Biophysical Therapy of Allergies. Peter Schumacher

to mind. He ate six eggs as quickly as possible and expected an acute reaction to confirm his theory that he was sensitive to eggs. Nothing happened. On the contrary, he felt better than before. He gave up. For a while Rinkel forgot about his egg allergy theory. Four years later, after some in-depth study of allergies, he tried a different approach. He eliminated eggs from his diet. Several days later he felt significantly better.

      Five days after he stopped eating eggs it was his birthday. His wife baked him the usual birthday cake. Ten minutes after eating one piece, Rinkel became unconscious and did not recover for several minutes. He surmised that, “he must have been extraordinarily sensitive to some ingredient in the cake.” Questioning his wife, he was told that she used three eggs in the cake batter. He concluded that he had become hypersensitive to eggs after not having had any for five days. Therefore, even the tiny amount of egg contained in the small piece of cake he had eaten caused the severe allergic reaction.

      Fascinated by this idea, Rinkel repeated the experiment. On the fifth day, after having abstained from eggs, he ate a small amount of egg and suffered another severe allergic reaction! Following that episode, he developed a test method for masked food allergies. He wanted to publish his experiences in the Annals of Allergy, but was perfunctorily rejected. Upset about the arrogance of the established scientific community, he decided to develop the test method in great detail, only then introducing it to the public.

      For 8 years he conducted 20 000 individual food tests on his patients and published his absolutely convincing results (Rinkel 1944). That was 60 years ago (!)—allopathic medicine still knows nothing of them!