Health Minute: Electro-Dermal Testing
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Health Minute Audio Summary:
What if you could conduct an “electronic interview” with your body, to determine where it’s weak and what it needs with a simple electronic instrument?
Doing just that is precisely what “electro-dermal,” or sometimes called, “bioenergetic testing” is all about. This is the testing method used at our Pacific Health Center clinics, the method I have exclusively used in my practice since 1986. In this Update I want to explain the background and discovery of this incredible testing method, how it works, and what it can do for you and your health.
BACKGROUND & DISCOVERY
A German physician, Reinhold Voll, M.D., developed the first electro-dermal testing instrument in 1953 after having cured himself of terminal bladder cancer with acupuncture. In his struggle to integrate the very different system of acupuncture with his knowledge as a western, anatomically trained medical doctor, he found that there were electrical resistance differences that could be measured with a modified galvanometer on the surface of the skin (no needles!) on these reputed acupuncture points.
However, the idea that the body’s fundamental nature was electromagnetic can be traced back to 1935 when Dr. Harold Saxton Burr, Professor of Anatomy at Yale University School of Medicine published his Electrodynamic Theory of Life.
Dr. Burr designed a voltmeter to measure energy fields surrounding every living system, which he labeled “L-Fields.” He theorized that L-Fields were pre-physical fields which organize the physical body as it continually goes through the processes of growth and metabolic change. In other words he felt there is a deeper level of life beneath the physical and chemical levels we normally measure—an electrical level that is ultimately responsible for producing our physical and chemical bodies.
G.W. Crile, M.D. was a surgeon and the founder of the famous Cleveland Clinic. He wrote a work entitled, The Phenomenon of Life—A Radio-Electric Interpretation. Addressing the American College of Surgeons in 1933 he predicted that a “radio-diagnostician” would detect the presence of disease before it becomes outwardly apparent. He stated that man is a radio-electric mechanism, emphasizing that when life ends, radiation ends:
“It is clear that radiation produces electric current which operates adaptively the organism as a whole, producing memory, reason, imagination, emotion, the special senses, secretions, muscular action, the response to infection, normal growth, and the growth of benign tumors and cancers, all of which are governed adaptively by the electrical charges that are generated by the short wave or ionizing radiation in protoplasm.”
That is pretty incredible—here’s one of the giants of conventional medicine in the 20th century stating the basic foundation for the electro-dermal testing done today.
