Bi-Digital O-Ring Test as a Functional Therapy Using Biological Communication

Abstract

Biological function is an “information” which creates or maintains the order of the organism as a whole ¹⁾ . From this point of view disease can be defined as a derangement of this order. It needs to interact with this function to restore the order as a functional therapy. In addition, biological function is not present a priori, but it is “originated” through the interaction among organisms or between organisms and nature in the uncertain environment ²⁾ It means that the biological function is extended in and outside of the organism. Functional treatment can be achieved only by sharing this function, that is a biological communication, through enactive interaction ¹⁾ .

We have defined the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) ³⁾ as such a functional treatment stated above. On the BDORT, the same abnormal responses as the patient can be obtained from the intermediary and the examiner on the same area as the patient’s pathological foci^4,5). This finding indicates that the biological communication among patient, intermediary and examiner takes place during BDORT, through which the therapeutic interaction might be achieved ¹⁾ . Some other Oriental medicines seem to have the same implication.

Recently we have studied the function of the meridians of both acupuncturist and patient during the treatment using BDORT ⁶⁾ . We reported that acupuncturist had represented the same abnormal response as the patient immediately after insertion the needle, and moreover that their dysfunctional states had improved in both of them during the twilling of the needle. Based on these findings it was postulated that the therapeutic function was mutually originated through the inactive communication related to the meridian’s system.

This seems to be an important point of view regarding the biological function and its treatment that modem medicine, which is materialistic, failed to create. This will be a key point for the BDORT in the coming 21st century.