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Sandra Fust (48) of Tobel TG has obviously long ago found what scientists around the world are feverishly seeking: a remedy for the crown. For 39.90 francs for every 100 milliliters, he sells the so-called nosodes, which according to his employee cure 19 patients for Covid. The product was made with bioresonance, a form of therapy that is paid by health insurance companies with appropriate supplemental insurance.
Bioresonance is not something you can rely on for the coronavirus. Several studies have already shown that this form of therapy offers unusable results. “Diagnostic and therapeutic nonsense”, judges the commission of the Swiss Society of Allergology and Immunology.
Health insurance companies believe in bio-resonance
Although bioresonance therapy is highly controversial from a medical point of view, health insurance companies believe in its effectiveness. For example, Swica, as media spokeswoman Silvia Schnidrig says. Bioresonance sessions represent about two percent of all services in the area of alternative therapy methods. The same applies to the Assura health insurance company. However, they do not want to disclose exact amounts. However, all the health insurance funds together have spent a total of millions of francs on bio-resonance therapy in recent years. This becomes spicy with respect to the origin of bioresonance therapy, as it is a product of Scientologists.
A device from the best Scientologists
The first bioresonance-like device was developed in 1977 by the German Scientologist Franz Morell († 69) and his son-in-law Erich Rasche († 64). In doing so, they took up the idea for the “E-meter” from Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard († 75). With the E-Meter, cult members are still being screened for “interruptions” during controversial audits. Scientologist Hans Brüggemann († 90), who worked at Morell and Rasche, eventually developed the Bicom device, which can be found today in countless therapist practices. It was Brüggemann who coined the name Bioresonance in 1987.
Your Bicom device is produced and sold by the Regumed company in Germany. He describes himself as the market leader in this field.
Come to the company through the sect
Brüggemann’s company also has a branch in Switzerland: Regumed GmbH in Merlischachen SZ. It was built by the then Swiss high-ranking scientist Suzette Ackle (73). A company IT expert, a former Scientology member, admits to BLICK that he received the job through his cult affiliation at the time. Meanwhile, he had renounced the sect and was a staunch opponent of Scientology. Another employee at Merlischachen.
In 2011, in the presence of Hans Brüggemann and Suzette Ackle, the Swiss Regumed was presented to Max Geiser. Ackle still has a stake in the company. The German Regumed was sold to new owners.
Max Geiser, however, clearly distances himself from Scientology. “From the first interviews, I said that I clearly distance myself from Scientology. The founders of the bioresonance method were Scientologists. However, the private and the business were constantly separated, and Scientology has never influenced me or the company over the years, “he says.
Scientologists also at Vitatec
The Vitatec Group at Baar ZG also sells bio-resonance devices. And this company was also founded by Scientologists. The developer of the so-called vitafield therapy devices is the German doctor Siegfried Kiontke. In Scientology he is an “operating thetan” and is therefore at the top of the sect’s hierarchy. He sits on the group’s board of directors with two other Scientologists. The two Managing Directors of the subsidiaries Vitatec Products AG and Vitatec Medizintechnik AG are also members of Scientology.
The chairman of the Vitatec board, Bernhard Madörin (61), who is not a Scientologist, still rejects a connection between Vitatec and the sect. Although he confirmed the membership of the people mentioned in the sect to BLICK, he says: “I have been on the Board of Directors for about 20 years, and religion and beliefs have never been discussed. That would be unprofessional and I am not personally interested. A “bond of belief and therapy” is denied. “The company’s strategy contains no elements about belief,” said Madörin.
Scientology also doesn’t want to see a connection between bioresonance and itself. “We do not endorse or reject bioresonance, we have no position on this. If there are Scientologists selling such devices for this type of therapy, they do it privately, and that has nothing to do with Scientology, ”spokesman Jürg Stettler told BLICK.
“Even more technoid, more magical”
However, Georg O. Schmid (53) of the cult information center Relinfo is not surprised that many Scientologists earn their money with bio-resonance. “Because bioresonance therapy was developed by a Scientologist, it is one of the few alternative healing methods that is compatible with Scientology.”
Scientologists are also discouraged from advocating competitive teaching, and so should avoid most esoteric or spiritual therapies. “Therefore, it is not surprising that Hubbard’s disciples are abundant among those who offer bio-resonance.” Bioresonance theory is presented as a “type of Scientology powered by two: even more technoid, even more pseudoscientific, even more magical,” says Schmid.
Nosodes don’t bring anything
Tobel anti-crown vendor Sandra Fust is no longer comfortable with her bio-resonance offering the day after BLICK request. She would like her employees’ statements to be more accurate. “Bioresonance nosodes cannot be used against the coronavirus, nor do they reduce the risk of contracting the virus. Nor can it be said that the course of the disease is weakened, alleviated or positively influenced when taking nosode, “he clarifies.
An E meter from the Scientology sect.
Proponents of bioresonance are convinced that their therapy activates the body’s self-healing powers. “The patient’s own vibrations, which have become out of order, change in the device and additional therapy signals are used,” as the Swiss Society for Energy Bioresonance and Information Medicine, Sebim writes. The art of the bioresonance therapist is to discover the causal burdens that led to the disease. Numerous patients successfully treated would test the effectiveness of bioresonance.
A study by German pediatrician and allergist Walter Dorsch from the previous year sees it differently. Their conclusion: Bioresonance therapy does not work beyond the placebo effect. In their study, the devices diagnosed food allergies to meat on the one hand, and the carcasses attested to the best health on the other. In humans, on the other hand, they recognized allergies during the first examination, which they no longer recognized in an examination immediately afterward. Proponents of bioresonance do not consider the study to be scientific and criticize that the devices were not used correctly in the study.
