Its proved by some that plants grow well,cows yield more milk and pregnant women listening to soulful music have a benifit to thier infants .
Music is said to change climates certain ragas sung with emotion even bring rains .
Its also known music helps in healing
But saying all this to me music is complementary to treatment and not a substitute .
Singer Yesudas is a great believer in musics influence to good health
And so it was in 2002 or so when working in Lakeshore hospital Kochi in medical oncology with the team of Dr V.P.Gangadharan I wanted to try it with patients undergoing chemotheraphy .
Generally they go through a lot of side effects like nausea vomitting loss of appetite lack of sleep pain etc though these days they are much less with good medications .
So with the nod of Dr VPG who arranged for a good audio set to be installed .
I got old hindi malayalam songs from my CD collection .
One of our patients with gastric ca who had completed treatment had presented me with his singing in a CD as he was a singer
I used that too .
The volume was low and we switched off TV in the hall .
Most patients i found preferred old malayalam songs as they knew it well .
After a month or so i did a questionarre survey and found most felt less stressed with less symptoms .
Though it wasnt a serious study i did present it in national conference in palliative care in Tata cancer centre Mumbai .
But people shouldnt take it that music alone will heal
No
It helps for the medicine to be effective too
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