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Therapeutic power of music is an accepted fact but what about its diagnostic powers? Shakeel, a lecturer with the Department of Medicine at Medical College, Kozhikode thinks that the human body has sruthi, taal and sapta swaras which help one in diagnosing a patient.
He indeed is a doctor with a difference. Shakeel is a promising gazal artist who has cut albums and presented mehfils all over the State. According to him, sruthi is intuition while taal is the rhythm in whatever the body does – like walking, running, discharge of waves by the brain etc. He has also identified the sapta swara as face, speech, gait, body language, mental make up, vital signs and intuition.
Shakeel claims to have found success in the sruthi and sapta swara method of diagnosing patients.
He recalls the case of a patient with acute headache and vomiting. When all other diagnosis failed, the patient approached Shakeel, who employed the sapta swara method and recognized the problem as brain hemorrhage. Though primary tests were non-conclusive, the final picture showed hemorrhage due to pituitary tumor.
“I don’tm claim that music alone can diagnose a disease. It can, though, help a lot,” he says.
Shakeel has presented a detailed report of his findings to the Medical College, Physician’s Club of Calicut etc and the response has been overwhelming.
Courtesy: The New Indian Express, October 28, 2002
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