'A laptop cured my allergy to water'.

Byline: By Lydia Whitfield South Wales Echo 

Forget conventional medicine, therapist Joseph Price is using electrodes to cure all sorts of ailments. Lydia Whitfield finds out how it works WHEN Melanie Lamprey suddenly developed itching whenever she used water, she thought she was doomed to a lifetime of strip washes and would never be able to swim or bath again.

Melanie, from Rumney, Cardiff, was diagnosed with aquagenic urticaria, or a skin allergy towards water, and says: "I could drink water, and put my hands in it, but if I tried to bath or shower or went swimming, I got this horrendous itching.

"I first noticed it in 1994 and tried all the over the counter anti-itching treatments. She was eventually referred to the dermatology clinic at the University Hospital of Wales, Heath, Cardiff, where severe treatment included PUVA treatment, which involves bombarding the body in a chamber of UVA rays.

Melanie says: "They eventually signed me off at the dermatology unit, because there was nothing more they could do with me. I've been known to take a serrated knife edge to my shins because they were so itchy."

Melanie, 46, lives with husband Jeffrey, was very sceptical when she heard about Joseph Price and his bioresonance therapy clinic from an acupuncturist treating her for an unrelated groin injury.

Joseph, runs The Health Repair Clinic in Aberdare, where he uses electrodes, linked to a box, to cure all sorts of ailments and addictions. The electrodes emit alternating currents and a modern signal processing technique, usually PC-based, is able to analyse and interpret the results.

Melanie says: "I had had all the tests imaginable, including one for hepatitis, but no-one could ever find out what caused this."

After working in London's pharmaceutical industry, Joseph, 37, set up his clinic when he discovered the alternative therapy through a vet friend who was using it to cure animals.

The technique harnesses principles from quantum physics and Joseph, dad to Jacob, seven, Louis, six and Freya, three, explains: "Bioresonance therapy is like a tuning fork tuning an instrument.

"We're treating the body as an instrument and an energy field.

"I was introduced to this technology by a friend who is a vet and, because of my scientific background, soon realised, if it works on animals, it totally rules out the placebo effect."

Joseph's machine detects imbalances in his clients' energy fields then reverses the energy wave to help the body re-balance itself and sometimes remove harmful toxins like nicotine, which often produces cravings.

He is so confident he offers a 'no change, no fee' if clients don't see a marked improvement after one treatment session.

Fewer than one in 100 patents have ever taken him up on his promise.

He says: "The theory applied to this type of therapy has been around for thousands of years, but it's only recently that high profile physicists have publicly endorsed it as a proven method of controlling both physical and mental health problems.

"In my career, I've promoted drugs for many years and strongly believe conventional medicine can work hand in hand with my techniques. I've recorded a 90 per cent success rate since beginning my company in 2001."

Like most of his clients, Melanie was willing to try any lifeline that might finally cure her.

She says: "I thought it sounded nuts, to be honest. After my first treatment with Joseph, I had to test it out so threw myself into Newport swimming pool then took a hot shower and couldn't believe how it had worked. Joseph had just put straps on my wrists, with chords leading to the machine and software on a laptop computer and I had a magnetised hoop around my feet.

It took about an hour and I've had three sessions altogether, which finished in October and cost pounds 140. I even told my GP I felt a fraud and might have imagined how well this treatment had worked. I'm using so much water now I feel like I can't afford my water bill!"

The technology Joseph uses is supported by physics theories, rather than the chemistry of the body. He says: "There have yet to be any adverse side effects recorded. The technology and equipment used is cutting-edge while working alongside theories from ancient medicine.

"All the technology I use is way ahead of its time and we're storing information from the vibration of an organ and storing it on software to play to the body. Every single person walking through my door is a bit of a doubter. When people are not sceptical coming here, I'm suspicious!": HOW DOES IT WORK?:Invented by a German doctor in the 1970s, Bioresonance therapy is common in many continental countries. It works by measuring the energy pattern in the body, inverting it and passing it back painlessly through the body via electrodes.

All the cells in the body give off different electromagnetic frequencies - just like radio waves.

Biophysical research has measured many types of oscillations in and around the body to pinpoint which are "healthy" and which are "unhealthy".

The trained practitioner uses the bioresonance device to read your frequencies. By testing different points it is possible to scan through your body "listening" to individual organs as well as the various systems of the body.