Alfred (Antoine) (Antoine) Bovis (1871-1947) was a French physicist and archaeologist. Created an index for measuring life-force energy. This method measured what he called the Life Force Index. This index was generated by places, people, animals, plants, and food.  He was invested in finding out what places, food, things, etc. contribute to humans’ vitality. The outcome of his effort became known as the BOVIS meter or BOVIS scale. Bovis was also a contemporary of Einstein. They both lived in an era when the whole issue of the relationship between matter and energy came to a head with Einstein’s famous equation. At that time, it became fair game to talk about energy transforming itself into the matter as well as matter changing itself into energy. The notion that matter constantly emanated subtle energy was no longer a joke. Scientific measurement of that subtle energy had to wait a while longer until the appropriate scientific equipment became available to prove the hypothesis. Such equipment is not available to all of us whereas the BOVIS method and scale continue to be a simple worthwhile approach. BOVIS values are based on the fact that all matter vibrates, radiates certain energy. Physically speaking, the BOVIS value is the biophysical energy content. The BOVIS value is used, for example, to measure the quality of the products to indicate biodynamic agriculture. The higher the BOVIS value, the better the energetic quality and the more nutrition people get from it. In popular parlance, the BOVIS value is a measure of the life energy, a measure of the vitality of something Radiesthesia is the perception of radiation. It is an ancient science of experience, which assumes that the world has an outside and an inside. The outside is the objectively measurable reality and the field of the exact sciences. The inside is the subjective human experience and includes the emotional, mental, and spiritual dimensions. According to traditional Chinese and Indian cultures, these two worlds are linked by a complex system of subtle energies referred to as “life energy.” The radiesthesia has also been extensively applied by the French physician André Bovis and his successor André Simoneton. They assumed that all food, water and people have a certain radiation. BOVIS was responsible for the quality of the food of the French soldiers between the First and Second World Wars. He measured the energetic quality of all fruits and vegetables and, based on his measurement, could categorize this into superior food, food as filling, food that makes you sick, and finally dead food. BOVIS had indicated the course of the radiation in time for many fruits and vegetables. In popular speech, the BOVIS value is a measure of life energy, a measure of the vitality of a product. Determining the BOVIS value is actually an intersubjective observation that can be repeated. In his book Simoneton also gives examples of the energetic quality of water from sources. The BOVIS values from these sources ranged from 8,000 to 18,000 BOVIS. On the basis of the work of BOVIS and Simenoton, man should take in food with a Bovis value higher than 6,500 to 8,000 BOVIS. This is based on the fact that, according to Simoneton and Bovis, healthy people have BOVIS values between 6,500 and 8,000. Freshly harvested vegetables had values between 8,000 and 10,000 BOVIS. All products have a certain radiation. So not only water, but also all food, the ground, lighting, etc. On the Internet, the following characterization for BOVIS values is often used: