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Electro-acupuncture
according to Voll
(EAV), or Electrodermal screening test (EDST), is a method of measuring
energy
in the body. It utilizes a galvanometer designed to measure the skin’s
electrical activity at specific acupoints. According to Royal and Royal
(1991),
the first EAV device was designed in the early 50’s by a German
physician, Dr.
Reinhold Voll. Voll’s device consisted of a 12-microampere meter,
calibrated
from 0 to 100 with an Electromotive force (emf) of 1.2 V. In order to
take a
measurement, patients hold the negative electrode in one hand. The
probe, which
is the positive electrode, is used to press on specific acupoints mainly
located on the hands and feet. Some points are similar to traditional
Chinese
acupoints, but other detection sites were later discovered by Dr. Voll.
When
measuring a point, if the
reading of the meter goes to 50 (in a 0 to 100 scale) and stays stable
at that
position, it indicates that the organ or system associated with that
particular
point is energetically healthy. However, if the initially-taken reading,
whatever it was, decreases and settles at a lower value of the scale, it
is
called an Indicator Drop (ID), which suggests that the organ or system
associated with that particular point is energetically unhealthy. If the
reading of the meter goes above 50 and stays stable at that position, it
indicates that the organ or system associated with that particular point
is
energetically “irritated.”
Voll
(1978) considered IDs to be the
most significant criterion for evaluating energetic disturbances in the
physiology of organs and systems. According to his theory, when the
function of
organs and systems are energetically impaired, the related points fail
to
maintain a stable resistance in regards to the incoming current;
therefore,
establishing a new equilibrium at a lower resistance level. For
instance, with
a reading of 50 (in a 0 to 100 scale), the skin resistance is approximately 100,000 ohms.
Medicine
Testing
Voll
(1978) also observed that IDs
could be corrected, or balanced, when the right test substance was
introduced
into the circuitry. Such test substances include homeopathic remedies,
allopathic drugs, herbal products, supplements, and so forth. Test
substances
can be directly placed on an aluminum plate, or well, attached to the
negative
lead of the EAV device, which is also connected to the patient.
The
Medicine Testing phenomenon
occurs because all substances have distinct vibratory signals, or
vibrational
identifications. A vibratory signal from the testing substance placed on
the EAV
plate enters the patient’s energetic fields and reacts, or resonates,
with the
signals within the patient, which could be previous IDs, or energetic
imbalances, for example. According to Voll (1980), any substances
correcting an
ID will probably cause a beneficial therapeutic effect to the patient.
However,
unchanged meter responses imply that the substance has no effect; and
bigger
IDs, or worsening meter responses, indicate a negative effect.
Substances that
correct IDs are usually prescribed to the patient.
In two
different studies, one
conducted by Tsuei, Lam, Mi, and Zhao (1989) and the other by Tsuei and
Chun (1989),
readings of the pancreas control measurement point (CMP) of diabetic
patients
were balanced when the proper doses of insulin were placed within the
circuitry, but dropped instead, and presented larger IDs, when different
amounts of refined sugar were introduced. Both studies suggested that
different
medications and their dosages could be evaluated without the medicine
having actually
been ingested by the patients.
According
to Leonhardt (1976), EAV
has a great potential to help healthcare professionals detect energetic
disturbances in their patients. By using the
EAV method, practitioners may be
able to expedite further clinical investigations
by early forwarding cases to
specialists and hospitals whenever necessary. EAV does
not replacetraditional methods of diagnosis, but it
should be used as a
valuable tool in clinical medicine. However, prerequisites for accurately
employing EAV include knowledge in anatomy, internal medicine, modern
electronics and physics, pharmacology, homeopathy, Oriental medicine,
etc.
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