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Tribunal 'bit' is NOT relevant. If you read the entire tribunal pdf, note that it states that Dr.Gorringe's procedure was wholly different from Dr. Omura's.
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Omura is the creator of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT), an [[alternative medicine]] [[diagnostic]] technique, and a series of other alternative medicine techniques which are presented in ''Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, The International Journal,'' of which Omura is Founder and Editor-in-Chief, as well as in seminars presented by Omura and his colleagues.<ref>[http://icaet.org International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, Omura's US site.]</ref>
Omura is the creator of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT), an [[alternative medicine]] [[diagnostic]] technique, and a series of other alternative medicine techniques which are presented in ''Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, The International Journal,'' of which Omura is Founder and Editor-in-Chief, as well as in seminars presented by Omura and his colleagues.<ref>[http://icaet.org International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, Omura's US site.]</ref>

The Bi-Digital O-Ring Test was considered by the [[Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal]] of [[New Zealand]] in the course of its judgment of the case of [[Richard Gorringe]]. In the Tribunal's final report on that case, which is the only known independent evaluation and judgement of the BDORT or of any other of Omura's variant and derivative techniques by a mainstream scientific or medical body, the Tribunal found that '...there is no plausible evidence that PMRT [BDORT] has any scientific validity.'<ref name=nz>[http://www.mpdt.org.nz/decisionsorders/decisions/0289dfindings.pdf Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand findings in re Richard Gorringe and the PMRT/Bi-Digital O-Ring Test]</ref>


==Bi-Digital O-Ring Test==
==Bi-Digital O-Ring Test==
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* [http://www.hpdt.org.nz New Zealand Health Practioners Disciplinary Tribunal Offical Site]
* [http://www.hpdt.org.nz New Zealand Health Practioners Disciplinary Tribunal Offical Site]
* [http://www.mpdt.org.nz/decisionsorders/decisions/0289dfindings.pdf Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand findings in re Richard Gorringe and the PMRT/Bi-Digital O-Ring Test]
* [http://www.mpdt.org.nz/decisionsorders/decisions/0289dfindings.pdf Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand findings in re Richard Gorringe and the PMRT/Bi-Digital O-Ring Test]

==See also==

*[[Alternative Medicine]]
*[[Pseudoscience]]
*[[Quackery]]

Revision as of 16:32, 25 July 2006

Yoshiaki Omura, MD, ScD, (born March 28, 1934, in Asahi, Toyama Prefecture, Japan), is Director of Medical Research of the Heart Disease Research Foundation, President and Founder of the International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, and President and Founder of the International Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Medical Association.[1]

Omura is the creator of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT), an alternative medicine diagnostic technique, and a series of other alternative medicine techniques which are presented in Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, The International Journal, of which Omura is Founder and Editor-in-Chief, as well as in seminars presented by Omura and his colleagues.[2]

Bi-Digital O-Ring Test

The Bi-Digital O-Ring Test is a diagnostic test developed by Omura, for which he holds patent.[3] Proponents of the test say the test is effective in the analysis and assessment of numerous biological and environmental factors, and in the diagnosis and treatment of a number of conditions.[4] The test is not known to have been presented or subject to credible independent review other than that of the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand.[5]

Description

The form of the test is the evaluation of opposing muscle strength consisting in its most essential form of the diagnostician's employing thumb and forefinger of each hand, formed in the shape of an O, to attempt to force apart an O shape formed by thumb and forefinger of the person being evaluated, as that person holds a slide of organ tissue, or a sample of medication, or potential allergan, etc, in their free hand, or is otherwise 'probed' at an appropriate acupuncture point by the use of a metal rod or laser pointer. The diagnostician then uses his or her perception of the strength required to force apart the patient's 'O-Ring' of thumb and forefinger to assess the matter being evaluated.[6][7][8][9]

Applications

The BDORT is capable, according to Omura and his colleagues, of a wide range of applications in the diagnosis, prescription of treatment, and evaluation of efficacy of treatment of, amongst others, heart conditions, cancers, allergic reactions, viral and bacterial infections, a range of organic and/or environmental stresses, as well as the precise location of acupuncture points and meridians previously unknown or inappopriately identified. [10][11][12]

These claims are not known to have been verified by any credible conventional independent peer-reviewed assessment.

Derivative and Variant Applications

There are a number of variant methodologies of the application of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test presented by Omura.

  • The Indirect Method
In the Indirect Method of application an intermediary is employed, and the patient is not directly examined. The intermediary, for example, directs a laser held in his or her right hand at the appropriate acupuncture point, eg, atop the patient's head, while at the same time the diagnostician performs the test on the left hand of the intermediary. [13][14]
No scientifically viable explanation is known to have been credibly presented as to how or why this method would work..
  • Remote Application
Omura claims that it is possible, if the procedure is performed by a very experienced practitioner such as himself, to perform the BDORT on a patient over the telephone without having any physical contact with the patient. In this procedure the patient is, for example, instructed to hold in one hand a substance being evaluated, while holding the telephone receiver at the bodily location prescribed by the diagnostician. The practitioner then evaluates the muscle strength necessary to separate the interlocked O–rings of thumb and forefinger of each of his or her own two hands, and uses this data in place of data from standard BDORT on the patient.[15]
No scientifically viable explanation is known to have been credibly presented as to how or why this method would work, or, in particular, how information might be conveyed via the telephone network or other means while using the telephone network to the diagnosing physician's own hands.

Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand Consideration

The Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand, in its consideration of the case of Richard Gorringe, examined and dismissed any claims of scientific validity of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test, offering the following summary statement of findings:

"We therefore accept that PMRT is not a plausible, reliable, or scientific technique for making medical decisions. We find there is no plausible evidence that PMRT has any scientific validity. It therefore follows that reliance on PMRT to make diagnoses to the exclusion of conventional and/or generally recognized diagnostic/investigatory techniques is unacceptable and irresponsible." (Tribunal Findings, Paragraph 363 – Note that the Tribunal uses the terms PMRT and BDORT interchangably, characterizing both as a form of Applied Kinesiology, cf Paragraphs 100, 305, et alia)[5]

Selective Drug Uptake Enhancement Method

The Selective Drug Uptake Enhancement Method is a method devised by Omura "for assuring that drugs will be targeted selectively to specifically targeted biological factors, whether particular cells, tissue structures, or organs, while minimizing uptake by non-targeted biological factors of the organism. The Selective Drug Uptake Method employs appropriate stimulation of appropriate acupuncture points as determined and evaluated by the BDORT to achieve its effect.[16][17]

These findings are not known to have been presented to or subject to evaluation by credible conventional independent peer-reviewed assessment.

Solar Energy Stored Papers

From his research via BDORT assessment and evaluation, Omura believes that it is possible to capture a special healing power of sunlight, for which his term is Special Solar Energy, on index cards or other ordinary paper, and for which method he has applied for patent. This energy must, for maximum efficacy, be ‘captured’ at the ideal times of sunrise and sunset, and carefully preserved on what he then terms as Special Solar Energy Stored Papers, maintaining appropriate Qi Gong polarity at all times and shielding the papers from electromagnetic fields by carefully wrapping them in aluminum foil. Thus captured and preserved, he claims that Special Solar Energy is effective in the treatment of a number of conditions, including arthritis, cancers, hypertension, and Alzheimer’s Disease.[18]

These findings are not known to have been presented to or subject to evaluation by credible conventional independent peer-reviewed assessment.

Heart Disease Research Foundation

The Heart Disease Research Foundation, of which Omura has been Director of Medical Research since 1971,[19] in 1972 sued General Motors on behalf of all citizens of the United States affected by pollution from General Motors, seeking substantial actual and punitive monetary damages to be awarded to its research activities. The case was dismissed as devoid of merit, establishing precedent that such ‘a bare-bones statement of conspiracy . . . without supporting facts permits dismissal’ and was meritless in both its particulars and its essential character, and US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were subsequently amended to make such a suit impossible in future. (Heart Disease Research Foundation v General Motors Corp, 15 Fed.R.Serv. 2d 1517, 1519 (SDNY, 1972))[20][21]

Activities

Yoshiaki Omura, as head of the International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, conducts monthly seminars/workshops in New York, listed by the University of the State of New York Education Department for physicians and dentists seeking certification for the application of acupuncture in the course of their practice. [22] It is unclear as to whether or not the Office of the Professions of the New York State Education Department intends to certify the full range of Omura's techniques as referenced on his New York website or whether this extended armamentarium [23] has been subject to their review and consideration.

Notes

  1. ^ CV/Biography of Dr. Yoshiaki Omura at Omura's Japanese site
  2. ^ International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, Omura's US site.
  3. ^ BDORT Patent
  4. ^ Omura Research Paper
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference nz was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Abstract and full text of patent
  7. ^ Omura Japanese site description of BDORT
  8. ^ IP Watchdog page patent description, with illustration
  9. ^ Brown & Michaels PC description of patent, with illustration
  10. ^ BDORT Abstracts
  11. ^ BDORT 18th Symposium
  12. ^ BDORT 19th Symposium
  13. ^ Patent summary and desciption, including description of third-person, indirect method.
  14. ^ Brown & Michaels PC patent description, with reference to third-person, indirect method.
  15. ^ Omura seminar article by Dominic Lu, DDS, presenting diagnosis by Omura via BDORT via telephone.
  16. ^ Omura Selective Drug Uptake and CV
  17. ^ Abstract of Omura paper in Acupuncture Electrotherapeutics Resonance
  18. ^ Patent description, Special Solar Energy Stored Papers and Their Application
  19. ^ Omura's CV at his official Japanese site, with reference to status as Director of Medical Research at Heart Disease Research Foundation since 1971.
  20. ^ Cite indicating revision of Federal civil rules of procedure following Heart Disease Research Foundation v General Motors Corp
  21. ^ Cite of Heart Disease Research Foundation v General Motors Corporation establishing that a bare bones statement of conspiracy will not withstand a motion to dismiss, and sufficient facts must be alleged to allow the defendant to form a response.
  22. ^ New York State Education Department Listing of Registered Programs for Certification in Acupuncture
  23. ^ Omura's US site, with reference to seminars and content.
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