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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:

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.

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