Homeopathy & Ayurvedic Medicine Satti, J Homeop Ayurv Med 2011, 1:1 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2167-1206.1000101 Volume 1 • Issue 1 • 1000101 J Homeop Ayurv Med ISSN: 2167-1206, an open access journal Open Access Research Article Determination of Chronic Disease Origin Using Time Reversal Computations Jahangir A. Satti* Department of Radiation Oncology, Albany Medical College, 43 New Scotland Ave, MC 95, Albany, NY 12208-3478, USA Abstract All chronic inlammatory processes in a living organism pass through a series of biological stages to form tumors. This is similar to a natural effort to repair a chronic wound. Sometimes, the origin of metastasized tumors cannot be located with our conventional biomedical and biochemical tools. However, each tumor has a speciic growth rate based on an individual’s health status. The tumor growth rate can be calculated from the CT scan information taken at different time intervals. Then one can determine the tumor’s initiation time at cellular level with the help of growth rate parameters. A time reversal mathematical model has been proposed to determine the initiation time of a tumor. This model can be used to estimate the origin of some tumors for better treatment planning in chronic diseases. Since cancer is not a local malady the holistic approach is required to analyze the possible root cause of this degenerative disease. *Corresponding author: Jahangir A. Satti, Department of Radiation Oncology, Albany Medical College, 43 New Scotland Ave, MC 95, Albany, NY 12208-3478, USA, Tel: (518) 262-3085; E-mail: DrJSatti@Gmail.Com Received December 13, 2011; Accepted December 14, 2011; Published Decembger 16, 2011 Citation: Satti JA (2011) Determination of Chronic Disease Origin Using Time Reversal Computations. J Homeop Ayurv Med 1:101. doi:10.4172/2167- 1206.1000101 Copyright: © 2011 Satti JA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Keywords: Chronic; Diseases; cancer; CT Background Introduction Studies indicate that about 45% Americans entered the 21 st century carrying chronic diseases with them. About 61 million among these patients had multiple chronic conditions [1]. he chronic diseases consume 78% of the health spending budget in the USA. he majority of victims sufering from chronic diseases fall in the age group of 65 and older. It has also been reported that 85% of our seniors are sufering from chronic diseases while 62% have multiple chronic conditions. Female patients have more chronic conditions than male population. About 46% white and 37% black have reported chronic conditions in some research studies. But the chronic conditions almost equally afect diferent income classes across the board (41% poor, 46% near poor, 44% low income, 43% middle income, and 44% high income). According to another, study the cost of chronic diseases amounted to $277 billion in the USA during 2003 iscal year. he lost in productivity due to chronic diseases during the same period reached one trillion dollars. he news about chronic diseases at global level is also alarming. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, 59% of deaths and 46% of the global burden of diseases are attributed to chronic maladies [2]. he lack of resources, infrastructure and know-how of conventional therapies make it impossible to deliver meaningful health beneits to a great majority of patients in the developing world [3-5]. As most of the populace resides in the countryside, any conventional medical facility is mostly inaccessible to them anyway. here is an urgent need to explore alternative methods to combat chronic diseases at an early stage throughout the world [6]. Historically homeopathy has prided itself in dealing with the chronic diseases since its early days. he epitome of chronic diseases philosophy in homeopathy was authored by Hahnemann himself almost two hundred years ago [7]. While dealing with chronic diseases, he was forced to challenge some of his own earlier theses about medicine. Hahnemann’s dramatic departure from classical homeopathic philosophy was primarily because of the complex nature of chronic diseases. First, he introduced the name “disease” as the title of his new book “Chronic Diseases”. But in his earlier philosophy of similia, he vehemently rejected to label any sickness with the word disease [8]. Second, he coined the term “anti” i.e., anti-miasmatic, anti psoric, etc. his was in direct contradiction with his original philosophy of “homeo”, the hallmark of his new system of medicine popularly known as homeopathy. hird, Hahnemann advocated the alternation of medicines in stubborn chronic cases. But he strictly accentuated about single remedy in his prior philosophy in the “Organon of Medicine”. Fourth, the strengths of drugs were also revised though he claimed that drugs get highly energetic with his regular centesimal succession. Fith, the dominant factor in chronic diseases was miasma. he vital force was not any more the sole contender in guaranteeing health. he role of miasma can be elucidated from the fact that Hahnemann mentioned it about one hundred times in his book Chronic Diseases. he word vital force is barely mentioned about a dozen times in the same manuscript. he word vital force is mentioned over 200 times and miasma about 50 times in the Organon of Medicine. In nutshell, the nature of chronic diseases even forced Hahnemann to abandon his original philosophy and venture on to a diferent course. his also shows the level of complications embedded in chronic diseases and the time required in setting back the convoluted biological evolutionary processes to their original course. Unfortunately, there were no serious eforts ater Hahnemann to address the nature of chronic diseases in depth on scientiic lines [9]. Cancer is mostly referred as an ulcer in Hahnemann’s works. Today, cancer is considered as the most deadly disease among chronic maladies. It formed merely 3% of the total disease burden at the turn of the last century. Just in one hundred years cancer has afected almost 45% of the patients in the United States alone. Subclinical chronic inlammations, mostly from suppressed diseases, eventually lead to tumor formations. Organs consisting on parallel sub functional units, such as liver, lung and kidneys may breed tumors for years without any observable signs or symptoms. Cancerous cells from these sites