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In 1916, Dr Gunter Enderlein began his investigations of human blood under the microscope using phase contrast and dark field microscopy. These methods enabled him to observe both stained dried blood and live blood preparations from healthy and sick animals and humans. His investigations identified numerous morphological objects in the blood that he correlated to illnesses. As he was a proponent of biological pleomorphism he developed a theory of disease and a terminology that described his observations in his live blood samples. Terms such as protits, symprotits, makrosymprotits and spermite were used to described objects that supposedly identified the transformation of a viruses to bacteria or to fungi, and these all originated in his observed live blood cells.
Enderlein published his findings in a book entitled Bacterien Cyklogenie (The Life Cycle of Bacteria) in 1925.1 Due to the limited understanding of cell biology at the time it is not too surprising that many of his observations were artefacts. In the late 1990's further research conducted by Dr Christopher Gerner, a biochemist at the University of Vienna, Austria, identified that many of the cellular forms observed by Dr Enderlein were primarily composed of cellular debris from degenerating red blood cells, and were in fact molecules of globulin and albumin.2
The Enderlein method of Live Blood Analysis is still being taught in Europe and the USA today, but it is important to differentiate this from other methods of Live Blood Analysis using dark field microscopy that allow point-of-care examination of a patient's blood during a complementary medicine consultation. At the International Pleo-Sanum Conference, held in San Diego in February 2011, a number of Enderlein practitioners from around the world assembled to discuss Enderlein Live Blood Analysis. They included Dr Thomas Rau MD, the Chief Medical Director and part-owner of the Paracelsus Klinik, Center for Paracelsus Biological Medicine and Dentistry in Lustmuhle, Switzerland. Dr Rau is considered a leading expert in Enderlein therapy, dark field microscopy, and biologic tumour treatments. This meeting demonstrated that the Enderline technique is strongly associated with biologic medicine. Yet many of the adverse responses from the medical profession relating to live blood analysis that have been reported in the media and the internet have been directed mainly at the Enderlein method and...