In 1986 Irene Lutz and I decided that we would start by reproducing the British trials to see whether we had any success with them. We bought the apparatus we needed and set up a laboratory in her practice in Frankfurt. The Geisenheim test station advised us on how to set up pot tests with fast-growing plants. We also treated an Atrazin-contaminated field of dwarf beans 300 km away in Krefeld. For all of these tests we used models or what we now call "resonators", i.e. photographs.
I could hardly believe how successful the trials were. We increased the yield in the bean field by 38 % and the beans tasted better and had a higher dry weight. We carried out further trials on spinach cultivated in a growth-inhibiting fungicide substrate, horse beans planted in phosphorus-poor soil and mustard in normal soil. In all cases we achieved far higher germination rates and stronger growth.
That gave us the courage to expand our trials to small areas of woodland of up to 5 hectares in 1987. The areas were selected and monitored by independent scientists. Once again, the results obtained at the end of a single vegetation period were astounding: a wider variety of vegetation, stronger root growth, greater soil activity, greater natural regeneration. The behaviour of the wild animals was also amazing, although there was very little shelter, they sought resting places in the treated areas and started to graze precisely at its boundaries, so the boundaries were soon clearly visible.
In 1988 we initially treated an approx. 600 ha area of woodland. The method had to be developed considerably to treat an area of this size and Irene Lutz decided that she didn't have the time to practice both alternative medicine and resonance therapy. We therefore set up the Institute for Resonance Therapy (IRT) which has been dedicated to treating ecosystems since then.
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