Psychological Mechanism of Traditional Healing Technique Performed by the Healing Robot : through the life information field (Special Lecture 2) (Without Peer Review) (The Seventeenth Symposium on Life Information Science)

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  • UEBABA Kazuo
    International Research Center for Traditional Medicine of Toyama Prefecture
  • XU Feng-Hao
    International Research Center for Traditional Medicine of Toyama Prefecture
  • TATSUSE Takashi
    International Research Center for Traditional Medicine of Toyama Prefecture
  • TAGUCHI Yukiko
    International Research Center for Traditional Medicine of Toyama Prefecture
  • OGAWA Hiroko
    International Research Center for Traditional Medicine of Toyama Prefecture
  • HISAJIMA Tatsuya
    Anatomy 2nd, Yokohama City University

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  • 伝統医学的療法による変性意識体験と癒しロボットの効果の仕組み : 生命情報のレベルからのアプローチ(特別講演2)(第17回生命情報科学シンポジウム)

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Abstract

One of the characteristic healing techniques of Traditional Indian Medicine (Ayurveda), Shirodhara (oil dripping treatment on the forehead), was studied by a new modern approach with a healing robot, which provided the standardized reproducible method for Shirodhara. 16 healthy subjects (1^<st> experiment) and 57 healthy subjects (2^<nd> experiment) had Shirodhara with the monitoring of the physiological examinations in the 1^<st> experiment, and the psychometric questionnaires (STAI and altered state of consciousness : ASC) in the 2^<nd> experiment. During Shirodhara, heart rate and CO_2 excretion decreased, and an alternative marker of sympathetic tone, LF/HF ratio calculated from ECG R-R variability, was suppressed. In the EEG study ,, wave was predominant in the frontal lobe, and frontal midbrain ,, wave appeared during Shirodhara. These physiological changes were supported by the anxiolytic effects of the 2^<nd> experiment associated with altered state of consciousness in the Shirodhara conducted by the healing robot. Both anxiolytic effects and depth of altered state of consciousness are correlated with the skin temperature of the foot during Shirodhara, which indicated the linkage of the physiological and psychological dynamics during Shirodhara. According to the Ayurvedic concept of life, Shirodhara may at first alter the state of consciousness of the inner side of the mind, resulting in the decrease of anxiety of mind level, which was manifested as the suppression of sympathetic nervous activity and the elevation of the foot skin temperature in the body level. The level of consciousness is said to be the life information filed. This mechanism of manifestation of the information field through mind and body level is so similar to biotechnology of the modern medicine, that we call it "Spiritual Biotechnology".

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