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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 a 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]

Description

The basic form of the test consists of the diagnostician 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, while that person holds a piece of organ tissue, or a sample of medication, in their free hand. The diagnostician then uses his or her perception of the strength required to do so to assess the matter being evaluated.[5][6][7][8]

Applications

The BDORT is capable, according to Omura and his colleagues,[9][10][11] of a number of applications, especially the diagnosis and prescription of treatment for a very wide range of afflictions, including heart conditions, cancer, allergies, viral and bacterial infections, and poisoning.

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 at all. The intermediary directs a laser held in his or her right hand at the appropriate acupuncture point atop the patient's head while at the same time the diagnostician performs the test on the left hand of the intermediary. [12][13]
  • 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.[14]

Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand Consideration

There has been some controversy related to the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand in its judgement of the case of Richard Gorringe. Dr. Richard Gorringe is a physician who was under review for using controversial methods in the treatment and diagnosis of his patients. One of these methods was supposedly Dr. Omura's Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. Dr. Omura declined a request from Richard Gorringe to defend his use of the test before the tribunal. Upon discussion with Mr. Gorringe, Dr. Omura came to the conclusion that the technique being used was not representative of his methods and in fact had little at all to do with the properly utilized Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. It is Dr. Omura's contention that the technique for which Richard Gorringe was being reviewed was actually simply an attempted modification of a German electrical diagnostic method created by Dr. Voll. Omura informed Gorringe that he had come to the conclusion that Gorringe was misrepresenting the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. Omura has come out as stating that he agrees with the Medical Practitioner's Disciplinary Tribunal's effort to prosecute Dr. Gorringe and that he agrees with the New Zealand State Board of Medicine's effort to remove his license.

The recorded opinion of the tribunal did find that "...there is no plausible evidence that PMRT (BDORT) has any scientific validity." However, as stated by Dr. Omura, and as implied by the tribunal's decision to call Dr. Gorringe's method PMRT (and only to tangentially relate it to the BDORT by placing BDORT in parentheses), the technique under question is not representative of Dr. Omura's Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. In fact, this is quite clearly stated in the tribunal's proceedings. From page 58, paragraph 290 of the Medical Practioner's Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand: 

     Dr. Gorringe gave evidence as to the background relating to PMRT (or BDORT) and attributed the origin of it to a Dr. Yoshiaki Omura and produced some written material relating to the Omura technique (exhibits 21 and 42).  However, it would appear from a perusal of those materials that the technique which Dr. Gorringe practises is different from that practised by Dr. Omura and therefore the Omura materials do not assist the Tribunal to any real extent. DATED at Wellington this 5th day of August 2003

Dr. Gorringe's description of the BDORT is featured on pages 59-60, paragraph 292 of the proceedings and has little to do with Omura's published descriptions of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test. Dr. Gorringe also generallly seems to prefer to call his technique PMRT more often than BDORT.

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.[15][16]

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.[17]

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 and the American Medical Association for Continuing Medical Education credit for physicians and dentists to use toward an Acupuncture Certificate.[18][19][20][21][citation needed] The International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics organizes an Annual International Symposium every October at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. [22][independent citation needed]

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. ^ Abstract and full text of patent
  6. ^ Omura Japanese site description of BDORT
  7. ^ IP Watchdog page patent description, with illustration
  8. ^ Brown & Michaels PC description of patent, with illustration
  9. ^ BDORT Abstracts
  10. ^ BDORT 18th Symposium
  11. ^ BDORT 19th Symposium
  12. ^ Patent summary and desciption, including description of third-person, indirect method.
  13. ^ Brown & Michaels PC patent description, with reference to third-person, indirect method.
  14. ^ Omura seminar article by Dominic Lu, DDS, presenting diagnosis by Omura via BDORT via telephone.
  15. ^ Omura Selective Drug Uptake and CV
  16. ^ Abstract of Omura paper in Acupuncture Electrotherapeutics Resonance
  17. ^ Patent description, Special Solar Energy Stored Papers and Their Application
  18. ^ New York Academy of Medicine listing of Omura seminar.
  19. ^ Omura's US site, with reference to seminars.
  20. ^ 21st Symposium Notice on New York Academy of Medicine's Site
  21. ^ 21st Symposium
  22. ^ Omura's US site, with reference to Columbia University School of International Affairs annual symposium.

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See also

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