyzed (at least one by an engineer) and reports about their construction were published. In at least two cases, a resistor-measuring circuit has been found (Hörner M 1995 and Lee C 1997). This leads us to suppose that BR is based on the same principle than the well known lie-detector (the classic lie-detector as used in the USA usually uses some more parameters however), E-meter (has also been opened several times) and EAV-devices according to Voll (principle is well known). Again S Levin and R Korenstein study: I repeat: their work has nothing to do with BR. We cannot include a link to every study containing the word resonance or frequency hoping that it has somethink to do with BR.

In the USA, The FDA classifies "devices that use resistance measurements to diagnose and treat various diseases" as Class III devices, which require FDA approval prior to marketing. Some of these devices have been banned from the US market.

Statements made by BR-devices manufacturer and supporters
Franz Morell (inventor) explaining his bioresonance: ...basic principle is deletion of pathologic information, that is stored inside the body - precisely within the body fluids (intracellular and extracellular) or stored in the DNA within the cell nucleus.....and he adds: ......Deletion of pathologic electromagnetic waves by inverting them and retransmitting them back into the body....According to Morell, the human body is able to produce healthy (=harmonic) em waves and pathologic (disharmonic) em waves. A br-device is able to detect these waves, and a Separator called circuit is able to distinguish between them, and able to invert only the diharmonic waves. Morell gives no description of that separator. The addition of the disharmonic waves present in the body and the artificial inverted waves from the br-device should end in a deletion of the disharmonic waves. It is impotant to know that Morell distinguishes between a preceding measuring phase and a later therapy phase The reaction of the br-device transforming the incoming signals into the follwing healing waves is called -bioresonance by own waves- by Morell. Brüggemann who (I suppose) copied Morells idea, and who used the word BICOM instead of bioresonance (I suppose to avoid legal actions) for his devices, said: ...electromagnetic steering waves are surrounding the body and are present in it and via the electrodes and cables they can be transferred into the bicom-device. They contain exactly the physiological and pathologic information needed for a individual therapeutical signal. It is the aim of the therapy to reduce pathologic information or even to delete it, and eventually to reinforce physiological information. Inside a bicom device these signals are separated through a filter and inverted electronically. The inverted pathological signal will be retransmitted to the patient and will overlay the signals present.....regulating forces within the body will be disburded.... Later Morell introduced in the eighties another device, using light (red,yellow and blue), the Mora-color therapy. (voices from not BR-related experts will follow tomorrow) Redecke 16:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)