Letter to Dr Morrow Brown

16 Ridge Park
Purley
Surrey
CR8 3PN

020 8647 8309
07980 914 815

maryroe@blueyonder.co.uk

01.02.2005

 

Dear Dr Morrow Brown,

Thank you for your email of a few weeks ago.  Apologies for not replying sooner.  It wasn’t something that I wanted to just dash off quickly without much thought, but now I’m just putting off the evil moment!

I  would  like to explain how my article happened to be in Foods Matter, and why it concentrated only on eczema.  You may remember that a couple of editions before my article, there was a piece in Foods Matter which had been written by the chair of the National Eczema Society.  I felt it was so uninformative that I sent a long letter to Michelle.  She found my comments interesting and adapted my letter to article form, which is why it  ended up only being about eczema.

I agree totally with you that milk intolerance is a very big problem.  In fact 7 out 8 of the people whom I test have a  milk intolerance, and their symptoms cover a huge range of common health difficulties.

I rarely find people have a wheat intolerance but I find that often they think that they have.  But actually they are reacting to yeast, cheese and yogurt.  [Bread because of yeast not wheat, pasta dishes because of cheese rather than wheat]

Let me explain as much as I can about the vega  machine.

If I am trying to sound scientific and not too alternative I explain that the system I use acts like a circuit., but as you rightly say , if there is no contact with the food how can there be a circuit?

As far as I can understand it, the way the machine works is concerned with energy fields. If a food or chemical is put in the energy field and is detrimental to the client, then there will be  a resistance within that field.

1. The client holds onto an electrode which is wired up to the vega machine.
2. I touch on an acupuncture point on the client’s finger using a probe that is also wired up to the vega.
3. This puts both me and the client in the energy field and as a result a dial moves on the face of the machine. A sound is also emitted when I touch on the point.
4. If I introduce something into the energy field that is bad for the person [I use as a control a mercury –containing battery] then the noise emitted is lower in tone, and the reading from the dial reduces by at least 20 points [usually more] numbers are 0 – 100.The client would be intolerant to any food or product that gives a lowered reading.
5. Tester needs to be bit of a detective. Sometimes the pack of bottles provided does not cover all the foods/drinks that the client regularly eats.

 

You asked how the vega machine can be misused.  I shall go through points

1-5 above to show you how things can go wrong.

1. The client needs to hold the electrode in their dominant hand. [Right hand if right handed] If a right handed person  were to hold it in their left hand the tester would be dominant in the energy field and his/her intolerances would show up…not much help to the client as I’m sure you would agree.  It is easy to forget to ask the client which is their dominant hand.
2. The pressure on the acupuncture point needs to be VERY consistent. Slight diminution in pressure could give a false indication of an intolerance. Slight mispositioning of pressure off the point could also give a false positive. Too much pressure on the point leads to deadening of the point so that no readings go high enough and it looks as though everything is a problem.
3. Sometimes when the acupuncture point is ‘deadening’ then the noise emitted changes to a lower tone. A tester in tune with the machine would recognise this.  A different acupuncture point would need to be used.  If the tester does not recognise this sign, then false positive results would occur.
4. At the opposite end of the spectrum, sometimes as a client relaxes, the readings change slightly so that the dial reading shoots up to 100 too quickly and the noise becomes more shrill. This happens with nearly every client as he is initially nervous. If this continues, many false negatives will occur. All readings including the battery ‘control’ would shoot up to 100. Therefore it is essential for the tester to frequently check that the battery ‘control’ reduces the reading to less than 80. With experience the tester recognises the change in noise anyway.
5. Some people eat or drink foods frequently that are not in the ‘Noma’ testing pack eg peppermints, chewing gum, earl grey tea, green tea, malt, maltodextrin [chemical in some soya milks and sweets] , palm oil [very commonly used vegetable oil]…many ADHD children I test react to this.  If the tester does not eg test Earl Grey and the person carries on drinking several cups a day, then even if he stops milk, he is not going to get better.

Some people who regularly use aromatherapy oils can get headaches, catarrh, rhinitis as a result.  It is now one of my routine questions.

Points 1-4 above can only be learned by dint of good teaching, diligent practice and experience.  Noma, who supply machines in this country, train people over one weekend, of which less than three hours is spent on practice.

Point 5 is something that I have taught myself, by following up clients, listening to their feedback, and never giving up learning from experience.

I hope that this gives you some idea how it all works.  I recognise that it sounds ‘flaky’ and not too scientific.  I can only say that I improve the symptoms of 80% of my clients, and they all come to me by word of mouth referral.

Thanks for getting in contact with me.  I shall keep a look out for your work in future.

Yours sincerely

Mary Roe