Acupuncture
Acupuncture can help otherwise incurable diseases. Enkephalin is released in acupuncture. Acupuncture may be able to slow progressive degenerative processes when drugs can’t. Acupuncture may also be able to help reverse lost function. Acupuncture is synergistic with homeopathy and other forms of natural medicine.
Electrodermal Screening
Electrodiagnostic modalities like Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV), the Vegetative Reflex Test (VRT, formerly called the Vegatest Method) of Schimmel or other functional testing methods are often used to determine the optimum therapy, including homeopathy as well as nutrition, and even pharmaceuticals. Such methods of European Diagnostic Electroacupuncture are also termed Electrodermal Screening (EDS).
High impedence measurements above 65 indicate inflammatory tendency in the associated tissue. Low measurements below 50 indicate chronic degenerative tendency. Any unsustained measurements, referred to as an indicator drop, indicate the presence in that extracellular fluid channel of incompletely ionizing toxins, that are therefore resistant to flow along the direct current powered meridian vessel in the extracellular fluid compartment.
Measurements are observed to normalize to within the clinically normal range of 50 to 65 with sustainability essentially instantaneously when a well-suited (energetically resonant) medicine is brought within the body's biofield. As seen on Kirlian high voltage imagery, this field extends approximately 1 centimeter from the body's biological tissue. German studies have confirmed that the response is to radiant energy, as the response remains robust through a vacuum of up to 1 centimeter.
In practice, some points can be challenging but rarely impossible (with an armamentarium of many hundreds of potential natural medicines) to bring to balance, especially when readings show intense and widespread inflammatory energy. As a foundational support for accelerated self-healing, I always balance the control measurement points (CMP) for all the major vessels on both hands and both feet before attempting to balance other more specific body points such as the eye segment points around the bony orbit of the eyes.
Once a coherent systemic state of energetic balance is accomplished the first time, subsequent balancing is usually significantly easier and simpler to restore. This can be done as often as necessary, typically every other week, for a few sessions, with the tested home OTC remedies being used between sessions to support the accelerated self-healing that results from all major body systems working in a balanced and coherent energetic state. Once a degree of stability is achieved, I find that monthly adjustment of remedies is ideal. Only when full health is restored is a more lax seasonal balancing recommended, since the acceleration of the body's natural cleansing and healing mechanisms result in completion of incomplete healing and detoxification responses, leading to the potential for healing reactions as older and deeper layers are retraced and healed.
The same points can be used for self-healing by massaging in a gentle circular motion. Only comfortable fingertip pressure should be used, focusing on healing intent and receptivity to feeling the flow of healing energy from the fingers to the associated parts of the body, and with openness to feeling any internal energy shifts within the meridian and the body.
Remote biocommunication, developed through many years of electrodermal practice with Dr. Helmut Schimmel's Vegatest Method, and adapted to utilize the sensitivity developed with modification of Dr. Omura's O-Ring method has also provided a means of effective surrogate energetic evaluation and analysis at a distance. While electronic point measurement often provides inroads to greater depth and detail of information in the body's energetic compensatory system, the accuracy and effectiveness of surrogate and remote kinesiological and other subtle subjective methods of biofeedback can become fully as accurate and coherent with the information obtained by the technical means. In practice, after years of utilizing a variety of approaches, I prefer, when working in person, to observe both views. This offers a kind of 'stereoscopic' view of the energetic responses, with the first being the more subjective and subtle, so that there is less data to potentially influence the more sensitive testing. This can rapidly and efficiently provide an average of about 80% of the remedy identification information needed to balance all 40 CMP points of the Bioelectronic Functions Diagnosis (BFD) method, which I use to confirm and extend the initial subjective observations.
Electrodermal Testing
A number of different devices and methods have been developed for electrodermal screening and medication testing since the inception of this medical field, commonly known as Biological Medicine or Bio-Energetic Regulatory Medicine, in 1953 in Germany. Several have been in use at the Remission Foundation and the Hawai'i Center for Natural Medicine.
Among the methods that will be described are:
Electro-Acupuncture According to Voll (EAV) or Voll testing
Vegatest Method (Vega) or Vegatative Reflex Test (VRT) of Schimmel
MORA Therapy developed by Morrell & Rasche
Syntonic Phototherapy developed originally by Spitler
Electromagnetic Frequency Therapies pioneered by Rife
Among the instruments which perform these functions are:
Eclosion (EAV, MORA & Biofeedback)
Bio-Tron (EAV & Vega)
Vegatest II (Vega)
AlphaStim (Vega)
MORA (EAV & MORA)
Cautions with Pacemakers and Pregnancy
As with other electrical devices, it is recommended that electro-dermal testing instruments (EAV and Vegatest) not be used on individuals wearing pacemakers. Also, even though the techniques involved are non-invasive and do not puncture the skin, it is recommended to avoid point testing during pregnancy. In classical acupuncture, many points are forbidden for treatment during pregnancy, and acupressure or other electrical or mechanical stimulation of these points is best avoided as well.
Balancing the Body Electric: EAV
EAV, short for Electro-acupuncture According to Voll is a non-invasive needle-less measurement procedure, which allows us to communicate electronically with the body. EAV originated from acupuncture's thousands of years of history in oriental medicine. In 1953, Dr. Reinhold Voll of West Germany began EAV as a means of measuring and enhancing the effects of acupuncture. Through EAV, it has been possible to document many new acupuncture points (200 out of 800 now known), meridians (the 8 "degeneration" meridians), and energetic relationships, over the past 40 years.
"Energetic alterations caused by all life processes can now be verified and managed in their early beginnings. Long before the patient himself is aware of a pathological process and long before most other clinical data can be obtained, Electro-acupuncture According to Voll comes forth with results. These measurements uncover the most subtle indirect connections and thus lead to a holistic diagnosis and strictly defined therapy.
Of all the theories advanced in the history of medicine, probably none has been so simple, rational and appealing to the scientific mind as that of EAV. Because Electro-acupuncture According to Voll is based on elementary scientific facts, all diagnostic measurements of human ills can be repeatedly demonstrated and documented. During the past twenty five years, the successful introduction of EAV diagnosis and therapy into orthodox European medicine has resulted in a flow of medical textbooks and scientific papers testifying to the validity of Dr. Voll's discoveries."
EAV essentially measures the life energy at each point on the surface of the body corresponding to some internal aspect of the body's function. The physical measurement is the electrical conductance, measured by applying a minute direct current, which is not felt (approximately 8 micro-amps with a 1 volt potential). In degenerative states, life energy is decreased and the ability to conduct electricity via ions is reduced. The EAV instrument is calibrated to show varying degrees of degenerative function on a scale of 0 to 49. 50 is the ideal normal ionic state. The range of 51 to 65 shows an increased physiological response to some stimulus, which may be environmental or some process within the individual. Above 65, this increased biological activity shows increasing degrees of stress, irritation and inflammation. When stress or inflammation is causing degeneration, the combined tissue responses are observed as an indicator drop, which means the measurement decreases with time, since the flow of ions cannot be sustained at the initial level of response. This is essentially a fatigue response.
Among Dr. Voll's discoveries using EAV is that the body's energy pattern responds immediately to the presence of therapeutic stimuli, such as light, herbs, nutrients, etc. At a hospital workshop, Dr. Voll had taken baseline measurements on a colleague, which indicated an imbalance in the pancreas. After a lunch break, in rechecking his baseline, he found that the energy condition had cleared up without any acupuncture treatment. It turned out that the man's body was responding favorably to a homeopathic medicine the physician had picked up in the hospital pharmacy during the break. He had not yet taken a single dose, but merely the presence of it in his coat pocket was enough to trigger the body's shift in function. The imbalance immediately returned when the remedy was moved out of the body's energy field. In other words, our bodies are affected, sometimes profoundly, by the radiant energy or light frequencies of our immediate internal and external environment.
In modern EAV instruments the frequency signal or energy vibration from test substances is transferred from the photons emitted by the remedies to the electrons in a metal electrode and connecting circuitry. A blunt probe then transfers this signal to the acupuncture point lying several millimeters below the body's surface, through the moistened skin. Once in the body, the electronic signature of the substance is carried by the vibrational movement of ions in solution in the extra-cellular fluid. This fluid connects to all cells in the body, but there are energetic and fluid flow patterns, which are the meridians and points of acupuncture. These flow patterns have now actually been demonstrated with the use of radioactively labeled ions. These ions are seen to flow along the direction of the meridians, and form circular patterns at the acupuncture points. Histologically, the acupuncture points have been found to correspond to openings in the electrically insulating layer of the skin, where bundles of nerves and blood vessels pass through.
Our experience with EAV has been most gratifying. It has helped us confirm the balancing effects of syntonic light therapy and other natural treatment modalities. Most of all, it has given us a communications link with the body to discover its energy patterns and responses. The healing process is potentiated to greater speed and depth than previously attained, all through the orchestration of energies within the normal range of the body's natural functions.
Eclosion Biofeedback System
Eclosion is the process a chrysalis undergoes as it transforms itself into a butterfly. Now patients can experience such a subtle but powerful healing process from within. Dis-ease is transformed into renewed life force... Eclosion is also the ultimate equipment for the practitioner of Functional Medicine, Energetic Medicine, Oriental Medicine, Biological Medicine, Alternative Medicine, Complementary Medicine, Naturopathic Medicine, Developmental Medicine and Behavioral Medicine.
The Eclosion EPFX Mark II Electrophysiological Biofeedback System (FDA Registration #1721698) is a comprehensive computerized biofeedback system designed specifically to help practitioners evaluate and reduce stress of every kind. The Eclosion system monitors up to 8 channels of temperature, voltage, amperage and resistance information and comes complete with a variety of probes and sensors as well as powerful software to assist analysis. Dr. Swartwout's vision and eye care module is in development in Europe.
Computer assisted technology for the 21st Century is available for the forward-looking practitioner today. In the Body Scan mode, stress responses to over 5,000 substances are measured and evaluated in a few minutes. Biofeedback functions support provocative allergy testing, skin point resistance measurements (e.g. EAV method), GSR, EEG, EKG, EOG, EMG, temperature, gastric motility, etc. A unique spinal assessment probe quickly and easily performs simultaneous right and left measurements of vertebral voltage, amperage, temperature and resistance, allowing efficient, non-invasive and objective documentation of acute, chronic and degenerative spinal areas both before and after treatment. Software provides computerized analysis of office and laboratory tests including blood, urine, stool, hair, diet history, range of motion, kinesiology, cranial sacral, spinal observations and more.
The Eclosion instrument is an incredibly vast resource of computerized biofeedback and data analysis applications. Dr. Swartwout was selected to develop the Eclosion's applications for eye doctors in conjunction with the original developers of the Eclosion system. One of the Eclosion's functions, in addition to the standard EAV point testing which I find very valuable, is the Body Scan. In the Body Scan, ten simultaneous electro-physiological measurements are continuously monitored as the body responds to an array of over 5,000 different stimuli. These stimuli are electronic signals produced using actual samples of substances contained within the Eclosion computer system. They range from the body's biochemical components to the various tissues and organs, as well as a myriad of stress factors such as toxins, allergens, parasites, microbes and tissue reactions to various stressors. Also included are many natural substances that provide potential support for the body's efforts to balance all of these stress patterns. These include vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, nucleic acids, amino acids, enzymes, foods, herbs, homeopathic remedies, and more.
By combining the Body-Scan and its comprehensive breadth of information with the precision of the EAV testing protocol on the Eclosion system, the ultimate energy balancing test system is achieved. This system of electrophysiological biofeedback is often able to detect, evaluate and balance stress patterns years before they would show up on standard diagnostic tests. In this way, the Eclosion system is a premier system for achieving true prevention, and even optimally balanced health. Of course, this quest for excellence is an ongoing process, as we discover and remove successive layers of stress, maladaptation and toxicity that have accummulated over the years. The key is to efficiently manage the process of becoming more balanced and more resilient in our health.
The Bio-Tron Instrument
The Bio-Tron is a portable, battery operated meter for non-invasive monitoring of physiological changes in skin conductivity. The Bio-Tron is available only from the Remission Foundation complete with both brass probes for Dr. Rheinhold Voll’s Electro-Acupuncture according to Voll (EAV) and Bioelectronic Functions Diagnosis (BFD) as well as silver probes designed for Dr. Helmut Schimmel’s Vegatest or Vegetative Reflex Test (VRT) style protocols. The Bio-Tron is the only instrument in its price range to offer such a range of testing options for the student or practitioner of European methods of Biological Medicine.
Claim
No medical claims are made or implied for the Bio-Tron instrument. The Bio-Tron is considered a non-diagnostic, non-Medical device in the States, which simply measures changes in skin conductivity, sometimes referred to as Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), although in a more specialized way than typical GSR devices, since it measures at specified points used in electrodermal screening protocols developed in European Biological Medicine. The amount of current to which the body tissues are exposed is very slight and of a degree generally recognized as safe.
Vegetative Reflex Test (Vegatest Method)
The Vegatest method was developed in Germany by Helmut Schimmel, D.D.S., M.D. as an improvement on earlier methods of electro-diagnosis through measurement of the acupuncture points. Vegatesting is now practiced by thousands of certified practitioners worldwide. Each year sees significant advances in testing protocol as well as recognition within the wellness field as a leading edge technology. The manufacturer, Vega Grieshaber GmbH of West Germany, also provides state of the art instrumentation for light therapy of the acupuncture points, diagnostic Kirlian photography of the ends of the acupuncture meridians, and computerized electro-diagnostic testing of the body.
Accuracy
Studies on food sensitivity in England have found about 80% correlation between Vegatest, kinesiology, dietary avoidance/re-introduction and other functional challange tests. These sensitivity tests appear to be reliable as a group in showing food sensitivity. Since the correlation with food allergy tests is under 50%, the clinician must keep in mind both food allergy and food sensitivity as distinct aetiological possibilities.
German studies by Dr. Schimmel and others since 1988 have begun to improve inter-rater reliability. In double blind protocols, 100% inter-rater reliability has been achievable between experienced testers only by diagnosis and treatment of each tester's own energy system. They have described "black bands" in the individual's energetic pattern corresponding to chronic weak areas. Prior to clearing these black bands, each practitioner would tend toward either false positives or false negatives when testing individuals in their personal black band area.
Vegatesting allows us to communicate electronically with your body's innate intelligence. Your body knows how it is stressed and what will support it in releasing those stresses, so it can move on to its next priorities in the cleansing, regenerating and developing process.
Methods and protocols developed through the Vegatest Method have been extended to applications in bio-kinesiology and also remote testing through a surrogate with the use of a tissue sample. Mental testing is also being widely explored at this time. The Vegatest has opened up a whole world of subtle energy to the scientific community. It is helping to bridge the chasm between science and spirit.
The array of factors, which are now explored through Vegatesting, is staggering. They include what might usually be separated into physical, mental and spiritual factors integrated on the same basis. Interactions between all of these aspects of human health and performance can be detailed along with the appropriateness of specific solutions to existing stress patterns.
Problems & Solutions
One problem with Vegatesting is that there is some potential trauma to the point being tested. The testing process can be uncomfortable or painful to some people with an overloaded and weak or sensitive mesenchyme. There can be lasting effects of such trauma. In one patient, the point which had been tested on his liver meridian on the right foot was painful to pressure and bothered with walking for several weeks. On palpation, a definite raised and inflamed irritation was present. This eventually cleared completely without any further treatment. In another case, testing on a young boy with high toxicity and sensitivity, a blister formed on the test point used on the connective tissue meridian of EAV on the right foot. This healed leaving a pigmented flat well-defined lesion at the site of the trauma.
Another problem with Vegatesting is that it tests the body's electrical system, which can be destabilized during atmospheric electrical disturbances, such as an approaching storm or front. One patient was completely untestable at such a time, and only an awareness of VBK protocol saved the value of this appointment on the East coast.
Another limitation of Vegatesting is that it is a discrete sequential test rather than a continuous biofeedback monitoring. This slows testing.
Continuous testing might be achieved via monitoring of any autonomically controlled physiological parameter, such as pupil size. The use of the pupil would involve non-invasive levels of infra-red radiation, and eliminate electrical disturbance as an interfering factor. The primary factors which would require greater control would be patient eye and head position as well as ambient illumination.
Other potential sources of continuous monitoring include EEG , EMG and recording infrared optometer. ACR type pulse measures are discrete rather than continuous, depending upon each successive pulse for detection of a change. Infrared emission from the brachial artery has been used, but I suspect too long a lag time between an energetic response in the body and a change in emission, resulting in slow cumbersome testing. Some interesting preliminary work is being done measuring spectral photon emissions through the pupil, but it is too early to know if this might provide a dynamic diagnostic tool some day. At this point we only know that different individuals do emit different spectra of quantum energies from the eye.
A well-trained or talented observer can also use a variety of psychophysical parameters including visual, auditory and haptic feedback or imagery to monitor their own responses to ampules. One of my patients on the East coast, who has a history of being struck by lightning 3 times, has been able to accurately feel and identify her internal yes/no response to each vial tested, even when the sound is turned off and the instrument angled away from her to eliminate her view of the needle display. At times, when encountering difficult testing, before I knew how to scan ampules with the stylus, I resorted to feeling for a tingling response in my finger tips, when holding them just above each ampule. This method resulted in a few ampules, of which at least one would usually work quite well.
You may have specific questions for which we can help you find answers. This list of possible Biofield Analysis test factors is intended to help you understand the process as well as to bring out any underlying questions you may have about your energetic health.
To spark a sense of the possibilities of this science, here is a partial list of some of the types of functional stress factors which can be probed: organs, nutrients, foods, enzymes, hormones, toxins, pH, redox, miasms, colors, mental states, emotions, chakras, meridians, cellular components, electromagnetic fields, parasites, symbiotic flora, and specific malfunctions. In addition to being able to gage the significance of each factor in the developmental process at that time, the causal relationships between all factors can be determined. Potential strategies for assisting oneself through the personal evolution process are easily checked for their specific areas of effectiveness in handling the present stresses, as well as for their tolerance by the organism.
Vegatesting has led to a method of accelerated positive change and expanded personal growth on all levels of body mind spirit. The types of supports used in this approach are natural sources of nutrients and subtle life energy. Natural supports which are effective and compatible with the needs of an individual are the most gentle and the safest way to provide needed building blocks and to stimulate the innate regulatory responses within us which are designed to lead us to fulfillment of our greater purposes here on earth.
Here is an outline of some of the key factors tested through the Remission Foundation and the Hawai’i Center for Natural Medicine.
Processes
Below are some of the key stressors and pathophysiological stress patterns that can be identified and analyzed. Feel free to check any you think are significant for you.
Biochemical factors
Acid/alkaline balance
Oxidation/reduction balance
Electromagnetic factors
Electromagnetic stress
Geopathic stress
Scar disturbance field
Visible light stress
Brain/Mind factors
Mental stress
States of consciousness, including reflex, sensory, motor, emotion, dream, meditative
Specific emotions
Negative thoughts originating stress pattern or blocking therapy
Endocrine factors
Balance of specific hormones and overall balance
Digestive factors
Enzyme deficiencies
Gut flora
Parasites
Candida albicans
Fiber
Food allergy and sensitivity for over 150 foods
Nutrient deficiencies, toxicity and mal-absorption
Vitamin
Mineral
Amino acid
Carbohydrate/sugar
Essential fatty acid
Immune factors
Allergy (food and airborne), sensitivity
Negative thoughts,
Chronic foci, recent irritations
Auto immune processes
Lymph drainage
Tissue repair
Energy Patterns
Energy level
Oriental Medicine: Yin (hypo) and Yang (hyper) disorders,
Specific Syndromes, Meridian and Five Element disharmonies
Lunar and other cyclic influences
Pre-dispositions
Inherited and acquired miasms
Biological vectors
Fungi
Bacteria
Protozoans
Viruses
Parasites
Possession/Obsession (angel-parasites)
Toxins
Endogenous and exogenous, including:
Heavy metals
Petrochemicals
Pesticides
Localization
Organs and structures, both macroscopic and microscopic can be cross-referenced with stress processes and remedies:
Specific systems, organs, tissues and cells
Sub-cellular components, including the cell membrane, organelles, nucleus and DNA
Functional energy systems like meridians, 'chakras'
Natural Resources
Thousands of potential remedies from the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms can be checked in designing an optimal individualized wellness program each month:
Foods, extracts, homeopathics from the animal kingdom
Foods, botanical tinctures, flower essences, Western, Oriental and Ayurvedic herbals, gemmotherapies, sprout essences, spagyrics, homeopathics and other phytotherapeutics
Trace mineral supplement, cell salts, gem essences and homeopathics of inanimate origin
Full spectrum light, colors, electromagnetic frequencies, sound and other vibrational remedies
Physical and mental exercises such as affirmations, visualization, intelligence training, vision therapy, NeuroFitness Training programs or rebound exercise.
Outline of lecture to Doctors' Conference on Light Therapy in New York (recorded on audiotape)
The Language of Health
"Pathophysiology is the study of the biological mechanisms underlying abnormal functions and disease. It is the understanding of how and why each body tissue responds in its particular way to the array of environmental (endogenous and exogenous) challenges with which it is presented. Clinical pathophysiology represents the understanding of how these changes manifest themselves clinically in a way that provides information concerning differential diagnosis, rationale and response to treatment, and prognosis."
Energy is the unifying principle of biophysics, providing a common language with which to describe all pathological and therapeutic processes. Biological energy must be understood both quantitatively and qualitatively to achieve a coherent concept of the physics of health and disease. Biophysical mechanisms of pathophysiology most fundamentally include processes of oxidation-reduction, acid-base metabolism and ionization. These three elements of biophysics are objectively measurable, providing a quantitative evaluation of biological energy in micro-Watts via the Nernst equation. Graphical analysis of oxidation-reduction and acid-base status further provide a clinically useful qualitative description of the biophysical terrain of pathology and its treatment. Clinical studies of these factors provide evidence for the pathophysiology of visible light frequencies.
Through decades of laboratory, clinical and epidemiological research, useful biophysical models of pathophysiology have emerged, together with practical clinical and laboratory techniques for biophysical assessment and therapy. These may be applied safely and effectively to supplement existing methods of diagnosis and treatment by doctors of optometry.
Biophotons in Cellular Photoregulation
In vivo studies: biophoton activity during differentiation and degeneration (Popp)
In vitro studies: photon transmission of pathophysiological response in divided cell cultures
Animal model: pharmacodynamics of high potency pharmaceuticals in rats with prior arsenic exposure
Lab tests: Quantum Quality Control methods adopted in Germany
Photodocumentation: high frequency and voltage Kirlian photography
Photon release (animal model: shark and cancer)
Photon absorption
Basic Science: pH (magnetic factor), redox (electronic factor: parasympathetic = reduction; sympathetic = oxidation), ionization (photoelectric), Nernst equation
Epidemiology: water studies (Vincent)
Lab tests: clinical measurement of physiological fluids
In vivo: effects of photon frequencies on pH and redox status:
Long wavelength visible: alkaline-oxidized
Short wavelength visible: alkaline-reduced
Longest wavelength visible, darkness and IR: acid-oxidized
Shortest wavelength visible, full spectrum and UV: acid-reduced
Intermediate wavelength visible: balanced
Radiographic evidence: radio-opaque dyes pool up at acupuncture points and flow in direction of merdian energy flow.
Histology: acupuncture and electroacupuncture points are deep and surface points associated with electrically conductive neurovascular bundles that penetrate electrically insulating layers of superficial fascia. These points present a holographic window on the interior energetic state of the body in real time. They respond instantaneously to homeopathic and other photoenergetic stimuli within the body's biofield which extends a centimeter beyond the biological body suit.
Electrophysiology: clinical applications in diagnosis and treatment
Voll: EAV applications in acupuncture, development of medication testing protocol, 1 cm photon transmission
Schimmel: Vegetative Reflex Test method: bio-communication through filtering and causal chaining techniques
Von Benschoeten: pharmaceutical potency effect of photon frequency filters
Morrel & Rasche: constructive and destructive interference basis of MORA therapy; sound wave model (Heath Row Airport); pharmaceutical potency effect of electron carrier wave.
Kinesiology
Shows 80% agreement with other functional response tests. Problems include higher subjectivity and fatigue on the part of the person tested, as well as the lack of filter protocol to determine effectiveness and tolerance. Not always specific enough to comprehend correctly the body's responses, e.g. glandular preparations that test well by AK protocol which are often not tolerated energetically on Vegatesting.
Radionics
Stick plate provides feedback on tester's autonomic responses as a surrogate for the person being tested. This demands that the tester be very clear energetically and mentally. The advantages include testing and therapy at a distance (broadcasting).
Pendulum & Dowsing
These are very similar to radionics with different forms of feedback (pendulum, L-rods, etc.) to access the tester's internal states.
Intuition
Intuition is a learned process based upon awareness of sensory imagery (visual, auditory, kinesthetic) and can be expanded through training and developmental therapies.
Iridology
The color and structural patterns in the iris provide a good long term indicator of tissue constitution in the organs. It is not specific enough or rapid enough in its responses to act as the best guide to treatment.
Kirlian Photography
The tips of the fingers and toes provide tremendous amounts of information in their radiant energy fields. Each digit gives 360 degrees of data, not just the two meridians of EAV.
Color Therapy
Light is the ultimate energy of life and healing. The key to its effective use is in the diagnostics. Much can be learned from the systems developed around the world and over the years. Energetic testing now adds new dimensions to understanding the applications of color and light.
Objective and subjective elements
Combinations of objective and subjective elements within the same method foster simultaneous use of left and right cerebral hemisphere functions.
Whole brain test methods like EAV and Vegatest are a means of training whole brain function in the tester.
Functional response testing
Testing functional responses to remedies and test substances (challange testing) provides information about the individual's unique response characteristics before initiating treatment.
Purpose of stressing
Stressing temporarily disrupts the Energetic Compensatory System (ECS) in order to unmask underlying pathology which would otherwise be functionally compensated for and therefore not show up on either muscle testing or electroacupuncture diagnosis.
Stressing provides an opportunity to observe the organisms response to stress: Regulation, which may be classified in 3 ways:
Positive Regulation is the normal adaptive response to stress, in which an increase in stimulus gives rise to an increase in response.
Negative Regulation is a fatigue response in which the application of stress further weakens the functional response of the organism, serving to conserving what little reserve remains.
Blocked or Rigid Regulation is a depleted response pattern in which no change in function is elicited by a normally effective stressor. This indicates exhaustion or suppression of the normal homeostatic mechanisms.
Methods of stressing
DC stimulation (piezo-electric point stimulator: PM 2001): Hand points to stimulate: EAV points Lymph 1, Allergy 1, Triple Warmer 1 on both hands, or ends of all EAV meridians and vessels of both hands (both sides of the tips of each finger)
Stimulation of function (e.g. testing immediately after a vision analysis in which ranges of motion are measured for all the intraocular and extraocular muscles and their relative degrees of freedom very often reveals stress in the eye or eye segments which would otherwise be compensated for and go undetected.)
Dental testing: near ends of Conception Vessel (CV 24) and Governing Vessel (GV 26)
AC stimulation (13 Hz) can be used to decompensate the energetic compensatory system in one of two modes: hand to hand or, in cases of head or heart stress, foot to foot .
Biological Score
Each score level represents an energetic frequency at which healthy connective tissue resonates. These are like the strings in a piano. Ampoules to which the individual reacts are like notes, which are out of tune or do not play. The higher and more energetic the note which is affected, the more toxic is the connective tissue. The more notes that are non-functional or off-key, the greater are the total stresses on the immune system. The total performance of the system is disharmonic.
Toxicity Level = BSI Level
Each BSI level reacting represents one or more organs, parts of organs or tissues, which are resonating at that toxicity level. Thus the most toxic areas can be identified by cross filtering the organ ampoules with the highest score.
Common resonance patterns of higher scores:
BSI 12 = beginning of degenerative processes; when score is decreasing, the beginning of regeneration.
BSI 13 = beginning of increasing probability of malignancy
Immune Stress = # of scores reacting
1 score = unusually strong constitution
2 scores = normal healthy immune system (most people have a background toxicity level and a weak area which resonates at a higher level.
3 scores = stressed immune system; look for adrenal stress
4 scores = severely stressed immune system; look for adrenal exhaustion, sodium intolerance, allergies, and generally less flexible adaptation. At 4 scores and above, classical homeopathic treatment is too slow and insufficient alone to manage the case. Gentle detoxification, along with supplementation of vitamins, minerals and enzymes and organ therapy are recommended.
5 scores = critically stressed immune system; look for auto immune reactions, depletion of cellular enzymes and reserve capacities, and generally exhausted capacity to maintain positive adaptation (see negative regulation under Stressing)
6 scores = immune deficiency; look for overburdening and rigidity (see blocked regulation under Stressing)
7 scores = terminal breakdown, anergy (low energy), requiring testing 1 to 2 times per week
This is recorded as two numbers: e.g. 21 x 5 means the highest BSI level reacting was 21 and a total of 5 scores reacted. This indicates both extreme toxicity in the connective tissues as well as critical stress on the immune system. The prognosis for the expected length of treatment can thus be given at approximately 2 years. If the test result is 15 x 3, treatment may be completed in only about 1 year.
Regulation Test
Filtering Procedure: with Cuprum D400 in the circuit, repeat the BSI test protocol. Record the highest score and the number of scores reacting. This is the ideal BSI which you will strive to achieve with your therapy program at this time. Try testing some remedies, foods. allergens, toxins or other substances that you think you may respond to, and see what effect they have on your BSI. Try your favorite healing modalities, testing BSI before and after treatments. Which modalities bring you closer to your ideal score? How long do the effects last?
The BSI and the Ideal BSI will both change as the patient progresses.
In the U.S., much higher Biological Scores are typically seen in practice. The clinical population distribution is highly leptokurtic at the upper end of the BSI scale. In other words, Americans' mesenchyme is generally 'maxed out' in its carrying capacity for toxins, whether or not the toxicity has penetrated the cell membrane and started depositing intracellularly.
For a highly sophisticated approach to energetic diagnosis and therapy, combine any method of functional response testing of the body's energy system with a few homeopathic filters derived from the innovative German Vegatest protocol. In this way, you can evaluate whether a proposed therapy is effective, non-suppressive and tolerated.
A growing community of health practitioners in all fields is applying this invaluable tool for clinical investigation. EAV, Eclosion, Vegatest Method, VBK (Biokinesiology), Biofield Analysis and other modalities comprise Bio-Energetic Regulatory health care.
Questions about Biofield Analysis
Question: How does it work? How can you find out what my body needs now with the same hair sample you used before? Won’t it show the same imbalances I had when the sample was taken?
Dr. Swartwout: What you have to realize here is that we are used to thinking only in terms of the substance of things, while ignoring their energy. Thus the substance of the hair, in terms of its trace mineral content, etc., does not change from one test to the next. If we were simply performing a trace mineral analysis on that hair, the conventional wisdom would hold. That is, we would indeed find essentially the same old mineral levels that represented the biochemistry of your body actually during the weeks and months that those particular hairs were being formed in your hair follicles.
On the other hand, there is an energetic resonance or connection between every part of your body and every other part. Each cell contains the same unique DNA pattern, each hair has the same unique sequence of amino acids, etc. This energetic communication has been shown to take place over distances via light energy. It can easily radiate across a 1 centimeter vacuum to affect other biological systems. It can be effectively transmitted across unlimited distances when the receiver is tuned to the precise frequencies of the transmitter. It has been demonstrated experimentally, for example, that if a live blood sample is placed in a high power microscope, it’s immune cells will show definite functional changes corresponding to concurrent treatments performed on the body, even though it has been physically removed at any distance from that body.
In our work, we use a hair sample or other tissue samples simply as an energetic antenna to the person being tested. Thus, it is the present or real-time photon activity or response pattern of the person which we pick up by tuning into that person’s unique frequency. The ability to detect such subtle energetic patterns is greatly assisted by the use of actual substances, mostly in homeopathic potencies. We know from Quantum Quality Control that homeopathic potentization increases the photon activity of substances. This testing ability builds on natural sensitivity via rigorous training and practice.
Over the years, I have performed thousands of such tests, each involving hundreds to thousands of individual observations. What I have observed is that as I achieve greater balance in my own biofield, I naturally become more capable of discerning the subtle patterns in others. When we first began this work, I was able to test a few dozen responses in an hour, with perhaps 50% accuracy and only with the assistance of electronic biofeedback devices. Both my speed and accuracy have improved considerably over time. Considering that the accuracy of diagnoses in health care is well below 50% (based on autopsy studies) even in our best teaching institutions, this is fantastic. Today, I feel quite confident in obtaining accurate information even when testing clients as far away as Europe and Africa. Of course, unusual and unexpected observations always stand out the most. For example, on one test of an 8 year old girl, I was quite surprised to see stress patterns that could only be related to menses. I simply commented, “I don’t know what this means, but the test is showing stress related to the uterus and menstrual flow.” Not until that evening did the girls parents actually discover some slight spotting of blood in a singular occurrence which was apparently a side-effect of other medical therapy the girl had been receiving. I am usually as enlightened by each test as are any of my patients.
Yet, we always need to keep in perspective that the biofield is merely the energy flow which directs the activities of our body. To obtain a complete picture of the body also requires conventional tests such as blood chemistries and physical examination. Together, these two complementary views of structure and function can support us better in achieving a long and fruitful life.
Question: Why does the body go through different phases in the healing process?
Dr. Swartwout: Your body is continuously prioritizing the most important stresses to balance. Generally, the most significant single aspect of stress is the underlying electromagnetic phase of your energy terrain. If you are in phase 1, the key biofield area involved is depleted in overall electromagnetic energy, so mitochondrial electron transport must be re-established. The low energy may permit viral attachment to the cell membrane as well as accumulation of intracellular debris associated with degenerative cellular changes. In phase 2, cellular enzyme systems must be rebuilt so that other cell damages may be repaired. In the absence of adequate enzyme production or necessary co-factors, undesireable bacteria may grow to produce alternate enzyme pathways to digest debris. In phase 3, cellular mitosis replaces dead or dysfunctional cells with new ones. When elimination of cellular debris is inadequate in this phase, fungal organisms grow on the decaying matter, and conditions are not favorable for mitosis. In phase 4, cleansing and renewal of the connective tissue matrix surrounding the cell is achieved through active inflammatory and digestive processes of the immune system. Enhanced drainage of tissue fluids from target areas may be necessary to ease allergy and sensitivity symptoms.
Question: Why do symptoms often come back in cycles?
Dr. Swartwout: As you continue in your healing process, your body will go through cycles of detoxification and rebuilding. You will generally be more likely to experience the temporary return of old symptoms during periods of detoxification, since to eliminate toxins which have been stored in your body tissues, they must travel through your circulation before they can be eliminated by the liver, the kidneys, the mucus membranes or skin. This is called retracing, as you are in a sense travelling back along the path you traced to get to the state of health you are in today. You are helping your body clean up all the loose ends accumulated over the years.
As you progress in your journey toward truly balanced health, you will be able to look back and begin to see your progress, noticing ways in which you are feeling and functioning as you once did when you were younger. You can even reach a level where you have never felt so good in your life, since most of us are already born with many toxins in our tissues that cross the placenta and become concentrated in fetal tissues.
Your body knows exactly which areas are the most important to cleanse and heal next, so it will prioritize and set your path toward health. You will be learning how to read your body's signs and give it the support it needs to progress at the fastest speed toward health that you can comfortably achieve.
If your body is trying to detoxify faster than you can eliminate the toxins, you can experience an increase in symptoms. Look at this as a reminder to drink plenty of good water, ideally ionized (electron) water, as well as to rest and get gentle daily exercise to keep your lymph system removing wastes from body tissues. Also, you may want to reduce the dosages (but not the frequencies) of your remedies, or even stop taking some or all of the "optimal" detoxification remedies, beginning with those given the highest numbers in your remedy sequence.
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