Improved Susceptibility Pattern of Antimicrobials Using Vital Energy Treatment on Shigella sonnei

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Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has become increasingly popular and reported for countless benefits in biomedical health care systems. The study assessed the potential impact of The Trivedi Effect® (biofield energy) on Shigella sonnei for changes in antimicrobial sensitivity, biochemical study, and biotype number using MicroScan Walk-Away® system. The cells were obtained from MicroBioLogics Inc., USA bearing the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC 9290) number, and divided into two groups, Group (Gr.) I: control and Gr. II: treated. Gr. II was subjected to Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment and further subdivided into two sub-groups, Gr. IIA and Gr. IIB. Gr. IIA was analyzed on day 10, while Gr. IIB was stored and analyzed on day 160 (Study I). The Gr. IIB sample was retreated on day 160 (Study II), and was divided into three separate tubes as first, second and third tube, which were analyzed on day 5, 10 and 15, respectively. Results showed that 35% (7 out of 20) antimicrobials were reported with improved sensitivity profile. Moreover, the minimum inhibitory concentration study showed that 56.25% (18 out of 32) tested antimicrobials were reported with decreased concentration by two to four-fold as compared with the control after biofield treatment. The effect was further analyzed and sustained in the biochemical study, where 57.57% (19 out of 33) tested biochemicals showed altered reaction pattern as compared with the control. The biotype study showed an alteration in the biotype number in all the experimental treated groups as compared to the control. Encouraging results suggests that bioenergy healing treatment as an integrative medicine against S. sonnei would be a better and safe treatment approach in near future.

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Shigella is a genus of Gram-negative, non-spore forming, non-motile, rod-shaped bacteria in close resemblance with Escherichia coli and Salmonella. Shigella sonnei (S. sonnei) is very fragile in experimental conditions and its natural habitat is human gastrointestinal tract [1]. Shigella causes dysentery known as shigellosis, it is endemic throughout the world and recognized as the major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. S. sonnei is the major food-borne pathogen and generally transmitted through uncooked food or contaminated water. Data suggest that every year, approximately 165 million cases of Shigella infections and about 1.1 million Shigella-related deaths were reported [2]. It is naturally found in apes and humans, during an infection it causes bacillary dysentery. Shigella has limited access in a clean area and potable water, while effectively transmitted via fecal-oral route in areas with poor hygienic conditions [3]. A recent study reports the presence of Shigella DNA in up to a one-third population of the culture-negative samples [4]. Antimicrobial therapy is still the choice of treatment for shigellosis, however antimicrobials such as ampicillin, nalidixic acid, streptomycin, sulfamethoxazole-trimethoprim, and tetracycline showed strong resistance against Shigella, which is a major therapeutic challenge to prevent the infection [5]. One of the major mechanisms behind the emergence of multi-drug resistant Shigella spp. is its ability to acquire resistance factor (transmissible genes) from the environment or other bacteria [6]. However, this emergence of resistance isolates is due to the indiscriminate use of antibiotics. The preferred antibiotic against shigellosis is ciprofloxacin for both childhood and adult infections [7]. However, recent reports suggest that ciprofloxacin resistance isolates have been isolated in South Asian region, along with fluoroquinolone resistant Shigella dysenteriae type 1 [8,9]. Due to continuous resistance against newly developed or broad spectrum drug, authors have tried to evaluate the effect of integrative bioenergy medicine (The Trivedi Effect®) and its potential benefits on S. sonnei. Researchers are continuously exploring the potential of integrative medicine to promote the health and wellness across the world. The energy medicine is one of the major categories of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) which includes either biofield therapies or bio-electromagnetic-based therapies. They are very popular in health care systems [10], and are classified under the subcategory of energy therapies by National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) [11]. Biofield therapies include Qigong, Reiki, Yoga, Pranic healing and therapeutic touch that depend upon the state of mind, skills, and practice and are practiced worldwide [12-14]. NCCAM refers to the self-practice therapy as “mind-body medicine”. The mind-body medicine or practice involves an alteration in the biomolecules conformation directly on molecular structure, or it may transfer bio-information via small energy signals [15]. Biofield treatment includes energy therapies that interact with patient’s biofield and lead to improve people’s health and wellbeing [16]. However, every cell in the human body can generate and receive different forms of energy viz. heat, light, sound, vibration, magnetism, and electricity. Epigenetics, biophysics, psychoneuroimmunology, metabolomics, bioengineering, biomedical imaging, proteomics, and frequency therapies are the emerging research areas in the field of bioenergy, as it is the fundamental of life. The biomolecules can absorb specific environmental frequencies, and responding into the useful way that is called biofield energy and the process is known as biofield treatment. Mr. Trivedi’s unique biofield energy has been studied in the field of materials science research [17, 18], agricultural research [19, 20], and microbiology research [21, 22]. The biofield energy treatment as an integrative medicine acts as a complex communication system via a different range of electromagnetic frequencies, which carry messages from the environment to the organism and vice versa. Bioenergy treatment for microbial infections is an area that is often neglected by mainstream medicine research, and it must be considered as an important supplement to conventional antibiotic therapy. In continuation of the above significant outcomes of Mr. Trivedi’s biofield energy treatment, and clinical importance of S. sonnei, the antibiogram, biochemical reactions, and biotyping were studied in biofield treated S. sonnei.

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