How Does European Thermography Work?
Founded on 30 years of research and originally created by German doctors specializing in integrative medicine, European thermography reveals where your body is struggling to regulate and heal itself. Designed for men, women, and children, European thermography is a functional test that analyzes your organs' health through autonomic nervous system and blood flow responses.
We have to come to a testing and comprehension of the body that comes much earlier than the diagnoses. The regulation of body temperature is one of the finest tools to see
the expression of the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems and to comprehend phenomena that lead to diseases, such as the situation of intestinal system, the toxicity
of the body, and the reactivity of the body.
Thomas Rau MD, author of best seller The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health
Here is how it works. Think of a greenhouse with a wood stove in it. The stove burns wood to heat the greenhouse for the growth of the plants. To keep it a constant temperature on cold days and nights, the greenhouse windows are kept tightly closed to retain the heat. On warm days and nights the greenhouse windows are opened to let the heat out, thus keeping the greenhouse temperature within a cozy range and the plants healthy and vibrant.
Our body is a bit like that greenhouse. We also "burn" and metabolize fuel and maintain a constant internal temperature range that keeps us alive and healthy. Like the greenhouse, on cold days we must retain the heat and on warm days emit it. One way we do this is through the capillaries, which are like the windows in the greenhouse.
In a warm moment the blood carries our heat to the skin surface via tiny capillaries (for example, the flushed face). In a cold moment the body constricts the capillaries (yes, with goose bumps) to shunt the blood and heat to our core. The ebb and flow of the blood to the skin surface helps to keep our core temperature within a certain range.
In a warm moment the blood carries our heat to the skin surface via tiny capillaries (for example, the flushed face). In a cold moment the body constricts the capillaries (yes, with goose bumps) to shunt the blood and heat to our core. The ebb and flow of the blood to the skin surface helps to keep our core temperature within a certain range.
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There's more. Each organ and gland in the body has blood and nerve supplies. And each organ and gland controls the capillary blood leading to the skin surface near it. In the 1890s an English neurologist, Sir Henry Head, mapped the skin, locating the areas where each organ influences the capillary blood flow through the visceral-cutaneous connections. The Germans elaborated on this in detail (of course), gleefully knowing that alongside of the capillaries run the tiny nerves of the autonomic nervous system (which they adore). Here they saw their opportunity to capture the functional competence of a patient’s autonomic nervous system and organ's performance, which was their objective.
Dermatomes
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Head Zones
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Since they knew that organ disturbances influence the degree of blood circulation to the skin, and blood flow to the skin is regulated by the ANS, these very wise European medical doctors created a functional test by taking skin temperature measurements at designated points all over the body before and after the skin is exposed to room temperature air for 10 minutes (clothes on, then clothes off). Each point specifically connects to underlying organs, glands, and even lymph, sinuses, and teeth. They called the test Computerized Regulation Thermography, which I (brilliantly) renamed European Thermography.
Alfa Thermodiagnostics, Inc. thermography device
If I lost you, here's the bottom line: Your organs are as healthy as the autonomic nervous system (ANS) that surrounds them. It’s the ANS, the automatic part of your nervous system, that performs every metabolic process in your whole body, from blinking and digesting to bone building and wound healing. These German doctors and scientists knew that if they could understand the details of where a patient’s ANS was not working well and why, then they could address the underlying causes of a disease process and set the ANS free to heal and restore the body. They discovered that tracking skin temperature changes in a functional test would give them this precious information.
ANS by Klinghardt & Hirschfeld
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Visceral-cutaneous (organ to skin) connection
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How well your body is able to adapt and regulate to the cooling period stimulus (monitored by the change in the skin temperature at each point) reveals the health of the underlying organs. And not only can we gather information about the health of each underlying organ, such as the breasts, prostate, and colon, for instance, but we can gather information about the health of each organ in context of the whole body. From this integrative approach we can then understand which therapies are best suited for you, whether for health restoration or for maintenance and prevention.
That’s how and why European thermography is insightful and so very empowering for both the patient and the integrative medicine practitioner.
That’s how and why European thermography is insightful and so very empowering for both the patient and the integrative medicine practitioner.
EU thermography is an empowering tool that takes the guesswork out of why people have symptoms and really looks from a functional perspective at what the body is struggling with.
Dr. Christine Schaffner
A Quick Overview
Here is a 4-minute video explaining the basic science behind European thermography, coined Regulation Thermometry by Alfa Thermodiagnostics, Inc., the company that manufactures the device that we use.
Here is a 4-minute video explaining the basic science behind European thermography, coined Regulation Thermometry by Alfa Thermodiagnostics, Inc., the company that manufactures the device that we use.
What's the European thermography appointment like?
The procedure is easy and takes 25 minutes. The consultation is perceptive and the experience, educational, motivating, and worthwhile. The more I understand about the root causes of my health situation, the more confidence I have in taking a natural approach to my health.
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