Okay so I'm this stay at home Brit Dad in Germany who's just lost 4kg in a week thanks to Spring Tiredness which I am now assured does exist by my doctor. Bringing up kids in a foreign country is hard enough but for foreigners living near the Alps she told me the climate is particularly difficult, both physically and emotionally. The dry continental climate hammers the skin of one born by a British seaside resort and the general weirdness of living in a land where you've learned the official language yet the locals speak a different dialect. Bit like learning Queens English yet being posted to some dark corner of Birmingham (sorry to the Brummies!)
Well I went to the chemist called an Apotheke - bit like our old English Apothecary - and was confronted by a rather New Agey woman with what looked like ridng pants on. Oldish yet rather slim I reckoned she seemed to know what health was like as she looked quite sprightly herself. My German isn't too bad, not fantastic but not limited to just ordering different types of bread either. so I explained in German that I'd like some St John's Wort (Johanniskraut) for spring tiredness. So she pulled out this weird looking object called a Biotensor. It's a brass handle with a floppy strip of metal with a sort of spiral wire on the end. She wrote down a list of my possible sicknesses and then put my handover each one till the thing bounced up and down. Finally she told me I had iron deficiency and offered me two plant based medicines which will supposedly pick me up from my present lethargy.
The biotensor is a therapy devised by Professor Oberbach. www.healthy-start-alaska.com/AltTherpies/biotensor.asp. I know this as in my stunned surprise at the method she used, I asked her to write down what the technique was.
Does anyone here know anything about it and have they had any other experience with it? I retain an open mind on matters of alternative medicine you see, neither a skeptic nor a total believer. For example I believe in say acupuncture but find fault in astrology (I am an amateur astronomer you see). I believe in the benefits of herbal treatments (I'm awaiting the Amazon delivery of James Wong's "Grow your own Drugs), aromatherapy and massage therapy but am sceptical of Reiki. I waver in between the two camps of belief and non belief.
So can anyone help me shed light on the experience I had in the chemist this morning?