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 [...]

Deciding which is dominant of the MANY possible diagnoses your patient presents with, is of utmost importance for starting treatment! Deciding how to treat the patient and not the disease. Deciding to restore a biochemical balance instead of making it worse. Deciding which modalities you are going to use and which medications will produce the desired results. Quoting the late Dr. Schimmel from the forward to his book Functional Medicine, “A lot of the knowledge presented here is not yet taught at the universities”. What doctor in their right [...]

Video Recordings of Dr. Sturm's Seminar/Workshops on "Diagnostics" and "Therapeutics"  Presented by Occidental Institute Research Foundation (OIRF) at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada [Oct./Nov. 1998] Part One on DIAGNOSTICS: Program topics . . . Overview of German point measurement instrumentation and diagnostic criteria, especially "Electro-Acupuncture according to Voll" (EAV). Review of electronic point and meridian measurement technique. Hands-on work features the Med-Tronik RM-10/S unit; but what you learn applies to any test instrument that meets German EAV standards. Med-Tronik RM-10/Super unit, including accessories and tooth testing. A precision German-made device for Voll-type acu-point [...]

Research Associate News 19th Germany Tour The Fall of 1994 featured the Institute’s 19th German Biological Medicine Update Tour. This year’s tour, as always, was very interesting. The emphasis of this tour was cancer, and methods of dealing with this devastating disease of civilization. During the tour we visited one of the leading and largest Biological cancer clinics in Germany to see first hand what they are doing for their patients. This particular clinic employs various therapies including, ozone, ionized oxygen, and mistletoe preparations. The tour included a short [...]

O2 Ions as Energy-Carriers of Our Life Energy  Ionized oxygen is used in therapy throughout the world for a variety of indications, and in a variety of manners. The following is Part One of a condensation of an article by Oswald Bartel, who is a recognized expert in the field of ionized oxygen. This first Part introduces and discusses some of the parameters of ionized oxygen while Part Two discusses the ionization of water. Originally written in German, throughout the translation process care has been [...]

A Tour Through The O.I.R.F. Library We have had many requests lately for information on Bio-photons. This introductory non-technical article will try to demystify bio-photons, and provide enough information to serve as a starting point for further research and discussions. We can start with a basic dictionary definition. The McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms defines Photons as “a massless particle, the quantum of the electromagnetic field, carrying energy, momentum and angular momentum”. The New Physics goes further and adds “the least unit of light of a [...]