Significance and Health Benefits of Conch Shell

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation (IJRSI) | Volume VI, Issue VII, July 2019 | ISSN 2321–2705

Significance and Health Benefits of Conch Shell

Pushpa K, Sanjana T

Department of Electronics and Communication, BMSCE, Bangalore, India

Abstract— Sound and music significantly influence the state of human mind and emotions. Listening to low volume melodious and harmonic music will aid to have a relaxed state of mind. Sound waves produced by conch shell enhance positive psychological vibrations and leads to state of improved focus and performance. It is believed that blowing of conch shell have huge beneficiary effect on health especially on heart and respiratory system. There are various studies which promote the use of conch shell as a therapy to relieve stress and anxiety. In this paper, sound emanating from conch shell is analyzed in both time and frequency domain. The increase in brain’s activity due to the sound of conch shell is proved by recording brain wave data of test subject and processing it using MATLAB. The acquired EEG (Electroencephalogram) signal is filtered; its frequency spectrum and power spectral density is compared before and after hearing to sound from conch shell. Our goal is to prove the healing capability of sound from conch shell for people suffering from depression, anxiety, stress, hypertension, insomnia etc., as these cases have indeed increased a lot nowadays.

Index Terms—EEG, Brain waves, BIOPAC.

I. INTRODUCTION

Conch shell have great importance in Hindu religion. It signifies Brilliance, luster, purity and auspicious beginning. It is hard and strong, made up of calcium and magnesium [1]. Conch shell or Shankh (in Sanskrit) is blown during auspicious beginning, festivals and in temples. It is believed that this helps in getting rid of negative energy and evil spirits [2]. Apart from these, various benefits of using conch shell like its positive vibes resulting in relaxed and receptive mind, healing effects motivated us to take this as a subject area of research.
Neuroscience says that there is strong bond between sound and emotional states of human brain. For example, slow and acoustic music has a soothing effect on human mind where as fast and loud music agitates the mind. Frequency of EEG signals changes to the frequency of the music or sound which has great impact on human brain.So, we venture to find the frequency and nature of the sound which provides the said soothing effect. The effect of this sound is comparable to the results of meditation.

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