Homeopathic effect on heart rate variability

G Ruiz; J-L Torres; O Michel; R Navarro

doi:10.1054/homp.1999.0294

British Homeopathic Journal, Table of Contents

Br Homeopath J 1999; 88(03): 106-111
DOI: 10.1054/homp.1999.0294

Original Paper

Homeopathic effect on heart rate variability

Authors

G Ruiz

¹Instituto de Fı́sica y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
J-L Torres

¹Instituto de Fı́sica y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
O Michel

²Colegio de Médicos Homeópatas del Centro, AC, Mexico
R Navarro

³Colegio Metropolitano de Médicos Homeópatas de Jalisco, AC, Mexico

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Abstract

We record ECGs from healthy human subjects during 24-h long intervals, using ambulatory equipment. We calculate from the data various parameters, searching for those that change in a clear and systematic way under a homoepathic stimulus, (Strophantus hispidus 30 c). The energy fraction at high frequencies in the power spectrum of heart rate variability fulfills this condition, and we are able to interpret our results in a way consistent with the information on this medicine in the homeopathic Materia Medica.

Keywords

heart rate - power spectrum - ECG - healthy volunteers - Strophanthus hispidus - electrocardiogram - cross-correlation

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