A Busy Fall Season 15 September 2026 Dear friends, colleagues and supporters, The summer days are slipping away into the past and we’re all busy moving forward into the routines and busy-ness of the rapidly descending fall season. I hope that each of you have had an opportunity to spend time with family and friends over the summer holidays. There were so many exciting activities, summer festivities (America 250 years! – Wow!), lots of politics and now yet another election season gets underway. Although I personally pulled back from

Supporting Autistic People Holistically How Nutrition and Intestinal Health Can Make Everyday Life Easier Today we know that people on the autism spectrum have specific needs that should be taken into account. Less common is the connection between intestinal health and the well-being of those affected. Dr. med. Petra Wiechel presents an integrative approach from the practice. By Dr. med. Petra Wiechel, Chief Physician at the Swiss Mountain Clinic, Castaneda (CH) As a physician, I regularly observe that children and adults with autism not only have neurological characteristics, but

Diseases of Civilization Gout Alarm The Best Therapies Against the Endemic Disease Gout – a term that sounds to many like a disease from past centuries. But the reality is different: More and more people in modern societies are affected. Gout is now considered a disease of civilization – triggered by excess, lack of exercise and an unbalanced diet. What is behind this painful joint disease, and how can naturopathy help? This article gives an overview of causes, symptoms and holistic therapeutic approaches for gout. Gout is a metabolic

Infectious Diseases Lyme Disease – The Invisible Danger How Ticks Challenge Our Immune System Lyme disease – a diagnosis that often causes uncertainty and concern among patients and practitioners alike. The infectious disease transmitted by ticks has become a real challenge for the healthcare system. More and more people are reporting fatigue, joint pain and neurological deficits, which are often only associated with Lyme disease at a late stage. While the tick is the focus as a carrier, the disease remains a chameleon among infectious diseases: diverse, difficult to

AIDS-Defining Illnesses, Their Causes and Treatment The following information was initially correlated in 2002, and then partially adapted from the German material of the “Swiss AIDS-Therapy Study Group”, to which Occidental Institute Research Foundation contributed. It was first published in English in the OIRF newsletter in December, 2003. Translation and redaction by OIRF Research Director Dr. Walter D. Sturm †, and reproduced here intact. Treatment recommendations based on the works of Dr. Heinrich Kremer (Bacelona): I realize most of you are more interested in the biological treatment of cancer, rather than AIDS.

Vincent’s Bioelectronic Evaluation (B.E.V.) Acid/Base Balance in Theory and Practice By Dr. Helmut Elmau Translation by Dr. Antony Scott-Morley of a German language book. Bioelectronic Vincent has become of special interest to doctors and healers. Even so, it is not so well know that it is fully understood. If Bioelectronics seems difficult to comprehend it is because the theoretical basis is pure physics. Most doctors are used to thinking in terms of biological and biochemical disturbances. Physics, although the real basis of our science, is generally not understood and insufficiently appreciated.

An Introduction to Point and Remedy Testing in the Homeopathic Practice By Carolyn L. Winsor, BMus, BEd Last year we celebrated the 250th Anniversary of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. Reading and hearing about his discoveries, his biography and his particular genius was a voyage of discovery for many of us. It offered a chance for us to look back at the many patients who have been helped regain a better state of health, and at the reasons why we are still struggling for acceptance in so many

The Photon Resonance Test Developed by Helmut W. Schimmel†, MD, DMD Highlights of the Photon Resonance Test Instrument developed by Helmut W. Schimmel †, MD DMD. An innovative method for electro-acupuncture testing. The foundations of electroacupuncture were laid in the 1950s and over the decades many variants were developed – from the multi-point to the single point measuring method, as well as various regulation tests right up to automation and digitization. Another milestone in the history of electroacupuncture is now the development of the Photon Resonance Test. By means of

An Interview with Dr. Heinrich Kremer on the deadly mistakes of conventional cancer and AIDS therapists An Interview with Dr. Heinrich Kremer Interview conducted by Hans-Joachim Ehlers † and originally published in Raum&Zeit (Nr. 114, Nov./Dec. 2001) was translated from German and redacted by Dr. Walter D. Sturm † of OIRF staff. “We are biological hermaphrodites in the evolutionary scheme of life!” The opening question of the interview asks: “Dr. Kremer, you have written a remarkable book, “Die stille Revolution der Krebs- und- AIDS Medizin” (“The Silent Revolution in Cancer and AIDS Medicine”). First a

The Ground Regulation System By Prof. Dr. Hartmut Heine A few years after his serious illness in 2011 Prof. Dr. Hartmut Heine published a series of seven articles on the Ground Regulation System. I [Carolyn Winsor] was honored to be able to translate this incredible research into English for the first time and to publish it in our newsletter, “The Bridge”. As I worked my way through translation of the first article, the wealth of knowledge and understanding imparted in even that introductory article left me scrambling for dictionaries, research documents hidden