The Vega story began in the 1950's when Dr.Voll, a doctor of orthodox medicine, studied a Chinese technique called Electro-Acupuncture (EAV). This technique required an experienced practitioner to make a minimum of 700 electrical readings on Acupuncture points before any conclusions could be drawn. Needless to say this was a very time consuming process.

Dr. Schmidt, who was a very capable user of the EAV technique himself, developed a shorter and less time consuming method in the sixties, measuring over only 150 points. He named this new technique Bio-Feedback Diagnosis (BFD).

Dr. Schmidt manufactured his equipment under the name VEGA (who manufacture high quality electronic measuring equipment) and further developed it in the early seventies under the name VEGA Resonance Test (VRT). With this technique the practitioner only uses one Acupuncture point and introduces different Homeopathic substances (Test Ampoules) into the measurement circuit, then simply reads the value on the display. The benefits of this method are enormous; less time is needed for the testing process, giving far greater sensitivity and simpler operation.

The VEGATEST Method represents over four decades of German experience and development in the Electro-Acupuncture field. For over twenty years now, the VEGATEST method has held the reputation of being the most sophisticated Bio-Energy testing method ever developed. Now, utilizing state-of-the-art Bio-Technology developed at VEGA's research facilities, a new generation of VEGATEST (BASIS and EXPERT) instruments takes the practice of Functional Medicine into the 21st Century.

In the late eighties VEGA developed, in conjunction with the Medical University of Heidelberg, Computer-SEGMENTELECTROGRAPHY (SEG). SEG enables practitioners to diagnose functional disturbances in their patients, with their own computer and to print the results.

Orthodox Medicine sees the causes for disease mainly in terms of pathological changes in the morphology of organs and tissues; whereas Functional Medicine traces these causes in terms of energetic regulatory disturbances throughout the body, which appear as so-called 'functional disturbances'. Such functional disturbances appear when the body can no longer compensate and are usually the beginning of a pathogenic process, which can then manifest itself as a recognizable disease.

The best known proponent of 'Informational Medicine' was Samuel Hahnemann, who in the Eighteenth Century developed Homoeopathy. In the nineties, VEGA developed Systems Information Therapy (SIT). For the first time, SIT made it possible to target 'functional systems' consistently. Because of the dual nature of matter, particles can also be regarded as waves, thus matter is also part of the electromagnetic wave spectrum. The organism can thus be influenced and regulated not only on the physical plane, but also via the appropriate energetic signals, which the SIT uses. This is combined with pulsating magnetic fields in a relatively new and effective form of physical therapy.