17 March 2014

Scientists about bioresonance

Can't be: bioresonance therapy

Semyon Galperin, Copper NewsAmong the many hardware methods of treatment and diagnosis, there are those whose mechanism of action cannot be explained in an accessible language.

No, not because the physical principles underlying these devices are difficult for an untrained listener. There is simply no physical basis for their work in nature. An excellent example of this is the extremely popular method of bioresonance diagnostics and therapy.

What is itThe bioresonance method is a continuation of the ideas of Reinhold Voll, a German doctor who decided to create his own syncretic teaching.

Dr. Voll has assembled a motley mosaic of fragments of oriental medicine, Oriental mystical practices and homeopathy. The success of his event was facilitated by the tense situation caused by the Second World War and the fascination of the leaders of the Reich with Eastern mysticism. Voll managed to capture the attention of the SS leadership and, having shown some compliance in matters of morality, to receive material support for his research. For the history of medicine, it is still a mystery how Voll escaped the trials of Nazi criminals. After the war, this doctor began to actively claim that he could diagnose diseases by measuring the electrical conductivity of the skin at acupuncture points. This was the beginning of the spread of the Foll method in European medical circles.

The bioresonance method owes its theoretical justification to two other German inventors: Franz Morell and Erich Rasche. The first of them was a doctor, the second was an engineer. Together they developed a simple, though not entirely original plan. It was decided to adapt the Foll method to influence the body for therapeutic purposes. To do this, it was proposed to simply turn the device backwards and send the "biological field" back into the patient's body. Naturally, the nature and parameters of this amazing biofield again remained outside the technological scheme of the invention.

Who usesThe method of bioresonance therapy is especially popular in Germany (the birthplace of the inventors) and here.

The domestic consumer was introduced to the bioresonance method, as well as to the entire scale of devices related to the Voll method, by the Imedis Center for Intelligent Medical Systems. It was in the walls of this institution, or rather in the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, back in the 1980s, the first domestic Foll apparatus was mounted from improvised parts. The creative team of Moscow doctors and engineers, following their German colleagues, once again successfully solved the technical problem of connecting a galvanometer to electrodes superimposed on the human body.

The production, sale and use of bioresonance devices is justified by the Methodological Recommendations No. 2000/74 "Bioresonance therapy" issued by the Ministry of Health in 2000. Of course, the text of the document was compiled by the team of authors of the Scientific and Practical Center for Traditional Medicine and Homeopathy, but the Ministry of Health approved these recommendations and included bioresonance therapy in the State Register of New Medical Technologies. And it even led to government orders.

Over the past decades, an army of firms has rallied around Imedis, which has been quietly trading several Foll machines with simple galvanometers inside since Perestroika, filling the market with a similar product. In fairness, it should be noted that it was the manufacturers in this market segment who were among the first to modernize their product. Previously, these were angular "Dermatrons" that resembled a parcel box, into which several recycled school demonstration devices for measuring current or resistance were stuffed at once. Now they have been replaced by small boxes with lots of flashing lights and noisy horns. Advanced versions of this technique are connected to a computer interface and give on the monitor images of a patient with a diagnosis in graphic form, sometimes of a striking shape.

How it "works"Like any dubious technology, the idea of bioresonance therapy is based on the use of terms collected in a scientific, but meaningless text.

For example, in the definition of the method, it is postulated: "Bioresonance therapy consists in correcting the body's functions when exposed to electromagnetic radiation of strictly defined parameters. This is therapy with electromagnetic vibrations, with which the structures of the body enter into resonance. The impact is possible both at the cellular level, the level of membranes, and at the level of the organ, organ system and the whole organism."

For a person familiar with the basics of physics and biology, this set of meaningless phrases causes at least bewilderment.

Why it doesn't workOur body continuously produces various kinds of vibrations.

Many of them have been studied for a long time and are used for diagnostics. The simplest example is an ordinary cardiogram. However, in order to enter into resonance with an object, you need to send it an oscillation that is a multiple of the frequency. And first it is necessary to determine this oscillation frequency. It is impossible to say clearly: "The liver emits an electromagnetic wave of such a length with such a frequency". Real radiation is always heterogeneous in structure, since it is the sum of the radiation from a huge variety of sources (take at least all cell membranes), and it is technically impossible to reproduce it. If the method really works (despite the fact that its accuracy a priori cannot be 100%), then there is always a risk that the wrong organ or protein will enter the resonance. Then it is not known what consequences this may lead to. In any case, it is necessary to detect such radiation only with those physical devices that are already used in science and practice, which have passed the necessary tests. But at the moment there are no full-fledged studies of bioresonance therapy devices, and it turns out that unknown radiation is being investigated with an untested device, treatment and monitoring of results are being carried out. This causes little confidence, given the simplicity of the device.

But why do bioresonance specialists find different diseases in each patient? It's all about sleight of hand. The results obtained by the operator of the diagnostic bioresonance device do not depend on the patient's condition, but on the strength and duration of pressing the probe on the patient's skin, by changing which you can easily get the desired strength of the electric current flowing in the circuit and see the desired deviation of the galvanometer needle. The internal content of all bioresonance devices remains unchanged. Having gutted any of them, be it the Imedisovsky BRT, one of the devices of the numerous DETA series, the Ukrainian analogue "Radomir", the sensational Ryavkin DENAS or even the world-famous "Zepper" from Hulda Clark, inside we will find, in addition to the classical galvanometer, which provides the diagnostic part of the technological process, only the simplest circuit of the pulse generator.

The shape of the signals produced by the devices can be different and depends only on the imagination of the manufacturer, but does not affect the list of problems from which a miraculous deliverance is promised. By the way, there is no such disease that the authors of the bioresonance therapy method would not undertake to cure, referring to a certain universality of the approach: they promise to cope with everything from caries to AIDS. And this very proclamation of the method as a panacea should at least alert. Scientific research only confirms that the method of bioresonance therapy does not work.

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