APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF NEUROPSYCHIC AND SOMATIC DISEASES WITH HEAT, LIGHT, SOUND AND VHF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

• US 3,773,049 A
• Filed: 11/13/1970
• Issued: 11/20/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 11/13/1970
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Alexandr Sergeevich Putilin, Leopold Pavlovich Kernitsky, Lev Yakovlevich Rabichev, Petr Vasilievich Raku, Tatyana Grigorievna Ilina, Vladislav Fedorovich Vasiliev
• Original Assignee: Alexandr Sergeevich Putilin, Leopold Pavlovich Kernitsky, Lev Yakovlevich Rabichev, Petr Vasilievich Raku, Tatyana Grigorievna Ilina, Vladislav Fedorovich Vasiliev
• Inventors: Rabichev, Lev Yakovlevich, Vasiliev, Vladislav Fedorovich, Putilin, Alexandr Sergeevich, Ilina, Tatyana Grigorievna, Raku, Petr Vasilievich, Kernitsky, Leopold Pavlovich
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US05/089,374
• Time in Patent Office: 1,103 Days
• Field of Search: 128/1C,1R,1.3,24.1,362,380,399,404,410,419P,422
• US Class Current: 607/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0027 by the hearing sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0044 by the sight sense
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0055 with electric or electro-magnetic fields
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2021/0066 with heating or cooling
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 21/00 Other devices or methods to cause a change in the state of consciousness; Devices for producing or ending sleep by mechanical, optical, or acoustical means, e.g. for hypnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 5/00 Radiation therapy ultrasound therapy A61N7/00; devices or apparatus applicable to both therapy and diagnosis A61B6/00

Abstract

An apparatus for the treatment of neuropsychic and somatic disorders wherein light-, sound-, VHF electromagnetic fieldpulses and radiation from light-, sound-, VHF electromcagnetic field- and heat-sources, respectively, are simultaneously applied by means of a control unit to the patient'"'"''"'"'s central nervous system with a predermined repetition rate. The light radiation and sound radiation sources are made so as to exert an adequate and monotonous influence of the light-and sound-radiation on the patient'"'"''"'"'s visual analyzers and auditory analyzers, respectively.

Claims

1. An apparatus for the treatment of neuropsychic and somatic diseases, said apparatus comprising a control unit means for simultaneously periodically activating apparatus connected thereto in a pulsed manner at a selected repetition rate;

a light-radiation source essentially comprising at least one electric bulb electrically connected with said control unit means, such that light pulses are generated by said lightradiation source influencing the central nervous system of the patient having one of said diseases who faces said source;

a sound radiation source essentially comprising an electric generator of pulse oscillations, a small dynamic loud-speaker means for converting said oscillations into acoustic signals imitating the sound of falling drops of water, said electric generator being electrically connected with said control unit means for actuation thereby whereby sound pulses of said soundradiation source influence the central nervous system of the patient;

a VHF electromagnetic-field source essentially comprising a generator of sinusoidal electric oscillations of the waves metric range, electrically connected with said control unit means and disposed in proximity to the patient'"'"''"'"'s ganglia, pulses from said VHF electromagnetic field source acting upon the nervous system of the patient;

said light-radiation source producing an adequate and monotonous action of the lightradiation of the patient'"'"''"'"'s visual analyzer;

said sound radiation source producing an adequate and monotonous influence of the sound radiation on the patient'"'"''"'"'s auditory analyzer;

said control unit means controlling said light-radiation, sound-radiation and VHF electromagnetic-field source so as to provide for a simultaneous generation of said light, sound and VHF electromagnetic pulses and directing said pulses to act upon the patient'"'"''"'"'s central nervous system, all said pulses following at a predetermined repetition rate and ensuring suppression of the patient'"'"''"'"'s nervous activity; and

a power supply means to supply said lightradiation, sound-radiation and VHF electromagneticfield sources and said control unit.

2. An apparatus according to claim 9, further including a heat radiation source comprising an electrical coil surrounded by a heat-insulating shield and provided with an air-forcing motor, said heat source being disposed in the proximity of the patient'"'"''"'"'s integument, said motor of said heat-radiation source being electrically connected with said control unit means and controlled thereby so as to ensure a heat irradiation flow onto the patient'"'"''"'"'s integument at the same time as said VHF electromagnetic-field pulses and sound pulses are sent at an assigned repetition rate, so as to contribute to the inhibition of the patient'"'"''"'"'s nervous activity.

3. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said light-radiation source comprises at least one blue-light lamp adapted to be placed at the level of the patient'"'"''"'"'s eyes.

4. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said light-radiation source comprises at least one green-light lamp adapted to be placed at the level of the patient'"'"''"'"'s eyes.

5. An apparatus according to claim 4, wherein an even number of said green-light lamps are provided and are adapted to be arranged symmetrically with respect to the saggital plane of the patient and at a minimal angle relative to the axis of the respective eye.

6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said electromagnetic field source comprises an oscillator means having a control means, and wherein said control unit means is a chopper provided with a rotatable cam gear having electric contacts which periodically connect said power supply source with the circuit of the incandescent lamps, with the electric generator of pulse oscillations which are converted in a small dynamic loudspeaker into acoustic signals imitating the sound of falling drops of water, as well as grounding the control means of the oscillator means.

7. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said electromagnetic field source comprises an oscillator means having a control means, and wherein said control unit means comprises an electronic timer means having at least one thyratron and a resistor-capacitor delay trigger circuit means therefor, said thyratron including an anode circuit comprising a series connected electro-mechanical relay having contacts connecting the power supply source with the circuit of the incandescent lamps, with the electric generator of pulse oscillations converted in a small dynamic loudspeaker into acoustic signals imitating the sound of falling drops of water, as well as grounding the control means of the oscillator means.

8. An apparatus according to claim 7, further including a heat radiation source, and wherein said electronic timer having at least one thyratron with an anode circuit comprising a series connected electro-mechanical relay having contacts connecting the power supply source with the circuit of the incandescent lamps, with the electric generator of pulse oscillations converted in a small dynamic loudspeaker into acoustic signals imitating the sound of falling drops of water, as well as grounding the grid of the oscillator means, further connects the power supply with said heat radiation source, and has a potentiometer electrically connected with said timer to provide for a predetermined repetition rate of said VHF electromagnetic-field, light and sound pulses, and for the control of said heat radiation depending on the individual features of the patient.