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ArticleJournal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)2018

Development of Software for Automatic Analysis of Intervention in the Field of Homeopathy.

Rajesh Kumar Jain, Shagun Goyal, Sushma N Bhat, Srinath Rao, Vivek Sakthidharan, Prasanna Kumar, Kannanaikal Rappayi Sajan, Sameer Kumar Jindal, Ghanshyam D Jindal

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Article in Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Rajesh Kumar Jain1 Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) , Mumbai, India .
Shagun Goyal2 Under Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) , Mumbai, India .
Sushma N Bhat2 Under Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Electronics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) , Mumbai, India .
Srinath Rao3 Department of Materia Medica, Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College , Mangalore, India .
Vivek Sakthidharan4 Department of Homeopathic Pharmacy, Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College , Mangalore, India .
Prasanna Kumar5 Dr. Prasanna Homoeopathic Clinic , Medicare Centre, Mangalore, India .
Kannanaikal Rappayi Sajan6 Department of Organon of Medicine, Father Muller Homoeopathic Medical College , Mangalore, India .
Sameer Kumar Jindal7 Sanjeevani Homeopathic Clinic , Navi Mumbai, India .
Ghanshyam D Jindal8 Department of Bio-Medical Engineering, MGM's College of Engineering and Technology (MGMCET) , Navi Mumbai, India .

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objectiveTo study the effect of homeopathic medicines (in higher potencies) in normal subjects, Peripheral Pulse Analyzer (PPA) has been used to record physiologic variability parameters before and after administration of the medicine/placebo in 210 normal subjects.

methodsData have been acquired in seven rounds; placebo was administered in rounds 1 and 2 and medicine in potencies 6, 30, 200, 1 M, and 10 M was administered in rounds 3 to 7, respectively. Five different medicines in the said potencies were given to a group of around 40 subjects each. Although processing of data required human intervention, a software application has been developed to analyze the processed data and detect the response to eliminate the undue delay as well as human bias in subjective analysis. This utility named Automatic Analysis of Intervention in the Field of Homeopathy is run on the processed PPA data and the outcome has been compared with the manual analysis. The application software uses adaptive threshold based on statistics for detecting responses in contrast to fixed threshold used in manual analysis.

resultsThe automatic analysis has detected 12.96% higher responses than subjective analysis. Higher response rates have been manually verified to be true positive. This indicates robustness of the application software. The automatic analysis software was run on another set of pulse harmonic parameters derived from the same data set to study cardiovascular susceptibility and 385 responses were detected in contrast to 272 of variability parameters. It was observed that 65% of the subjects, eliciting response, were common.

conclusionThis not only validates the software utility for giving consistent yield but also reveals the certainty of the response. This development may lead to electronic proving of homeopathic medicines (e-proving).

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SoftwareAutomationHomeopathyHumansMonitoring, PhysiologicPulseautomatic interventional analysishomeopathic medicinesPeripheral Pulse Analyzerphysiologic variabilitypulse harmonic analysis

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