Bioresonance (MORA, BICOM)

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Franz Morell, Erich Rasche, Hans Brüggemann · 1977

What it is

Bioresonance is an electronic "energy" or "information" method used for both testing and treatment. Its proponents hold that every organ and cell emits characteristic electromagnetic frequencies, that illness arises when these are disturbed, and that a device can detect the disturbed…

Format

• Understand (usually 1-2 sessions, woven into ordinary therapy): goal is the client's explanatory model, hopes and what draws them. Move on when the client feels understood and you know what is at stake.
• Screen risk (same session as 1, repeated whenever new "results" or plans appear): goal is to spot delayed medical care, allergy danger, children, pregnancy, implanted devices, restrictive diets, financial or group pressure. Any red flag takes priority over all other phases.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Who practises it. Complementary therapists, naturopaths and some doctors; the manufacturer-side site claims more than 30,000 therapists use BICOM and promotes it to veterinarians and animal naturopaths as well. In Switzerland, supplementary insurance may reimburse sessions given by therapists with EMR certification. The formal training and certification route run by the manufacturer is not documented in the sources…
• What a client experiences. The therapist attaches electrodes to parts of the body (for example hands, feet or acupuncture points), or the client holds electrodes or lies on a plate, depending on the device. The device is said to record the body's frequencies, separate harmonic from disharmonic ones, reverse the disharmonic ones and send them back. Clients may notice warmth, light sweating, headache or tingling…
• Uses claimed by providers. A wide range of acute and chronic complaints, especially allergies and food "intolerances", skin, digestive and sleep problems, pain, "detoxification", smoking cessation and weight loss; in children, mainly allergies and eczema. Some sellers have advertised it for serious infections, cancer, Crohn's disease, alcohol addiction and depression; regulators ruled these claims unsubstantiated…

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status: no scientific evidence that it has any effect; disease-related electromagnetic oscillations have not been demonstrated, and controlled allergy tests found it unable to identify allergens.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve fasting, a special diet or 'detox'? Have you discussed this with your doctor?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Does it use a device, heat, cold, water or a physical procedure? Has a medical professional checked that it is safe for you?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• Watch for shame or fear of the practitioner. Working: the client feels able to act, or has decided not to, without pressure.
• Watch for being drawn into endorsing or attacking a practitioner. Working: the client sees you as neutral and safe to talk to.
• Watch for "worsening means it's working" reasoning that keeps the client away from care. Working: new symptoms are assessed medically.
• Watch for debt, secrecy from family, escalating packages and isolation. Working: the client makes spending decisions slowly and openly.
• Watch for judgemental wording in notes. Working: another clinician could pick up the record and know what is being used, what the risks are and what was agreed.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.