Electrical meridian diagnosis

• Main Author: Neo, Wei Tuck.
• Other Authors: Siew Chee Kheong, David
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Applications of electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49424
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the recent years, people are more concern about health issue as the population ages. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), many people are doubtful about its theories as many are not proven scientifically by clinical trials. Unlike TCM, many instruments for diagnosing an illness were developed in Western Medicine.In this report, the Bio-Pulse TC and Meridian Testing Program is used to explore the skin conductivity at acupuncture points and electrical meridian diagnosis. It will discuss errors in measurement, different measurement methods, effect of an exercise and compute equivalent impedance between the test probe and the hand held electrode. We study the effect of exercise by means of a small group of subjects who volunteered to do aerobic exercise, jogging, meditation and Tai Chi. Measurements show that energy level of the body has increased after an exercise using Bio-Pulse apparatus. We propose a new method based on measuring five Shu Xue points related to the Heart, Small Intestine, Lung and Large Intestine meridians to find out whether the reading of the acupuncture points are balanced for the left and right side of the body after an exercise. Results from five Shu Xue analysis have shown that it is balanced especially for exercises such as jogging, meditation and Tai Chi and the graph generally follows an increasing trends from the Jing well point to the He sea point. Measurement using Jing well points have proved to be most reliable as the analysis shown that the variance of Jing well points is lowest as compared to other points.