Computerized Electrodermal Screening (CEDS)
or Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV)
(Also Known As Bio Energetic Assessment)

Dr. Chapdelaine received training, certification and licensure in the use of the Orion System® in the Summer of 2000 in Provo, Utah at Star Tech Health Services from Debra Puglia, under the direction of James Hoyt Clark, known as "The Father of Computerized Electrodermal Screening." Jim Clark developed the software and hardware for Electroacupuncture According to Voll (EAV). He owns the patent for this technology (US Patent 6,142,927) with over 90 claims that involve methods and apparatus for treatment with resonant signals. The FDA has approved his device for biofeedback and is classified as a Category 2 Class 2 device by the FDA, the same category and class in which the ECG is placed (which measures electromagnetic fields to show heart problems by disturbances in the fields). Currently, Dr. Chapdelaine refers patients to local health practitioners using this methodology.

The CEDS device is a tool used to make observations about the body (usually before disease manifests overtly) through measurements of the resistance of electron flow through acupuncture points on the skin. Other examples of electronic diagnostic or treatment systems include: ECG, MRI, TENS, and NMES. No CEDS device being used in the US, whether Orion System or other non-patented systems derived from Jim Clark's devices, are approved by the FDA to diagnose or treat disease.

What these devices do very well, however, is measure electromagnetic signals generated outside the body as they pass through various channels of conduction through the body and it's organs, likely using acupuncture meridian pathways. What Dr. Reinhold Voll, a German practicing preventive medicine for industry and child welfare, discovered in the late 1940's was that the resistance of the body to electron flow is not the same everywhere. Indeed, at the traditional Chinese acupuncture points, and several other points he himself found, the resistance is markedly less. He and an engineering friend created an instrument to measure that resistance, known originally as the galvanic skin resistance at the acupuncture points. Through clinical research with thousands of patients over the next decades, by Dr. Voll and others, it became clear that either too high, or too low, resistance through the acupuncture meridians correlated closely with disease processes in the body, and usually these differences could be detected weeks, months or years before the clinical symptoms relating to those meridians, and their associated organ systems, became apparent. Normally, the skin has a resistance of about 1 to 2 million ohms, whereas at the acupuncture points, the resistance is only 100,000 ohms (a reading of "50" on Voll's calibrated scale). Therefore, too much energy flow through a meridian (which correlates with inflammation and more acute conditions) will read closer to 0 ohms (a reading of "100" on Voll's scale), and too little energy flow through a meridian (which corresponds to degeneration, cancerous-type, more chronic conditions) will read closer to 2 million ohms (or a reading of "0" on Voll's scale).

After establishing the baseline of the 12 meridians for a person, Voll, and other researchers were able to demonstrate that the introduction of a substance into the electromagnetic field of that person disturbed the energy flow through the meridians, and showed up as a change in the reading through the ohmmeter. In this way, they established that by "testing" the electromagnetic interference caused to a person's energy fields, through the proximity of an object with it's own, unique energy field to that person, they could find which objects (whether viruses, bacteria, foods, heavy metals, toxins or any of various other substances) were causing the imbalance. Likewise, by testing vitamins, nutrients, pharmacological drugs, homeopathic remedies, or any number of other substances, they were able to balance the disturbed meridians (return it to the homeostasis of 100,000 ohms resistance at an acupuncture point). Clinicians since then, first in Europe, and subsequently in the United States, have used EAV (Electroacupuncture according to Voll) successfully in determining energy imbalances in patient's electromagnetic fields, then finding substances that balance those disturbances, with good results in clearing up disease symptoms, and, essentially, "curing" the disease.

That's the basic history behind CEDS. What Jim Clark did was to develop a way to reproduce the electromagnetic signature of the objects being tested (whether virus, vitamin or food) and store those signature frequencies in a digital coding in a computer. Now, by using a frequency generator, the electromagnetic field of thousands of objects can be quickly tested against a person's own unique electromagnetic field through the acupuncture meridians, just as though the object were physically there. Not only that, drugs, vitamins, herbs, or any substance being consumed or worn by a patient can be tested at the same time to indicate whether it is "good" or "bad" for the person, with respect to disrupting or balancing their energy fields.

Of course, the FDA has approved these devices as "biofeedback" devices, which they are, just as an ECG is a biofeedback device giving information about a specific electromagnetic field (that generated by the heart). Anyone being tested with a CEDS device should be aware that this information is suggestive of problems that may be "potential" only, in that they may not be clinically apparent for weeks to years in the future. Also, only a physician is licensed in this country to diagnose, and to prescribe remedies based on that diagnosis. Perhaps this will change in time, as the field of Vibrational, or Energy, Medicine becomes more familiar to the medical field at large, and to the policymakers trying to understand it.

A typical session with a CEDS device takes between an hour and two hours the first time (the baseline energy levels for the 12 meridians must be established first), and up to an hour thereafter, depending on the problems or severity of energy imbalances. Often, a session every two months or so to follow the course of the person trying different substances, on their own, is suggested until the imbalances are cleared.

CEDS testing is very similar in its method to Autonomic Response Testing, which Dr. Chapdelaine also practices.


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