Two years ago, on my annual trip to Medicine Week with Occidental Institute, I was lucky enough to be introduced to the new Photon Resonance Test unit developed by Dr. Helmut W. Schimmel.  The Medicine Week Tour is always a highly enjoyable experience what with being introduced to new state of the art equipment, machines, techniques, medicines and information combined with congenial and brilliant company all assembled in one place at the same time. Even though I have traveled to Germany on numerous occasions both on my own and [...]

The regulation of pH values inside and outside the cells is an essential prerequisite for the function of the enzymatic controlled metabolism processes of our organism. However, the relationship from acid to base is not only of importance for a healthy metabolism, but also determines the structure and function of proteins, the permeability of cell membranes, the distribution of electrolytes as well as the function of the connective tissue. On the basis of current scientific knowledge levels, long-term disturbances of the natural acid-base balance are increasingly observed as a [...]

You have the best healing technology in the world – MORA. Right! Sometimes it simply doesn’t work. If the world were perfect, we wouldn’t have sick people to treat and we wouldn’t have patients who are resistant to our care. There will always be patients who don’t get better. Unfortunately, there are some folk who for one reason or another, better known to themselves, either can’t get better or don’t want to get better. I find it very therapeutic to get rid of the patients who don’t want to [...]

All energetic therapies have a similar goal and affect the same systems. Whether the modality used is light, sound, physical force, or some form of electromagnetic energy, the process is the same. This paper will describe a method of acupressure that can be used to enhance any form of energetic therapy. Acupuncture is thousands of years old, with acupressure being a more recent innovation. The basis of the approach described here is to use acupressure prior to an energetic therapy to help clear meridian blockages in order to enhance [...]

An Introduction to Dr. Ivan Engler, and Inhaled Ionized Oxygen Therapy Causes of Oxygen Imbalance Imbalance in the air Today the air lacks balanced probiotic oxygen forms. The air is often a radical mixture of NOx, SOx, COx, CO2 and O3. Oxygen deficiency of the body All of the stressors (Oxygen deficiency, lack of movement, toxins, infections, Nicotine, allergens, storage protein, emotion, noise, narcosis, immune suppressive therapy, radiation, chemotherapy, way of life, hypotonia, hypertonia, physical and mental fatigue, electrical field disturbances, and so on) and growing age lead to [...]

Proposal: Using diagnostic Electro-Acupuncture as a tool to understand the relationship between homeopathic medicine and traditional Chinese medicine: specifically, the importance of indicator drops and causal chains of reaction in demonstrating the human system of energetic controls of health. I would like to throw this subject out for discussion among the Members of Occidental Institute. I am proposing that diagnostic Electro-Acupuncture offers us the best opportunity to observe the workings of our energetic physiology. The human being appears to have two distinct systems of physiology: one biochemical and one [...]

Our Honored Founding Medical Director Dr. Sturm’s contributions to the field of biological medicine began in the late 1960’s. The list of firms, methods and remedies that he introduced to North America, and around the world in all English speaking countries, is extensive. It shows his dedication to finding and teaching the best and most effective methods, and his obsession with “keeping the field clean”. Without Dr. Sturm so many methods and therapies in the field of biological medicine would be unknown in the English speaking world – or [...]

In Memoriam Dr. Walter D. Sturm (BEd, DAcu, PhD, HMD) * November 23, 1944     † July 5, 2004 Walter was a big bear of a guy with a heart of gold. “The boss” ... He loved life, lived it very full, and has without question left his mark on this planet. He was kind and passionate in a Walter sort of way. He pushed boundaries and accepted challenges, and to paraphrase another famous person – “went where no others have gone before”. (Star Trek's [...]

When Carolyn asked me to write about my newest toy, the Photon Resonance Test developed by Helmut W. Schimmel, M.D., D.M.D., it got me thinking about Dr. Walter Sturm’s passing, as well as thinking about how my practice has been influenced by Dr. Sturm and Occidental Institute. I have been in practice for 22 years as a naturopathic physician. I was first introduced to VEGA Testing twenty years ago by a British colleague. He said I would have to go to Germany for training in the VEGA Method. With [...]

“You cannot grow daisies in cement” “As the soil is, so the seed grows” All biological life requires a certain environment to thrive. The more suitable this environment to the species the stronger and the better quality of life. There are various specific characteristics required by the milieu of any given species and man is not an exception to this rule. It is interesting to observe that during an epidemic such as the flu, not everyone succumbs. Why is that? Unfortunately, Louis Pasteur proposed the theory of dis-ease based [...]