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Bioresonance therapy is a pseudo-scientific medical concept which is a derivative of electromagnetic therapy in alternative medicine and similar to the E-Meter used in Scientology.

According to Quackwatch the therapy is completely senseless and the proposed mechanism of action impossible.

History and Method

Bioresonance therapy was invented in Germany in 1977 by Franz Morell and his son-in-law, engineer Erich Rasche. Initially they marketed it as "MORA-Therapie", for MOrell and RAsche. Some of the machines contain an electronic circuit measuring skin-resistance, akin to the E-Meter used by Scientology, which the bioresonance creators sought to improve; Franz Morell had links with Scientology.

Practitioners claim to be able to detect variety of diseases and addictions. It is claimed to be related to similar concepts in Traditional Chinese Medicine, especially acupuncture. Some practitioners also claim they can treat diseases using this therapy without drugs, by stimulating a change of "bioresonance" in the cells, and reversing the change caused by the disease. The devices would need to be able to isolate and pinpoint pathogens' responses from the mixture of responses the device receives via the electrodes. Transmitting these transformed signals over the same electrodes is claimed by practitiones to generate healing signals that have the curative effect.

Scientific Research About Bioresonance Therapies

According to National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine's PUBMed database there are scientific papers about bioresonance/ bioresonance therapies like ,

• its usage in pediatrics,
• in rheumatic diseases,
• lymphedema,
• about effectiveness of frequency recordings to water,
• trigeminal neuralgia,
• Effect of exogenous frequency exposure on human cells,
• functional gastrointestinal complaints,
• positive results on rats with Morris tumors (hepatoma),
• Effect of bioresonance therapy on antioxidant system in lymphocytes in patients with rheumatoid arthritis,
• in treating chronic prostatitis,
• treatment of fibromyalgia,
• Outpatient bioresonance treatment of gonarthrosis,
• atopic eczema,
• acute inflammation,
• rheumatoid artritis,
• chronic bronchitis,
• The efficacy of using an electromagnetic field of extremely high frequency (54-78 GHz) in treating patients with chronic nonspecific lung disease,
  

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Scientific criticism

Lacking any scientific explanation of how bioresonance therapy might work, researchers have classified bioresonance therapy as pseudoscience. Scientific studies did not show effects above that of the placebo effect.

Proven cases of online fraud have occurred, with a practitioner making false claims that he had the ability to cure cancer, and that his clients did not need to follow the chemotherapy or surgery recommended by medical doctors, which can be life-saving. Ben Goldacre ridiculed the BBC when it reported as fact a clinic's claim that the treatment had the ability to stop 70% of clients smoking, a better result than any conventional therapy.

In the United States of America the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies "devices that use resistance measurements to diagnose and treat various diseases" as Class III devices, which require FDA approval prior to marketing. The FDA has banned some of these devices from the US market, and has prosecuted many sellers of electrical devices for making false claims of health benefits.

Further reading

• Wandtke F, Biorensonanz-Allergietest versus pricktest und RAST, Allergologie 1993, 16 S.144
• Wille A, Bioresonance therapy (biophysical information therapy) in stuttering children, Forsch Komplementärmed 1999 Feb;6 Suppl 1:50-2
• Hörner M,Bioresonanz: Anspruch einer Methode und Ergebnis einer technischen Überprüfung, Allergologie, 1995, 18 S. 302
• Kofler H,Bioresonanz bei Pollinose. Eine vergleichende Untersuchung zur diagnostischen und therapeutischen Wertigkeit, Allergologie 1996,19 S. 114
• Niggemann B, Unkonventionelle Verfahren in der Allergologie. Kontroverse oder Alternative? Allergologie 2002,25 S. 34
• Schultze-Werninghaus,paramedizinische Verfahren: Bioresonanzdiagnostik und -Therapie, Allergo J, 1993,2 40-2

See also

• List of ineffective cancer treatments

References

1. Stephen Barrett, M.D. (6 November 2004). "BioResonance Tumor Therapy". Quackwatch. Retrieved August 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
2. http://www.bioenergeticmedicine.org/CoRe-System/Main/FAQ.htm BioenergeticMedicine FAQ
3. "Scientology und die Bioresonanztherapie" (PDF). ABI INFO (in German). Stuttgart: Aktion Bildungsinformation e.V. 2003-11-14. p. 1. Retrieved 2010-01-03. Die Bioresonanztherapie geht auf eine angebliche Entdeckung des im Jahr 1990 verstorbenen Frankfurter Arztes und hochrangigen Scientologen Dr. Franz Morell zurück. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
4. Galle M (Oct 2004). "". Forsch Komplementärmed Klass Naturheilkd (in German). 11 (5): 306, author reply 306. doi:10.1159/000082152. PMID 15580708.
5. Wüthrich B (2005). "Unproven techniques in allergy diagnosis" (PDF). J Investig Allergol Clin Immunol. 15 (2): 86–90. PMID 16047707.
6. Schöni MH, Nikolaizik WH, Schöni-Affolter F (Mar 1997). "Efficacy trial of bioresonance in children with atopic dermatitis". Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 112 (3): 238–46. doi:10.1159/000237460. PMID 9066509.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
7. "BioResonance" Promoter Settles Charges
8. Who's holding a smoking gun to bioresonance?
9. Alan E. Smith (2007). "Bioresonance Therapy (BRT)". UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies. Loving Healing Press. p. 29. ISBN 1-932690-36-0. {{cite book}}: External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help)
10. "BioResonance Therapy". Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. 29 May 2012. Retrieved August 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)

External links

• An overview of the pseudoscience behind "bioresonance therapy": "Electrodiagnostic" Devices

• Bioelectromagnetic-based therapies
• Pseudoscience