Bio-energetic medicine is sufficiently mature to be incorporated into standard medical practice

Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients,  July, 2002  by Hartwig Schuldt

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This is a summary of the material presented at the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics at their meeting in Baden Baden, Germany on August 2-7,2000 where Dr. Schuldt was one of the panelists.

Standard medicine in most developed countries is highly regulated and expensive whether financed individually or by national health programs. Bio-energetic medicine offers enormous cost savings by its noninvasive, fast, reliable diagnosis as well as selection of treatment and, in addition, a better recovery for those afflicted. This system, as an informative method in diagnosis and therapy, has reached sufficient maturity to be incorporated into standard medical practice.

In Dr. Voll's practice of electro-acupuncture he would tell the patient the nature of his/her disease after completion of the testing procedure on various points, as prescribed by the art, without prior examination of the patient's background. This manner of establishing the patient's history is most dramatic and convincing to anyone applying for treatment in electro-acupuncture. There is one drawback in that it is quite time consuming.

In the operation of a busy medical clinic, time is an important factor. It is imperative that diagnosis be achieved not only accurately but with efficiency. Therefore, I found it necessary in bio-energetic medicine to reverse the process of establishing the diagnosis, in that communication with the patient is given first priority. That is to say, diagnostic tests with the instrument are conducted according to the patient's own description of his health or complaints or observations to confirm or discard the statements obtained. On the basis of this, therapy is planned. In the course of many years of experience following this regimen, a multitude of symptoms disclosed by patients can be transformed into proper homeopathic prescriptions. In addition, these can be completed by less obvious but yet important findings as the physician proceeds in establishing an overall status in bio-energetic medicine. This is very precise and, by reaffirmation, fully complies with the requirements of holistic medical practice.

When using electrical current as a means of intervention with the body's own energy, the term "bio-energetic" is justified and most appropriate. I adopted this term, therefore, in teaching and publications in spite of the term having also been used by others such as physiotherapists and psychologists.

Bio-energetic medicine, which refers to the body's energy and its intervention from outside, developed during the past 40 years from electro-acupuncture in a step-by-step manner as my work proceeded. While electro-acupuncture concentrated chiefly on the anatomical location of a symptom or disease, bio-energetic medicine is based on physiology and patho-physiology. By measuring the body's micro-energy, the skilled diagnostician can determine the precise nature of a disease as well as select the most adequate therapy. With the measuring device, a portable instrument, the presence of pathology can be determined even before the onset of overt symptoms, thus, to the patient's observation, preventing disease. Equally well, followup care during recovery can be finely adapted quickly and inexpensively to the individual's needs. Many diseases termed 'cured' by standard diagnostic procedures are found to leave residual pathology amenable to removal by this technique, resulting in a healthier and more comfortable patien t.

When I introduced electro-acupuncture in company with Reinhold Voll, MD, who along with others founded the discipline commonly called EAV, the acceptance by a significant portion of the medical profession was cordial and encouraging. At that time I did not foresee the forces that would develop to impede this modality from standard medicine even without examining the evidence as should be expected of reliable scientists. On the other hand, the medical profession without dispute accepts diagnoses obtained electrically with the electroencephalogram and electrocardiogram to verify conditions of the brain and heart, but refuses to study the possibility that similar micro-current can be very useful for evaluations of the entire body. Bio-energetic medicine is of great informative value. It yields data that can be most difficult, if not impossible, to obtain by standard medical methods. Its multitude of information is of great importance for evaluation in its pragmatic or intentional aspects in order to determine sc ope, intensity, duration, frequency, interrelations of outcome besides establishing criteria to confirm those already in use. The process of aging may also be researched this way. When added to standard medical procedures, or used in conjunction with such procedures, bio-energetic medicine yields a quick and uncomplicated resolution of health problems as well as easy management of differentiated and complex pathology without invasive or damaging procedures. Treatment can be adapted to the specific needs of each patient rather than the prescription of one medication for all patients afflicted with a disease of the same title, or one medication for many different diseases. Pre- and after-care can be individually selected according to the actual condition and requirements of each patient rather than one mass treatment regimen based on statistics from many people, many of which do not conform to a specific individual's need. From such data it is no longer a mystery of far fetched conclusions to give precise recom mendations for lifestyle and guidance tailored to each individual's need, such as nutrition. Bio-energetic medicine has a secure base, repeated and evaluated by many physicians from world-wide sources and institutions.