Treatment of asthma and respiratory disease by means of electrical neuro-receptive waveforms

• US 6,633,779 B1
• Filed: 11/27/2001
• Issued: 10/14/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Codes of Life LLC
• Original Assignee: Medical Scientific Incorporated
• Inventors: Schuler, Eleanor L., Lee, Claude K.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jastrzab, Jeffrey R.
• Application Number:
  US09/995,194
• Time in Patent Office: 686 Days
• Field of Search: 607/42, 607/68, 607/73, 607/76, 601/2, 601/15
• US Class Current: 607/42
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/3601 of respiratory organs
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36031 using physiological parameters for adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36034 specified by the stimulation parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/37252 Details of algorithms or data aspects of communication system, e.g. handshaking, transmitting specific data or segmenting data

Abstract

A method and device for treating asthma and respiratory disease. The method comprises selecting waveforms from a storage area that are representative of body organ function. The selected waveforms are then transmitted to a treatment member, which is in direct contact with the body, and which then broadcasts the waveforms to a specific body organ to modulate the body organ functioning. A control module is provided for transmission to the treatment member. The control module contains the waveforms which are selected and transmitted to the treatment member, and computer storage can be provided for greater storage capacity and manipulation of the waveforms.

Claims

1. A method for treating asthma and respiratory disease comprising the steps of:

a. selecting from a storage area one or more waveforms generated in the body and carried by neurons in the body;

b. transmitting or conducting the selected waveforms to a treatment member in contact with the body; and

c. broadcasting the selected waveforms from the treatment member to an area in the body such that an organ in the body is affected to treat asthma or respiratory disease.

2. The method according to claim 1, in which step “

a”

further includes selecting said waveforms from a storage area in a computer.

3. The method according to claim 1, in which step “

b”

further comprises transmitting the selected waveforms remotely to the treatment member.

4. The method according to claim 1, in which step “

b”

further comprises seismic transmission of the selected waveforms.

5. An apparatus for treating asthma and respiratory disease, comprising:

a. a source of collected waveforms generated in the body and indicative of body organ functioning;

b. a treatment member adapted to be in direct contact with the body;

c. means for transmitting one or more of the collected waveforms to the treatment member; and

d. means for broadcasting the collected waveforms from the treatment member to an area in the body such that a body organ is affected, thereby treating asthma or respiratory disease.

6. The apparatus according to claim 5, in which said transmitting means includes a digital to analog converter.

7. The apparatus according to claim 5, in which said source comprises a computer having collected waveforms stored in digital format.

8. The apparatus according to claim 7, in which said computer includes separate storage areas for collecting waveforms of different respiratory functional categories.

9. The apparatus according to claim 5, in which the treatment member comprises an antenna for broadcasting respiratory signals.

10. The apparatus according to claim 5, in which the treatment member comprises an electrode.