The Bi-Digital O-Ring Test: Critical Evaluation of Its Abnormal Responses with Laboratory Tests Including “Blood Pressure & Blood Flow Method,” “Blood Chemistry,” Etc.,and “Neutrological Method”

Abstract

Among the many simple and sophisticated diagnostic methods currently used in both Western and Oriental medicine, the “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test” originally developed by the author was found to be the simplest and most useful clinical diagnostic method. It had an average diagnostic accuracy of over 80% in already diagnosed cases, without any prior knowledge of the patient's medical history or diagnosis on the part of the examining physician. In cases where the patient had no previous diagnosis or laboratory tests, the author made a special effort to confirm each abnormality of individual internal organs identified by the “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test” by means of standard laboratory tests, such as x-rays, blood chemistries, blood pressure and blood flow. Blood pressure and blood flow were measured at different parts of the body with the patient in a sitting position. Key measurement areas for this study were the right and left supraorbital arteries, posterior tibial arteries, and big toes. The measured values were compared with the estimated normal values. However, in cases where there were significant abnormalities in the pancreas, liver or kidneys, the author found that blood chemistry tests supposedly corresponding to the abnormalities of these organs did not show any abnormality, in more than 50% of the cases examined. Among the possible causes of this discrepancy was the time interval between the “Bi-Digital O-Ring” examination and the taking of blood for the blood chemistry. When the blood chemistry was performed immediately after the abnormality was found, supporting blood chemistry data was frequently obtained. Among patients showing an abnormality at the pancreas representation point, but whose fasting glucose level was within the normal range, a 6-hour glucose tolerance test often revealed significant abnormalities, including abnormal glucose and insulin levels, liver enzymes, LDH, CPK, SGOT and SGPT, 30 min. after initiation of the test, and again during the 4th hour (when hypoglycemia was often found). In those whose “Bi-Digital O-R1ng Tests” showed kidney abnormalities, but whose BUN, creatinin, uric acid and electrolytes were all normal, the author often found abnormally reduced circulation to the kidneys due to narrowing of the abdominal aorta. The “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test” was used in combination with the newly identified or refined, precisely located organ representation points developed during the author's clinical experience, as well as by using the Organ Representation Point Determination Method. When the “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test” showed an abnormality in the common carotid artery or its bifurcation area into the internal and external carotid arteries, the abnormality of that area was often confirmed by real time ultra-sonic vascular imaging. The “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test” has also been successfully used for both diagnosis and evaluation of the therapeutic effects of various treatment modalities. In diagnosis, the test is so sensitive that, even before anatomical or blood chemistry changes have taken place, It can often detect some abnormality. Often, however, the results of the various laboratory tests served to confirm the abnormal findings of the “Bi-Digital O-Ring Test.”

Keywords

Bi-Digital O-Ring Test blood chemistry serum glucose 6-hour glucose tolerance test insulin liver kidney blood pressure ultra-sonic Doppler flow meter ultra-sonic real time vascular imaging imaging pancreas hypertension hypotension new diagnostic method

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