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An Endeavor to Illustrate an Objective Evidence for the Action of Homeopathic Medicines by Measuring Physiological Variability in Human Body Temperature

Homeopathic medicines of 200C potency are applied orally to human subjects. ‘Physiological variability in temperature’ from skin of forearm is measured with the help of temperature data logger and water/soil temperature sensor. Temperature readings are taken at an interval of 1 second for 5 minutes. Time series spectral analysis is performed by using Statistical processing software. The statistical procedures like Auto Regressive Spectrum (ARS) and Parametric prediction and reconstruction (PPR) are used to study the change in temperature variability. There is marked change in temperature variability before and after applied homeopathic medicine.

Key words: Homeopathic medicine, Physiological variability in temperature, temperature data logger, water/soil sensor, AR Spectrum, Parametric Reconstruction and prediction

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Acknowledgement:

I
am indebted to my parents; without their co-operation these
experiments might not have seen the light.

I
am grateful to Prof (Dr). C. Nayak, Director CCRH, for offered
opportunity to improve my knowledge in research methodology.
I am obliged to Dr. N. Mistra and Dr. K. C. Muralidharan at
RRI, Mumbai, discussions with whom enriched my knowledge in
variability analysis. I am indebted to Dr. Jindal Head of
Biomedical division, and Dr. Paranjape, solid State physics
BARC, Mumbai, deliberations with whom improved my knowledge
in statistical measures valid in time series analysis.

My
exceptional gratitude towards Dr. Murali Krishna who helped
and heartens me all through the experimental process. I am
appreciative to Dr. Bhatia, administrator of hpathy.com, who encouraged me to write a
research paper.

I
am thankful to Prof (Dr). G. Yadagiri, Dr. P. Ramkrishnarao,
Dr. Prabhavathi, Dr. M. D. Sreenivas, Prof. M. Srinivas who
stands as inspiration for this work. I am indebted to my PG
Colleagues in Hyderabad for their participation in experiments
as subjects, to my patients in Machilipatnam clinic for their
participation. I am very much thankful to my family members
for their participation in these research trials.

My
special thanks to Mr. Sadiq Mohammad and Mr. P. Ramakrishna
who helped me in procuring equipment from abroad.

ANNEXURE
1

Experiments
with some other Homeopathic medicines:

F)
EXP No: 3

Figure 18: AR Spectrum before and after China 200C.   China
200C: AR Spectrum for 5 subjects
: Before and after applied China
200C

G)
EXP No: 6

Experiment with Sulphur 200C: Sulphur 200C has given to
7 subjects and placebo to 5 subjects. Readings are taken from 8.00
– 8.10am. Below are two columns of graphs. Left column contains
graphs of Sulphur 200C subjects, right side are of Placebo subjects.

    Figure 19: AR Spectrum of Sulphur 200C and Placebo subjects.


H)
EXP No: 7

Experiment with Sulphur 200C: AR Spectrum for Sulphur
200C and placebo subjects, readings are taken from 9.00am – 9.10am:
Below are two columns of graphs. Left column contains graphs of
Sulphur 200C subjects, right side are of Placebo subjects. Appearance
of a pair of peaks can be observed in Sulphur 200C, First 3 subjects
Fig 20.

    Figure 20: AR Spectrum of Sulphur 200C and Placebo subjects.


I)
EXP No: 8

Experiment with Lycopodium 200C: AR Spectrum for Lycopodium
200C given to 4 subjects:

    Figure 21: AR Spectrum of Lycopodium 200C Subjects.


EXP
No:1
Parametric Spectrum for Gelsemium 200C
given to 4 subjects:

Parametric
Reconstruction applied to the data of temperature variability
obtained after applied Gelsemium 200C to 4 subjects.

4th graph shows that the person did not respond to the medicine.

Figure 22: Parametric Spectrum Gelsemium 200C Subjects.

J)
Exp No 9:

Another observation, immediately after applied homeopathic medicine
for patients: Below are the Parametric Spectrum for the variability
readings taken immediately after applied indicated medicine Natrum
muriaticum 200C and Pulsatilla 200C.

    Figure 23: Parametric Spectrum before and after
applied Natrum Muriaticum 200C.

    Figure 24: Parametric Spectrum before and after
applied Pulsatilla 200C


Readers
are requested to visit http://homeoresearch.blogspot.com
for more graphs and information on this work.


Devendra Kumar Munta


Comments

  1. Ashish Gandhi

    February 6, 2010

    Well, good work and good experiment. But with all due respect, Sir, why not include other parameters also? for eg., physiological, pathological, diagnostics etc. It would be of more value if we can really prove homeopathic medicine’s actions with available latest technology also so that nobody would be in a position to challange the reasearch..
    I hope you agree…Sir.

    Regards.

    • Dr.Devendra Kumar Munta

      March 22, 2010

      Yes sir, I agree with you, The same experiment can be conducted with other parameters, but temperature is the vital one, and can easily be measured, so I selected varibility in skin temperature also which is non invasive technique.

      Best,
      Dr.Devendra Kumar MD(Homeo)

  2. Sean

    February 7, 2010

    I’m sorry, but after reading this study I have to say that anyone with a science degree can tell that this study does not prove anything. While it is a good attempt, it is just not scientifically sound. The study was not done blind (single or double) – if it was, it wasn’t mentioned. This introduces many problems with bias. Also, no definition of what a positive spectrum read would contain. The study included no numbers or tables comparing the data. The author makes many references to figures not included in this study.

    If you want to prove something to a skeptic, please include the proof.

  3. Jenny

    October 20, 2011

    Please note: The charts in section 6 have disappeared. Can you let me know when theya re replaced?

    • Hpathy

      October 20, 2011

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