In a first for the Health Industry, the Indian Patent Office has granted a Patent Registration to Machine-Learning based, non-invasive diagnostic device being called the ‘Nadi Parisothanai’.
Patent granted to Siddha Medical Diagnostic Device
This device is used for prognosis as well as a diagnosis of health disorders by mapping the flow of blood through blood vessels using sensors and processing the data in no-time for an error-free diagnosis of ailments. The device accomplishes this by processing the after-effect of electrical impulse in the radial artery and is being touted as a breakthrough not just in modern diagnostic systems but also opens the doors for new tech being developed using principles from other forms of medicines than Allopathy.
“The objective behind this first-of-its-kind project is to ensure error-free diagnosis of health issues within a couple of minutes by digitally analyzing the patient’s ‘naadi’ picked-up through sensors. If we can make this kit available to the siddha medical practitioners or even a common man at affordable cost, accurate diagnosis of the diseases and deciding the right line of treatment using siddha formulations will be error-free, easier and faster,” says G. Subhash Chandran, Professor of Government Siddha Medical College, Palayamkottai, and State Nodal Officer, Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav - AYUSH Celebration, who is a part of this team.
While modern allopathic medicine offers a range of diagnostic tools ranging from mechanical, manual or radiological, the ‘nadi’ records the flow of blood in blood vessels and captures any shift in this natural flow to diagnose ailments. “...we are comparing the ‘nadi’ of a patient with already digitally stored ‘nadi’ taken from over a thousand healthy and unhealthy persons for rightly diagnosing the disease,” Dr. Subhash Chandran explains
Dr. Chandran, along with the Late G. Sakthinathan, former Dean Anna University Regional Campus at Tirunelveli started this project 8 years ago. Today, Dr, Chandran along with Dr. Dejey, Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science, Anna University along with other brilliant scientists and technicians from the University are armed with a novel Patent and a diagnostic tool that could change the way we approach diagnostics.
“Armed with the patent given by Government of India, we’ve planned to submit this diagnostic equipment to AYUSH for its formal approval so that it can be put into use at the earliest,” Dr. Subhash said.
We wish the team our best, and hope to see the device in action very soon. We can’t wait for what the team has planned in the future and for more such genius advancements in the Health sector from across the country.
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