BioResonance is a high-tech therapy designed to cure the incurable by finding and reversing those subtle energy blocks that cause disease. ALIAI MANSUR reports

As the number of complementary therapies increases, so does the guesswork. How do you know whether your body will respond best to homeopathy or herbalism, reflexology or reiki? The fact is, unless you have tried all the available treatments and then closely monitored your reactions to each, you cannot know which to subscribe to and must therefore rely on luck.

BioResonance therapy has been designed to eliminate this problem and determine exactly which therapy your body needs. An innovative diagnostic technique that has been in development in Germany over the past 40 years, it relies on holistic principles and a high-tech electrical device called a Bicom to pinpoint the root cause of any ailment.

Medical science has long ignored Taoist acupuncture meridians and Indian nadis and chakras because their existence could not be scientifically proved through anatomical dissection, but with the birth of quantum physics, we now have a new scientific view of the world that allows us to confirm the existence of these subtle energy systems and their influence on our body’s cells.

BioResonance therapy works at this cellular level and maintains that any deep imbalances that are detected can be corrected by rebalancing our subtle energy template with the right “energy” medicine.

The Bicom is said to cure the incurable by detecting and then correcting those blocks within the body or mind that are preventing a natural recovery and stopping previous treatments from working. Painless and safe, it works by taking electrical measurements from acupuncture points on the fingers and toes to identify any energy blocks. These can range from a low-level, undetected but persistent infection in the sinuses to something such as mercury toxicity from dental fillings.

The theory is that, just like radio waves, our organs produce electromagnetic fields, and that varying frequencies are emitted by different parts of the body and by different diseases. The Bicom machine picks up the healthy electrical frequencies from one part of the body, amplifies them and then plays them back into a weak or diseased part. Similarly, where “diseased” frequencies are detected, they are “reversed” and then played back to “neutralise” the problem.

(When you invert a frequency and play it back into itself, the original wave is suppressed.) During treatment, some people report feeling a gentle tingling sensation in the body as their frequencies are rebalanced, and most people who have tried the technique claim they felt an instant lift by the end of their first appointment. It usually takes several treatments to rebalance the body to a state of optimum health, and the treatment programme will usually be reinforced in between sessions with a prescription of herbal, homeopathic or nutritional medicines.

My first encounter with this therapy was at the Hale Clinic in London, where I was treated by Peter Smith, a holistic medicine consultant who is trained in BioResonance therapy, Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, nutritional medicine, homeopathy and psychotherapy.

I made an appointment because, although I do not smoke, I have been afflicted with a rich smoker’s cough for a long time. No lung specialist has been able to do more than prescribe a lifetime’s course of antibiotics, so the white gowned Smith’s references to treating “energy blocks” were a relief.

To find out why I have this persistent cough, Smith hands me an electrode that is connected to the Bicom. He then asks me to put my bare right foot on his knee while he takes an electrical measurement from the acupuncture points on my body.

The computer emits a dull, swooning bumblebee sound, and Smith tells me this abnormal frequency is a sorry indication of the general state of my energy balance at a cellular level.

The Bicom shows that my base chakra is blocked, and Smith, who abandoned his conventional medical studies to spend 12 years investigating unorthodox medical systems, tells me I have absorbed the negative energies of people around me for too long and have allowed my own vital energies to be drained by others.

I have given him no personal details (with this therapy, there is no need to go through a history), so the accuracy of the Bicom reading is impressive. Blockages, he reiterates, are not an illness but an impediment to recovery that need to be removed before treating the weakness in the system that is causing illness.

The Bicom shows my lung energy to be virtually nonexistent, so Smith reverses the ailing frequencies coming from this organ. He does this through an electrode that looks like a flat, metallic, baseball pitcher’s glove and which he asks me to hold against my chest.

(Think of it as like having an “injection” of energy via this electrode.) “Conventional medicine is fixated on biochemistry. BioResonance therapy shows that bioelectrical forces also affect the biochemistry of the body,” says Smith.

Conventional medicine is, of course, no stranger to energy methods of treatment: therapeutic radiation for cancer, electromagnetic fields to treat fractures, and electricity to reduce pain are all treatments that are part of the slowly evolving perspective of conventional medicine.

“Each organ has its own frequency and all human beings have the same range of frequency for the same organ but, within that range, there are enormous variations and unique, individual qualities,” he says.

As well as using the indigenous frequencies from the body, the Bicom can introduce reversed frequencies from toxic samples such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses and fungi (including candida). This is said to then enhance the patient’s immune system and relieve the after effects of postviral infection as well as fatigue.

Also said to be effective against ME, indigestion, bloating, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, hormonal imbalances, PMT, allergies, asthma and eczema, my treatment left me feeling remarkably well. Although I have been exhausted by moving house and running several architecture and design projects, I have not succumbed to the bouts of chronic bronchitis that were second nature to me.

It has been three months since my last BioResonance session and while I have not been looking after myself especially well, even that persistent cough has gone. * Peter Smith practises BioResonance therapy at the Hale Clinic in London (0171-637 3377).Treatment costs Pounds 45 per hour and the first appointment will last 2 hours

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