FIONA GRIFFITHS finds out how one woman's life has been turned around thanks to an alternative health treatment that is fast catching on

SIX years ago, Simonne Jones would never have dreamed she'd be feeling so good. With two young children to look after, and suffering from chronic fatigue, recurring thrush, bloating, skin infections, digestion problems, ear and eye infections, she felt at times she couldn't go on.

But amazingly - thanks to a revolutionary electro-acupuncture treatment - Simonne finally recovered and is now feeling better than ever.

Her lifesaver was Bio-Resonance Therapy, which has just arrived in Southampton, after years of successful use by doctors in Germany.

Adam Hardyman, who has treated patients including ex-Southampton footballer Barry Venison, as well as Toyah Wilcox and Max Bygraves at his father's clinic in Bournemouth, has now brought the exciting treatment to his new clinic in Totton.

Adam, of The Natural Health Service in Hazel Farm Road, has two Bicom machines at the clinic which he uses to carry out Bio-Resonance Therapy.

He explained: "The therapy is a system of checking for toxins or allergens using an electronic probe on acupuncture points. Once the machine has found the culprits - the toxins, or allergens - it's able to detox or correct the imbalance it has found.

"For example, if you have a wheat allergy you diagnose it using the acupuncture point, and then you can use the machine to correct that imbalance and get rid of the allergy."

The machine can be used - with an electronic probe on the fingers and toes - to test and treat allergies, food intolerances, parasites, viruses and toxins, as well as functions in the body such as the liver and digestion.

Adam said: "We mainly treat people for allergies, eczema, asthma, migraines, hormonal problems, IBS, digestive problems, and candida.

"We've treated about ten people for smoking, too, and seven have given up. Everyone who smokes is allergic to cigarette smoke, so if you treat the allergy, it takes away the craving."

For Simonne, 36, of Bournemouth, the Bicom machine was her last hope when she discovered she had the yeast infection candida.

She said: "I got worse and worse and I just couldn't lead a proper life. My most severe problem was thrush, so I just kept going back to my GP and they gave me Canisten and creams, and it went on and on and nothing seemed to be improving.

"At one point, I felt if I have to live like this, I don't particularly want to go on because it was just so horrendous."

Then, about a year ago, she heard about the Bicom machine, and went to see Adam at the Bournemouth clinic. He confirmed she had candida, some mercury poisoning - although she had already had her amalgam fillings removed by a dentist - and a leaky gut.

"I didn't really know what it was all about when I first went to see Adam, but he treated me on the machine and found I was allergic to wheat and milk.

First he had to clear my allergies before he started clearing the candida, and little by little it improved, while I continued with the diet," said Simonne.

"After about the 10th month I started feeling really good and all the symptoms had gone. Now I feel so good, it's hard to think I felt that bad.

"I'm running around all over the place, I've got bags of energy - and it's just fantastic!"

Simonne's son Jordon, 10, has also been cured of asthma with the Bicom machine, and her daughter, seven-year-old Tegen, has been treated successfully for eczema.

And Simonne isn't the only one whose whole family has benefited from the Bicom machine - ex-Saints player Barry Venison goes to the clinic for treatments, too, as well as his mother-in-law, his wife Julie, and their children Max and Jade.

Barry said: "I wouldn't wish to put doctors out of a job but we very rarely find the need to go to the doctor now - we go down to see Adam.

"He's tested me on the Bicom machine, and we actually found out I had a wheat intolerance because I was having too much wheat. Now I'm fine - I can have what I want, but just in moderation."

*To find out more about Bio-Resonance Therapy or other treatments at The Natural Health Service, call 023 8042 8420, or visit the clinic's open day on November 21, from 2-8pm.