ELECTRO-MEDICAL APPARATUS

Abstract: An electro-medical apparatus comprises a plurality of electrodes (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7) adapted to receive and/or to transmit bio-electrical signals of diagnostic-therapeutic type from/to some areas of a human body and comprises a processor of biological signals adapted to receive bio-electrical signals from the body of a patient or from other external sources in order to produce in said human body potential therapeutic conditions, which could cause "resonance" conditions, i.e. the conditions of a comparison between possible anomalous frequencies of the body and the electro-magnetical effect of substances for instance homeopathic substances on said anomalous frequencies. Said electro-medical apparatus is in the condition to store, thanks to electronic means (CD-ROM, floppy disks and similar), the electro-magnetical resonance effects of test-phials (15), so that it is possible to eliminate the space occupied by the test-phials as well as the necessity to operate their substitution due to their deterioration during the time.

Description: Electro-medical apparatus The present invention relates to an electro-medical apparatus comprising a plurality of electrodes, said electrodes being adapted to receive bio-electrical signals, which are proceeding from some areas of a human body and which are transmitting to the same and in case to different areas of the human body bio- electrical diagnostic or therapeutic signals in order to ascertain possible pathologic signals and consequently to intervene. It is practically since 50's years that some casual results of a German homeopathic doctor (Dr.Noll) were exploited in order to extend the application of homeopathic cures to the field not only of diagnosis but also to the body therapy on the basis of the homeopathic medicine as well as of the acupuncture. This field is dealing with apparatuses, which arc adapted to operate in diagnostic as well as therapeutic terms, i.d. to detect the presence of pathologic states of one or more parts of the body and to intervene with a therapy. It's practically a new school of medicine, which is based on the assumption of the homeopathic medicine. Techniques of the eastern acupuncture school were added to said homeopathic medicine according to the Dr. Voll's elaboration. The homeopathic medicine is based, as it is well known, on the prescription of alternative drugs, i.e. not chemical-synthetic but natural ones, which are prepared according to a plurality of dilutions and which are set up against the traditional methods of drug prescriptions. Said last drugs belong to the medical western culture. The homeopathic drugs exploit the substantial progress in the biological field, which were carried out thanks to the progress of the modern biology. As far as diagnostic but mainly therapeutic methods are concerned, which are based on homeopathic drugs, it should be pointed out that they were recently introduced into the western Countries (Dr.Hahnemann, who established the homeopathic medicine, lived between 18th and 19th century) and indoubtly are involved by the cultural influences of the eastern medicine. The classic homeopathic medicine (Dr.Hahnemann) evolved into the modern homeopathic medicine (Dr.Noll), which is based on the electro-acupunture. Both medicine schools were substantially critical towards some sides of the western traditional medicine. The homeopathic medicine established by Dr.Hahnemann and then in the recent times developped by Dr.Voll, is nowadays subject of studies and researches, which lead it to often substantial adjustments thanks to the contributions of many doctors. Indeed these latter are interested by this new branch of the medicine. In addition many important German and American pharmaceutical manufacturers put on the market new homeopathic drugs, which were developped after deep studies and experiences. Furthermore a new extremely attractive concept was introduced mainly thanks to the combination of the homeopathic medicine with the electro-acupuncture, i.e. the possibility to completely avoid the same ingestion of the homeopathic drugs, on the basis of the concept that the so-called "resonance" of such a substances into the human body is exploited, said resonance being produced by the simple touch of a patient (for instance of a patient's hand) with a phial containg a homeopathic drug. Such a result substantially increased the interest toward the homeopathic drugs, also if the phenomenon of "resonance" was up to now not well understood. In any case a problem arose, which became very critical: how to store and consequently how to have at one's disposal an about limitless quantity of homeopathic drugs and similar (phytotherapic, spagyric drugs) according to the various diluitions, which start from the so-called mother-tincture. In addition, due to their deterioration, the problem arises of their less or more frequent replacement. It is well known that the phials of homeopathic drugs or similar contain natural more or less diluted substances, each one of which is adapted to cure or prevent specific trobles of the human body. The electro-medical apparatus of the diagnostic-therapeutic type according to the present invention, would represent a bio-electrical solution, as it intends to substantially develop the application of the principles based on the drugs homeopathic or not, after exhaustively clearing up the "resonance" phenomenon. Such a statement would intentionally ignore the simple electro-medical machines of the diagnostic type, which are object of an international patent application filed in Italy (PCT/1997-IT-337026). Indeed such an application of homeopathic principles with the addition of classic electro-acupuncture principles as well as with the addition of further points according to Dr.Noll and with the exploitation of a personal computer, is going to meet with outstanding success in Germany in the field of diagnostic and therapeutic methods beyond the traditional methods of the western medicine. Indeed the new school of homeopatic nedicine would intend to reach the result to couple the concepts of diagnosis and therapy, but it didn't yet was successful. Particularly a principle would be exploited: every part of a living human body emits electro-magnetical signals, which can give interesting indications about the biological functional characters of the various organs. Thanks to the instruments, which are available on the market, said signals can be analyzed in terms of: electro-magnetical intensity, their frequency, potential difference, current, etc., allowing in such a way a technician to understand what is not correct in certaim points of the human body, just beyond what the traditional, also the most sophisticated techniques can at present offer. On the basis of the emission of said electro-magnetical signals, the apparatus according to the invention is wondering whether it could be possible to recover said signals of possible pathologic conditions of the human body to its level of equilibrium, wellbeing. Therefore the problem, which the apparatus according to the invention intends to solve concerns from one side the possibility to conceive a machine equipped with a software, which could control a computer for the working out of a plurality of biological signals, said signals being displayed on the screen of the computer, whereas, on the other side, the apparatus should receive physical signals after pacing some electrodes with various parts of the body or with other sources, for instance homeopatic products or similar. At last the necessity to ascertain the physical nature of said signals should be satisfied in order to process them as well as possible, also in order to use said apparatus with diagnostic-therapeutic objects. Particularly, said apparatus is characterized by a processor of biological signals, said processor being adapted to receive bio-electrical signals of substantially electro-magnetical type, the signals being derived from the body of a patient or from other external sources in order to produce in said body potential therapeutic conditions, which are adapted to cause the "resonance" conditions, i.e. the conditions of a comparison between the conditions of possible anomalous frequencies of the body and the electro-magnetical effect of substances, for instance homeopathic on said anomalous frequencies. A further feature of the apparatus according to the invention is represented by the fact that it comprises a hardware-software work station for diagnosis and therapy but it can comprise just one hardware work station in the case economical criteria of the whole solution could be overcome. Therefore the apparatus according to the invention could be just adapted to feed the only hardware part for conversion of the signals from analogical to digital ones, for the working out of said signals and for the substantial control of said apparatus. A further feature of said apparatus: it is in the condition to store electro- magnetical data of test-phials and cure-phials in order to determine pathologies and troubles of the human body thanks to the use of the necessary therapies in order to eliminate pathologies and troubles. Indeed the apparatus according to the invention is characterized by electronic means (CD-ROMs, floppy disks and similar), said means being adapted to store the electro-magnetical effects of homeopathic drugs and similar, by activating on the patient's body or on other storing means the possibility to stimulate an electro-magnetical diagnostic- therapeutic output in order to obtain a reduction of the storage space of the drugs and to avoid the necessity of a replacement due to their perishability. Said and further characteristics will be apparent from the following description and from the alleged drawings, where: Fig.l represents a perspective view of the apparatus according to the invention; Fig.2 represents a spectrum of frequencies emitted by a human body; Fig.3 represents a spectrum of frequencies emitted by a phial of a homeopatic or similar drug; Fig.4 represents a screen of a computer connected to the apparatus according to the invention, which shows the spectrum of a "temporal diagram" and a table of a table of instrumentation regarding the reading of a "cutaneous resistance", of "potential difference", "index fall", etc. The apparatus according to the invention is a software-hardware work station for diagnosis and therapy. It is based, as it will apparent later on, on a processor of bio-electrical signals. Such a processor is adapted to receive and to transmit bio- electrical signals of substantially electro-magnetical nature, which are derived from a human body or from other external sources. The apparatus can be made of just one hardware station, as the coupling of hardware to software is just depending on economical criteria of the whole solution of the apparatus. This one comprises a body, which can house in correspondence of a relevant seat a left handle 1, which is adapted to be catched by the left hand of a patient. Such a handle 1 is connected thanks to cable to the apparatus according to the invention. A right handle 2 is housed in correspondence of a close seat and is connected with a cable to the apparatus. A gun 3 is adapted to carry out bio- electrical connection with parts of the human body. The gun 3 is connected to the apparatus by means of a cable, too. A prod 4 is placed in a seat, which is obtained on the right side of the apparatus and should carry out functions of electro-acupuncture. The prod 4 is connected to the apparatus by means of a cable, too, whereas a terminal 6 is placed in another seat for a so-called "bio-laser" therapy and a disk 7, which is placed in another seat for a so-called "bio-magnet" therapy. The terminal 6 and the disk 7 are conncected to the apparatus by means of cables. The apparatus provides also a footboard 9 with two impressions 11,12 respectively for the left and right foot. Also this footboard is connected to the apparatus by means of a cable. The handles 1,2 as well as the gun 3, the prod 4, the terminal 6, the disk 7 and the impressions 11,12 rapresent some examples of electrodes, which are adapted, as it will be apparent later on, to receive and/or transmit bio- electrical signals of substantially electro-magnetical nature, which are derived from some parts of the human body or from other external sources. Furthermore some seats 13,14 are arranged on the top of the apparatus and are adapted to lodge one or more test-phials 15, whereas two seats 16 are adapted to lodge a plate or magnetical cartridge 17. And now it is necessary to point out the basic concepts of the modern homeopathic medicine, i.e. the medicine of DrNoll. Such an explanation allows to justify the innovative points, also with respect to Dr.Voll's theory, of the apparatus according to the invention. The apparatus, which was used by Dr.Noll, was practically an ohm-meter, which was adapted to gauge the resistance between a handle, which was held by a patient hand (left or right) and a prod, which was applied by Dr.Noll in a point of the patient's (respectively right and left) hand (so-called "electro-puncture points of Dr.Noll). According to Dr. Noll's theory the simple reading of the "cutaneous resistance" values of a patient, it was possible to ascertain the health state of the patient. After accepting such a principle, the apparatus according to the invention is able, as it will be apparent later on, to evaluate by means of the prod 4 the value of such a resistance, which is not correctly defined "cutaneous resistance", because this value is depending on the electrical resistance between the handles 1,2, the preferential way through the patient body and the prod 4. A first conclusion could be obtained: if the values of such a resistance remain below a reference value (for instance 50 on 100 scalar units of Fig.4), the patient is considered to be in a chronic-degenerative state, whereas, if the values of the found resistance overcome the reference value, the patient is considered to be in a acute inflammation state. Therefore, just a resistance value close to 50 represents a potential stable equilibrium of the patient. It should be pointed out that for any electro- acupuncture point a reference with an human organ exists. If a phial of homeopathic or similar drug is inserted into one handle 1,2, the signal, which is gauged by the ohm-meter, can be influenced or not. In the case such a phial influences the resistance value gauged by the ohm-meter, Dr.VolI expained that the phial was influencing the patient body. Therefore, it could happen that, if the reading of the resistance value was normal, with the handle containing no phial (for instance reading = 50 on 100 full scale), the insertion of the phial could cause a sudden rise of the pointer up to 100 or a sudden fall up to 0. In such a case Dr.Noll was speaking about a dependence effect of the phial on the human body. But this effect was possible also when, in presence of an anomalous value of the ohm-meter, i.e. with no phial contained in the handle, the insertion of a phial in the handle could arrive to get an equilibrium of the value in the instrument scale. Therefore, the reading of the cutaneous resistance value represented a symptom of what could have happened in the patient body as a consequence of the interaction between the phial and the patient. Dr. Noll understood also the importance of a dilution of the phial content, as far as the diagnosis and the therapy were concerned. In addition, Dr.Noll understood that the resonance was neither a chemical phenomenon (as the phial was hermetically sealed), nor an electrical phenomenon (as the electrical circuit between the phial content and the rest was not continuous). The conclusions of Dr.Noll can be evaluated quite interesting, because it was tested for the first time that a human body can receive from a homeopatic or similar drug an influence, which was neither chemical nor electrical and was different according both the drug and its dilution. Thanks to the apparatus according to the invention, it will be confirmed later on that any substance both homeopathic and not homeopathic, has an its own frequence spectrum and the its different dilution is in the condition to influence the amplitude of the spectrum signals at the different frequencies. This means that, the more the drug is diluted, the more the signal, which generates the frequence spectrum, is attenuated. The apparatus according to the invention is in the condition to prove by means of the frequence spectrum of Fig.3 that such a signal is neither of chemical, nor of electrical nature, but it is of electro-magnetical nature and the it is emitted by the same drug with different amplitudes according to the different dilution degrees. It should be added that the apparatus according to the invention is connected to a computer at the level of a reading, analysis and work out instrument of the data, which are progressively worked out. The signals, which are received by the apparatus, are converted by the apparatus from analogical to digital. As far as the working out of the these data, a software is provided, whose logic is strictly depending on the logic of a bio-logical signal processor, which controls the operation of the apparatus. A confirmation of such a statement is given by the analysis of the frequence spectrum (Fig.2) emitted by a human body, who holds a handle 1 or 2 with no phial inside. The software of the apparatus is in the conditions, in a way known per se, to receive the electro-magnetical signal emitted by the human body through the handles. It is practically a spectrum 18, which is in a continuous movement both according to its amplitude and according to its frequence fluctuation. Just two cases are provided, where one or more frequency remain steady: a first case is given when the human body is influenced bu the frequency of an external field (for instance the 50 Hz. net frequency or the 2,2 Mhz. of a computer screen or similar); the other case is given by the presence into the human body of a pathological signal. When, at contrary, the frequence spectrum of a substance, for instance homeopathic, is to be analyzed, a phial containing such a substance is placed in a seat 13,14 of the apparatus. The apparatus receives in a way known per se the electro-magnetical signal emitted by the substance contained in the phial and translates it into a spectrum 19, which is different according both to the different analyzed substance and to the different dilution of the same substance contained into the phial, as previously stated. When the "cutaneous resistance" resistance between a point of the right or left hand of a patient is to be gauged, the handle 1 or 2 is held by a patient's hand, one point, for instance of the hand which is not holding the handle, is tested by the prod 4, whereby a pointer 20 (Fig.4) of the instrument, which gauges the "cutaneous resistance", reaches a position, which is connected with a certain value and reveales such a value. Whenever specific disfunctions of the body, which was tested, are revealed in a precise point of his hand, the pointer 20 may lose quite rapidly its position, which was initially reached. In such a case it should be necessary to analyze the course of the graph, which is represented by a so-called "temporal diagram" 21. Said diagram shows the gradual forming of the curve in the sense that, after selecting the relevant key on the keyboard of the computer, the progressive forming of a diagram is made by the gaugement point. The diagram starts from a position equal to 0 (zero), progressively rises, then reaches a maximum value and at last gets down more or less rapidly. Indeed, the gaugement point can cause, during the progressive forming of the diagram, and in a specific tract a so-called "vibrational phase" 22, where micro-oscillations are formed with a constant frequency in such a tract. The apparatus according to the invention, thanks to its prod 4, can show in real time said condition, which is considered pre-clinical of the type "block or stasis". If the diagram is repetitive and if said test is repeated, it is possibile to verify the confirmation that the tested point, the pression exerted by the prod 4, etc., are all operations made correctly or not. Indeed, in the case the diagram is not repeated or it puts on every time a different configuration, the apparatus states, thanks to said diagram, that the location of the tested point, the pression exerted on it, etc, were all wrong operations, which should be repeated as long as the diagram can be repeated with no substantially different configuration. Therefore the prod 4, the "temporal diagram" 21 and the "vibrational phase" 22 represent means adapted to gauge the possible pre-clinical comdition of the type "block or stasis" and to show it in real time on the screen of the computer, whereas the prod 4 and the "temporal diagram" 21 represent, through the repetitiveness of the same diagram, control means of the right location of the tested point and of the right pression exerted by the prod 4, suggesting the operator to repeat, if necessary, the operations whenever the diagram is not repetitive. A further parameter is interesting under a point of view of diagnosis: the so-called "index fall", which represents a function depending on how much the pointer 20 is losing the position initially reached for falling down and putting on a different value. Such a fall represents, according to Dr.Noll, the size of the dysfunction of the organ of the patient, which was tested by the prod 4. Such a fall is represented by the magnitude of the tract 23. The apparatus is conceived for automatically giving, on the operator's request thanks to the software of the apparatus, the so- called "index fall", as well as a further important parameter, the "rise speed" of the pointer 20. This last parameter detects, in the case said speed is slow, a rigidity of the organ, which corresponds to the tested point, whereas, in the case said speed is rapid, the tested organ is in a phase of acute pathology. The apparatus according to the invention shows visually and in real time in a way known per se, on operator's request, also said parameter by means of the tract 24, which indicates that, if the middle value is overcome, the "rise speed" is rapid, whereas, if the middle value is not overcome, the "rise speed" is slow. The more the gauged value is close to the middle tract, the more the phase is normal. Therefore the tract 23 represents the visual means for gauging in real time the size of the dysfunction, which the prod 4 tested, whereas the tract 24 represents visual means for gauging in real time the possible rigidity or acute pathology of the organ tested by the prod 4. A further scale is adapted to gauge thanks to a pointer 26 the value of the potential difference, as previoulsy defined. After the patient has catched a handle 1,2 respectively left or right, depending on the fact that the left or the right part of the body should be analyzed, and after testing with the prod 4 a point of the hand, respectively right or left (i.e. preferably the hand, which didn't catch the handle), the potential difference between the tested point and the handle, can be gauged, which was catched by the patient's hand. It was proved that an organ or its part corresponds to the tested point. According to the Dr.Noll's theory, the higher the potential gauged is, the higher the level of tested organ inflammation is. It appears apparent that the apparatus according to the invention is in the condition to automatically solve, thanks to the software, which controls the operations of the apparatus, the following problems, whose principles are connected to the Dr.Noll's homeopathic theory based on the electro-acupunture: the gauge in real time of the "cutaneous resistance", said gauge being indicated by the pointer 20, so that a possible chronic-degenerative status or a status of acute inflammation or, at last, a status of potential equilibrium of the patient could be evaluated; - the exactness of the operation exerted by the prod 4 in the point of the patient's hand (exact point, optimum pression, and so on) for the gauging of the "cutaneous resistance"; - the "index fall" 23 of the "cutaneous resistance" of the tested point, whereby it is possible to evaluate not only the presence, but also the size of the checked dysfunction, which the doctor should analyze; - the "rise speed" 24 of the pointer 20 for gauging the value of the "cutaneous resistance" of the tested point, whereby it is possible to gauge the possible rigidity of the tested organ, or the possible phase of acute pathology or still the possible normal phase of the tested organ; - the magnitude of the potential difference of the tested point, whereby it is possible to evaluate the inflammation degree of the tested point, making it possible to automatically as well as in real time evaluate a plurality of information. Said information required up to now a lot of time and a quite long training to the doctors, who utilized a machine in the condition to give such an information. As previously stated, the "cutaneous resistance" was gauged up to now by a simple ohmmeter, without all the other control instruments, which make quite complete and reliable such a gauge. Therefore the han dies 1,2, as well as the prod 4, the pointers 20,26, the tract 23 of the "index fall" and the tract 24 of the "rise speed" represent, through the gauging of the "cutaneous resistance" and of the potential difference, means adapted to determine the state of weelbeing or of pathology of the patient, making it possible to automatically and in real time store the substantially exhaustive information of the patient's health state. It seems that a computer for working out the patient data revealed from its software was not up to now utilized. It results that data relating to the health state of a patient were stored at level of a file, but nothing more. And now a brief consideration about the test-phials 15 (Fig.l), which were up to now mentioned. Some types are present on the market: a first type is represented by the test-phials for diagnosis. At least about a hundred are necessary for carrying out diagnosis of the main dysfunctions of a human body; a second type is represented by the test-phials for therapy; some thousands of them are . present on the market; a third type is represented by the mixed test-phials (i.e. valid both for diagnosis and therapy); a fourth type is represented by the compounds-phials, which should be used for a specific disease; a fifth type is represented by the organ-phials, which should be used for diagnosis of more organ diseases. A last type is represented by the "virtual" test-phials, i.e. the phials, which exist not really, but just through the electro-magnetical characteristics in respects of the "resonance", which means the power to influence a patient's body or sterile phials. Indeed a further feature offered by the apparatus according to the invention concerns the possibility to store the electro-magnetical effects of the so- called "test-phials", which are used in the homeopathic medicine and which belong to every already described type. It is well known that the phials, which are used in the homeopathic medicine, are adapted to contain natural compounds in different dilutions, starting from what is called "mother-tincture". Their effect on the human body can be obtained not only through their ingestion, but also thanks to the electro-magnetical effect (defined "resonance"), which they exert through, for instance, the touch with a hand, which holds one of said phials. It will be apparent later on that the test-phials can be used in the homeopathic medicine not only with respects to therapeutic effects, but also for diagnosis. Therefore it is quite important to have at one's own disposal said phials not only for a specific typology, but also, for the same typology, for different dilutions of the content of the same test-phial. It is necessary for every doctor to have at one's own disposal a substantially big amount (about some tens of thousand) of test-phials with all the relevant drawbacks: at first, a big space for storing them, and then the necessity of a periodical substitution due to their deterioration during the time. The apparatus according to the invention provides the possibility to store on a nagnetic support (CD-ROM, floppy-disk, and so on) the electro-magnetical effetcs of test-phials 15, obtaining in such a way the result to substantially remove the drawbacks previously described, as the space occupied by the test-phials is practically eliminated, as well as the necessity to substite them due to the their deterioration during the time. The store of the electro-magnetical effects of said phials on a magnetic support provides the following phases: to insert in room, which is proof with respect to the electro-magnetic profile, a test-phial 15 original of a compound with any dilution, which is saved according to a scale 1:1; - to insert into the proof room an elecro-magnetical picker-up, which is not represented in the drawings; - the electro-magnetical spectrum of the test-phial compound is obtained both in frequency and in amplitude; - the signals, due to the fact that they are quite small, are amplified as long as they can be electro-magnetically acquired beyond the noise-treshold; the signals are converted from analogical to digital, they are worked out, filtered, and conditioned in favour of a storing system, which can be for a computer: a CD-ROM, a hard disk, a floppy disk, and so on, (none of which is represented in the drawings) or can be also a hardware storing system: cartdrige, card, and so on, still not represented in the drawings; the signals can remain analogical if stored on cartdrige in the case not digital-data should be handled: said signals remain always available for their restoring, if necessary. The restoring process of the electro-magnetical signals of test-phials, said signals being stored on CD-ROM or different electronic support, provides the following phases: - in the case the signals were converted from analogical to digital, the inversion process from digital to analogical is made; in the case said signals are analogical, they remain analogical; the signals are reconditioned (inversion process with respect to the storing process) and amplified; the electro-magnetical signals are output (indeed, they will be virtual signals as they are not coming from a test-phial, but from the storing electronic means of the electro-magnetical signal coming from the test-phial) for the various possible exploitation: diagnostic-therapeutic electro-magnetical effects on the patient, reproduction of the signals on sterile phials or on cartdriges or similar, dilution or concentration of the signals on sterile phials and so on. The apparatus according to the invention is therefore characterized by electronical storing means (CD-ROMs, floppy disks or similar) of the electro-magnetical effects due to the homeopathic drugs, by activating on human bodies or on other storing means the possibility to stimulate an electro-magnetical output, also of diagnostic- therapeutical type, obtaining in such a way the possibility to reduce the space necessary for storing said drugs and practically avoiding the necessity to substitute them, due to. their deterioration during the time. Another interesting feature of the apparatus according to the invention is given by the possibility ro carry out a diagnosis and therapy process on the patient, said process resulting by the coupling of the homeopatic medicine with Dr.Noll's electro-acupuncutre process and comprising the following phases: - the two handles 1,2 are held in the hands of the patient (indeed, it could be sufficent to hold just one handle, the left or the right one, and the matter shouldn't change, because, depending on such a choice, just the left or the right part of the body could be analyzed in this case) and the two feet of the patient are put on the two impressions 11,12 of the footboard 9; in such a way a device can start up, which receives the electro-magnetical signals emitted by the hands (or by one hand) of the patient and which inserts into the body, through the patient's feet, the therapeutic signals emitted, after their working out, by the aparatus. Such an emission of signals can be obtained thanks to the gun 3 as sender of signals, which are derived from the electronic support of electro- magnetical information coming from the test-phials o from other sources after the gun 3 is hold around the wrist of a patient's hand; - the computer screen records the frequency spectrum emitted by the body (Fig.2). Said spectrum, as already stated, is in continuous movement or can show a fixed signal, which represents an anomalous signal emitted by the body, as a sympton of a change in the same body. The spectrum of the frequencies represents a substantial improvement as well a substantial simplification with respect to the signals, which can be revealed up to now, and which are made of dials with pointers or of strange not easily readable graphics; - the software of the apparatus automatically determines the anomalous frequencies emitted by the body and allows to follow two ways: a) it is possibile to use the so-called "compounds-phials", one at a time, on a seat 13,14 in order to ascertain whether they can influence the signal of anomalous frequency; this way requires a long time; b) or the signals emitted by CD-ROMs can be used, where also the signals of the "compounds-phials" were stored. Such a process is obviously quick and allows to ascertain in real time to which reason the origin of the dysfunction of the patient can be ascribed. Indeed the test-phial can be connected to a specific disease (diabetes, hepatitis or similar) and therefore the doctor is in the best conditions to arrive to significant conclusions with respect to the diagnosis; not only the homeopathis way can be followed, but it can be coupled with Dr.Noll's method, i.e. one or two handles are hold by the patient. The "cutaneous resistance" can be gauged, thanks to the prod 4, which is put on one point of the hand, according to the Dr.Noll's theory. If the pointer 20 (Fig.3) reaches a value close to "50" (i.e. about in correspondence of a middle position with respect to the full scale), this means that the gauged value is a normal one. If the value of the pointer is higher or lower to "50", this means that the tested point (which corresponds to a patient's organ) presents abnormality, as previously explained. In addition, if the pointer immediately falls down after reading a value, it is interesting to ascertain also the value of the "index fall" (23) practically the apparatus according to the invention is in the conditions to make a plurality of analyses on the basis of the frequency spectrum 18 emitted by the patient, after all the operations. The spectrum gives a plurality of electro-magnetical information, which regards the patient. In order to carry out a diagnosis, a comparison is made between the spectrum of frequencies and the effects produced by the electro-magnetical information of the phials (i.e. real phials if they are directly put on the seats 13,14 or virtual phials if they are electro-magnetically requested from the CD-ROMs) also the gun 3 can be utilized , whereas the real phials can be put on the seats 13,14 (or the virtual phials can be used) in such a way that in any case the electro-magnetical effects can influence the patient's body the software of the apparatus is in such a condition that it can emit, in a way known per se, thanks to a simple scanning, the electro-magnetical effects of the various test-phials on the patient's body, with the result that it is possible now to ascertain which phials "resonate" with the patient's body, in the sense that they can influence the fixed signal of the spectrum, which is symptom of a pathology. Indeed the apparatus according to the invention is now in the condition to produce into the patient's body the effect, which was found by Dr.Noll and was afterwards name "resonance". Now "resonance" becomes the comparison between between the anomalous frequencies gauged on the spectrum of Fig.2 and the electro-magnetical effect of the test-phials (real or virtual) on such anomalous frequencies. Therefore, after finding the right phial, the therapeutic process can start up. It is apparent the fact that the process substantially becomes quicker if the virtual phials are used as for the therapy, such a process is implied in the diagnostic one, as, after ascertaining the type of pathology through the test-phials, the same phials can be used for carrying out the therapy, or the same signals emitted by the patient's body can be exploited for feeding back the signals into the body, as it will be explained immediately later on indeed the computer or the same hardware of the apparatus can start up an "auto-harmonization process", which consists of the software (or of the hardware) program, which is adapted to detect the signals emitted by the patient's body in terms of anomalous frequencies and to send back to the same body, by means of the gun 3 or the footboard 9, a spectrum of signals having the same wave frequencies, but with the contrary sign. It is to be pointed out that the "auto-harmonization process" is not only in the conditions to identify, through the automatic scanning of the signal, the anomalous frequencies of the spectrum in Fig.2, but also to consequently emit a spectrum of signals having the same wave frequency and the contrary sign. All the other not anomalous frequencies are not influenced by said spectrum of signals and therefore not involved by the "auto-harmonization process" a further process called "reinforcing process" can be carried out, which consists of the transmission to the patient's body, by means of the gun 3 or the footboard 9, a spectrum of signals having substantially the same frequency and amplitude as revealed during he dikagnostic process, so that the patient's body is subjected to a shock treatment, when the doctor decides that it could be useful. Indeed sometimes a prompt and suitable reaction of the patient's body could be requested further processes comprise the so-called "bio-laser process" and the "bio- magnet process". The software (or the hardware) of the computer, which is connected to the apparatus, is in the conditions to modulate the information from the virtual test-phials (therefore the information emitted by the CD- ROMs, which stores it) thanks to a laser ray or thanks to a magnetic field produced by the same computer. a plate or magnetic cartridge 18 are adapted to be inserted in two seats 16,17 for a special treatment. The apparatus can store in a material of a plate or of a magnetic cartridge (which should be hung round the patient's neck) the electro-magnetical information, which can be transmitted to the patient for a more or less long time up to its exhaustion (usually some weeks).

Claims: C L A I M S 1. Electro-medical apparatus comprising a plurality of electrodes, said electrodes being adapted to receive bio-electrical signals, which are proceeding from some areas of a human body and which are transmitting to the same body and in case to different areas of the human body bioelectrical diagnostic or therapeutic signals in order to ascertain possible pathologic signals and conseguently to intervene, characterized by a processor of biological signals, said processor being adapted to receive bio-electrical signals of substantially electro-magnetical type, the signals being derived from the body of a patient or from other external sources in order to produce in said body potential therapeutic conditions, which are adapted to cause the "resonance" conditions, i.e. the conditions of a comparison between the conditions of possible anomalous frequencies of the body and the electro- magnetical effect of substances, for instance homeopathic substances, on said anomalous frequencies. 2. Apparatus according to Claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a hardware-software work station for the diagnosis and the therapy of a patient and that it is adapted in an alternative case to be made of just one hardware station, which is adapted to be fed by the apparatus for the conversion of the signals from analogical to digital , for working out said signals and for substantially controlling the apparatus. 3. Apparatus according to Claim 1, characterized by a computer, which said apparatus is exploiting for the reading, the analysis and the working out of the data detected from the body of a patient on the base of a conversion of the signals from analogical to digital, a software being provided for controlling the apparatus operation. 4. Apparatus according to Claim 1, characterized by electro-acupuncture means (4) for analyzing the cutaneous resistance between a handle (1 or 2), a preferential way though the patient's body and said means (4), the value of such a resistance being adapted to detect a chronic-degenerative or an acute inflammationm, or still a substantial equilibrium state. of the patient's tested organ. 5. Apparatus according to Claim 1, characterized in that said means (4) are made of a prod (4), which is adapted to detect the electro-magnetical signal emitted from a point tested of the patient, said signal comprising a spectrum of continuously moving frequencies (18) with reference both to amplitude and the frequencies, substantially in two cases said frequencies remaining fixed: first, when an external field influences the patient'body, second, when a pathology is present in the patient's body. 6. Apparatus according to Claim 1, characterized by a spectrum (19) of a substance, for instance a homeopathis substance, which is contained into a phial, said spectrum being adapted to represent the reading of an electro-magnetical signal emitted by the substance contained into the phial, said signal being influenced both by the type of the substance and by its dilution. 7. Apparatus according to Claims 1,2, characterized by means (4,21,22) adapted to detect the pre-clinical such as "block or stasis" condition and to display it in real time on the monitor of a computer. 8. Apparatus according to Claim 7, characterized in that a prod (4) is adapted to gauge the state of "block or stasis" pre-clinical condition, the presence of a "temporal diagram" (21) of a "vibrational phase" (22) being provided for the confirmation of such a "block or stasis" condition. 9. Apparatus according to Claims 7,8, characterized by control means (4,21) through the repetitivness of the temporal diagram (21), said contgrol means being adapted to suggest in such a way the operator to repeat the operations whenever the temporal diagram (21) is not repetitive in such a way that a substantially exact detection of the cutaneous resistance in terms of individuation of the tested point and of the pression exerted by means of the prod (4). 10. Apparatus according to Claims 1,6,7, characterized by means (23) adapted to evaluate the degree of a detected dysfunction(23), said means being also called "index fall" and represesenting a function of how a cutaneous resistance value can vary in the case a pointer (20) loses in a substantially rapid time its initial position for reaching a substantially different position. 11. Apparatus according to Claim 10, characterized by a parameter (24) for detecting the rise speed of the pointer (20), said speed being adapted to detect a rigidity of the tested organ or its acute pathology, or a normal phase. 12. Apparatus according to the preceeding Claims, characterized by means (1,2,4) adapted to give the value of potential difference between a point tested by the prod (4) and a handle (1 or 2) catched by a hand of the patient in such a way that a doctor is allowed to evaluate in real time the inflammation level of an organ, which is on an electro-acupuncutre test. 13. Apparatus according to Claim 12, characterized by means (1,2,4,20,26,23,24) adapted to evaluate the wellbeing or pathologiuc state of a patient, in such a way that the substantially exhaustive information of a patient's health state could be automatically collected. 14. Apparatus according to Claim 13, characterized in that a patient's wellbeing or a pathologic state could be gauged by means of the handles (1,2), of the prod (4), of the pointers (20,26), which detect the cutaneous resistance value and the potential difference between a handle (1 oe 2) and the prod (4), whereas the tract (23) is adapted to represente the "index fall" and the tract (24) the "rise speed". 15. Apparatus according to Claim 1, characterized by a plurality of test phials (15), said phials being adapted to belong to different types, the first one of which could be represented by test phials for diagnosis, a second one by test phials for therapy, a third one by mixed phials, a fourth type by compounds phials which should be used for a specific disease, a fifth type by the organ phials, which should be used for diagnosis of more diseases and at last by vitual phials. 16. Apparatus according to Claim 15, carachterized in that the virtual test phials are made of phials, which don't exist practically, but just through the electro- magnetical characteristics with respect to the resonance, i.e. on the power to influence a patent's body or sterile phials. 17. Apparatus according to Claims 1,16, chracterized by electronic means (CD- ROMs, floppy disks and similar), said means being adapted to store the electro- magnetical resonance effects of the test-phials as well as the possibility to activate on patients' bodies an electro-magnetical diagnostic-therapeutic output, so that it is practically possible to eliminate the space occupied by the test-phials, as well as the necessity to operate their substitution due to their deterioration during the time. 18. Apparatus according to Claim 17, characterized by a plate or magnetical cartridge (17) adapted to store the electro-magnetical information, which can be therapeutically transmitted into the patient's body for a substantially long time, for instance some weeks or months. 19. Use of the apparatus claimed in the preceeding Claims, characterized by a spectrum (18) of frequencies emitted by a patient, said spectrum being obtained according to the following operations: the patient should catched with one hand the handle (1 or 2) a prod (4) should test a point of the other hand the emission of the electro-magnetical waves should be activated, so that a spectrum (18) could be obtained on the computer screen the spectrum (18) should be analyzed, so that possible fields of fixed frequencies could be ascertained among the other, which are continuously moving. 20. Use of the apparatus according to Claim 19, characterized in that the spectrum of a substance, for instance homeopathic, could be analyzed according to the following operations: - a phial containing the substance is put in a seat (13,14) - the operation is activated, which collects the electro-magnetical signal and converts it into the spectrum (19), which could be different according to the analyzed substance and its dilution. 21. Use of the apparatus according to Claims 19,20, characterized in that the cutaneous resistance from a point of the left or the right hand of a patient could be gauged according the following operations: a patient's hand catches the handle (1 or 2) the prod (4) tests a point of the hand, which didn't catch the handle a pointer (20) reachs a point, which corresponds to a certain value in the case a specific dysfunction is present in the patient's body, the pointer (20) could be subjected to a "index fall", which represents in a tract (23) the magnitude of the organ tested with the prod (4) a tract (24) could show a possible rigidity of the organ tested by the prod (4), or a phase of an acute pathology or still a normality phase - the "temporal diagram" could be analyzed, after selecting the relevant key on the computer keyboard. A progressive trend of such a diagram could be obtained, which start from zero, progressively rises, reachs the maximum value and then goes down more or less quickly a "vibrational phase" (22) could be performed, where micro-oscillations with constant frequency could arise in such a tract thanks to the prod (4) it is possible to ascertain in real time on the screen such a condition, which is considered pre-clinic of the type "block or stasis" in the case such a diagram is repetitive, the repetition of the test could confirm that the tested point, the pression exerted by the prod (4), etc, are all operations correctly or not correctly exerted in the case the diagram is not repetitive or it every time puts on a different shape, the apparatus shows thanks to said diagram that the point tested by the prod (4), the pression exerted by said prod, etc., are all wrong operations, which should be repeated as long as the diagram could be repeated with the confirmation of the same shape it is possible to ascertain in diagnostic terms the speed of a so-called "index fall"(24)j i.e. how speedy the pointer (21) is losing the initially reached position for reaching a different, also full scale, value as a confirmation of how important the dysfunction of the tested patient's organ is - the software, which is connected to the apparatus according to the invention, shows on the screen a tract (23), where the size is substantially proportional to the "index fall", so it could be possible to evaluate the connection between the index fall and the size of the dysfunction. 22. Use of the apparatus according to Claims 19-21, characterized in that the storing process of the electro-magnetical effects of the phials (15) provides that: a test phial original of a compound in any dilution, which is saved according to a scale 1:1, is inserted into a room, which is proof with respect to the electro- magnetical field an electro-mechanical picker-up is inserted into the proof room the electro-magnetical spectrum (19) of the test phial compound is obtained both in frequency and in amplitude - the signals, due to the fact that they are quite small, are amplified as long as they can be electro-magnetically acquired beyond the noise-treshold the signals are converted from analogical to digital, they are worked out, filtered and conditioned in favour of a storing system, which can be for a computer: a CD-ROM, a hard disk, a floppy disk, and so on or can be also a hardware storing system: cartridge, card and so on; the signals can remain analogical if they are stored on cartridge in the case not digital data should be handled; said signals remain always available for a restoring, if necessary. 23. Use of the apparatus according to Claims 19-22, characterized in that the restoring process of the electro-magnetical signals of the test phials, which are stored on CD-ROM or similar electronic support, provides the following phases: in the case the signals were converted from analogical to digital, the inversion process from digital to analogical is made; in the case said signals are analogical, they remain analogical; the signals are reconditioned (inversion process with respect to the storing process) and amplified - the electro-magnetical signal are output (indeed they are virtual signals, as they are not coming from test phial but from the electronic means, which store the electro-magnetical signal of the phial) for the various possible exploitations: diagnostic-therapeutic electro-magnetical effect on the patient, reproduction of the signal on sterile phials or on cartridge or similar, dilution or concentration of the signal on sterile phials and so on. 24. Use of the apparatus according to Claims 19-23, characterized in that said apparatus is adapted to couple the homeopathic medicine with the Dr.Noll's electro-acupunture and with the modern bio-energetics according the following phases: - the two handles (1,2) are held in the hands of the patient (indeed, it could be sufficient to hold just one handle, the left or the right one, and the matter shouldn't change, because just the left or the right part of the body could be analyzed) and the two feet of the patient are put on the two impressions (11,12) of the footboard (9); a device can start up, which receives the electro- magnetical signals emitted by the hands of the patient and which inserts into the body, through the patient's feet, the therapeutic signals emitted, after working out, by the aparatus; such an emission of signals can be obtained thanks to the gun (3) as sender of signals, which are derived from the electronic support of electro-magnetical information coming from the test-phials or from other sources after the gun (3) is hold around the wrist of a patient's hand; - the computer screen records the frequency spectrum emitted by the body; said spectrum is in continuous movement or can show a fixed signal, which represents an anomalous signal emitted by the body, as a sympton of a change in the same body the software of the apparatus automatically determines the anomalous frequencies emitted by the body and allows to follow two ways: a) it is possibile to use the so-called "compounds-phials", one at a time, on a seat (13,14) in order to ascertain whether they can influence the signal of the anomalous frequency b) or the signals emitted by CD-ROMs can be used, where also the signals of the "compounds test-phials" were stored; such a process is obviously quick and allows in real time to ascertain to which reason the origin of the dysfunction of the patient can be ascribed. Indeed the test-phial can be connected to a specific disease (diabetes, hepatitis or similar) not only the homeopathis way can be followed, in the sense that the "cutaneous resistance" can be gauged, thanks to the prod (4), which is put on one point of the patient's hand a plurality of analyses can be made on the basis of the frequency spectrum (18) emitted by the patient, after all the operations. The spectrum gives a plurality of electro-magnetical information, which regards the patient. A comparison is made of the test-phials, i.e. real phials if they are directly put on the seats (13,14) or virtual phials if they are electro-magnetically requested from the CD- ROMs also the gun (3) can be utilized , whereas the real phials can be put on the seats (13,14) (or the virtual phials can be exploited) in such a way that in any case the electro-magnetical effects can influence the patient's body the software of the apparatus is in such a condition that it can emit, in a way known per se, thanks to a simple scanning, the electro-magnetical effects of the various test-phials with the result that it is possible to ascertain which phials resonate with the patient's body, in the sense that they can influence the fixed signal of the spectrum, which is symptom of a pathology the computer or the same hardware of the apparatus can start up an "auto- harmonization process", which consists of the software (or of the hardware) program, which is adapted to detect the signals emitted by the patient's body in terms of anomalous frequencies and to send back to the same body, by means of the gun 3 or the footboard 9, a spectrum of signals having the same wave frequencies, but with the contrary sign a "reinforcing process" can be carried out, which consists of the transmission to the patient's body, by means of the gun (3) or the footboard (9), a spectrum of signals having substantially the same frequency and amplitude further processes comprise the so-called "bio-laser process" and the "bio- magnet process". The software (or the hardware) of the computer, which is connected to the apparatus, is in the conditions to modulate the information from the virtual test-phials (therefore the information emitted by the CD- ROM, which stores it) thanks to a laser ray or thanks to a magnetic field produced by the same computer a plate or magnetic cartridge 18 are adapted to be inserted in two seats (16,17) for a special treatment. The apparatus can store in a material of a plate or of a magnetic cartridge (which should be hung round the patient's neck) the electro-magnetical information, which can be transmitted to the patient for a more or less long time up to its exhaustion (usually some weeks).

Inventors: BOSCHIERO DARIO, BOSCHIERO, DARIO
Applicants: BIOTEKNA S R L, BOSCHIERO DARIO, BIOTEKNA S.R.L., BOSCHIERO, DARIO
Application year: 1998
Main classification: A61B5
IPC codes: A61B5, A61K41, A61N1