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Yoshiaki Omura, MD, ScD, (born 28 March, 1934, in Asahi, Toyama Prefecture, Japan), is President and Founder of the International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, President and Founder of the International Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Medical Association, and Director of Medical Research of the Heart Disease Research Foundation.

Dr. Omura is the creator of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test (BDORT) and a number of other well known and widely used alternative medicine techniques first presented in Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics Research, The International Journal, of which Dr. Omura is Founder and Editor-in-Chief, as well as in seminars presented by Dr. Omura and his colleagues.

Independent research has repeatedly confirmed the validity of Dr. Omura's research efforts despite resistance from "conventional" medicine. Dr. Phillip Shinnick, Ph.D., for example, who has testified before the US Congress, provided an independent peer-reviewed triple-blinded analysis of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test applied to both traditional Chinese medicine and in clinical applications which confirmed the validity of the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test as a simple and powerful diagnostic tool.

Dr. Omura's work is widely used throughout the world as reflected in United States and Japanese Web Sites which support his efforts as well as many other international efforts such as The European Center For Integrative Medicine.

In Japan, the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test is fully and formally recognized as the international scientific standard.

Dr. Omura's Bi-Digital O-Ring Test patent application was at first rejected by the US Patent Office as "too unbelievable to be true", as the "conventional medicine" mind set resisted this breakthrough research. He then reapplied for patent in 1987, and was once again rejected. He then enlisted the assistance of "my associates in clinical fields and basic sciences, both in Japan and the United States" in providing further research sufficient to satisfy the United States Patent Office's deep skepticism of alternative medicine and the patent was granted in 1993.

Dr. Omura's research has been recognized by scholars as a pioneering effort which opens a bridge between "Eastern" and "Western" approaches to science and medicine.

While Dr. Omura's work is polarizing medical professionals in the whole world, it is already used by doctors and dentists in more than 20 countries. There are monthly seminars and workshops in the U.S. to teach and train the techniques. Presently there are twice a year workshops in Germany, two to three times every year in Japan, once a year in Turkey, and periodically in Brazil, Portugal, and Korea.

Mr. Maseru Ibuka, the industry tycoon and founder of Sony, writes in his biography four pages on the importance of the BDORT and considers it as a necessary tool for changing to the medicine of the 21st century. Especially many patients suffering from diseases for which conventional western medicine cannot offer a solution, highly benefitted from the treatment using Dr. Omuras techniques. Some of the pathologies are cancer, autism, Alzheimer's disease (early stage). The enormous advantage of Dr. Omura's method is that pathologies can be diagnosed non-invasively, quick and at relatively low cost. Due to its high sensitivity diseases can already be found in very early stages often before standard laboratory tests can determine them.

In an indication of how wide the gap between "Eastern" and "Western" medicine may be, the Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand heard expert testimony in its consideration of the case of Richard Gorringe, who was charged with and ultimately found guilty of professional misconduct and disgraceful conduct, fined, and stripped of his license. In its findings the Tribunal, which earlier had noted little in commong between Dr. Gorringe's technique and the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test nonetheless conflated the two practices without offering any explanation or evidence

Notes

1. CV/Biography of Dr. Yoshiaki Omura at Omura's Japanese site
2. International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, Omura's US site
3. Medical Acupuncture
4. The European Center For Integrative Medicine
5. The Global Standard
6. Dr. Omura's description of patent quest at his Japanese site
7. Chasing The Dragon's Tail
8. Medical Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal of New Zealand findings in re Richard Gorringe and the PMRT/Bi-Digital O-Ring Test

External links

• International College of Acupuncture & Electro-Therapeutics, Official Site
• International Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Association, Official Site
• International Bi-Digital O-Ring Test Association Official Biography of Dr Omura

• Alternative medicine