Has anyone had a bio meridian stress test? Is it helpful?

Question

My doctor recommended this test because I have a wide variety of chemical sensitivities and symptoms.

Answer 1

I've had it done, but thought it was used more to indicate areas of inflammation in related organs/tissues/glands, which I suppose could translate to stress.  Also, see http://www.associatedcontent.com/article...

After research on my own, it's quite clear that a lot of foods are known to cause chemical sensitivies in various people, the most common being wheat, gluten, corn, nuts (tree or bush or both), and pasteurized milk.  Everyone's different and may have problems with certain foods or chemicals more than another.  Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they're talking about, was miseducated, or is just flat misleading you.  The bio meridian machine has two different tests, one for checking the condition of at least your organs, and maybe tissues and glands, and another that (I believe) uses frequencies/signatures to check sensitivies/allergies to a particular substance/chemical.  Check with your health care provider on the specifics.

Also see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtWTOJ_PH... which I found via Google search, and looks pretty good as far as a high-level explanation.

Additionally, you don't have to be a medical doctor and go to a pharmaceutical-slanted/funded medical school to help people get well.  In fact, drug based therapies are well known to address symptoms only and not the cause.  That's not to say all MDs won't help you, or that drugs are never the answer, but when you're dealing with sickness and disease, statistics favor natural care.  To me, it's common sense - do you want to address the symptom with a lifetime of drugs and managed care or educate yourself when it comes to your body and at least attempt to correct the root cause?  Anyone who says natural/nutrition/preventative/alternati... healthcare is quackery is living a delusion masked by big money and politics in a health care system that only bankrupts those in need, only to cause them more trouble in the long run with toxic drugs.  

Besides, God already told us in Ez 47 that herbs are/were used for medicine.  And nutrition was key from the beginning, per Gen 1:29.  There's modern science to back that up - you already paid for Dr. T. Colin Campbell's research in the China Study.  It would serve anyone well to read it.  Then research other MDs that have gone to nutrition-based or integrative medicine as they call it.  It seems most of them say the same thing - when they learn they truth they can't do anything but get out of traditional/drug-based medicine.  See Dr. Dean Ornish and the excellent results he's had with his heart disease patients and preventing/reversing their conditions with nutrition.  And Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Neal Barnard, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, Dr. John McDougall, and others.  There's a reason the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine exists (http://www.pcrm.org).  Then there's the MD's who've learned about and exposed the troubled drug industry - Dr. Peter Rost and Dr. Marcia Angell.

I always have to throw out the truth when I hear the word quack or quackery as well.  An honest/scientific/common-sense review of Barrett's site will reveal the tactics used are only defamatory to the alternative healthcare providers.  There's nothing about the mistakes in the medical community!  There's quacks on both sides!  See the links that expose the real quack, an unlicensed psychiatrist that clearly intends to mislead and deceive those trying to help themselves:

http://www.canlyme.com/quackwatch.html

http://www.raysahelian.com/quackwatch.ht...

http://www.quackpotwatch.org/opinionpiec...

http://www.chiro.org/LINKS/FULL/Quackwat...

It's tiring to hear misleading reports about your health.  It's high time we at least start with the truth, then work to reverse the perception regarding our own health care system, then work to fix it so it's really helping people, not putting them on more and more drugs until their deathbed.  We deserve a better quality of life.

EDIT: My wife's an ND who just got a bio meridian machine and just went through some training this past weekend.  She used it on one of her clients yesterday, and found that it confirmed her other findings, and suggested the same supplements that she said she had planned earlier to give to them.  One of the issues my wife had early in the training was developing the skill to use the equipment, and it appears she's getting there.  If your health care giver has been trained adequately, the test should properly indicate problem areas.  That's the main cause for concern as I see it currently, as the equipment has gone through years of development and testing.  It's important that the practitioner test using the right points/pathways on your hands and feet to get the proper results.  Given that, it does seem to be helpful and useful.

Answer 2

I'm going to go out on a limb here and speculate your "doctor" was not of the medical variety.

A biomeridian stress test is a completely bogus.  It is a gadget that claims to measure either energy or toxicity at different meridians. All of these are meaningless terms in the real world, but are thrown about quite commonly by alties.

Your "doctor" is a quack.  There is no such disorder as "multiple chemical sensitivity" though many neurotic people have been convinced by charlatans that they have it.