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Bioresonance therapy: mechanism of action, methodology, indications and contraindications
Last reviewed: 04.07.2025

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Bioresonance therapy (BRT) involves the correction of body functions when exposed to electromagnetic radiation of strictly defined parameters, similar to how a tuning fork responds to a specific frequency spectrum of a sound wave.
Mechanism of action of bioresonance therapy
The idea of bioresonance therapy using weak electromagnetic oscillations inherent in the patient himself was first expressed and scientifically substantiated by F. Morell (1977). In the normal physiological state of the body, relative synchronization of various oscillatory (wave) processes is maintained, while in pathological conditions, disturbances in oscillatory harmony are observed. This can be expressed in the disruption of the rhythms of the main physiological processes, for example, due to a sharp predominance of excitation or inhibition mechanisms in the central nervous system and changes in cortical-subcortical interactions.
Bioresonance therapy is a therapy using electromagnetic oscillations, with which the body structures enter into resonance. The impact is possible both at the cellular level and at the level of an organ, organ system and the whole organism. The main idea of using resonance in medicine is that with the correct selection of the frequency and form of therapeutic (electromagnetic) impact, it is possible to enhance normal (physiological) and weaken pathological oscillations in the human body. Thus, bioresonance impact can be aimed at both neutralizing pathological and restoring physiological oscillations disrupted in pathological conditions.
The vital activity of humans, animals, as well as protozoa, bacteria and viruses, is accompanied by various types of electrical activity. Electrical signals tracked on the skin surface are of great clinical and physiological importance. Electroencephalograms, electrocardiograms, electromyograms and other signals are used in clinical medicine to measure the activity of the muscular and nervous systems. The method by which the information provided by these systems is interpreted is mainly based on statistical data accumulated over many years. In humans, the main sources of electrical and electromagnetic signals are:
- muscle activity, such as rhythmic contractions of the heart muscle;
- neural activity, i.e. the transmission of electrical signals from the sense organs to the brain and from the brain to the executive systems - arms, legs;
- metabolic activity, i.e. metabolism in the body.
All the most important organs and systems of the human body have their own temporary electrical and electromagnetic rhythms. With this or that disease, rhythmic activity is disrupted. For example, with bradycardia caused by a disruption of cardiac conduction, a special device is used - a "pacemaker" or "rhythm driver" that provides the heart with its normal rhythm. This approach can be used in the treatment of diseases of other organs, such as the stomach, liver, kidneys, skin, etc. You only need to know the frequencies of the tissue activity of these organs (let's call them their own physiological frequencies). With any disease, i.e. in the presence of pathology, these frequencies change and acquire the level of the so-called "pathological frequencies". If we excite oscillations of the diseased organ's own physiological rhythms in one way or another, we will contribute to its normal functioning. In this way, various diseases can be treated.
From the point of view of biophysics, metabolism is association and dissociation, i.e. the formation of new and the disintegration of previous compounds. Charged particles participate in this process - ions, polarized molecules, water dipoles. The movement of any charged particle creates a magnetic field around it, the accumulation of charged particles creates an electric potential of one sign or another. These prerequisites allow us to approach the treatment and prevention of diseases not by chemical, i.e. medicinal in the traditional sense, but by physical methods.
The basis for conducting an electrical signal is a liquid medium - these are the extracellular and intracellular fluids of the body. The cellular (plasma) membrane is a semipermeable barrier separating the intercellular (interstitial) fluid from the cytoplasm. These two types of fluids have different ionic concentrations, and the membrane has different levels of permeability for various ions dissolved in the fluids. The difference in electrical potential between the inner and outer surfaces of the membrane at rest, i.e. in the absence of an electrical or chemical stimulus, is the resting potential. Depolarizing stimuli (electrical, mechanical signals or chemical effects), having reached a threshold value, cause an action potential.
The magnitude of the membrane potential depends significantly on the cell type and size, and the strength of the current flowing through the membrane depends on the concentration of ions on both sides, the membrane potential, and the permeability of the membrane for each ion.
The source of electrical signals in body tissues is the action potential generated by individual neurons and muscle fibers. The surrounding tissue in which the current change occurs is called the "conducting volume."
In many clinical and neurophysiological devices, the electromagnetic field of a conductive volume can be observed, but not the bioelectric sources that produce it (ECG, etc.). It is therefore extremely important to accurately determine the origin of the original bioelectric source producing the electromagnetic field of a conductive volume. This operation involves very complex calculations, especially if the characteristics of the biological environment are taken into account. Mathematical models of current field flows in conductivity volumes have been developed with varying degrees of success.
In the Beautytek (Germany) devices, a cycle, a closed circuit with a stimulation area, was created. When two electrodes are placed in a position that allows the system to read the treated area, the device provides a very fast physical and chemical analysis of the tissue. Using a series of algorithms, the physical and chemical state is read and interpreted several hundred times per second, readings are taken, data is interpreted and correction is performed. Since the system algorithms are aimed at bringing to equilibrium, the electronic system cannot cause any damage.
As soon as the state of equilibrium in the studied area is reached, the device stops the treatment. Then the reading of the obtained tissue modifications, interpretation, etc., starts again.
Each real-time tissue adjustment involves thousands of calculations per second. The polarization state of any kind, covering a wide range of compensatory physical, biochemical and humoral events.
Indications for bioresonance therapy:
- restoration of the ionic lattice;
- improving metabolism;
- regulation of water balance;
- dehydration of adipose tissue (lipolysis);
- destruction of fat capsules;
- lymphatic drainage;
- microstimulation;
- increase in blood perfusion.