Biological medicine is a form of holistic medicine which has grown up primarily in Germany since the Second World War. It combines knowledge gained from the ancient techniques of homoeopathy and acupuncture combined with modern electronic and computer technology.
In its present form it started in the 1950s when a German doctor and scientist named Rheinhold Voll began scientific studies into acupuncture. Acupuncture is a system of healing long used in the Orient whereby fine needles are inserted into specific points in the skin in order to rebalance the body’s energies so preventing and treating disease.

Dr Volls researches showed that the points traditionally used in acupuncture for centuries had different electrical properties to the rest of the skin. They generally had a lower electric resistance than other points on the skin. Voll also found that measurement of the electrical properties of acupuncture points gave valuable information about the state of the internal organs of the body. Voll constructed a machine to measure the electrical  properties of acupuncture points, which enabled precise diagnoses to be made about the state of bodily organs.
This in itself is a useful diagnostic tool which is still used today. However Dr. Voll discoveries did not end there A chance discovery revealed that Voll’s machine could also be used to choose homoeopathic and other remedies to teat or prevent illness.

Homeopathic remedies are medicines made out of herbs or other medicinal substances which are prepared by a process of repeated dilution, so that eventually a very dilute solution is arrived at which may contain little in the way of molecules of the original substance but which will still contain the electronic information of that substance.

Research carried out in Germany has shown that homeopathic remedies emit electro-magnetic radiation in the extremely high frequency millimeter wave band. Therefore a homeopathic remedy can be conceived as an electro-magnetic signal which gives information to the body analogous to the way in which a household can receive info ‘action from radio-waves once they have passed through a TV or radio receiver.
To return to Dr. Voll he was once demonstrating his electro-diagnostic apparatus (which is known as a DERMATRON) to an audience of doctors and was testing a member of the audience. He had found abnormal electrical readings at a number of acupuncture points which indicated that this man was suffering from a disease of the prostate. The seminar then adjourned for a coffee-break.

During the interval another member of the audience gave the man who was the test subject the homeopathic remedy Populus which is traditionally used for the treatment of prostate conditions. The subject then put this remedy in his pocket. When the seminar resumed Dr. Voll began re-testing this man but now could find no trace of the prostate problem as all the acupuncture point measurements had returned to normal- This was just because the man had a homoeopathic remedy in his pocket!. When the remedy was removed from his pocket the abnormal acupuncture point readings came back- It was clear that the electro-magnetic radiations from the homoeopathic remedy Were interacting with the electro-magnetic properties of the man’s body in such a way that they were brought back to normal.

This led to the discovery that when the DERMATRON had found the presence of disease in a patient through detecting abnormal readings at acupuncture points, the placing of the correct homoeopathic remedies on the patient’s skin or into the electrical circuit would bring about normalization of the readings. This remedy was the one the patient needed to take.

This discovery that homoeopathic remedies bring about beneficial electrical changes in the human body and that they could be detected and measured by electronic devices, thereby allowing the appropriate remedy to be chosen is the main basis of German Biological medicine.
The process of e1ectronic diagnosis and choice of remedies is known as ELECTRO-DERMAL SCREENING.

Dr. Voll’s particular method is known as Electro-Acupuncture according to Voll or AV.