Bioelectronics of Vincent

This medical diagnostic system is based on the work of Claude Vincent, a French hydrologist of the mid-twentieth century. It is said that in his capacity as overseer of the French national hydrological service, Vincent had responsibility for monitoring the quality of the public water supply in the various cities and towns of France.

Vincent became suspicious that there was a correlation between the water quality statistics and cancer mortality statistics that were the stuff of his work, and determined to find out what influence, if any, the quality of drinking water played in the etiology of cancer. He eventually standardized a testing protocol and developed instrumentation that could swiftly and accurately assess the conductivity, pH and rH (acid-alkaline balance and redox potential) of body fluids as well as ordinary tap water, beverages, or liquified food-stuff.

Vincent reasoned that drinking water would have a direct effect on the internal organs of people who were consuming it, and thus inevitably influence the biological terrain of the body.

It is not clear to this writer whether Vincent was aware of the work of Gunther Enderlein. Enderlein was a great German microbiologist, and European originator of the microbiological understanding of cancer. However, it is apparent that Vincent understood the implications of shifts in the biological terrain of the human body, at least in sofar as it can be defined using the three parameters of conductivity, pH and rH.

Vincent tested numerous apparently healthy individuals in the prime of life and created a baseline that he felt confident represented the electronic picture of human health. A healthy person's blood, urine and saliva would be evaluated for the three parameters of pH, rH and conductivity. (Conductivity of an aqueous solution is primarily a function of the amount of ionized dissolved solids in the solution, which provide ionic species that permit the transport of electrons through the solution. Highly purified water which contains few or no ions has a very low conductivity). For an understanding of pH and rH please search the terms "hydrogen ion concentration" and "reduction-oxidation potential".

Vincent subsequently moved on to evaluate people with well-defined disease conditions and noted the differences in their "terrain", as expressed in the apparent shift in the measured parameters from the baseline values. It soon became clear that various diseases were associated with specific ranges of the measured parameters. In other words, specific diseases occured in association with characteristic bioelectronic "zones".

Based on the national statistics that Vincent had access to, he concluded that water quality, followed by foodstuffs, and other lifestyle factors such as tobacco use, alcohol, etc. had a highly significant effect on what kind of "biological terrain" ultimately resulted in the body. He also understood the influence of genetics on the constitutional strength of individuals, which determined in part the capacity of their kidneys, liver, spleen and other organs to cope with potentially harmful environmental influences.

Professor Vincent went on to develop a system of analysis based on well-known principles of physics, to derive what he felt was a measure of a person's vitality and a likely prognosis for those suffering from disease. The reduction of basic measurements to these prognostic factors thus provided an over-all assessment of a person's metabolic strength and resilience, and could be used as a guide by a health practitioner when deciding on the scope and nature of therapy required.

For example, Vincent pointed to the apparent fact that cancers were largely a function of kidney dysfunction, as a failure of the kidneys to maintain the electronic and chemical balance of the blood could lead directly to various disease processes. In order to understand how this could be, it is necessary to view cancer and certain other diseases as microbiological processes. The scientific foundation for this was laid by Gunther Enderlein in (East) Germany, and also by other more recent workers in North America such as Gaston Naessens and Royal Rife.

A simple analogy would be the culture plate (so-called Petri dish) of the microbiologist. The nature of the microbes that grow in a culture medium is determined by the nutrients, acid-alkaline balance and temperature of the medium, among other things, and science has learned to differentiate organisms based on this handy phenomenon. One could also regard the human body as a walking Petri dish, protected from becoming an uncontrolled party of microbes only by the immune system, mediated by consciousness. It so happens that it contains the seeds of its own destruction from birth, present as natural and normal elements of the blood. In the right biological milleu, these elements develop into what we call cancer. The findings of Professor Vincent fully support this concept.

Today the work of Professor Vincent finds expression in a handful of clinics throughout the western world where practitioners measure samples of blood, urine and saliva provided by their patients. Depending on the level of training and understanding of the practitioner, these results are added into the diagnostic data the practitioner assembles for his diagnosis, and hopefully play some role in a positive approach to disease. Biolectronics of Vincent, or BEV for short, is most effective when coupled with the biological remedies developed by the Sanum-Kehlbeck Corporation of Germany.

BEV is a diagnostic system, and does not imply any specific therapeutic approach. It can support and monitor a variety of therapies, including the conventional modalities employed by mainstream Western medicine. It is based on highly repeatable and reliable measurement technology, and while Vincent's derivative theory may arouse scepticism in the minds of conventionally trained physicians, there is no reason to reject the data out of hand. Is it because BEV arises out of an unfamiliar paradigm of health that conventional physicians find it discomforting? The concepts of biological terrain and polymorphism are just beginning to seep into the edifice of our "modern" nineteenth century Pasteurian medicine. Were BEV to be employed more often, I believe that we would see a much more rapid shift.

In North America, training in BEV has been provided in the past by the Occidental Institute Research Foundation (http://www.oirf.com/). Practitioners can contact them directly. They do not respond to inquiries from the lay public, in my experience, so try to find a practitioner who is familiar with it, if you wish to learn more. Inquire among the ranks of cutting-edge naturopaths, acupuncturists, and alternative therapy people.

There are to date no readily available publications in English that explain BEV in satisfactory depth. It would appear that the folks who "inherited" Vincent's work and who are currently providing training materials and software, do not wish to have this information in the public domain, for obvious reasons of commercial advantage. I do not blame them for this, as the history of alternative medicine is full of persecutions and crucifixions; but it is sad that this knowledge could not be more widely available. There are some distortions of it being foisted on the public in North America at this time, and they have aroused the usual backlash from the conventional authorities. I would caution readers not to jump to conclusions based on these hostile judgements.