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Bioresonance Therapy

Historical and Premodern Treatment Practice

Bioresonance therapy is a pseudoscientific practice, invented in Germany in 1977 by Franz Morell and Erich Rasche, in which practitioners use devices that claim to read and correct a patient's electromagnetic waves to diagnose and treat illness. Practitioners assert they can detect disease and addiction through skin-resistance measurements and treat conditions by stimulating cellular change with the device's output. No reliable scientific evidence supports its claims as either a diagnostic or a therapeutic method, and regulators including the FDA have prosecuted sellers of bioresonance devices for fraudulent health claims.

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Energy medicine is a branch of alternative medicine based on a pseudo-scientific belief that healers can channel "healing energy" into patients and effect positive results. This esoteric concept of "energy" used by proponents of energy medicine is unrelated to the scientific conc
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