do think that it is not necessarily that critical to understand all correlations of complicated facts. It seems more significant to be able to put diffi-cult-to-comprehend phenomena into practice. This methodology will come up continuously in this book and has proven quite useful.
For those skeptics who cannot overcome their doubts about some of the incomprehensible phenomena described, I would like to quote a sentence Hippocrates supposedly coined more than 2000 years ago:
”If we do not understand a phenomenon, it is usually due to our limitations and is not the problem of the particular phenomenon!”
Getting involved in the physics angle of medicine completely changed my attitude toward the animate in general. Most rewarding was the immediate application of knowledge gained through therapy, bringing about results that previously would have been looked upon as unbelievable and unfathomable.
Over time an image emerged of a promising new field of medicine, its effects as yet unforeseen. This book is meant, in part, to present a sketch of that image.
Even though I am personally very committed to this subject matter, I do not want to create the impression that I am claiming sole authorship for any of the findings discussed in this book.
This book cannot be written without mentioning and thanking three men, who as pathfinders opened our eyes. They were instrumental in pioneering this methodology.
All three were independent medical practitioners without the support of the greater scientific institutions. Exclusively based on the interaction with their patients, relying upon their personal intuition, each one of them found new treatment methodologies. Way ahead of their time, they were initially frowned upon, largely misunderstood and ignored. We will reveal the actual significance of their achievements later, when we present the further development of medicine via the direction outlined in this book.
First there is Samuel Hahnemann. About 200 years ago he discovered (or rediscovered) not only the Law of Similars, but also showed that information containing no actual matter (in the form of homeopathic high potencies) can indeed have an effect on an organism. He showed that even if the principle is initially incomprehensible, it is possible to learn how to implement it in practice.
Reinhold Voll deserves a mention here as well. Using a discovery made in the 1950s to identify functional processes and energetic conditions in an organism by means of electrical measurements conducted upon the epidermal layer of the skin, he created the impressive therapy modality of electro-acupuncture. The information derived from and made accessible by this procedure (based solely on practical experiences) has opened important doors to areas we are just now becoming familiar with.
Last but not least we should not forget Franz Morell. Based on the principles of electro-acupuncture, he had the ingenious idea to use the body's information directly for therapy. In this way he created a link between the homeopathy by Hahnemann and the latest findings by Voll. Thus bioreso-nance therapy, also known as MORA therapy, based on the patient's own oscillations, was born. Today bioresonance therapy, tested and documented, certainly looks like one of the most significant therapy modalities of the future.
Without these practical men and, of course, the fundamental knowledge of the “Great Sages” like Planck, Einstein and all those erudite professors of physics, quantum mechanics, and biophysics, the biophysical aspect of medicine as expressed in this book would be as unthinkable as during Hah-nemann's days.
When I talk about myself in this book, my experiences and convictions, I primarily use the plural “we” as many factors are interconnected and need to be considered in a medical practice: my excellent staff, constantly thinking on their feet; my patients and their families, who took heart and trusted me enough to jointly venture into often new and foreign territory.
At the same time there are many colleagues—doctors and naturopaths— whom I have had the pleasure to introduce to this new and unaccustomed aspect through a variety of seminars. Their experiences, exchange of ideas, suggestions and last but not least their enthusiasm gave me courage and supported me.
Innsbruck, Fall 2004 Peter Schumacher, M.D.
Part I:Foundation andBasic Terminology
1 The Physics Aspect in Medicine
In medical history, the twentieth century will be recorded as the century in which empirical medicine evolved into the scientific-based rational allopathic tradition. It is the century of cellular pathology, biochemistry, astonishing progress in surgery, and increased life expectancy made possible by newly developed treatment methodologies based on chemical, antibiotic or like methods.
Looking at its success rate, it is by all means appropriate to admire the progress made. However, one cannot help but notice that, at least in the last quarter of the century, scientific medicine has slowly started to circumambulate despite its terrific results which, to date, are uncontested.
Researching ever more complicated relationships in more and more detail is doubtlessly important and scientifically intriguing, but at the same time we run the risk of becoming super specialists who get lost in the details. Consequently, we will not be able to “see the forest for the trees.” Systems thinker F. Vester describes this in considerably more scientific terms: “Studying the individual elements of a system in more and more detail increasingly impedes the ability to recognize its patterns” (Vester 1984). Indeed, in order to get medicine to cease this circumambulation, we need a new approach that surpasses our current ways of thinking.
According to scientific theoretician T.S. Kuhn, “revolutionary processes, not continuous improvements” cause real progress in science (Kuhn 1976). Kuhn coined the now commonly used term paradigm shift. In this context paradigm signifies theorems and methodologies employed by a particular group of scientists and regarded as valid during a specific period of time.
Physics, the basis of natural science, has seen several of those paradigm shifts in the twentieth century, as have other branches of science except medicine. “Medicine is the exception” (Hanzl 1990). Physicist H. P. Dürr says that “a natural scientific view of the world mainly characterized by traits of the old mechanistic-deterministic world view of the 19th century” dominates even today (Durr 1988).
Development, however, does not stop. Sooner or later even medicine will have to take into consideration the revolutionary findings occurring in the basic sciences, in particular quantum physics and quantum mechanics. One can already see some rethinking starting to take place. Thanks to the “new physics” view of the world, some methods of the so-called alternative medicine, previously outside the mainstream of conventional medical thought, are now experiencing a revival. For example, the effect of a high-potency homeopathic remedy greater than D23 would have been unthinkable in the context of the old biochemical materialistic paradigm as it only allows for “measurable quantities.” This includes the physio-scientific aspect in the observation showing that the exclusive informational content of a substance is responsible for the effect, a substance that is an unmeasurable physical entity.
The physics aspect of information, in particular, has proven extremely fruitful. It will play an important role in this book and will
