On the Death of Dr. med. Dieter Aschoff Dieter Aschoff, MD was born on 20.10.1918 and passed away on 24.1.2008 after a short illness. His life stood in the service of natural healing therapies. He was a founding member of the Gesellschaft für Erfahrungsheilkunde. Together with Dr. Reinhold Voll in the practice of Dr. Korthals in Wuppertal in the 1950’s he discovered the electro-acupuncture test which Voll later further developed. Dr. Aschoff was one of the first doctors who learned acupuncture with Dr. Bachmann in Munich. However his main [...]

Oxygen Therapies? Yes! But with which oxygen? Physical and biological characteristics of the oxygen forms and their therapeutic applications The atmospheric air in which scavengers of aerobic organisms – thus also of humans – has adapted in the course of millions of years, and up to 50 years ago was still a pure gas mixture made above all from nitrogen and the five forms of oxygen (O2, O2•-, O2•+, 1O2, O3), the so called 21% NITROX. The air of today is burdened in many ways  (SOx, NOx, >COx, >O3, [...]

Here is a sample of The Bridge Newsletter as it appeared in 2008. This Part 2 Supplement to the February Issue introduced a number of new and updated devices and methods that were then available through OIRF. Many of these devices are still available through the manufacturers in Europe. We hope you will find much of interest in the descriptions and articles. We invite you to: Read more here. An Information Release for Member From a Part 2 Supplement to The Bridge Newsletter Published February 2008 © [...]

FAQs: Points of Interest! This is a column that has been missing from the past few issues, but with the recent introduction of new instrumentation there has once again been a flurry of phone calls and e-mails asking about these devices and comparisons to other competitive products. I must say I am always reluctant to make comparisons between OIRF recommended instrumentation and the “other guys”. It has always been our philosophy that we should never run down the “other guys” to make our own products [...]

Electromagnetic Information fields as the Basis of Life “Every man and every woman is a star”, was claimed by the notorious English Occultist Aleister Crowley about one hundred years ago in one of his rare moments of higher realization. (1) He could not prove it or did not want to. That the allegedly poetic statement is much more, namely a hard physical fact, could only be proven experimentally decades later. Actually all of our ten billion cells radiate a few hundred photons per second in [...]

A special report on the MEDICA Trade Fair Düsseldorf, Germany, Nov. 14 - 17, 2007 November 20, 2007 Dear Members: As I write this report I have been home from Germany for less than a day and even though jet lag is settling in, I feel strongly invigorated by my recent experiences. This year a number of the companies that we normally see at the Medicine Week Congress in Baden-Baden opted not to participate in that program. The Medicine Week congress has been gradually getting smaller and smaller each [...]

Commentary submitted by Dr. Brian L. Mac Coy August 28, 2007 Two German physicists claim to have done the impossible and broken the speed of light. If their claims are confirmed, they will have proved wrong Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which requires an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 299,792,458 meters per second. However Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, from the University of Koblenz, say they have possibly breached a key tenet of that theory. They say they have conducted [...]

Commentary submitted by Dr. Brian L. Mac Coy The field of physics worships at the altar of c, the velocity of light. It is widely regarded as the inviolate constant which affects all things: from our knowledge of astronomy to the very behavior of subatomic particles. The idea that the speed of light is constant and unbreachable is at the foundation of modern physics and it is a key factor in Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which led to his deduction E=mc2 (in which the total amount of [...]

I wanted to start off this “commercial” portion of the September newsletters with some personal comments. You can see from the history of OIRF included in this issue of “The Bridge” that recommendation (and subsequent sales) of quality German instrumentation has been an integral part of the Institute almost from the beginning. We have been a legitimate non-profit organization since our return to Canada in 1984, and thus the commercial aspects of selling this instrumentation had to be done carefully. Of course the flip side of that legitimacy coin [...]

A special chronological report on our 2006 “Medicine Week” Group tour to Germany SUNDAY (October 29th):  Most of the ten tour participants met at our Frankfurt hotel this evening for an informal welcome reception. Many North Americans had to leave on Saturday to get to Germany today, due to North Atlantic flight schedules and losing time zones. Because delegates joined us from different countries, everyone made their own airline arrangements. Although our limit was twenty-five participants, this tour was much smaller than we anticipated, as compared to previous tours [...]