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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">BJCR</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">British Journal of Contemporary Research</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">BJCR</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn>2979-8582</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Bexford Publishing Ltd</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">BEX_SEP_26_015</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.67693/BJCR-KC6PUM2K</article-id>
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          <subject>Original Research Article</subject>
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        <article-title xml:lang="en">Preliminary Investigation of Traditionally Processed Special Copper and Its Interaction with Water: An Experience-Based, Hypothesis-Generating Experimental Study with an Exploratory Post-Intervention Laboratory Observation</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western" specific-use="primary">
            <given-names>Reghunath Ramakrishnan Vaidhyan</given-names>
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        <email>reghunathramakrishnan@gmail.com</email>
        <bio xml:lang="en"><p>Healer &amp; Deputy Director, Traditional Alternative Medicine Research Center (TAMRC–INDIA), Kerala, India</p></bio>
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      <pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="epub">
        <day>12</day>
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>1</volume>
      <issue>5</issue>
      
      
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        <event event-type="received">
          <event-desc>Received: <date date-type="received">
            <day>02</day>
            <month>09</month>
            <year>2026</year>
          </date></event-desc>
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        <event event-type="accepted">
          <event-desc>Accepted: <date date-type="accepted">
            <day>09</day>
            <month>10</month>
            <year>2026</year>
          </date></event-desc>
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        <copyright-statement>Copyright (c) 2026 Reghunath Ramakrishnan Vaidhyan</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
        <license xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0">
          <license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.</license-p>
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      <abstract><p>Background: Copper has a long history of use in traditional Indian practices, including storage of water in copper vessels. Traditional metallurgical and Siddha-oriented practices also describe repeated purification, heating, fusion and reprocessing of metals. The present work concerns a traditionally processed material designated “Special Copper” or “Exotic Copper” within the TAMRC–INDIA research programme.
Objective: To document the material specifications and preliminary copper–water exposure procedure, and to add a clearly separated exploratory observation from an available post-intervention clinical laboratory report without presenting that report as proof of therapeutic efficacy.
Methods: A cleaned, traditionally processed copper specimen approximately 1 inch wide, 6 inches long and 2 mm thick was placed in approximately 1 litre of ordinary/well water in a clean covered container for approximately 8 hours. Preliminary pH examination used pH-testing paper. In addition, an uploaded clinical laboratory report associated with the investigator&#039;s description of use of the Special Copper–water intervention was reviewed descriptively. The laboratory report includes complete blood count and clinical biochemistry measurements. No paired pre-intervention laboratory dataset, control group, randomization, or blinded assessment was available in the supplied records.
Results: The copper–water procedure and specimen specifications were documented. The available laboratory report, dated 29 November 2023 on the associated request form, records the following selected values: fasting blood glucose 119 mg/dL, post-prandial blood glucose 167 mg/dL, blood urea 27 mg/dL, serum creatinine 1.1 mg/dL, sodium 134 mmol/L, potassium 4.0 mmol/L, total bilirubin 0.6 mg/dL, direct bilirubin 0.2 mg/dL, total protein 7.5 g/dL, albumin 4.5 g/dL, AST 19 U/L, ALT 22 U/L, alkaline phosphatase 50 U/L, total cholesterol 223 mg/dL, triglycerides 169 mg/dL, HDL cholesterol 41 mg/dL and LDL cholesterol 61 mg/dL. The CBC image records WBC 7.1, haemoglobin 15.3 g/dL, RBC 4.97, MCV 90.7 fL, HCT 45.1%, platelets 192 and other indices as transcribed below. These values are descriptive observations only; they cannot establish that any change was caused by the intervention.
Conclusion: The work provides a documentary and scientifically relevant preliminary foundation for independent materials characterization, water-chemistry testing, safety assessment and, only after appropriate preclinical and ethical review, controlled biological or clinical investigation.

Keywords: Special Copper, Traditionally Processed Copper, Copper–Water Interaction, Siddha Processing, Traditional Metallurgy, Laboratory Observation, Hypothesis-Generating Study, Material Characterization</p></abstract>
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