Congress of Bioenergetic Medicine

A major conference organized by the World Research Foundation railed 'The Congress of Bioenergetic Medicine', was held in Los Angeles in November 1986

The conference aimed to 'bridge the gap between medicine and the latest discoveries in physics', and discussed, amongst other subjects, acupuncture and homeopathy.

Particularly active in these areas of research are Professor William Tiller of Stanford University, California, and Dr Hiroshi Motoyama in Tokyo; both have been involved in serious scientific study of the body's subtle energy systems for many years.

Dr Motoyama has invented a sophisticated diagnostic tool based on the flow of energy in the acupuncture meridians which is now used in hospitals in Japan, and to a much lesser extent in the United States, for early detection of organic imbalance.

The fact that this kind of research is still so rare shows one of the difficulties of uniting the Western medical world view with that of 'energy medicine'.

That this is not simply a problem of Eastern and Western thought has been demonstrated by Professor Tiller's research into both acupuncture and the purely Western system of homeopathy. It is also a reluctance by the medical profession to accept the concept of subtle energy.