Electro-Dermal Screening Table of Contents
Module 5
Electro Dermal Screening 2
History of Electro Dermal Screening 4
How EAV works 7
EAV Machines 11
What EAV is measuring 13
Homeopathy` 16
Nosodes and Sarcodes 16
Imprinting 17
ElectroDermal Screening Research 20
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Electro-Dermal Screening
Electro-Dermal Screening is an amazing technology that can help you identify things
that are going on with your clients. We are encountering clients with so many more complex
issues and toxicity levels, and these toxins and chronic infections have to be cleared up for a
client to regain their vitality. We also have a constant bombardment of radio frequency radia-
tion from cell phones, cell phone towers, computers, etc...and can stress the cells and the ad-
renals. These things make it complicated when working with clients on their health.
Maybe it was because I was one of those complicated cases myself, but I don’t think
you can successfully heal people these days without becoming a health detective that knows
how to deal with all of these things.
So, how do you identify what toxins a client is dealing with? Some practitioners think
that they can just do a generic type of detox with their clients and it will fix all of their prob-
lems. But what if that client is only a little bit toxic, but actually has a mold problem in their
house? The detox can help, but will not get them well. Until you address the mold in their
house, they will not get well.
So you need a way to find out what the main toxin or body burden that is affecting the
client. Is it mold? Or an infection? Pesticides they were exposed to on a farm where they
grew up? Or maybe a hidden dental infection? All you need to know is how to find these an-
swers and what protocol you need to use to get the client well.
There are several different things you can use to gather the data to find out the main
things affecting a client. One way is through muscle testing or kinesiology. This is a tech-
nique that you can learn that uses the body’s own autonomic nervous system to determine the
stressors of the body and what supplements that person needs. Now there are many different
techniques that have been developed, from Klinghardt’s ART, NRT, Brimhall’s method, so this
type of testing can be very valuable. But they are dependant on the skill level of the practitio-
ner or whoever is doing the muscle testing. It can be difficult to learn and the practitioner can
influence the results if they are not careful.
I’ve also found that clients have a harder time understanding it and they may think it’s
not scientific or valid. I have used it myself both as a client and as a practitioner, and found
that it could help pinpoint the main issue, but it didn’t give enough information on the overall
issues. Many can find a helpful remedy, but it could not find the root cause as well as I would
have hoped it would.
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So, I have found that muscle testing provides a limited amount of information. As a
practitioner, I was initially drawn to it because it did not require me to buy expensive ma-
chines and devices, and it was pretty easy to learn. But after realizing the drawbacks, I
wanted to use something that was more scientific and accurate. And that is what Electro-
dermal screening was able to provide me.
Where muscle testing is dependant on the muscle strength of the client, and how long
they can withstand you testing by using their muscles to gather the data, electro-dermal
screening can test for thousands of things in just a few minutes. So, the amount of informa-
tion you can get through electro-dermal screening is much greater than with muscle testing.
Now there are more equipment costs with electro-dermal screening, but the trade off
in my opinion is well worth it. It also is typically better received by clients as a testing modal-
ity. I personally have experience with 4 different electro-dermal screening devices and I think
all of them can be used to get successful results with clients. So, I’m gonna give you the pros
and cons of each one, so you can make an educated decision if you decide to purchase one of
these.
But first, I want to take a moment and talk about what electro-dermal screening is and
why you should utilize this amazing technology. Electro-dermal screening is based on the me-
ridians. Chinese medicine discovered the meridians initially thousands of years ago, and they
found that they are energetic channels that are like the electrical system of the body. And we,
in western medicine, used to not believe that they were real but finally modern science has
actually verified that they are real. They’ve injected radioactive dye and then have been able
to trace these throughout the body. The Chinese believe that the flow of life energy or chi, in
these channels, relies on the remaining imbalance and free of any blockages and our ability to
stay healthy and fight off disease is dependent on this vital flow of energy and so we’d like to
think of it as the electrical system of the body. Electrodermal screening devices allow us to ac-
cess using galvanic skin response, the state of each of these acupuncture meridians and there-
fore can tell the overall health of a body. It also allows us to find what could be blocking any
of these meridians and this is where the real power of this technology lies. All substances,
whether they’re living or nonliving, have a frequency or resonance.
Any tissue or organ of the body, any bacteria or virus, has its own frequency. Now, just
like when an opera singer hits a high C and shatters a wine glass because she hit the same
frequency as the glass molecule which causes it to vibrate until it shatters, all other substances
have their own frequencies. In EDS, the energetic signature or frequency of many different
substances is introduced into the testing circuit, and then the patient’s response is assessed
through skin resistance measurement using an Ohm meter.
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Galvanic skin response is a well established principle that’s also used in lie detectors.
The way it works is the electrical conductance between two different electrodes placed on the
skin is measured and then the patient is subjected to different skin stimuli and then any
change in the skin conductance is recorded by the ohm meter. So this device sounds really
new but actually has been around for awhile. The basic concept for EDS screening was the
invention of Dr. Rhinehard Voll, who was a medical doctor and an acupuncturist in Germany in
the 1940’s. And he discovered that the acupuncture points would actually conduct electricity.
All the other parts of the skin would not conduct electricity and he found that the skin resis-
tance at the acupuncture points was 50,000 ohms compared with 200,000 and 2 million else-
where. So this acupuncture points were actually able to conduct a tiny bit of electric current
that was able to pass through the body more than any other tissue of the body.
Many other researchers have also verified that the electrical conductance of the acu-
puncture points is a lot greater than surrounding tissue. So Voll then began a lifelong search to
identify the correlation between disease and changes of the electrical resistance of these acu-
puncture points. He thought that if he could identify the electrical changes of certain acupunc-
ture points with certain diseases then he might be able to identify those diseases more easily
or earlier before they manifested into full blown disease. By the 1950’s, Voll had learned that
the body had at least a thousand points on the skin which followed the twelve lines of the
classical Chinese meridians. Each of these points Voll called a measurement point and he
worked with an engineer, Fritz Warner, and he created an instrument to measure the skin re-
sistance of these acupuncture points, is patterned after the galvanic skin response and he
named this point testing.
So in 1953, Voll established this procedure that became known as Electro-Acupuncture
According to Voll and that is where we get the acronym EAV. Voll understood that the body’s
ability to conduct this energy could be measured and that one way to do that was to measure
the flow of electrons through the meridian pathway. He used an Ohm meter, an instrument
that basically measures electrical resistance or how easily a substance can conduct electricity.
He used the Ohmmeter to measure the electrical resistance at the body’s acupuncture points.
And based on his correlations between the physical exams of these patients and the conduc-
tance measurements, Voll determined that the electrical resistance of the meridian channels
varied between healthy and unhealthy people. Voll determined the amount of resistance in a
healthy person and developed a scale, a number scale from zero to 100 to distinguish healthy
from unhealthy. A healthy or balanced meridian is within the range of 45 to 55 with 50 being
optimal. Any deviation from this range is considered out of balance so values above 55 have
more energy and indicate inflammation and values below 45 have less energy and indicate
stress or possible degeneration.
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Voll identified many acupuncture points related to specific conditions and published a
great deal of information about using acupuncture points diagnostically. For instance, when a
person with a normal liver has the frequency of a healthy liver put into the testing circuit,
there will be resonance and the liver will test in the 45 to 55 range or in balance as we call it.
A lack of change in the person’s skin resistance indicates that the liver is not stressed. If on
the other hand, a person has an energetically stressed liver, there will be a higher flow of elec-
trons on that meridian and it will show as a reading of higher than 55 on the machine. And if
the person has a liver that is degenerating, there will not be a good flow of electrons running
through the meridian, so the liver point will test as a lower than 45. By testing each organ
and system of the body, the practitioner can get a really good idea of the area of the body
where the problem lies.
Now, here is where it gets interesting, Voll made an interesting discovery using this
technology, and he really found this out by accident. He was testing someone and they went
off to lunch and when they came back the person had actually went home and gotten one of
their supplements that they take and he put it in his pocket and so when Voll went back to
testing him, he found that the point he was still working on was actually in balance and he
asked the patient “what have you done?, what did you do? We went out to lunch but why has
this changed?”. And he said, “oh I just went home and got this supplement”. And he took it
out of his pocket and put it on the table, and then Voll retested the point and it was back out
of balance again and then he took the supplement and he put it back in his pocket and the
point was in balance.
So, he could remove the bottle and put it back on the client and consistently get differ-
ent reading when the bottle was in his pocket as compared to when it was not. Now, at first
he was very confused about how a closed bottle of a supplement, outside the body could af-
fect the acupuncture readings but what was even more strange was when he discovered that
that actual bottle of the supplement could change the readings when it was in contact any-
where along the closed circuit involved with the testing procedure. Voll began to try to figure
out what was going on here. So he inserted a metal plate into the circuit and found that many
substances that caused changes in the acupuncture points when taken internally could actu-
ally produce the same changes when placed on the plate even when it was in a closed bot-
tle. He assumed that there must be some kind of electromagnetic energy being emitted from
these substances or this supplement and that somehow these energy fields travel along the
electric circuit to the body. So Voll and other scientists have conducted various experiments
and in an attempt to characterize or quantify this energy that is being measured and as yet
there really has been no clear consensus of opinion on how exactly this works. So
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basically when an herbal or nutritional remedy is put into the circuit by placing it on the metal
plate of the device, an out of balance point would move towards 50 bringing the meridian back
into balance if the product was helpful to the patient. When he tested the balanced meridian
point, and then re tested it with a substance that the person actually had an allergy to then it
would affect the balance energy on that point. This would indicate that the person was allergic
or sensitive to that substance.
The goal of the practitioner is to define one or a combination of things that will balance
the points or cause the reading of the meridians to be as close to 50 as possible. And the prac-
titioner can test all kinds of different things basing that selection on the different knowledge or
experience that they already have until an appropriate solution is found. The thing that bal-
ances the point may have a positive effect on the system being measured and be basically the
most recommended dietary supplement or medication. And if there is no response, then basi-
cally that would indicate there will be no effect on the system and then if the person gets
worse, the points get worse, either too high or too low that would indicate a negative effect.
For instance, the pancreas point on a person with diabetes will become balanced when the
proper dose of insulin is placed on the circuit but it will show an out of balance reading if re-
fined sugar is put on there.
Since Voll’s machine there have been many different types of EAV machines developed
over the years. Dr. Shimmel, a medical and dental physician and researcher from West Ger-
many, developed the Vega Test or Vega Machine. And this was a culmination of thirty years
of development in German electroacupuncture. It has actually become very popular and has
actually come to the U.S., England and Australia. And then in 1979, an American named James
Clark, launched a machine called a Dermatron and this was the world’s first computerized EDS
system. And then after 16 years of research and development, he introduced the LISTEN sys-
tems to the world, this was in 1991. And this is the second generation computerized system
that allowed for faster and simpler operation with more accurate results. The testing was able
to check for different substances up to 18,000 things. And then the LISTEN system was the
basis of Biomeridian system which was released in 1998. This was a fully Windows compatible
system that could test 29,000 things. This is when energy medicine became more widespread
and clinically accepted and there was a lot of research that started to be done on it. And then
in 2003, this technology evolved to a system called the Asyra. And aside from software devel-
opments the most important change that was created with the Asyra was there was a filtering
process so that the information that it gathered allowed it to do single point testing. So there
was no more point testing required where you had to touch the probe to the different acu-
puncture points; instead the client would hold two metal rods and the system would automati-
cally screen them for all the different things and so it was an automated process. It was a ma-
jor advance in this type of technology. It made it much faster, completely non-invasive, you
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developments the most important change that was created with the Asyra was there was a
filtering process so that the information that it gathered allowed it to do single point test-
ing. So there was no more point testing required where you had to touch the probe to the
different acupuncture points; instead the client would hold two metal rods and the system
would automatically screen them for all the different things and so it was an automated proc-
ess. It was a major advance in this type of technology. It made it much faster, completely non
-invasive, you also eliminated the use of point testing because they use a hand cradle and the
client would rest their hand on it, it would scan the client’s hand to collect the data.
So how does EDS work? We have touched on this but I really want to make sure you
understand it because you need to know exactly what it does so that you can convey that in-
formation to a client if they ever want to know more than technical background. But EDS is
basically like a thermometer which measures energy. A thermometer measures heat while EDS
measures electric flow. It’s using a simple low voltage circuit, using one volt of electricity and
it is created by holding two brass hand masses and the response of the body to those signals
is recorded by measuring changes in the electrical resistance of the skin using an Ohm meter.
And this information is relayed back to the software and a report is generated on the computer
of any responses that are outside of certain limits so the health status of an organ will affect
the concentration of ions at the measurement point on the meridian.
It is considered that the inflammation of an organ can cause an increase in the ion
concentration and this enhances the flow of electrons that causes resistance to decrease so
the conductance actually increases. On the other hand, the degeneration of an organ can
cause a decrease in ion concentration that hinders the flow of electrons so the resistance in-
creases which makes the conductance decrease. Sorry this is so technical but I really want to
explain this. So a measurement of each point or each meridian is taken and if the point is bal-
anced in the 45- 55 range, that indicates health in that area. And so any deviation from this
range is considered out of balance. so values above 55 have more energy and indicate inflam-
mation and values below 45 have less energy and indicate a weakening or degeneration of the
body. So the point that is most out of balance, meaning the highest point, the most stressed,
or the lowest point, the weakest point, basically tells you the area that needs the most support
and that is where you do the most testing from, to find out what’s causing that.
Are these tests accurate? There have been at least three double blind assessments of
EDS reported in the American Medical Literature. In 1989, Ali reported in the American Jour-
nal of Clinical Pathology, the results of a double blind test comparing the results of an IgE anti-
body level for various varieties of pollen and molds to EDS testing to the same antigens. The
results showed that the tests matched 73%. Another physician who has evaluated EDS in his
office is Dr William Rae and he is in Dallas and he is an internationally known pioneer in
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Environmental Medicine. He set up a simple double blind situation using a number of people
who had reacted adversely to a challenge test with various antigens and for whom they were
trying to find the optimal dosage for neutralizing those reactions. So neither the patients nor
the person operating the machine knew the correct dosage. And so they used this technology
to test a number of treatment dosages and they found that it was 80% accurate. And the in-
teresting thing was all the misses were basically one dilution away from the optimal dose. So
it’s easy to determine what the optimal dose was even in those ones that they did not get ex-
actly right. Now, the machine may also occasionally misidentify an allergen as positive or it
may not catch one that the client has an issue with, so but although it is not perfect, double
blind studies using this technology have definitely shown a better correlation with food allergy
testing than any other known test. So EDS seems to at least be as reliable or more reliable
than other forms of allergy testing. So, it has been my experience that the results from EDS
are able to give a clearer picture of what the client actually has going on in their body than
what they can get from other forms of testing, even medical testing. So while it is not 100%
accurate, I still find the information that it gets me is so valuable because it cannot be easily
obtained from any other testing. And I find that it is very much worth it.
So, is the testing repeatable? This is an interesting point because as you are testing
the body and getting these responses, the body is being sent information in the form of differ-
ent remedies. So this exposure to different remedies will actually help to balance the body’s
points, to balance these acupuncture points. And so it will have a good effect in the body. So
basically if you want to do one test and then do another test fifteen minutes later, it will vary.
So it is going to be more accurate the first time around and then if you can wait a day or two
between each test that is actually going to give you a better, more accurate result.
Are these EDS machines a diagnostic device? Now, legally the operator or the practi-
tioner is not able to use the word “diagnosis” unless he or she is a licensed medical doctor, of
course. They can only recommend certain supplements or modalities based on what they find
but they cannot diagnose disease. So energetic indications of disease, or health issue may be
revealed by the testing and you will certainly see words that look like diseases on the devices
but the practitioner would have to refer the client to a licensed practitioner, medical doctor for
diagnosis or verification of this problem. So the practitioner can only tell the client what points
are out of balance and suggest supplements of modalities to bring the points back into bal-
ance. So because it’s looking for the root cause, these causative factors can be found for the
patient’s problems but this is also not a diagnosis, but it’s an indication or a factor that could
be involved in their current health problem. So it’s really important on how you word things to
a client. Don’t say, “Well I see a bacteria that is affecting your health” but rather you can say,
“I see an energetic marker for a bacteria that could be affecting your health.” The other thing
is,
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this machine, also is also picking up things affecting the energetic level of the body not just
the physical level of the body. So it really not wise to tell clients everything you see on the
screen. Some things like cancer indicators or other diseases or other pathogens should really
not be told to a client, that is just opening yourself up for a serious legal situation to happen
and we do not diagnose. So you have to be really careful with the wording and we will get into
that in some future lessons.
What exactly do the results like these signify? Basically the way you interpret these
things that show up on the scan, if an area of the body shows up as unbalanced, and then the
machine is able to find the balancing item, whatever it is that is going to bring the body back
into balance, basically what that is going to tell you is that the body is going to benefit from
further exposure to the homeopathic frequency of that item or a supplement of that item. The
EDS test is able to identify different items that the body can to benefit from learning how to
adapt to and these can be a wide variety of things, it can check for foods, pathogens, chemical
toxins, emotional patterns and many more things.
How do we use this technology to help people regain their health? This is really an indi-
vidual thing, so there’s a number of different paths we can go down but I have found that I
use the information provided by the things that are brought up on the scan to make a homeo-
pathic imprint of those items is to allow the immune system to target those things, but then I
also use the data to recommend certain supplements, a certain dietary protocol, certain other
healing modalities. So each practitioner can recommend various remedies according to their
particular area of expertise. So most commonly this looks like nutrition, supplements, herbs,
enzymes, homeopathy, detoxification and emotional based therapies which is basically what
we are teaching you how to do in this course. So this technology essentially helps you become
a better health detective and like all detective work some clues are more important than oth-
ers and some are actually going to be red-herrings. And this is why we combine the informa-
tion from EDS with the other information we gather from the client intake form, maybe their
lab work, and where they are in the healing template to create the best protocol possible.
Health practitioners, just like good doctors develop and rely on their intuition; meaning that
healing is just as much an art as it is a science. This technology does not remove the need for
a practitioner to have good training and obviously intuition but it can help them do a more ef-
fective work in a shorter period of time.
So does the results from the EDS test correlate with the client’s symptoms? Well, the
answer to this is kind of surprising because sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn’t. So, it
is always reassuring to us as practitioners for what we see on the scanner, what we see in
EDS, to confirm the things that the client is already saying that they have going on on their
body. But the way this machine works is it is identifying the root cause, it also is identifying
the priority that needs to be dealt with first and that may actually not exactly correlate with a
client’s
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symptoms unless you happen to know that the symptoms could be caused by that particular
thing. But usually there is multiple layers of root causal factors affecting the client’s health at
one time such as chemical toxins, candida, heavy metals and food allergies. And these root
causes can affect the body and manifest as symptoms in many different ways. So there is
really not always a clear relationship on what is causing what but as you go through this
course you are going to learn more about the relationship between root causes and symptoms
and how to identify what is causing what.
A client state of health can be quite complex and I liken it to trying to put together a
puzzle but without having a picture of the overall image you are trying to make. But with EDS,
it is going to give you that overall picture so you can see more clearly what you need to focus
your attention on to get that person well. So when we want to help a client undo patterns
that have been engrained in the body over years and decades, basically we can see this proc-
ess as like stripping away layers, kind of like the layers of an onion. So this type of testing es-
pecially this scan for causal factors reveals the body’s first priority for healing, and they may
or may not correlate with the main symptoms the client is experiencing but as we peel away
more layers, different aspects of the health problems start to reveal themselves and get
healed and go away.
Now that you realize you need to get EDS into your practice, what machine should you
buy? What machine is best? And that’s a very tricky question. I have actually owned and used
four different EAV machines over the past seven years. So, I will give you my advice on the
issue but of course, but please talk to other practitioners, get their feedback because every-
body has a different opinion. But first of all you need to know that no EAV machine is 100%
accurate. From my personal experience, some are more accurate than others for sure, and
even the best ones are about 80 to 90 percent accurate, depending on the skill of the practi-
tioner if it is a point testing device. So about 10 to 20 percent of the data will not be accurate
but the majority of the time it is going to give you enough data that you need to figure out
what to do with a client. Now, I know some of you are not going to like this but I just found
this to be true. So to compensate for this, I found that doing more testing will allow me to
gather more data, which helps me find the answer. For instance, the other day I saw a client
that had Aspergers and usually that is caused by vaccine injury, right? But the very first visit,
the first scan that I did did not show any sign or indication that vaccine injury was on his
causal scan, or it was not on the brain scan, and it just didn’t show up at all! But what I found
was that there were other that needed to be dealt with first in his body. And then on the sec-
ond visit, it showed up all over the place. So obviously, things can be there but if they are not
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a priority or if they are not something the body is not ready to handle yet, its not necessarily
going to show up right away. Another thing you can do that I have done with many clients is
that, if I am dealing with a really complicated case, somebody that is really sensitive or they’ve
got all kind of issues going on, and if the results are not clear, and I really don’t have a good
game plan, then I will ask them to come back to see me again for a Part 2 session so I can do
another scan and gather more information from their body on another day. Maybe they had a
rough night that night and their body is in a state of crisis or maybe they have just not been
drinking enough water and they are dehydrated and that can affect the readings from the ma-
chine to a degree. But whatever the case, there are things you can do to address this issue.
Here are my experiences with a few different EAV machines. The machine I originally
started with was a Biomeridian MSAS Professional and this machine has a very special place in
my heart because it is the one I learned on. It is the one I started using right after I got my
health back and I apprenticed under an awesome practitioner and this is one of the best EAV
machines, in my opinion. The only draw back is of course, it uses point testing which takes
time but this machine is very accurate when you know how to do the point testing precisely. It
also has a large database of items that is already built into the system and also can be cus-
tomized to your own needs, you can make your own point test for all kind of things. They ac-
tually have come out with a new type of probe in the last several years but I actually used the
old style probe to take the readings on the acupuncture points. So the main drawback on this
is just the time that it takes. But when you get proficient at it, it works great!
Another EAV machine is called Avatar and it is made by Veradyne. And this is very,
very similar to the Biomeridian and it is a great point testing machine. And I used this one for
about a year and I found that it was very extremely precise with the ability to target the causal
factor. The software is really easy to use and navigate to find whatever you need. And I feel
like it is one of the better machines out there. The only drawback that I had with it is that I
found that I could influence the readings if I didn’t use that point probe exactly right. So for
me, it just didn’t work as well as a Biomeridian did but I think that was a personal issue be-
cause I talked to other practitioners who didn’t seem to have that problem.
Another one is called the Zyto which I already mentioned. And the Zyto’s technology
does not use point testing but it uses a single hand test for skin resistance which they call a
hand cradle and this makes it much easier for the practitioner as well as faster to gather the
data. While I found that it was able to identify the root causes pretty well, it didn’t seem to be
quite as accurate as the other machines I’ve used typically for other testing like food sensitivi-
ties and other things like that. So it is not my favorite but its ease of use makes it very valu-
able for a lot of practitioners.
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And then the fourth one is the Asyra or Quest 4 and I got that after using the other
EAV machines and I decided to invest in it because I need to get other practitioners in my of-
fice up and running with the same clients and I needed a way for it to train somebody so they
didn't have to learn to do point testing. And I am so glad I invested in this machine because it
is so easy to use, it doesn’t require the point testing so it doesn't have that long learning curve
that is involved and you can actually run a scan in minutes.So we can actually run all the scans
we need to in about 15 minutes with the client so this saves us so much time and it seems to
be just as accurate as the other ones I’ve used.
So whatever machine you decide to use, know that it is going to be a tremendous aid
to create the ideal protocol for your clients and enable you to be a health detective. Just re-
member as great as the information it provides you obviously take into consideration other
data from the lab work, the intake form, and all these other things we are teaching you in this
course so you can take that into consideration as you create the best protocol.
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Part 2
I want to expound a little bit on EDS to give you a little bit more of a foundation be-
cause what we are dealing with is actually a device, it does not diagnose or cure disease, we
are actually balancing the meridian pathways that have been compromised by different patho-
gens or different things. And because this technology is not based on chemistry, it is not
measuring actual, different things in the body it is actually based in physics and this is an im-
portant point because basically we are dealing with electronic or bioenergetic signals and this
is another reason why it is totally different from a medical diagnostic instrument and it should
not be implied as one.
Chemistry and blood testing and medical testing look for symptoms of disease. These
are things that actually affecting the physical body. But with this type of technology, we can
actually pick up on indicators before symptoms actually show up.
According to Dr. Fritz Popp, in Germany, all the cells of the body possess a resonance
frequency and actually emit electromagnetic waves. He says that disease is caused by elec-
tronic oscillations which hinder the unrestricted flow of energy in an organ or organs. These
energy congestions lead to blockages which can significantly impair the unrestricted flow of
healthy oscillations. These can be detected before symptoms can occur. He had an amazing
discovery. He found that all living cells of plants, animals and humans emit biophotons, which
is actually light which cannot be seen by the naked eye but can be measured by special elec-
tronic equipment developed by these German researchers. Basically photons are light particles
without mass and they transmit information within a cell and between cells. He found that the
DNA of living cells store and release these photons and he basically called this biophotonic
emission.
Another fascinating characteristic of these photons is their coherence. In a healthy
state the emission is more coherent than anything man has ever developed. Quantum coher-
ence means that subatomic particles are able to cooperate. These waves know about each
other and are highly linked by bands of electromagnetic fields. They can communicate with
each other. It is kind of like an orchestra were all the photons are playing together but as indi-
vidual instruments they are also able to carry on playing individual parts. So biophotonic emis-
sion is the communication system that transfers information to many cells across the
body. When they looked at healthy individuals they found that these biophotons were very
coherent and in rhythm with the world. In very sick people, they lost their natural rhythm and
coherence. It is like the lines of communication were scrambled and they lost their communi-
cation with the
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world. In effect their light was going out. So when Dr. Fritz Popp said that disease is actually
called by electronic oscillations which are blocking the flow of energy in an organ or sys-
tem, that’s basically what we are dealing with with EDS.
What we are doing is when we are scanning the body, we are finding these additional
electronic oscillations that are locked in the body that are caused by different things like xeno-
biotics or toxic chemicals or different things that have affected the body, heavy metals or all
kinds of things are actually creating these imbalances that are blocking this electrical flow. And
so our job as practitioners is number one, to identify them and to unblock them so that the
body can go back to homeostasis. If the body is not able to deal with these things and there
has been ongoing exposure, and the disease gets further and further down the road, the body
cannot get rid of this electronic oscillation or toxin and accepts it as itself and it basically
means it is accepting offending signal, it becomes part of the body, becomes part of the self
and so sometimes when you do EDS and you are looking for the different toxins, if the body is
not able to deal with these toxins, they continue to congest the body and cause it to break
down and obviously hinder the flow of these biophotons causing eventually disease.
So our job as practitioners is to find out what are these extra electronic oscillations that
are hindering the body from wellness. And with EDS they have a built in library of thousands
of different energy signals or frequencies of different things. They come with a database of
thousands of different things that you can actually check for to see what is affecting the body,
whether it is different toxic chemicals, whether it is environmental pollutants, heavy metals,
dental problems, materials from dental fillings, geopathic stress, it could be different allergens,
different pollens or grasses, or animal dander, it actually has different phenolics, mold and
fungal pathogens, infectious things like viruses, bacteria, vitamin deficiencies, they contain so
many different things because there is so many different factors that could be affecting the
body and we need to be able to scan for all those different things.
So, how does this technology actually do this? Well, Dr Voll, in the 1950’s, actually cre-
ated the very first Electrodermal Screening device and it was about the size of a dresser and it
had all these different drawers and basically it was hooked up to its ohm meter but inside this
dresser were all these different little vials of homeopathic nosodes that are basically like dis-
eased tissue. He used homeopathic preparations in little glass vials and there was a little cop-
per wire that was attached from the machine and it wrapped around each little vial so he could
do the test. He also had all different remedies that would be more like supplements. So after
he tested all the different meridians to see which ones were out of balance and in balance, he
then used the most out of balance point whether that was the highest point or the lowest
point and then he would challenge them with those different things, the different toxins or the
different diseased states to see what brought that point back into balance.
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That basically told him what the issue was. Now this technology can get confusing because a
lot of times it is hard to interpret because if you are checking something and it’s a toxin and it
brings that person back into balance, why would a toxin bring a person back into balance if it
is something that is not good for their body? So, what I want you to understand is that it de-
pends on where you are starting from. You are either checking to see if a point is in balance or
out of balance first. When you are looking for different things that are affecting the body you
want to use a point that is out of balance. If you are using their lung point to test, and then
you go and you check for all these different toxins it might be affecting their lungs most of
those are not going to affect the lung point and it is going to stay testing out of balance. But
when you find the thing that is affecting the lungs, it’s going to bring that point back into bal-
ance, as close to 50 as possible. And so that’s how you know what’s going on. So whether is it
a toxin you are testing with the lung point or a supplement because if you find a supplement
that brings that point back into 50 then that’s the best supplement to give that person that has
a lung issue, so that their lung point will get back into balance.
So when Dr. Voll was using his device toxins in different conditions in the body, he
made a very interesting discovery and that is where I want to take this from his discovery and
show you how it’s applied today. Because he found that when he opened the drawers and saw
some little vials that he was using, he found that the little copper wire that was wrapped
around those vials had gotten loose and wasn’t even touching the vial and he was still getting
good results. And he couldn’t figure out why this would be but eventually they just realized
that just having the name of the substance was enough for the machine to be able to get the
correct data and get the correct reading.
So that is kind of how this modern day EDS devices are set up. Like I say because this
is not based on chemistry and when you see all these different things in your database you are
actually going to read, that is actually anthrax. But the person who created this technology
did not go get all those different substances, put them on the test plate and imprint them so
they would be on the database, it is just not physically possible. And some of the things that
are on the database are things that basically you can’t even find and actually physically put on
your test plate to begin with, like emotions and different mental states and things like radia-
tion or cell phone radiation, things like that. That is how this technology works. It is basically
using the words the body recognizes as an actual substance when we test for it. So they have
taken that into consideration when you put things into your database, you don’t have to have
the physical item in your office to be able to put it unto your test plate, you can just program
it in the system and it will still recognize as that substance. So, what are all these substances
and how does this work? EDS is based on homeopathy and this is a type of medicine, it is an
alternative type of medicine that stimulates the body’s own natural healing abilities
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and so basically it is based on the Law of Similars that “like cures like”. If one substance in
large quantities can cause certain symptoms, then they found that the same substance in very
small doses can completely cure those same symptoms.
This was basically discovered by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790’s. He was re-
searching quinine at the time, and he discovered that taking large amounts of the cinchona
bark, which was the source of quinine, would cause fever attacks in malarial type of symp-
toms, the same symptoms that quinine cured. So after more experimentation, he found that
other substances did the same thing. Smaller doses cured the problem caused by the large
quantities of these things. So he worked to discover the smallest effective dose because this
was the way to avoid side effects. And he found that the more the remedy became diluted
with water, the more potent it became. He found that even these dilutions were there wasn't
even truely a single molecule of the original substance still in it, was still effective but it was
very unaccepted by the general scientific community at the time. But because it worked, it sur-
vived and it is still working to this day.
Homeopathy is what Dr. Voll used when he was working with the EDS equipment. So
nosodes are basically homeopathic remedies that are derived from diseased tissue or they
are toxic substances. They are highly diluted so there is no actual harmful substance in them
but what they do is when you take them internally they stimulate the body’s defense mecha-
nism and the body starts to remove this toxin, whatever it is that was targeted by the homeo-
pathic. They are mainly eliminated by the lymphatic system but I have personally found that
they actually come out of the body through the skin as well. So it is really important to take a
lymphatic drainage remedy and extra drainage support whenever you give a client a homeo-
pathic nosode detoxifier.
Now a sarcode is actually the opposite, it is actually a homeopathic preparation of
healthy tissue, it’s giving the body the blueprint of how it is supposed to function. For instance,
you can have a thyroid sarcode that can help support the thyroid and give it the extra informa-
tion it needs so it knows how to function the best way possible.
EDS also uses dilutions, homeopathic dilutions, to give us more information on these
different pathogens or different toxins in the body. This is based on Samuel Hahnemann’s
method of making homeopathic remedies, where he would take one drop of the mother tinc-
ture, mix it with nine drops of a mixture of water and alcohol and succuss it, which is shaking
with impact and then that would be one of the remedies. So it uses a series of letters and
numbers to indicate the dilution rate of these tinctures. So basically, one drop of the mother
tincture with nine drops of the water and alcohol is considered a 1X potency or 1X dilution. Or
if you have one drop of 1X with nine drops of water and alcohol it’s considered a 2X dilution.
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And the dilutions go even higher than that! If you would take one part of the mother
tincture and ninety -nine parts of water and alcohol mix them together and succuss them, then
you would get what is considered 1C dilution rate. So obviously this is helpful if you are a ho-
meopath to be able to know what potency the client needs to take of a different homeopathic
remedy. But we also utilize this information in EDS to tell us a little bit more about the actual
issue that we’re testing.
The potencies start at V and X and go up from there to C and K, then M and then LM,
and then the higher potencies CM, LM and MM. So these potencies basically can indicate
things to us as practitioners. If you are testing something and it pulls up that is a V or X po-
tency along with a number, what that is telling you is that whatever you are testing whether
it’s a toxin or pathogen or nutrient, it’s telling you that that’s a serious thing that’s affecting
the physical body. If it is a toxin, then it is most likely physically present. If it is a pathogen it
is most likely present, if it is a nutrient that indicates that the person needs that actual nutri-
ent, they are very deficient most likely. And if it is a hormone that shows up as an X or V, that
means that they are too low on that and they need to have that hormone as a supplement or
a homeopathic imprint. Now if it is a C or K potency, that indicates that it is possibly present
but it can also be affecting the emotional level of the body. It is usually important to give the
client the actual nutrient if it shows up as a nutrient deficiency. Things that are showing up in
the M potency or higher are actually affecting the body on an energetic level or maybe things
that the body has dealt with in the past but there is just a little bit of residue left over so it is
something that they dealt with years ago but is not really altering the physical body at the mo-
ment. But still there can be energetic oscillations that need to be dealt with and gotten out of
the body for the body to be well. So these are things you’d want to give only as imprints or
homeopathic imprints using the device.
When I say imprint what do I mean by that? When I use the word imprint is basically
the way we can use our EDS devices to be able to neutralize the different things that are
showing up in the EDS assessment and using homeopathy. We are not talking about using a
mother tincture and diluting these substances on down by hand, we are actually able to use
this technology to make a electronic version. Basically what it does is it takes different fre-
quencies of those substances, the actual weighed form and it actually is able to electronically
imprint that waveform into to liquid medium, which is water with a little bit of alcohol in it.
This waveform is actually recognized by the body as the actual substance.
A German physicist, Wolfgang Ludwig, who basically found that different frequencies of
homeopathic remedies all had their own unique waveform pattern. And so there have been
different ways that EDS devices as well as other devices, like the wave front, has been able to
utilize this technology to basically duplicate the resonant frequency or waveform of any
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substance. So that means you can actually create a homeopathic like remedy out of anything!
So while this process is not making an actual homeopathic, this remedy, the imprint, carries
this resonant signal into the body as an alert signal that works just like a homeopathic would.
So, let’s talk about how we can utilize this technology because I’ve used this with great
results and like if you have a child that has some sign of vaccine injury or autism, and you see
that they test well for like a vaccine chord, what you can do is you can customize it because
you have done the assessment. You know exactly what vaccines are showing up that’s affect-
ing the body. So what you can do is pull up the vaccine that’s affecting the body, find the dilu-
tion rate, and then put the vaccine chord on the test plate or inside the device, however your
device works and imprint that into the vaccine chord. So what happens is, when the person
takes that remedy it is sending a signal to the body to deal with that particular vaccine be-
cause the vaccine chord is like a general vaccine detoxifier. It is general, so it is not specific to
each person but we can customize it and I have used that with clients that have had autism,
and adults that have had a reaction to vaccines like a tetanus shot. And when I customize it
like that to the client, it is able to target the exact toxin, at the exact dilution rate to be able to
work that stuff out of the system out of their body. And it reverses their health effects from
that particular toxin, so it can be very effective.
So it is really important to utilize imprinting when you are trying to bring the body back
into balance. And when you use the Asyra, for instance, and you do a baseline scan and it
shows the different organ systems that are out of balance, what shows up in the comprehen-
sive scan is what brings all those out of balance points back into balance. And so using a ho-
meopathic imprint of all those items is actually going to help bring back that body, that per-
son, that client back into balance. It is going to start to resolve all those health issues and
they are going to feel better. So it is really important to utilize this technology wisely and we
utilize it now with every client. I use to only use it occasionally but I found that it works so
well that we utilize it with every client now. I imprint what shows up on the comprehensive
scan as well as the hormones that show up on the second scan into a blank remedy that con-
tains, water, distilled water, and a little bit of alcohol, about 20% alcohol. And these are blanks
that we have basically had made up for us by a company and we just order them in bulk. You
can obviously make up your own but it is better to start with an actual remedy.
Now you could also imprint into an already manufactured remedy like Liver Tone
or another homeopathic drainage remedy. So it is important to imprint something that has a
little bit of alcohol because it is going to energetically bind with the water molecules and the
alcohol helps to keep it stable so that it won’t fade over time. Now there is a limit to the num-
ber of imprints that can be put into one bottle so that is why I don’t imprint everything into
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one remedy. If you want to imprint a lot more things you really need to put it in a separate
bottle because there is only so much information that the body can handle at one time in one
remedy.
Now the only other thing I want to mention about imprinting is when a client shows
different chemical toxins or heavy metals on their comprehensive scan, I will not check those
boxes to have them imprinted into the remedy unless I am ready to go into a detox phase
with that client. But most times when those clients come to me they’ll show for a lot of toxins
on their very first visit but I am not quite ready to detox them yet and if you check those
boxes that have toxic compounds and different things and chemicals and you add that to their
homeopathic remedy it is going to start to detox that substance from their body. And so a lot
of clients if they are not prepared for a detox process yet by making sure their digestion is
working well, their elimination is working well, or their liver is supported, they are probably
going to have a healing crisis and are not going to feel good for a little while. And so that is
one of the reasons why we don’t do it that way.
The other reason is when you imprint you are very specifically targeting those particu-
lar toxins and a lot of times when I do a detox for the client in our wellness center, I really
want to unload their body of all the different toxins they’ve been exposed to in their lifetime
and not necessarily hit one particular group of toxins or like a vaccine or whatever, I am trying
to basically get rid of all the stuff so we will use like a far infrared sauna, that is more like a
broad spectrum detoxifier or I will use something like acetyl glutathione, or zeolite. Those are
very broad spectrum detoxifiers and nowadays everybody is toxic from all kinds of different
things. So detoxing with homeopathy is really not something I’ve had really great success with
the general person. I utilize it more when I want to target a very specific toxin, particularly in
children because children can’t really use the sauna very well or something that’s affecting an
adult that is very specific like a vaccine or a particular bacteria or something like that but gen-
eral chemical toxins, I’ve found it works much better to detoxify the body in a more broad
way. And we will get into that in the detox module in a lot more detail. So I hope this gives
you a little bit more information on how EDS works and how you can utilize this amazing tech-
nology to bring clients back to health.
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Electro-Dermal Screening Research
In February 1937 the prestigious British Medical journal carried an article by Sir Tho-
mas Lewis describing a hitherto unknown network of cutaneous nerves.' He called it the
'nocifensor system' and deduced, from his experiments, that it was an independent cutaneous
nerve system, unrelated to known pathways and unconnected to the autonomic nervous sys-
tem. It was composed, not of nerve fibers, but a network of thin lines, similar to meridians.
In 1985 Pierre de Vernejoul at the University of Paris carried out a definitive and much-
quoted experiment. He used a radioactive marker, technetium 99m, which he injected into
subjects at classic acupuncture points. He then used gamma camera imaging to track the sub-
sequent movement of the isotope. He was able to show that the tracer migrated along the
classic meridian lines, travelling quite quickly: a distance of 30 cm in 4-6 minutes. [P. de
Vernejoul et al., 'Etude Des Meridiens D'Acupuncture par les Traceurs Radioactifs', Bull. Acad.
Natle. Med. Vol. 169 (22nd October 1985): 1071-5.] As a control he made a number of ran-
dom injections into the skin (not at acupuncture points) and also injected the tracer directly
into veins and lymphatic channels. There was no significant migration of the tracer at other
sites than an acupuncture point. What this simple but helpful study proved beyond doubt is
that meridians are definitely real 'vessels' but they conform to no macroscopic anatomical
structures whatever. See: http://www.biomeridian.com/biomeridian/skins/main/pdfs/Nuclear%
20Medicine%20and%20Acupuncture.pdf
So if meridians are not nerve-conducting channels or other anatomically visible vessels,
what are they? How is the energy conducted? The answer is almost certainly via the collagen
fibers of the connective tissues. As the name suggests, connective tissue fills in between the
main organs and layers. There is thus a continuum of liquid crystalline water-bound collagen
fibers running throughout the whole body. Recent studies have shown that these are not just
mechanical fibers but that they have dielectric and conductive properties which make them
sensitive to pressure, pH, local ionic composition and surrounding electromagnetic fields. In
fact these collagen fibers, like a network mesh of fine electrical fibrils, form the ideal conductor
medium in which many of the electro-magnetic phenomena may take place.
These meridians have further been shown to have organ representation in the brain.
The mechanisms of the transmission of the electromagnetic potentials appear to be explicable
in terms of the Aharonov-Bohm effect in Field Theory and Quantum Mechanics. Furthermore,
it has been suggested that each of the acupuncture points has a direct relationship to the spe-
cific anatomical structure or physiological function in the body, although they may not reflect
the severity of pathological alteration of that organ or system.
The basic concept for all of the Electro-Dermal screening devices, was the invention of Dr.
Reinhardt Voll, a medical doctor and an acupuncturist in Germany, who in the 1940s, discov-
ered that the electrical resistance of the human body is not homogenous and that meridians
existed over the body which may be demonstrated as electrical fields. He found that skin resis-
tance at acupuncture points is 50,000 ohms compared with 200,000 to 2 million ohms else-
where. [Becker, R., et al. :Electrophysiological correlates of acupuncture points and meridians
Psychoenergetic Sys., 1976, 1:195-212.] Furthermore, he showed that the skin is a semi-
insulator to the outside environment. By the 1950’s Voll had learned that the body had at least
1000 points on the skin which followed the 12 lines of the classical Chinese meridians. Each of
these points, Voll called a Measurement Point (MP). Working with an engineer, Fritz Werner,
Voll created an instrument to measure the skin resistance at each of the acupuncture points,
patterned after a technique called Galvanic Skin Resistance (GSR). This was named Point Test-
ing. In 1953, Voll had established the procedure that became known as Electro-Acupuncture
according to Voll (EAV).
Voll understood that the body’s ability to conduct this energy could be measured, and one way
to do this is to measure the flow of electrons through the meridian pathway. He used an Ohm-
meter, an instrument that measures electrical resistance, or how easily a substance can con-
duct electricity. He used the ohmmeter to measure the electrical resistance at the body’s acu-
puncture points, which he compared to the resistance of the surrounding skin. The result was
that points on skin that corresponded to acupuncture points had significantly lower resistance
than surrounding skin, and so were more conductive than the surrounding skin.
Based on his correlations between physical exams and conductance measurements, Voll deter-
mined that the electrical resistance of the meridian channels varied between healthy and un-
healthy people. Voll determined the amount of resistance in a healthy person and developed a
scale from 0-100 to distinguish healthy from unhealthy. A healthy, or balanced meridian is
within the range of 45-55, with 50 being the optimal balance. Any deviation from this range is
considered, “out of balance”. Values above 55 have more energy and indicate inflammation,
and values below 45 have less energy and indicate stress, or possible degeneration. This scale
is universal and does not depend on age, weight, sex, or race.
Voll thought that if he could identify electrical changes in certain acupuncture points associ-
ated with certain diseases, then he might be able to identify those diseases more easily, or
earlier, when treatment intervention was likely to be more effective. Voll was successful in
identifying many acupuncture points related to specific conditions and published a great deal
of information about using acupuncture points diagnostically.
EAV is like a thermometer, which measures energy. The thermometer measures heat while the
EAV machine measures electric flow.
The health status of an organ will affect the concentrations of the ions at the measurement
points along the meridian. It is considered that inflammation of an organ may cause increase
ion concentration and the increase of ions enhances the flow of electrons causing resistance to
decrease while the conductance may increase. On the other hand, a degeneration of an organ
may cause decease in ion concentration that hinders the flow of electrons, so as the resistance
increases conductance decreases.
The cellular features that contribute to electrical conductance may explain why EAV has diag-
nostic or therapeutic value. The cell membrane is electrically asymmetric, created by an un-
equal distribution of cations and anions on each side of the bilayer surface. This characteristic
creates direct current electrical potentials that are maintained at homeostasis under normal
conditions. [Zukaukas, G., Dapsys, K., Ugeviciute, J. 1988 Quantitative analysis of bioelectrical
potentials for the diagnosis of internal organ pathology and theoretical speculations concerning
electrical circulation in the organism. Acupuncture Electro-Therpaeutics Res. Int. J. 13:119-
130] Abnormal changes on the external or internal surface of the cell membrane alter the rate
of ion transport across it and consequently change electrical potential. [Findl, E. 1987 Mem-
brane transduction of low energy level fields and the Ca hypothesis. Mechanistic Appoaches to
Interactions of Electric and Electromagnetic Fields with Living Systems ed. Martin Blank and
Eugene Findl. Plenum Press, NY pp 15-38]
Viral infection and bacterial infection as well as cancer, alter the rates of ion transport via ef-
fects on the cell membrane or via pH changes in the cell or the extracellular milieu. Viruses
leave a protein coat on the external face of the cell membrane and bacteria alter the pH of the
Module 5: Electro-dermal Screening • Pure Vitality Practitioner Course © 2014 • 20
The basic concept for all of the Electro-Dermal screening devices, was the invention of
Dr. Reinhardt Voll, a medical doctor and an acupuncturist in Germany, who in the 1940s, dis-
covered that the electrical resistance of the human body is not homogenous and that meridi-
ans existed over the body which may be demonstrated as electrical fields. He found that skin
resistance at acupuncture points is 50,000 ohms compared with 200,000 to 2 million ohms
elsewhere. [Becker, R., et al. :Electrophysiological correlates of acupuncture points and meridi-
ans Psychoenergetic Sys., 1976, 1:195-212.] Furthermore, he showed that the skin is a semi-
insulator to the outside environment. By the 1950’s Voll had learned that the body had at least
1000 points on the skin which followed the 12 lines of the classical Chinese meridians. Each of
these points, Voll called a Measurement Point (MP). Working with an engineer, Fritz Werner,
Voll created an instrument to measure the skin resistance at each of the acupuncture points,
patterned after a technique called Galvanic Skin Resistance (GSR). This was named Point Test-
ing. In 1953, Voll had established the procedure that became known as Electro-Acupuncture
according to Voll (EAV).
Voll understood that the body’s ability to conduct this energy could be measured, and
one way to do this is to measure the flow of electrons through the meridian pathway. He used
an Ohmmeter, an instrument that measures electrical resistance, or how easily a substance
can conduct electricity. He used the ohmmeter to measure the electrical resistance at the
body’s acupuncture points, which he compared to the resistance of the surrounding skin. The
result was that points on skin that corresponded to acupuncture points had significantly lower
resistance than surrounding skin, and so were more conductive than the surrounding skin.
Based on his correlations between physical exams and conductance measurements,
Voll determined that the electrical resistance of the meridian channels varied between healthy
and unhealthy people. Voll determined the amount of resistance in a healthy person and de-
veloped a scale from 0-100 to distinguish healthy from unhealthy. A healthy, or balanced me-
ridian is within the range of 45-55, with 50 being the optimal balance. Any deviation from this
range is considered, “out of balance”. Values above 55 have more energy and indicate inflam-
mation, and values below 45 have less energy and indicate stress, or possible degeneration.
This scale is universal and does not depend on age, weight, sex, or race.
Voll thought that if he could identify electrical changes in certain acupuncture points
associated with certain diseases, then he might be able to identify those diseases more easily,
or earlier, when treatment intervention was likely to be more effective. Voll was successful in
identifying many acupuncture points related to specific conditions and published a great deal
of information about using acupuncture points diagnostically.
Module 5: Electro-dermal Screening • Pure Vitality Practitioner Course © 2014 • 21
EAV is like a thermometer, which measures energy. The thermometer measures heat
while the EAV machine measures electric flow.
The health status of an organ will affect the concentrations of the ions at the measure-
ment points along the meridian. It is considered that inflammation of an organ may cause in-
crease ion concentration and the increase of ions enhances the flow of electrons causing resis-
tance to decrease while the conductance may increase. On the other hand, a degeneration of
an organ may cause decease in ion concentration that hinders the flow of electrons, so as the
resistance increases conductance decreases.
The cellular features that contribute to electrical conductance may explain why EAV has
diagnostic or therapeutic value. The cell membrane is electrically asymmetric, created by an
unequal distribution of cations and anions on each side of the bilayer surface. This characteris-
tic creates direct current electrical potentials that are maintained at homeostasis under normal
conditions. [Zukaukas, G., Dapsys, K., Ugeviciute, J. 1988 Quantitative analysis of bioelectrical
potentials for the diagnosis of internal organ pathology and theoretical speculations concerning
electrical circulation in the organism. Acupuncture Electro-Therpaeutics Res. Int. J. 13:119-
130] Abnormal changes on the external or internal surface of the cell membrane alter the rate
of ion transport across it and consequently change electrical potential. [Findl, E. 1987 Mem-
brane transduction of low energy level fields and the Ca hypothesis. Mechanistic Appoaches to
Interactions of Electric and Electromagnetic Fields with Living Systems ed. Martin Blank and
Eugene Findl. Plenum Press, NY pp 15-38]
Viral infection and bacterial infection as well as cancer, alter the rates of ion transport
via effects on the cell membrane or via pH changes in the cell or the extracellular milieu. Vi-
ruses leave a protein coat on the external face of the cell membrane and bacteria alter the pH
of the extracellular milieu through excessive H+ pumping [Alberts, B, Bray, D., Lewis, J, Raff
M, Roberts, K, Watson, JD. 1983 The Molecular Biology of the Cell, Garland Publishing Inc.,
New York, NY Chapt 9:483-547] Cancerous tissues contain higher than normal water and so-
dium content causing measureable changes in the cancer cells’ charge density. Electrical con-
ductance profiles of patients could accurately characterize areas of clinical concern by delineat-
ing significant deviations from the normal levels.
[The above was taken from the Quantitative analysis of Electrical Skin Conductance in diagno-
sis: Historical and current views of Bioelectric Medicine by Barbara Brewitt, Ph.D from the
Journal of Naturopathic Medicine 1996 Volume 6, no. 1] See:
http://www.biomeridian.com/biomeridian/skins/main/pdfs/Quantitative%20Analysis.pdf
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So, a measurement of each point is taken (49 of them total) and if the point is bal-
anced (in the 45-55 range) that indicates health in that area. Any deviation from this range is
considered, “out of balance”. Values above 55 have more energy and indicate inflammation,
and values below 45 have less energy and indicate stress, or possible degeneration. The point
most out of balance would help identify the area where the patient needs the most support or
further investigation.
Voll found that when he placed an herbal or nutritional remedy (reagent) into the
measurement circuit by placing it on a metal place on the device, an out-of-balance point
would move toward 50, bringing the meridian back into balance if the product was helpful to
the patient. Voll also found that when he tested a balanced meridian point and then re-tested
it in the presence of a substance that the person had a known sensitivity or allergy to, that it
would affect the balanced energy on that point. This would indicate that the patient was aller-
gic or sensitive to the specific substance.
The goal of the practitioner is to find one or a combination of reagents that will balance
the point (cause the reading of the meridian to be 50). The practitioner tests various reagents,
basing the selection on knowledge and experience, until an appropriate reagent or combina-
tion of reagents is found. The reagent that balances the point may have a positive effect on
the system being measured and therefore be an appropriate medication or dietary supple-
ment. No response implies that the reagent would have no effect on the system, and a wors-
ening response implies a negative effect. For example, the pancreas point of a person with
diabetes will become balanced when the proper dose of insulin is placed within the circuit and
will show an out-of-balance reading if refined sugar is put there.
The current concept of meridians is that they represent the lines of energy that pass
through organ systems but do not necessarily represent a functional or pathological distur-
bance in those organ systems. Measurement, utilizing the EAV device, allows for a quantifica-
tion of this electrical activity of each of these points, which infers the functional status of the
disease process or structure in question. Furthermore, Voll demonstrated that medicine, if cor-
rectly chosen, could change the reading values to a more normal level. This discovery, sug-
gested that not only could the correct medicine for each patient be selected, but at the most
effective strength or potency.
Voll found that when he tested a balanced meridian point and then re-tested it in the
presence of a substance that the person had a known sensitivity or allergy to that it would af-
fect the balanced energy on that point and make the point unbalanced. This would indicate
that the patient was allergic or sensitive to the specific substance. The normal reading would
be balanced if the patient was not sensitive to the substance.
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If wheat or gluten is an allergen and is placed within the circuit, when the allergy point
is tested, it would then move out of balance. The degree it moves out of balance would indi-
cate to the practitioner the severity of the allergic response or sensitivity.
See these links below for more details: http://www.biomeridian.com/allergy-study.htm
http://www.biomeridian.com/biomeridian/skins/main/pdfs/DoubleBlind%20Comparison.pdf
http://www.biomeridian.com/biomeridian/skins/main/pdfs/Quantitative%20Analysis.pdf http://
www.azadvancedmed.com/Hashimoto.pdf
Changes in acupuncture point resistance related to lung cancer have been verified
more recently by researchers from UCLA and USC. In a double-blind study, 3 patients with
lung cancer and 20 controls (who had negative chest x-rays) had the electrical resistance of
several acupuncture lung points and several small intestine points measured. There was an 87
percent correlation between the testing results and the results of the x-ray diagnosis for the
lung points, and no correlation with the small intestine points. Of interest, there were no false
negatives and 4 “false” positives. Two of these false positive readings were from the same pa-
tient who had an “inconsistent shadow” on his lung X-ray but had shown no evidence of dis-
ease with tomograms and a CT scan. These “false positive” readings could have been from
lung cancer not yet diagnosed, or some other degenerative disease process, or could have
been merely incorrect readings. [Sullivan SG, Eggleston DW, Martinoff JT, Kroenig RJ: Evoked
Electrical Conductivity on the Lung Acupuncture Points in Healthy Individuals and Confirmed
Lung Cancer Patients. Publication Pending.]
Another study from the Pain Management Clinic, Department of Anesthesiology, UCLA
School of Medicine, evaluated the ability of meridian stress assessment to identify, in a blinded
fashion, areas of pain. Forty patients were determined by medical examination to have muscu-
loskeletal pain. Each patient was draped to hide any physical evidence to suggest where the
pain might be. The physician conducting the meridian stress assessment had no prior knowl-
edge of the patient's history, and was not allowed to talk to the patient. Based on increased
skin conductance at specific acupuncture points of the ears, the physician determined, with
greater than 75 percent accuracy, the location of the pain, a highly significant result. This
study also pointed out that meridian stress assessment technique “is often sensitive to patho-
logical problems of which the patient is only minimally aware. When some patients were told
of their auricular diagnosis results, they suddenly remembered having a minor or old pain
problem in that bodily area, a problem which they had neglected to mention during the medi-
cal evaluation,” and thus were considered to be “misses” in the statistical analysis. The results
of this test were therefore more impressive than the statistical analysis would indicate. [Oleson
TD, Kroenig RJ,
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Bresler DE: An Experimental Evaluation of Auricular Diagnosis: The Somatotropic Mapping of
Musculoskeletal Pain at Ear Acupuncture Points. Pain 1980; 8:217-229.]
If EAV is so effective, why has it not been readily adopted by the medical community
as a standard tool? Up until the 1990’s, no conventional medical school even discussed alter-
native approaches to treating illness, but that has slowly been changing. Although it is not
widely known, EAV is now being used by more and more practitioners, even within the medical
community. There are MD’s and RN’s who are practicing alternative or integrative medicine
and have found EAV to offer valuable data to assist them in treating patients. I have recently
learned of an EAV practitioner who is highly skilled and uses her machine to help MD’s diag-
nose hepatitis, rather than with traditional lab work.
One area that EAV could be utilized is in to mitigate the adverse reactions to drugs.
Skin testing for identifying such problems are rather inadequate, since many of the drugs are
not available in an injectable form for testing purposes. Even if an injectable form is available,
the patient still might react to the dyes, fillers, or excipients in the oral form. Many of the reac-
tions from drugs are non IgE, and may not even show up on skin testing. In the past, the only
option was trial and error, and it was often after several unpleasant reactions that a tolerable,
effective choice was found. Going off of certain medications can be potentially dangerous to
the patient. The EAV assessment will usually indicate within a few minutes which medications
are likely to be a problem. This testing can also indicate which medications are likely to be well
tolerated. Based on that information, it is generally a simple matter to avoid the problem drug,
and introduce medication likely to be well tolerated.
Legally, the operator of an electro-dermal screening machine is not able to use the
word, “diagnosis” unless he or she is a licensed medical doctor. They can only recommend cer-
tain supplements, therapies, or treatments based on what they find, but may not diagnose dis-
eases. “Energetic indications” of a disease or a health issue may be revealed by the testing,
but the operator would have to refer the patient to a licensed medical doctor for a diagnosis or
medical verification of this problem. The operator can tell the patient what points are out of
balance and will suggest the supplements or treatments that bring the points back into bal-
ance. The causative factor can be found for the patient’s health problems, but this is also not a
“diagnosis”, but merely an indication or factor that may be involved in their current health
problem.
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