Patent Publication Number: US-2017372016-A1

Title: Building up for Unified Index Database for the Characteristics for the living Bodies&#39; Meridian and Acupoints and Their Normal Values Setting for Their Applications

Description:
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS 
     This invention is continuation-in-part of following the prior application and also claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent applications of: U.S. 62/177,609: (Mar. 19, 2015), and U.S. Ser. No. 14/999,018: (Mar. 18, 2016), U.S. 62/493,120 (Jun. 23, 2016) and the Chinese patent CN 20575897.1 U (Dec. 7, 2016) and the disclosures of which are also hereby incorporated herein by references.
         Inventor: KAI JIANG   Applicant: KAI JIANG   Submit date: Jun. 15, 2017   Customer Number: 123977   Mail Address: 1209 Ovington Avenue 2 nd  Floor, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11219   Telephone Number: 1 347 217 8533 (USA)   US Classification:   CCL: 128/907, 128/920, 128/923, 600/300, 600/354, 600/361, 600/382, 600/384, 600/584, 606/189, 607/2, 706/20   CPC G06F19/32, G06F19/322, G06F 19/324, G06F19/3418,       

     International: A61B5/05, A61B5/05, A61B10/00, A611139/04, A611139/06, A61H39/08, 
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     DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION 
     For clearly describe the invention, following names will be abbreviated: Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Biologic Energy Nutrition Concept/theory (BENuology). Intelligent Center Host (Host). Intelligent Terminal (IT). (If more than one Host or IT linked together and not emphasizes any one, then just collectively as: said (the) device). Meridians&#39; Time Active Law (MTAL). Meridians activation information (mci), One Chinese-day (Cday). Small Chines Month&#39;s Cycle (sCMC). Big Chinese Month Cycle (bCMC). Chinese Year Cycle (CYC). 
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     UNIFIED INDEX Databases for the characteristics for the living bodies&#39; Meridians and Acupoints and their applications. TCM and Meridians theory. Drug research method. Automatic diagnose and treatment. Clinic. Cell phone function. Remote diagnosis and treatment. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     The electoral current and its waveform measurement at special areas of body surface had been used for diagnosing heart diseases for long time. But this measurement method neither use for treating heart diseases, nor testing for any other disease, not to say combine with treatment together treating body in same test point which used for the measuring directly. 
     Acupuncture, as a special method for various diseases treatment in clinic, its knowledge of characteristics for the Meridian and their Acupoints of the living body are very important for the clinic treatment. Even though there is a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) theory to explanation vivo system of living body, but the ideas however, is totally different with the modern medical theory and the discoveries. Therefore, the knowledge of the TCM is hardly accepted by western world especially by western medicine academia. 
     Even though the history of the western medicine almost as long as the TCM, and it has been several hundred years since the needle treatment spread to west societies, and developed in its application in charging current on the needle, but it is hardly to understanding its principle. Last century the Japanese and Germany researchers found that some special points on persons&#39; skins which have distinct electrical properties, and they are all well matched, therefor well proved with the acupoints which had been introduced by TCM for thousand years ago. Since then, the acupuncture and their meridian theory began to be officially noted by western. However, because the two systems of the medical theory are based on totally different system concepts, and their theoretical and development experiment ways are also completely different. So, both sides of the academic communities reject each other&#39;s theory and the methods: On the one side, Western medicine based on its solid scientific methods and its astronomical number success cases! So it has real material basses. On the other side, CTM has thousands years of practice and in countless successful cases and their dependent on their theory, especially the special acupoints were proved by the Western doctor researchs, and more, many case were successfully cured which ware failed by methods of the Western medicine treatments. 
     In order to unify the two medical theory, many researcher did their effort; 
     there are many devices had been used for the measurement for the electrical current, resistance, electrical conductivity and these indexes&#39; strength [U.S. Pat. No. 2,012,376 A, Aug. 27, 1935. U.S. Pat. No. 2,716,979, Sep. 6, 1955. And Terrence Pan 2008. Chao Dupuis, A 2010. Andrew C. Ahn. 2007. Guo Jie Sun, 2000], these let the persons try to explain the principles of how are the meridians&#39; working. But, they were minimally used in measuring for Acupoints&#39; electrical resistance strength and never been used for purposes of setting up the database for UNIFIED INDEXEs for the world for Acupoints&#39; in any test item like: electrical resistance, electrical current and their waveforms, electrical conductivity and the magnetic fields well as the pH values, etc. Also, because of two different medicines concepts are totally different said above: The CTM concerned about the overall body&#39;s Ying-Yang balance; body&#39;s organs&#39; relationships and effects each other and their meridians are well if they are in balance. But the TCM couldn&#39;t answer the question that ‘where is the anatomic support’ of the ‘meridian and their acupoints’? 
     While the western medical focus on the details; the reasons, can be anatomically seen, the molecular and their reaction and their effects on the cells and organs of the body; no cells&#39; problem will no body&#39;s problem. But the modern medicine couldn&#39;t answer the question that: “why the acupoint Zusanli (ST 36) can be used for treating the kidney failure” and “why the acupoint Neiguan (PC 36) can be used for treating the heart failure”? Even though some on tried to explain the activation of the meridian by usage of meridian treatment devices, however, because no breakthrough on their theory, so their explanation still finally got back to their own home (Terrence Pan, 2008. Yu-ling Wang, 2008). Also, the western researcher use the electricity to treat different illnesses [US 20040122709A1, 2004. U.S. Pat. No. 9,589,106, 2017. U.S. Pat. No. 8,498,879B2 2008. CN201806693U, 2010. CN102949175B, 2011], however, most of them were just stayed on the step of ‘cases’ collection’; still no breakthrough for their theory for it. So now still neither the western medical theory nor the TCM theory could well cover to the knowledge of the data indicators&#39; characteristics in such like the electrical resistance, electrical conductivity and the magnetic fields in the local point for different Meridians and their Acupoints, not to mention the inherent mutual relationships between them. Moreover, the inherent mutual relationships to the normal physiology and clinic pathology in different diseases refer to above said data indicators. To figure out the faces of the meridian actions and by through it to research and explore TCM to unify the all medicine concepts, for the First Step, the setting for the UNIFIED INDEXEs for Meridian and their Acupoints&#39; measurement dates are necessary, after all, the way can be recognized by both sides. The second, from the scientific point of view, since the acupoint have been confirmed, no one has further to prove their law of activities. So, measuring the acupoints relative values of the meridians and on the Unified Indexes and compares their changes over time to prove their activity patterns change over time are very important. 
     There are several laws of activities have been introducing by the theory of the Zi-Wu flowing ( ) of CTM in more than thousand years ago, they told us that the acupoints will more active in their specific time period, and treating these acupoint in said specific time would have more powerful for the diseases treatment and would have much better effects. So if the law of the activities could been proved and programing them to the special devices which can sent treating signals to the detector at the specific time period on said acupoints will have much better effects for the diseases treatment or could care these disease by frequently treatment. 
     Second; if person were in abnormal inner condition and some acupoints of this person will also be in abnormal and they can be checked out by measurement. And for different disease, there have different acupoints will have their inner changes. So exploring for these changes in different disease and also compare them with the normal relative meridians and their acupoints, should help us to diagnoses and further to treat such illness especially in the active time period of these acupoints. 
     Therefor, the Unified Indexes for each acupoint measure data is important. Also, treatment device which has the program about the automatically measure and then directly automatically treat the body in some special points will be helpful for the both sides concepts, on this basis to get a unified understanding. These are very important for clinical, also for personally self-care. 
     Have noticed that the invention CN 10294917B (2011 Aug. 18, also some machines) has asked claim for the drug test by use of the meridian test, however, neither its description nor figures of the system in usage of DIRECTLY test the effecting of the drug in the activation of the meridian because the system just test the drug: “a drug testing unit is connected to the second electrical transmission interfaces to the host for the drug to detect a corresponding electromagnetic wave electronic analog signal, . . . ”. Also, in its  FIG. 2 : the numbered  131  completed separated with  151 , as well as in the same relationship between the S 6  and S 2  in its  FIG. 6 . So, such a design completed excluded out for direct testing the drug effects to the living body, not to say to explore the time of the actions of the drug in vive for their meridians&#39; movings. 
     In my previous patent application (U.S. Ser. No. 14/999,018) and Chinese patent CN 20575897.1U, Dec. 7, 2016 I disclosed an invention for a treatment method for the coil set which can generate electromagnetic field use to the needle treatment. The coil set can combine magnetic field, needle puncturing, electrical and worm stimulation together in same acupuncture point (Acupoint). That invention is based on the CTM theory and its practical treatment experiences, not based on the modem medicine theory. For obtaining and setting up the UNIFIED INDEX of above said DATABASEs; and in favor of the needle treatment explanation in theory, helps and guards the application of treatment in clinic, this invention is continually for the prior invention of U.S. Ser. No. 14/999,018 they belong to a series of the invention applications which try to unified the concepts for the CTM and the modem medical theories. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The invention disclosed a system for design to establish the UNIFIED INDEX of the database of the meridians and acupoints measurement data and the measurement is according to said meridian and their acupuncture characteristics activities following the time in the living body. The database including at least one following detection indicators of the electrical resistance, the electrical current and their frequencies and waveforms, the capacitance, the conductivity, magnetic field, temperature, electromagnet and their waves and lights and their waves, and the pH values and temperature values in inside and or at the surface of said the acupoints of the meridians in living body. The database and their Unified Index could be used as new diagnostic indicator for clinically health, and also for the detector for new drugs functions and their development. The invention include the various methods for obtain the different information which reflect the meridian and their acupoints&#39; characteristics of above said indexes data or values of the measurement. And said the data use on the research for inherent mutual relationships between the meridians, and their acupoints in said the database, and the inherent mutual relationships to the normal person and various patients suffer with different diseases and the database use in the normal life and clinic for different diseases treatments. Also, the characteristics biologic energies recorded from the health person, and return them back to the sickness persons to cure them; is important experiment for the “Biologic Energy Nutrition” concept and for establishment of the theory of the BENuology and others so said. 
     Persons are measured their bio-indictors and the data are transferred into the host for classified by their persons&#39; health history into the normal and abnormal, then further divided with their gender as well as different diseases. The abnormal groups should continually separate into more detail groups for each individual disease. For each group should have their own data indicators value, each characteristic database value will be found and also set in each individually group. So, for the person who&#39;s some specific acupoint measured data are limited on the value of a certain disease&#39; or specific disease group paten(s), then this person will be danger for suffering this disease. If the person&#39;s several data indicator are close to that certain disease, that means of this person is high risk crow of suffer those diseases. In this situation, the device will automatic sent the treatment signals to the detector to treat that person in same or other specific acupoints in a special time period; because according to the theory of the acupuncture: each meridian has their own active time, specific acupoints activate at specific time. Most important is this method is safety for clinic disease treatment. 
     The number for the figures: 
       1  The information of the persons and their health background. 
       2  The information from  1  bind with to  3 . 
       3  Same persons of above  1  are tested their meridians and acupoints indicators. 
     Notice: from  1  to  3  is the Step A: the raw data collection and treated preliminarily. 
       4  The information from box  3 ; Step A are transferred into the Intelligent Database Center, Step B: Meridian databases are established for each standards and their curves based on each time law of meridian activities. 
       5  The health persons&#39; groups and non-health persons&#39; groups are separated in this step. The data information from box  3  are combined with the data of above measured meridians and their acupoints and statistically calculated with the meridian&#39;s activation time point to set up each individually standard data and the curve of their individual time law. 
       6  The path of the information from  5  to  7 . 
       7  The Meridian Databases are established for each of their standard and their curves based on each time law of meridian activities. The UNIFIEDF INDEX of each group of which every calculation factors have been added in are set. It is a part of Intelligent Database Center. 
       8  The new raw data resources: from this kind of device the new raw data from new persons with their health histories and the persons which have been measured before are measured and the data are transferred with their health histories update to the  7 , to rich, full and perfect the said databases and the UNIFIED INDEX for increasing the number of the samples calculated statistically for the data volumes of said meridians and acupoints in the Host. 
       9  The data signal information from device  8  through this path by linking line or wireless into the Host directly or by website or other ways indirectly. 
       10  The suggestion signal information from the Host through this path by wire or wireless into the device  8  directly or indirectly. The suggestion signals comprise the diagnosis conclusion, and direct treatment programs and signals for automatic treatment, or its suggestions for the manual selection signals and other measuring signals, and so on. 
     Notice: the line  9  and  10  can be combined come together, the figure just try to clearly show the details. 
       11  Any kind of Person—Machine communication path way: especially for the Doctor, which marked as  25  in figures. 
       12  The monitor which the data, character, figure, graph, data curve and voice signal from said the device can be seen on it. 
       13  The answer signals&#39; path from monitor to said the device. 
       14  the command signals&#39; path from said the device to the monitor. 
     Notice: the line  13  and  14  can become together, the figure just try to clearly show the details. 
       15  The Host of Intelligent Database Center. The  15 ′ is any other  15 . 
       16  The measurement signal path, the measurement signals from the detector (not shown in the figures) pass through this path to said the device directly or indirectly. 
       17  The measurement order signals from said the device to the detector (not shown). 
       18  &amp;  19 . The treatment signals from said the device to the treatment detector (not shown) which is used to detect the relevant data of the said meridians and their acupoints: the dotted line  19  means that the treatment signal is indirectly go to the treatment detector, that is for manual selection for the treatment methods. While the solid line  18  means that the treatment signal is directly go to the treatment detector for automatic treatment. 
     Please notice: the detector (not shown in the figures) can be designed to bind both measuring and treating functions and return the signals back to said the device. And the lines  16 ,  17 ,  18 ,  19  can combined together; the figures just try to show the details clearly. 
       20  Connection direct or indirectly between the  15  and  15 ′, and their database will be exchanged to combine to the more completed database. 
       21  is showing Step C; the database for the persons meridian and their acupoints action characteristics are well set up from several UNIFIED INDEX Data Generator of the Host  15  and  15 ′; because the number of statistics have been enough for their statistic value which have been able to show the characteristic of local population meridian and their acupoints activations. There might be some different in the UNIFIED INDEX Database in different countries in the world because of the racial differences and so on. 
       24  is any different kind IT like cellphone, laptop, the office computer which has combined functions of measurement and/or treatment for the said meridians and acupoints. They are connected with the center Host by the wire or wireless shown by double arrow dotted line  23  in the  FIG. 2 , respectively. 
       26  is manual communication between the Doctors  25  with the devices  8  for their measured data, diagnose and treatment ideas after each time of measured data, diagnose and treatment. Depend on that, Doctors will make final decision for treated patient. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES 
         FIG. 1  is very simplified schematic the steps from raw data collection to completely set up the database and the Unified Index for said measurements. 
         FIG. 2  is very simplified schematic the device working principle for combine measurement-treatment functions together. And the connections of the Host with other devices. 
         FIG. 3  is very simplified schematic that the doctor&#39;s position in meridian treatment procedure 
     
    
    
     DETAILS OF THE INVENTION DESCRIPTION 
     The first of all, the persons (box  1 ) which have their health background information are measured for their different meridian/acupoints and the data are recorded in the test device showed as box  3 , and  2  means the persons&#39; general health background information  1  bind with  3 , the bundled data are transfer by path  4  to the UNIFIED INDEX Data Generator of the Host  15  to finished step A: the raw data collection. 
     In the step B, in Host showing as  15  in the  FIG. 1 , the data from the box  3  are further with treated statistically to separate into different groups based on each person&#39;s individual health background; the health male and the health female and in which comprise different sub groups based on different age. Also corresponding to the each health groups, the each patient group are also set for different disease. Depend on their groups, individual persons&#39; meridian data are statistically counted and the primary standard data are set for each group like showed as box  5 . Then, as showing in the box  7  each data is transferred by  6  and treated by the MTAL of each individual measured meridian which its raw data came from as said above step A, and the individually database of specific meridian for special said group is set up in the step B and each individual Index volume will also be set. Please notice here, said the MTAL can be deal with in any step of above procedure, in the figures just try to show the principal clearly. 
     According to the traditional meridian theory of the specific meridian/acupoints are more active in special time, and the acupoint are different in their inner condition when person is in sickness or health, and for specific illness there are specific acupoints could cure them. So when the new raw data continually getting from the device  8  through  9  and these new data information will be added to different database group depend on their health background and treated in said the  15  of  7  statistically to perfect or called update their database. According to the law of measured meridian, and compare the data from  8 , the Host will automatically diagnosis the data fresh get from  8  is normal or not, and if it were abnormal, which disease&#39;s meridian acupoint activation data is the most march the data from  8  in that measurement time, depend on treat the data by statistics comparison and the analysis, said the Host will automatically sand conclusion to  8  for the data that if they are abnormal or not, if there were abnormal, what the disease is the most possible for that data&#39;s host person, what the acupoints should be used for treating that disease depend on the one of said the MTALs, and what is the best time to treat these specific acupoints. Above information from said the Host will automatically transfer to the device  8  by path  10 . Said the Host can be used for any medicine worker  25  by the path  11  of the  FIG. 1 . The functions and the databases can be shared between different Hosts  15 ′ and the Unified Indexes, and are set up for larger range  22  by  21  till the entire world. 
     Because in different race, their meridians&#39; activation law may have some different, so in different area may need its own database and independent Unified Index. 
     In the  FIG. 2 , the Host  15  (also can be device  8  as below) send its measurement order signals to the detector(s) (not shown, as below) by path  17  and receive the test information back through  16  and automatically send its diagnostic information to monitor  12  by  14  to clearly show them on monitor  12 . The selecting information from  12  be sent to said the Host by path  13 , following the selected orders, said the Host send its treatment order to the detector(s) to treat the person (not marked). In other situation, if said the Host already get the order for automatically treatment program, then after  16 , said the Host will automatically send treatment order to the detectors to treat that person directly by path  18 . The  19  just showing the way of manually selection (like switch) for treatment, like touch screen selection on the  12 . In  FIG. 2  the just showing the database can be shared with any other IT and let the latter to get some extent functions of measurement, diagnostic and treatment; for example, the cellphone. 
     The Host  15  can be automatically set the program of continually repeat the steps from  17 ,  16 , and  18  in set the time. And during the set time, said the Host can automatically select different acupoints to set its treatment or measurement information on them by the meridians timing activation law software program(s). 
     In the  FIG. 3 , showing the medicinal worker like doctor  25 , manually work on said the device, the doctor join his/her analyses and diagnoses with said the device, and make their decisions for the continue treatment or not. 
     As the examples that said the invention system can be used for normal person which including as following individual named (but never limited) diseases&#39; and its symptoms person for their meridians&#39; acupoints measurement or treatment, or both, they are grouped in: 
     1. Plant people, Dementia. Alzheimer&#39;s disease, Amnesia, Mental retardation, Depression. Stroke, Paralysis including caused by accident. Optic nerve atrophy. Color blindness, visual correction. 
     2. Hypertension, low blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, heart failure, 
     3. Various kinds of cancers. 
     4 Renal failure, Impotence, prostatic hypertrophy 
     5 Glaucoma, diabetics, 
     6 Various allergy symptoms, seasonal allergy symptoms. 
     7 Body weight controls 
     8 Bone fracture healing 
     9 Various acute injury and various acute or chromic pains. Arthritic and rheumatoid arthritis. 
     10 Anyone who&#39;s acupoints&#39; measuring data deviation from the normal volume which set by said invention system and the Unified Indexes of the databases the system collected. 
     11 The studies for any medicine&#39;s effect(s) to the normal and abnormal living bodies 
     12 The studies for any stimulating way to the person s for the effect(s) to the normal and abnormal living bodies.