Tibetan pulse diagnostics and attempts to computerize it
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Natalia V Pupysheva1, Vitaly V Boronoev2
1Laboratory of Wave Diagnostics of Living Systems, the Institute of Physical Materials Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Siberian Branch), Sakhyanovoi Street 6A, office #320, Ulan-Ude, the Republic of Buryatia 670047, Russian Federation.
Study Subject:
The research concerns attempts to computerize the foundations of pulse diagnostics of Tibetan medicine. An expert in Tibetan pulse diagnostics can evaluate the functioning of an organism (twelve internal organs and three psychophysiological systems) by feeling the pulse in six palpation points on the radial arteries of both wrists of a patient. Nowadays many physicists make attempts to computerize this method. The paper shows a few tests that are intended to «teach» a pulse diagnostics device to identify the diagnostically relevant characteristics of pulse waves.
Objective Of The Research:
This investigation is an attempt to objectify basic characteristics of pulse diagnostics. Though pulse diagnostics has always been a subjective art of an experienced doctor, it may also become part of an objective science due to the physical basis that underlies it.
Method:
The paper presents tests of pulse measurements by a pulse diagnostics device in conditions that create certain predictable responses of an organism to outer stimuli. A group of volunteers were exposed to certain stimuli that can bring about predictable responses of the organism to be detected, processed and analyzed by the pulse diagnostics equipment.
Conclusion:
Experiments of this kind give practical material for the analysis of the pulse waves obtained under special conditions, which provides the development of the software for the pulse diagnostic equipment and confirms that objectifying basic characteristics of pulse diagnostics of Tibetan medicine is possible, though in a limited scope.
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