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Energy Devices That Can Diagnose and Treat Your Illnesses


In this video, Dr. William LaValley talks with Dr. Mercola about the appropriate use of electrodermal screening. This excellent tool can be used to create a homeopathic prescription to stabilize and balance your body’s energy (or chi). It can work much like traditional acupuncture to improve your health.


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Many natural health experts believe that your body is not only made up of tissue, blood vessels and organs. It’s also composed of energy, or chi as it’s called in traditional Chinese medicine, which is produced by your organs.

This energy is circulated through your body along specific meridians, and when points on your skin that correspond to certain meridians are manipulated, the energy circulation and your internal organs are affected.

It used to be that the only way to manipulate these points involved invasive practices such as acupuncture. Then, in the 1950s, Dr. Reinhold Voll discovered that you could test electrical skin resistance and gain information about your chi in a completely non-invasive way. And this marked the beginning of electrodermal screening. Dr. Voll is generally regarded as the “father” of this type of assessment.

If an electrodermal screening finds that certain meridian points are out of balance there are numerous ways, such as massage therapy, herbal medicine and homeopathy, to bring them back into homeostasis.

Dr. William LaValley actually learned this information from Dr. Voll, among many others, and has mastered the skill of using homeopathy to balance your chi.

It’s About Balancing Your Energy, Not Diagnosing

There’s a bit of a misconception that electcrodermal screening is intended to diagnose. In reality, it’s only intended to rebalance your chi, not diagnose anything.

“A diagnosis is made by an entire clinical picture and the electro-dermal screening is just a subset of that clinical picture and it is inherently subjective, it’s a subjective tool. It is not objective,” Dr. LaValley says.

For this reason, electrodermal screening is only as successful as its practitioner.

“Let’s say that the practitioner uses the electro-dermal screening tool and tests on the large intestine meridian and finds a resonance or a matching with the homeopathic extract that is for a type of parasite,” Dr. LaValley says.

“Many of the electro-dermal screening practitioners will say, ‘Oh, well, that means you have that parasite.’ And that is absolutely untrue and there’s no way to prove that unless you prove it by conventional means … This failure of logic is so pervasive and so flagrant that many practitioners actually believe it themselves,” he says.

“The way that I use the tool is, I don’t make any diagnosis from that. What I do is use the tool to help me select what combination of homeopathic prescription remedies I can use to stabilize and equalize the acupuncture energy, meaning to now find what were unequal and unstable skin resistance readings to now get them all to be equal when compared to each other and then to be stable rather than fluctuating,” Dr. LaValley continues.

And it is this energy stability that is associated with robust health.

Thinking About an Energy Assessment?

There are a number of different instruments available to have an energy assessment, but most of these instruments are descendants of equipment developed by Dr. Voll.

While I strongly believe energy assessment tools are one of the most sensitive biological indicators available today, most all of them are highly dependent upon the skill of the practitioner.

I have had a number of different assessments done by various clinicians, but one of the best was done by Dr. Lee Cowden, one of the current leaders in energy medicine in the United States. I will tell my story in the near future, but through this technology he was able to actually reverse a progressive kidney insufficiency that was moving toward kidney failure.

I am happy to report that after struggling with this issue for over eight years as a result of improperly removed mercury fillings, only one session with him and implementing his recommendations has resulted in nearly complete remission of my kidney challenge.

So, needless to say, I am a strong believer in energy medicine and would personally always use it over conventional modalities.

However, the science supporting these tools is weak and it can’t be broadly recommended for all. Plus, there really aren’t enough skilled clinicians like Dr. Cowden or Dr. LaValley to perform these assessments. So please keep that in mind when considering the use of these tools. And, if you do decide to go forward, be sure you strive to find a highly experienced, highly recommended practitioner to perform your energy assessment.


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Posted On Jun 26, 2008
Energy medicine is a fascinating field.  Everything in our world is made up of energy.  I believe that all dis-ease is a result of an energy disruption in our bodies whether through emotional or physical trauma.

 
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Posted On Jul 17, 2008

  Mamabear, we're on the same page. Energy is all around us, Magnetive energy and EFT, energy points(Merdians) These 2 energy items keep our organs in balance, therefore, we stay healthy. It's a good idea to understand Energy Medicine. but it's not absolutely nessarary to completly understand how it works, with the caring help of people like Dr. Mercola and you, It's good enough. As a very simple example; When we are about to enter a dark room, 1st. we turn on the light switch,we don't have to know how the switch/light bulb work, do we?  Good input, helps stimulate my brain!


 
 
 
Posted On Jun 26, 2008
It is very important to point out that these devices are by no means accurate all the time as I used to uses Electrodermal screening systems.  Dr. Voll himself who is the developer of these devices has admitted that doctors and practitioners that have mastered the art of Muscle Response Testing (ie. AK, NRT, CRA, ART) get far better and more accurate results (50% more) then his own machines.  He said that so many doctors came to him asking him to make a machine to gather data because they did not want to take the time and more disciplined route to learn the subtle art of manual energy testing.  As someone that has done both there is no question that Muscle Response Testing is far better, more accurate and finds the underlying problems that these machines will often miss.  I no longer use or rely on EDS devices anymore and my results are far better these days.  That is not to knock the machines completely as they have 'some' value in my opinion when it comes to the 'generalized' needs of the body but the machines are not capable of finding so many other very specific things that are absolutely necessary for one to ever get well.

 
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Posted On Jun 27, 2008
I agree with you NHC based on the experiences from a few friends and collegues that have used both the machines and Muscle Response Testing.  Many of them don't use the machines anymore either.  I don't do this work myself but it seems fascinating and the results I hear they get are what many would consider as miraculous.


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Posted On Jul 17, 2008

GOOGLE or YOUTUBE BOB BECK  for some even more amazing information.  He even tells you how to make the devices.



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Posted On Jan 02, 2009

I agree and disagree with NutritionalHealingCenters comments.

We tend to expect something to be the magic pill and always work for everything and always work perfectly.

CEDS can be time consuming (Although I understand StarTech has automated their equipment) which makes it something that is often better left to a technician to do the screening rather than the physician.

CEDS works very well at finding allergies and sensitivities, gives instant results, and is non-invasive. Because of the immediate feedback right on the computer screen, it gives clients a visual idea of how their bodies react to different foods, etc. Muscle Response Testing can do the same but you need samples in vials which may not always be available.

Plus, even though I am not an expert on using the device, I have screened several people who had been to the top medical professionals in the area and were not helped. In one case I found that the man had creosote in his system and upon questioning him found out that he had a ventless heater in the room where he had done all his weightlifting. In another case a woman who has been ill with chronic fatigue for three years was screened by me. The equipment picked three specific chemicals. All three chemicals were used in farming and were stored in the basement of her house.

If there are many items that need to be screened, muscles fatigue more easily than the acupuncture point on the hand that I use.

The muscle response test is also cheaper and doesn't change with technology.

All of medicine depends on asking the right question. CEDS is extremely useful when you really have no clue what that question might be.


 
 
 
Posted On Jun 26, 2008
yeah good to see this on Mercola! My Dr here in UT uses  electro dermal screening and i can tell you that it is simply amazing!!!!!!! They can also do mussel testing with it!!

 
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Posted On Jun 27, 2008
Muscle testing works for me the best. My chiro uses it during my neuro Networking sessions, and it was amazing to see how I tested before and after the session. 

I had injured my shoulder and had some soft tissue damage from pulling a travel suitcase on wheels all winter. I would recommend Networking as a gentle and effective treatment. Research it and try to find a good chiro who does it ...and enjoy!  I sleep like a baby when I finish my sessions!!



 
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Posted On Jun 28, 2008
This is old technology, it was invented in Russia in the 80's called the SCENAR device and it had been perfected and made digital versus analog by an English NeuroSurgeon who is also Homeopathically trained and now it is in a handheld device to actually find on the skin the right neuropathway to treat the system, called Fenzian! www.fenzian.co.uk.
So instead of wasting money on diagnosis you can actually find the pathway on the skin and treat the system and let it do the work it wants to do which is achieve homeostasis or chi, just like acupuncture, except no needles and trying to find a trigger point.
We need to realize that the body will heal itself, if it can, ie the cold, flu, ear aches and asthma and it won't for certain conditions like torn ligaments that need reconstruction or worn cartilage or cancer.  

I am glad to see this video and I hope more people start to acknowledge that homeopathy and letting the body achieve homeostasis is the answer to most common ailments that plague us daily.  Just don't think of this as a revelation, it has been developed and used with much success around the world, and maybe that is the revelation is that the US maybe is finally waking up.


 
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Posted On Jul 24, 2008

I agree that the govening system of the physical body (Autonomic Control System) can heal; as you say, colds, flu, ear aches and asthma, etc.; but there are no limitations in Energetic Medicine.  The body (ACS) can heal anything that is disrupting balance, function, or process!....In any body,...Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual.....It has no limitations!

...Including, torn ligaments, worn cartilage, or cancer!

Once one understands the concepts of Quantum Mechanics and they begin using a Bio-energetic System (like JMT, NMT, or ELT) and start seeing results; they will soon realize that there is nothing that they cannot heal!

Miracles, you might say.

Best,

Jim



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Posted On Jul 29, 2008

Dr. Jerry Tennant in Dallas, TX, has refined the Russian technology to a computer mouse-sized device called the Biomodulator. It not only evaluates energy levels in the system accessed, but induces electron flow into those pathways as well. My wife and I were recently trained in its use and have been seeing wonderful results. Chigger bites, headaches, joint sprains, and post-surgical pain and edema have all bowed before its influence. Works on both acumeridians and perineural pathways. Easy enough for my 3-year old to use!


 
 
 
 
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