LV12730B - Method and device for measuring complex electric resistance of skin in acupuncture points - Google Patents

Abstract

Invention describes a method and a device for measuring physiological state of biologically active points - a treatment target in acupuncture. The aim of the invention is to diminish negative influence of measuring currents to a body during a diagnosing procedure. This can be achieved measuring current strength, current excitation and a skin resistance in acupuncture points by the way of electric induction through a dielectric distancer which separates skin from a differential feeder of electric high frequency field. The measuring is carried out using highly stabilised frequency. A device for implementation of this method comprises displays, a band amplifier and high frequency measuring bridge with phase detectors. The feeder is made as a differential high frequency electric contactless measuring current adapter. The dielectric distancer is inserted in the front side faced to the skin of the adapter.

Description

Method and device for skin ^ _ for the determination of the values of the complex electrical resistance in the diagnostics of organsma.

The invention relates to medicine, and more particularly to methods of diagnostic acupuncture (Dr. R. Folla, Nakatani, etc.), which are based on the determination of the physiological state of biologically active points by the dispersion of electrical resistance values at these points.

The state of the art known to the applicant is described in the patent documentation:

USSR, no. 950384, cl. A 61 H 39 / 00,1980, consisting of an active and passive electrode, a measuring unit, a calibrated voltage source, a summator, an inverter, a non-linear voltage converter and a non-linear amplifier; USSR, no. 1699460, Cl. A H30 / 00, 1989, consisting of an active and passive electrode, a voltage source, a reference frequency generator, a digital indicator, a pulse counter and other known electronic functional units;

No. RU 2027403 Cl; No. RU 2093134; No. DE 19750280A1, and U.S. Pat. 4,016,870 - Apr. 12,1977, the common feature of which is that each of these devices consists of an active and passive electrode and known functional electronic assemblies, but differ in the method of processing the values of electrical resistance measured at the acupuncture points and in the composition of the functional assemblies.

The listed proprietary devices and techniques have the following disadvantages: The electrical resistance of acupuncture points is measured by an ohmmeter method, during which measurement current flows throughout the body; acupuncture mechanical and electrical irritation occurs;

the transition resistance value between the active electrode and the skin is of undetectable value. All these processes affect the organism during the measurement in such a way that by repeating the measurement it is never possible to obtain the primary values and therefore the measurement results cannot be accepted as reliable.

The object of the invention is to eliminate the electrical and mechanical irritation of the measuring current and acupuncture points passing to the measuring process organism, to exclude the influence of the transient resistance, skin-electrode, to replace the active galvanic contact electrode used by the known device with contactless electrode. obtain stable repeatability of the measurements.

The physical principle of the invention is based on the measurement of active and reactive impedance by electrical induction, a technique known in the art where it is not possible to make measurements by contacting an object or one of its components with an electric current flowing through a contact. In medicine, especially in acupuncture diagnostics, for measuring acupuncture point active and reactive resistance, the use of electrical induction technique is unknown.

The essence of the technique is based on the measurement of the current induced by the electric field of the adapter in the active and reactive resistance of the skin's acupuncture point area by electrical induction.

The high frequency electric field excited by the differential adapter used in the method induces, through dielectric, the active and reactive currents in the complex resistance of the skin acupuncture point area, the intensity of which is proportional to the intensity of the excitation field and the acupuncture point resistance. The dielectric spacer between the skin and the adapter's differential radiator, as well as a stabilized, such as a 35 kHz high-frequency generator, provides the necessary constant in the method for measuring the high-frequency field intensity. Adapter, excitation, high frequency, field energy loss and blinding offsets that are: proportional to skin. acupuncture point areas .complex resistances. active, and reactive ingredients .... values, method: determines. after:. high frequency: differential: mrtrlta '.un. ^v phases;: detector output L signal level.

The technique does not require a passive electrode because the electrical: induction: on the way .. the excitation current flows and closes only within the skin acupuncture point resistance measurement area, without affecting the rest of the body.

Device for medical diagnosis of acupuncture by complex electrical resistance values in the skin acupuncture point areas, consisting of displays and a band amplifier, which for preventing the transient, ada-electrode, galvanic contact of the transducing current, contact electrode physico-chemical effects, but the active electrode in the device is replaced by a differential design high frequency power supply adapter. A dielectric spacer is placed in the device during the measurement process to provide constant electrical current intensity as well as to insulate the adapter radiators from the skin, between the adapter leads and the skin on the front face of the adapter in the anti-skin plane. The device also contains a stabilized, such as a 35 kHz high frequency generator, high frequency differential bridge, band amplifier, phase detector and displays.

A diagram of the device is given in Figs. 1. Schematic notes: 1 - Equivalent electrical resistance of the acupuncture point area of the skin (R, C); 2 - leather; 3 - Left Adapter for Differential Adapter; 4 - adapter center radiator; 5 - Adapter right edge radiator; 6 - dielectric - spacer; 7- differential high-frequency bridge; 8 - stabilized high frequency generator; 9 - phase detector; 10 - band amplifier; 11 - display of values of the active component of the complex electrical resistance of the skin acupuncture point area; 12 - Resistance reactive component values display.

Operation principle of the device.

Assuming that the adapter is applied to the skin so that the center emitter 4 is directly opposite the acupuncture point area of the skin and the edge emitters 3 and 5 are opposite the "neutral" skin surface, then: a) the volume of the acupuncture point area; at the biologically active skin point), ie the volumetric impedance 1 (R, C) will be flushed by the high-frequency shift current induced by the electric induction path adapter 3, 4, 5, 6; (b) The "neutral" skin volume complex resistance will flow the differential current bridge balancing current. The constant frequency of the adapter's high-frequency measuring current is ensured by a stabilized high-frequency generator 8 and a dielectric spacer 6.

In the assumed adapter application, the center radiator directly opposite to the skin acupuncture point area, the differential modulus on one shoulder (radiator 4) will have a current modulus and phase value greater than the current modulus and phase on the second differential transducer (radiators 3, 5) biologically active skin points are always 30% - 40% smaller than skin "neutral" areas. The shoulder differential current signal of the measuring bridge 7, which is proportional to the spatial complex resistance value of the acupuncture point area 1, is fed through a band amplifier 10 to a phase detector 9 and further to digital displays 11, 12 for displaying measurement values. The stabilized high-frequency generator 8 provides operation of the measuring bridge 7 and the adapter radiators 3, 4, 5. The differential design of the adapter radiators 3, 4, 5 and the differential measuring bridge 7 in the device are used for the following purposes: 1) In the case of applying the adapter to a homogeneous part of the skin, i. in the absence of the biologically active point in the device displays, the indicated values of the displays 11, 12 would be less than the starting values of the measuring range; 2) Significantly reduce the effect of the skin-pressing force of the adapter on the measurement results.

Claims (2)

Formula of the Invention 1. A method for determining the value of the complex electrical resistance of skin acupuncture points in the diagnostics of the body, which is measured by measuring current in the areas of skin acupuncture points, with the aim of providing mechanical and physico-chemical destruction of the skin and body. The elimination of the negative effects of the flowmeter / flowrate on the organs, the measurement of the excitation and the resistance of the skin acupuncture point area are performed by electrical induction via a dielectric spacer that separates the skin from the electric high frequency differential feeder. 2. A device for determining the complex electrical resistance values of a skin acupuncture point \ ci in body diagnostics, comprising displays, a band amplifier and an electrical power supply actuator, characterized in that it further includes a stabilized high-frequency generator and a high-frequency measuring bridge with phase detectors the metering actuator is designed as a differential high frequency contactless adapter with a dielectric spacer on its front facing the skin.