Bhabha Atomic Research centre (BARC) has developed a Medical Analyser to enable objective study of Homoeopathy.

ZeeNews.com | Baba Atomic Research centre (BARC) has developed a Medical Analyser to enable objective study of homoeopathy.

This article publicizes what the homeopathic community has been waiting for a long time. Numerous HWC articles published by homeopathic members regarding their personal experimentation with electronic signals from heart rate, to pulse, to graphic analysis of plant or human response shows homeopathy works.

Finally, this news publication highlights some long awaited research with a placebo control. Specifically, demonstrating the response of a certain number of remedies [Sulphur, Aconite napellus, and Nux vomica} in potency.

We must all congratulate the scientists in Mumbai and the AYUSH team for their 30 years of work demonstrating the efficacy of a few homeopathic remedies. Where even just one works, this indicates more will be proven effective.

Use of Medical Analyser developed by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre has shown that it would enable a better understanding of the selective action of homoeopathic medicines in different strengths on human beings. An explanation of the instrumentation used to detect response is below.

Photoplethysmograph (PPG) is an optically obtained plethysmograph, a volumetric measurement of an organ. A PPG is often obtained by using a pulse oximeter which illuminates the skin and measures changes in light absorption (Shelley and Shelley, 2001). A conventional pulse oximeter monitors the perfusion of blood to the dermis and subcutaneous tissue of the skin.

Diagram of the layers of human skin

With each cardiac cycle the heart pumps blood to the periphery. Even though this pressure pulse is somewhat damped by the time it reaches the skin, it is enough to distend the arteries and arterioles in the subcutaneous tissue. If the pulse oximeter is attached without compressing the skin, a pressure pulse can also be seen from the venous plexus, as a small secondary peak.

The change in volume caused by the pressure pulse is detected by illuminating the skin with the light from a light-emitting diode (LED) and then measuring the amount of light either transmitted or reflected to a photodiode. Each cardiac cycle appears as a peak, as seen in the figure. Because blood flow to the skin can be modulated by multiple other physiological systems, the PPG can also be used to monitor breathing, hypovolemia, and other circulatory conditions (Reisner, et al., 2008) . Additionally, the shape of the PPG waveform differs from subject to subject, and varies with the location and manner in which the pulse oximeter is attached.

Researches done by BARC, Regional Research Institute of Central Council for Research in homoeopathy, Mumbai, National Institute of Homoeopathy, Kolkata and Fr Muller Homoeopathic Medical College (FMHMC), Mangalore have indicated potential use of physiological variability in fundamental research in homoeopathy.

"The data reveals the selective action of homoeopathic medicines in different potencies especially in Heart Rate Variability (HRV), Blood Flow Variability (BFV) and Morphology Index Variability (MIV)," Dr Srinath Rao of FMHMC said during the Meeting on Advanced applications of Physiological variability held at BARC here last week.

Homoeopathy medicines beyond 12th potency do not contain even a single atom or molecule of the medicinal substance. Yet these medicines are effective in the treatment of large number of diseases and particularly the ones that are considered incurable in modern medicine.

Electronic division of BARC has been actively working on this aspect of homoeopathic medicines for the past three decades and their initial experiments with potencised medicines have recorded 50 to 150 per cent increase in the blood flow in affected parts of the body within 30 minutes of the indicated medicine in variety of patients, Rao said in his paper on 'Fundamental Research in Homoeopathy: Experiments with SULPHUR' presented at the Meet.

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Comment by Dr.Sharad Shangloo on November 9, 2010 at 12:49am: great job . Congratulations to all the Homeopaths and the researchers

Comment by Dr. Prabhat Kumar Dasgupta on November 9, 2010 at 4:26am: "objective study of homoeopathy"
Egarly watching/waiting for the responses from all over World..
Thanks Dr. Rafeeque

Comment by Dr. MAS on November 10, 2010 at 6:07am: Interesting to know

Comment by Ranga Sai on November 11, 2010 at 1:26pm: This was presented in 60th congress of the Liga Homoeopathica held in Berlin in May 2005.

This is 2010.
Wake up folks.

Comment by Debby Bruck on November 11, 2010 at 2:26pm: Dear Ranga. In the course of history, five years is a little time. Hundreds of years may pass before a new discovery is accepted into a society. The course of change is slow.

Comment by Dr Muhammed Rafeeque on November 11, 2010 at 11:17pm: But, why it took 5 years to reach us? I think the reasearch has completed recently! That may be an explanation of an ongoing research programme given during LIGA(i am not sure). Can anybody clarify?

Comment by Ranga Sai on November 12, 2010 at 6:45am: Well Debby its not a matter of 5 years, the process was in progress since late 1980's at Bhabha Atomic Research Center. Dr. Paranjape and Dr. Jindal were the ones who were active.

In a personal meeting with Dr. Paranjape i had known that it was the lackadaisical attitude of the homeopathic fraternity due to which much progress could not be made.

You may vist : Dr. Akalpita Paranjape.

:-)

Comment by Dr Muhammed Rafeeque on November 13, 2010 at 12:48am: Due to the lackadaisical attitude of a few homeopaths and officials, the funds offered by the government got lapsed many times (as per some unofficial reports). There is a cutoff date for the funds, but our clashes and internal politics goes beyond the cutoff date!

Comment by DR. Yashwant B. Patil on December 27, 2010 at 8:54am: Congratulations. Great work doctor. This will help to minimize the gap between scientificity and hypotheticality of Homoeopathy.