Impressions of Medicine Week 2023
November 2023
My dear Colleagues and Friends,
What an adventure! For the first time in four years, I made the pilgrimage journey to Baden-Baden, Germany to participate in the annual Medicine Week Congress. For me, traveling by myself with no group and no set schedule for extra meetings, it was almost a holiday.
I had the opportunity to visit with several colleagues from former times now that we can also be friends without the formality of business responsibilities. I visited briefly at Medical Electronics in Rheinau (still an interesting car ride to this hidden oasis) to meet with Mrs. Margot Jossner. It’s now almost a year since Dieter’s passing. I also had the opportunity to meet Hermann Gehrke who has joined that company to assist with sales and to support Margot.
Laura Emmerich is again making remedies available for order and shipping. .Contact information will follow when available. We had a nice conversation along with a walk along the walking paths of the park surrounding the Congress Hall. Gaby Alexander from BioKat (follow this link) made the drive up the autobahn one evening to visit with me in Vimbuch at the newly re-built Kohler’s Hotel Engel famous from many of our previous tour programs. It was wonderful to see these amazing ladies again – in person – and share stories of the past few crazy years.
But of course, the focus was the congress itself. Arriving at the Congress Hall stirred so many memories. This was the 56th Med-Week Congress. I first began wandering the halls and sitting in the meeting rooms during our first group tours in the very early 1980’s. It’s really impossible to describe the thrill and the energy crackling through this event.
In wandering beside the fountain in front of the Congress Hall amidst the fall colors and flowers, the multitude of changes were brought into focus. One special memory of a chance meeting several years ago, emphasized the loss of so many brilliant minds in recent years. I remember needing to “escape” out of the congress for a bit of air and with a couple of docs from the group went in search of a small café to get a cup of “Russian Chocolate” (a steaming cup of hot chocolate with a generous portion of rum and lots of whipped cream). As we entered the café and ordered our drinks, who did I spy? Well, it was Dr. Fritz Albert Popp. He had the same idea and was quite peacefully enjoying a beer. We were allowed to join him, as long as we didn’t ask questions! What a thrill. And that little café is now a Vietnamese restaurant. Who knew?
This year I managed to take in a number of German lectures. I certainly don’t get every word, but I can read the slides and get an overall understanding of what is presented. Mostly, I was interested in hearing any new or supportive information regarding Covid. I must say, that generally I was a bit disappointed as the information presented was not really current. With the articles I have selected, translated and published for you over the past few years, we are pretty much up to date on current research there. By following the journals I’m able to keep a close eye on what is being effectively used.
Dr. Thomas Rau with BioMedicine International organized and sponsored two days of English language lectures and one darkfield workshop. The excellent list of speakers included:
- Maria Emilia Gadelha Serra – Post-Vax syndrome (Ozone)
- med. Siddhartha Popat – Long and Post Covid (OHT, Laser and IHHT)
- Gerhard Siebenhüner – Advanced Oncology Apheresis (Hyperthermia)
- Sebastjan Perko, DMD PhD – Biological dentistry
- Dr. Loranz Fischer – Neural Therapy
- Dr. Harald Stossier – Modern Mayr Therapy (Yee haw – excellent!)
- Prof. Dr. Christian Schuber – Covid Disaster of Biomedicine
Grateful thanks to Dr. Rau for the great effort in sponsoring this program.
And one of several highlights for me took place on the Saturday afternoon. I was early for the start of the afternoon session while the noon session in the same room ran a few minutes late. With so much walking for exhibits and sessions, I took the opportunity to sit on the steps leading down to the meeting room. A few minutes later I was joined (with a very big sigh) by an elderly (but spry) gentleman. We started chatting and talking about how we had both come to Med-Week so many times. Well, this doc certainly had me beat because several years ago they had a special celebration for him for attending for more than 50 years!. Right away – since he looked familiar somehow – I grabbed his name tag. Yes, I know you! To which he replied, and I remember you too! It was Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Harry Lamers from the Netherlands. Wow!
Yes, he readily remembered my husband and partner Dr. Walter Sturm and Occidental Institute. He had corresponded with Walter many times and they had met at German language lectures over the years. He also spoke on a couple of our tours – I think. Anyway, Dr. Lamers was a research collaborator with Prof. Fritz Albert Popp, Dr. Roeland van Wijk, Dr. Ivan Engler, Prof. Dr. George Birkmayer, and many others. He is known for his quiet and private general practice focusing on neural therapy, integrative medicine, biophoton therapy, regulatory medicine, information-energy-medicine . . . As we parted ways to go to different lectures (will any of us stop learning?) we shook hands and agreed to do this again next year. Here’s thelink to a paper he published in English in 2018 called Energy Medical Expertise on the Effects of Coded Holograms.
In terms of the Exhibit Hall, again I felt somewhat disappointed. There were certainly far fewer exhibitors than in the past. It was more interesting to note which companies were not present than wandering through those that were. Missing were many the standards that most of us have relied on (including Med-Tronik, MBA, BioKat, and others). Regumed (BICOM) and several others had returned but had very small booths this year. Still there were Kindling, Staufen, and many of the remedy companies we are used to seeing each year.
New of interest were several different companies with “helmets” that used various forms of biophoton technology to deliver red and a few other colors “through the skull and into the brain”. There was another company that had developed a specific lab-type testing. This however took over four hours and all kinds of fussing around. Not sure what the application was meant to accomplish.
I also found interesting that only a few exhibits were manned by folks who could actually explain what their product was, what it did and why it was superior to other competitors. One company that I won’t name, had a “new and better” bioresonance device. Turns out to be manufactured by Kindling in spite of their claim that “they developed this solely”. On questioning of any kind, the only answer was “well, it’s bioresonance”. No further explanation available. After working with MORA and multiple other forms of bioresonance devices, their pat answer simply left me shaking my head and walking away.
As an interesting aside, for the first time I met someone (outside of family) with the last name Sturm. One of the exhibits in the hall had a huge great big device with about 30 cup electrodes attached at the top. Looked impressive, but I never did really get a good explanation of what it did and how – but anyway the manager of the company handed me his card which read “Oliver Sturm”. After a short chat, I do not believe there is a familial connection, however his great-grandparents came from the same area as Walter’s family. It was a small section of Germany that used to be called the Sudetenland and since the great war is now a part of the Czech Republic. An interesting connection. Never did get answers about the device . . .
One of the biggest interests for many of the participants was the IHHT therapy. “Intermittent hypoxic-hyperoxic treatment (IHHT) is a non-invasive and safe procedure that involves breathing in hypoxic (low oxygen) and hyperoxic (high oxygen) air at varying intervals through a mask. It works by destroying damaged mitochondria and allowing our cells to regenerate new, healthier mitochondria.”
Apparently very effective, but to me it was big, flashy and very expensive. Those OIRF docs that were attending were investigating and I’ll let you know what they find. Joining those same docs I was treated to two lovely dinners that included evenings of laughter, chatter about “what did you find in the exhibits?????”, “can we do another tour next year?”, and so it went. Thanks to all for the food, friendship and support.
In summary, was it worth the cost and travel effort to participate? Absolutely. Was I disappointed? Yes, somewhat. But that crackle of energy surrounding this event, will draw me back over and over again, as long as I am able. And so, I will stop reminiscing for now. I’m preparing for travel to Las Vegas for the A4M Conference in mid-December. This also will be a first time participating in four years, and I’m looking forward to the scheduled lectures and wandering the huge exhibit area (yes, walking shoes are imperative!). More on that adventure next month.
Do check out the one translation that I managed to complete for this month’s release, entitled:
Integrative Oncology; Treating Cancer Patients Safely, by Sabine Ritter HP. Read more here.
As we all prepare for and move into the busy holiday season, that’s a wrap for this month. With all best wishes, be well and be healthy . . .
Carolyn