BiRek travelling tensor set

What a tensor is

Tensor is the general term for the one-hand rods used in bioenergetic testing. Regumed name the BiRek, the Ökotensor, the travelling tensor, the Bio-Tensor and the Rio-Radiometer as members of the same family. This is the travelling version, made up to be carried between practices and seminars.

What is in the set

• Two swinging rods of different lengths, so the set covers both the shorter and the longer rod. Each has a threaded brass fitting at one end, which screws into the handle, and a flat brass ring at the tip as the sensor element
• A turned wooden handle with a brass ferrule at each end
• A tubular carry case, labelled BiRek Travel Tensor Set

The wooden handle is what sets this apart from the bench models, which are supplied with a gold-plated or a high-grade steel handle.

Holding and reading the swing

The rod is held level, with all the fingers holding the handle at its end. Right-handed testers hold it in the right hand, left-handed testers in the left. A horizontal swing, to and fro, is read as resonance. A vertical swing, up and down, is read as dissonance.

Test setting

In the standard arrangement the tensor is held between the plate electrode and the person being tested, so the sensor element sits midway between the two fields, with the person seated sideways to the electrode at about 30 cm. On the BICOM® 2000 the modulation mat takes the place of the plate electrode, again at about 30 cm.

Test programs

• A programs: 171 constant amplification, 192 constant amplification with frequency sweep, 198 amplification with frequency sweep
• Ai programs: 170 constant amplification, 191 constant amplification with frequency sweep, 197 amplification with frequency sweep

Working conditions

• Use a disturbance-free test place, as set out in the BICOM® operation manual
• Arms and legs should not be crossed, and the hand holding the tensor should not cross the centre line of the body
• Bracelets, quartz watches, chains and metal rings can affect the strength of the swing and are best removed
• Work with one person at a time. Results are less consistent with a group present
• Testers usually check their own swing first, holding the rod level with the free hand about 10 cm in front of the chest. The swing should be roughly a hand’s width

Further reading

Regumed’s basic seminar “Tensor Testing Technology”, presented by Dr med vet Claudia May for the Institut für Regulative Medizin, sets out the technique in full.