Radionics

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The Radionics is a scientifically unoccupied healing method of esoteric is assigned. It is also referred to by its users as energy medicine or information medicine. According to the author Edward Russell , the term "radionics" refers to the assumption that the human organism should react to radio waves that are supposed to be carriers of modulated "healing information".

Radionics was founded by the pathologist Albert Abrams (* 1863 in San Francisco, † 1924) in the USA around 1920 , at that time still under the acronym ERA ( Electronic Reaction of Abrams ). Abrams was designated for this by the American Medical Association as "the dean of twentieth century charlatans" (dt. Dean of the quacks of the 20th century).

overview

Radionics, like other theories based on postulated forms of energy, assumes the existence of a subtle energy field around the human being, which, depending on the source and the focus of the characteristics, is called an "aura", " energy body ", "vibration field", "bio field", " chakra system " or " Life energy ".

It is assumed that the disease initially arises through a disruption of this energy field and can therefore be proven and cured before it causes physically recognizable symptoms. Since the vibration patterns of sick organisms differ in characteristic ways from those of healthy organisms, a trained therapist can feel when and where a person's energy field is disturbed ( cf. radiesthesia ).

The alleged healing effect of radionics essentially consists in generating impulses that are supposed to stimulate the self-healing process in the patient's system. For this purpose, the patient to be treated is exposed to weak electromagnetic fields. If successful, their vibrations should cause a resonance in the energy field , which leads to the disturbance disappearing.

Today's computer-based systems usually consist of a simple antenna (“diode”), which is supposedly “shielded against technical radiation sources” and can be connected to a computer via an interface (often in the form of a USB stick ). The antenna should first record the patient's energy field using a hair or saliva sample. The computer program uses the data obtained to determine the “healing information” that is intended to achieve the therapeutic effect. During the subsequent treatment, these are again sent to the patient via the antenna as an electromagnetic wave pattern, usually at time intervals determined by the therapist.

Meanwhile, pure software systems also exist for radionic analysis and therapy . Some radionics supporters are of the opinion that a computer is influenced by the "biological energy fields" even without special additional devices and, conversely, also influences the "energy fields" so that it is only possible to use special software to prevent pathological disturbances in the energy field Register and eliminate people. This thesis contradicts the fact that conventional computer systems are not influenced in their function by weak electromagnetic fields.

Stand-alone devices that manage without a computer usually have the shape of a black box with a number of switches on which numeric codes that are supposed to represent different energy states are displayed.

reception

Skeptics classify the views of radionics supporters as esoteric , the alleged treatment successes as quackery or even just as simple fraud. The influence of radio waves on disease processes per se is scientifically investigated (cf. e.g.), but without resorting to the theses of radionics, which are considered unscientific.

Proponents of radionics, on the other hand, refer to the hypotheses and theories of the British biologist Rupert Sheldrake about morphic fields . Works on the revitalization of water by Masaru Emoto , Bernd Kröplin and others are also often cited. However, the published results of these para-scientific investigations were not reproducible, and advertising with unproven health-related information about the allegedly revitalized water is prohibited in Germany and Switzerland.

In 1922 Upton Sinclair visited Abrams Clinic and published a report.

application

Radionics is not very widespread in Germany . It is mainly used in naturopathic practices and in holistic life counseling . Devices and remote healing are mainly offered on the Internet. They are used by their advocates for any disease or disorder and are also recommended by them for cancer , rheumatism and heart disease. This also includes clinical pictures which are unknown in evidence-based medicine and which contradict fundamental knowledge about human physiology (see " Water allergy ").

The company Rayonex Biomedical sold high-priced bio-field-forming devices for alternative practitioners to stimulate the human regulatory mechanisms with programs for water energization, ozone protection, tinnitus , learning and concentration disorders and many other areas of application. The advertising with the alleged effect of the devices and the existence of geobiological disturbance zones was banned by the Dortmund Regional Court , along with many other statements, under threat of 250,000 euros fines or imprisonment for up to 6 months on the managers .

“The advertising statements affected here are also objectively incorrect and therefore misleading i. S. d. § 3 UWG, since neither disturbance zones i. S. d. Advertising claims still deficits in frequencies (of whatever kind) still bioresonances can be scientifically proven. "

- LG Dortmund , court judgment of June 24, 2004

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  1. ^ EW Russell: New hope for farmers. In: Report on Radionics - Science of the Future: The Science Which Can Cure Where Orthodox Medicine Fails. Spearman, London, 1973, pp. 51-75.
  2. ↑ a b J.D. Haines: The king of quacks: Albert Abrams, MD; one of the greatest quacks of all time was Albert Abrams, MD Abrams earned the dubious distinction of "the dean of twentieth century charlatans" the American Medical Association. In: Skeptical Inquirer May 2002
  3. ↑ A. Barbault et al .: Amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields for the treatment of cancer: Discovery of tumor-specific frequencies and assessment of a novel therapeutic approach, Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2009, 28:51
  4. ^ Higher Regional Court Hamm : judgment of December 22, 2009 - Az. 4 U 131/09. Openjur , December 22, 2009, accessed October 26, 2014 .
  5. ^ Upton Sinclair: The House of Wonder. In: Pearson's Magazine. June 1922. German: the other: The House of Miracles: a report on Dr. Albert Abrams revolutionary discovery: the establishment of the diagnosis by means of the radioactivity of the blood , transmitted by Hermynia Zur Mühlen . Orbis-Verl., Prague 1922.
  6. ↑ Simon Yu: The House of Wonder by a Quack: Upton Sinclair on Abrams and Frequency Specific Micro-Current (PDF; 158 kB). Retrieved January 2, 2013
  7. ↑ Med. Ex. - Working group for health maintenance and health restoration, in particular through research and documentation of induction therapy, magnetic field therapy and other complementary medical therapies: Radionics & Cell Communication ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.med-ex.at
  8. ↑ Rayocomp PS 1000 polar Complete. (No longer available online.) Rayonex Biomedical, archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; Retrieved October 26, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rayonex.de
  9. ↑ a b Dortmund Regional Court: judgment of June 24, 2004 - Az. 8 O 212/04. Openjur, December 22, 2009, accessed October 26, 2014 .