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told. The good effects happen basically because
of the placebo effect of the faith the patient has in
the doctor! In that setting all good things happen
because of nature and not the doctor.
That thought should humble our arrogant doctors
and scientists who believe that the world runs
because of their efforts—“do it” or “fix it”! Humility
is true education in Indian philosophy. Whom to
believe? The physics of blood pressure control
confuses my thinking completely even now as
Socrates rightly said that “I know that I don’t
know.” I have been thinking about it from the time I
joined the medical school little over half a century
from now. The Bournelli effect baffles me vis-a-vis
human blood pressure.
“The good effects
happen basically because
of the placebo effect of
the faith the patient has
in the doctor! In that
setting all good things
happen because of nature
and not the doctor.”
The Bernoulli Equation can be considered to be a
statement of the conservation of energy principle
appropriate for flowing fluids. The qualitative
behavior that is usually labeled with the term
“Bernoulli effect” is the lowering of fluid pressure in
regions where the flow velocity is increased.
This lowering of pressure in a constriction of a flow
path may seem counterintuitive, but seems less so
when you consider pressure to be energy density.
In the high velocity flow through the constriction,
kinetic energy must increase at the expense of
pressure energy.
With the latest development in quantum physics
showing that matter and energy are but the two
faces of the same coin, (E = M) (Hans Peter Duerr-
Matter is not made out of matter-Google), the
kinetic energy in the above equation makes life
more complicated!
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Velocity being the feature of straight line flows,
the vascular bed that is NEVER straight, might
find it difficult to sustain it. If one extrapolates
this to vascular blocks seen inside arteries,
makes physicians life more complicated. Think
of calcium channel blockers trying to dilate the
vessels to lower BP in this background and the
dangers of those drugs in view of physics wisdom,
think of beta-blockers, nay, and almost all known
antihypertensive chemicals in this set up!
What kept me sane in the midst of all these
confounding confusions is the old statement of
Albert Einstein, who was not a fan of quantum
physics, that “most complicated things in nature
have very simple solutions.” I have been searching
for that. This article is an effort in that direction. I
hope some brilliant brain of the reader might throw
some bright light here.
To cap it all, comes the statement that the human
heart is a simple muscular pump. When it stops
pumping, man dies! My confusion is “how did man
survive the first 12 weeks inside the mother’s
womb where he did not have a heart but had
only two vessels that kept sending blood round
and round? The same vessels then evolved to
make the heart.
Could we learn a lesson here from Nature, which
makes everything flow by whirling, including the
bath tub water going down the drain by swirling?
Could blood flow in man be by whirling, collecting
energy as it flows and the heart, with its special
muscle wall structure, giving the flowing blood
from the swimming pool of body capillaries
through the veins on to the arteries to be
redelivered to the same swimming pool???
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but
do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield
B.M. Hegde, MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FRCPQ
FACC, FAMS, Padma Bhushan Awardee 2010,
Editor-in-chief, The Journal of the Science of
Healing Outcomes; Chairman, State Health
Society’s Expert Committee, Govt, of Bihar,
Patna. Former Prof. Cardiology, The Middlesex
Hospital Medical School, University of London;
Affiliate Prof of Human Health,
Northern Colorado University;
Retd. Vice Chancellor, Manipal
University, Chairman, Bhavan’s
Mangalore Kendra.
Bhavan’s Journal,
August 31, 2011