Psychological mechanism of traditional healing technique performed by the healing robot - through the life information field

One of the characteristic healing techniques of Traditional Indian Medicine (Ayurveda), Shirodhara (oil dripping treatment on the forehead), was studied by a new modern approach with a healing robot, which provided the standardized reproducible method for Shirodhara. 16 healthy subjects (1st experiment) and 57 healthy subjects (2nd experiment) had Shirodhara with the monitoring of the physiological examinations in the 1st experiment, and the psychometric questionnaires (STAI and altered state of consciousness: ASC) in the 2nd experiment.

During Shirodhara, heart rate and CO2 excretion decreased, and an alternative marker of sympathetic tone, LF/HF ratio calculated from ECG R-R variability, was suppressed. In the EEG study alpha wave was predominant in the frontal lobe, and frontal midbrain shieta wave appeared during Shirodhara. These physiological changes were supported by the anxiolytic effects of the 2nd experiment associated with altered state of consciousness in the Shirodhara conducted by the healing robot. Both anxiolytic effects and depth of altered state of consciousness are correlated with the skin temperature of the foot during Shirodhara, which indicated the linkage of the physiological and psychological dynamics during Shirodhara.

According to the Ayurvedic concept of life, Shirodhara may at first alter the state of consciousness of the inner side of the mind, resulting in the decrease of anxiety of mind level, which was manifested as the suppression of sympathetic nervous activity and the elevation of the foot skin temperature in the body level. The level of consciousness is said to be the life information filed. This mechanism of manifestation of the information field through mind and body level is so similar to biotechnology of the modern medicine, that we call it 'Spiritual Biotechnology'.