scholarly journals Sasang Constitutional Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Comparative Overview

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junghee Yoo ◽  
Euiju Lee ◽  
Chungmi Kim ◽  
Junhee Lee ◽  
Lao Lixing
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Systems Pathology ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Constitutional Medicine ◽  
The Universe

Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM) is a holistic typological constitution medicine which balances psychological, social, and physical aspects of an individual to achieve wellness and increase longevity. SCM has the qualities of preventative medicine, as it emphasizes daily health management based on constitutionally differentiated regimens and self-cultivation of the mind and body. This review's goal is to establish a fundamental understanding of SCM and to provide a foundation for further study. It compares the similarities and differences of philosophical origins, perspectives on the mind (heart), typological systems, pathology, and therapeutics between SCM and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). TCM is based on the Taoist view of the universe and humanity. The health and longevity of an individual depends on a harmonious relationship with the universe. On the other hand, SCM is based on the Confucian view of the universe and humanity. SCM focuses on the influence of human affairs on the psyche, physiology, and pathology.

scholarly journals Comparison of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Yeol Kim ◽  
Duong Duc Pham ◽  
Byung Hee Koh
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
The West ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
East Asian Region ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Based Medicine

Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM), traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda are three different forms of Asian traditional medicine. Although these traditions share a lot in common as holistic medicines, the different philosophical foundations found in each confer distinguishing attributes and unique qualities. SCM is based on a constitution-based approach, and is in this way relatively more similar to the Ayurvedic tradition than to the TCM, although many of the basic SCM theories were originally derived from TCM, a syndrome-based medicine. SCM and TCM use the same botanical materials that are distributed mainly in the East Asian region, but the basic principles of usage and the underlying rationale are completely different from each other. Meanwhile, the principles of the Ayurvedic use of botanical resources are very similar to those seen in SCM, but the medicinal herbs used in Ayurveda generally originate from the West Asian region which displays a different spectrum of flora.

Explanatory Model of Mental Illness from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan-Ling Lin ◽  
Yu-Chi Liang ◽  
Kuo-Hsuan Chung ◽  
Ping-Ho Chen ◽  
Yung-Chun Chang
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Huángdì Nèijīng ◽  
The Mind

UNSTRUCTURED The improvement of accurate management of mental illness has become an increasing concern in recent decades. Efforts to understand mental illness have progressed from treating the mind as an isolated system to involving both mind and body as an interactive response. This study attempts to express and ontologize the relationships between different mental illnesses and physical organ systems from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine. In this paper, Natural Language Processing method was introduced to quantify the importance of different mental illness descriptions relative to the five Viscera and two bowels, Stomach and gallbladder through the classical medical text Huangdi Neijing and construct a mental illness network based on the TCM classic text. The results demonstrate that our proposed framework which integrates natural language processing and data visualization can enable clinicians to arrive at more comprehensive insights into mental health. According to the results of the correlation analysis for mental illnesses, viscera, and symptoms, the organs most affected by mental illness is the Heart, and the most two important factors to cause mental illness are Anger and Worry &Think. Moreover, the current findings promote the present comprehension of the association between the mind and body from the view of Traditional Chinese Medicine. We found the mental illness described in Traditional Chinese Medicine is always related to more than one organ.

scholarly journals Using Traditional Chinese Medicine Ideas as a Mechanism to Engage People in Health Awareness

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donglei Song ◽  
Yu Xia ◽  
Rusi Wang ◽  
Hao Xu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Image Features ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
General Idea ◽  
Health Awareness ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine Syndrome ◽  
Learning Techniques

Improving health awareness is essential to health and healthcare sustainability. How to arouse attention to the health of people and encourage them to attend to healthcare progress so that we can reduce the costs of promoting healthcare by achieving more with less effort remains to be explored. In this paper, we provide a simplified health management app, called iTongue, with a basis in traditional Chinese medicine. People use iTongue to take pictures of their tongues to have a general idea of their health. We realize automated tongue image diagnosis using machine learning techniques to establish the relationship between the tongue image features and the cold or hot ZHENG (traditional Chinese medicine syndrome) in traditional Chinese medicine by learning through examples and assisting people to engage in health management. The results show that health management interaction based on traditional Chinese medicine has a positive influence on improving people’s attention to their health, encouraging them to participate in health management activities and develop the habit of caring about their health over the long term. In the future, we could consider using this kind of traditional Chinese medicine idea as a means of publicity to engage people in healthcare and to assist healthcare sustainability development.

Conflict Resolution of Mind and Body Using Ayurveda and Yoga

2021 ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Paula Witt-Enderby ◽  
Bhavna V. Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Good Health ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Five Elements ◽  
Contemporary Medicine ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Diet And Lifestyle ◽  
The Universe

This chapter will focus on Ayurveda and yoga to understand the power of the mind and body to resolve conflict. The fundamental principles of Ayurveda will be discussed in relation to the universe and body because we are a microcosm of the macrocosm. A society so rich in science, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare professionals still struggles for good health. Society continues to remain malnourished even though overfed with food causing the human mind to turn to other modalities like Ayurveda and yoga. As contemporary medicine starts with disease, Ayurveda begins with health with the focus on maintaining the health of the healthy. The fundamental principles of Ayurveda regarding the biological humors (doshas) will be discussed in relation to the five elements of ether, air, fire, water, earth. The main focus will be diet and lifestyle. This chapter will provide pearls of Ayurvedic wisdom to allow one to assimilate these practices into daily life.

scholarly journals On the Treatment of Insomnia with Fang’s Scalp Acupuncture Based on the Therapy of “Regulating Mental Activities and Smoothing the Liver”

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan Zhou ◽  
Yuanyuan Ren ◽  
Kaiya Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Side Effects ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Scalp Acupuncture ◽  
Anti Psychotic ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Hypnotic Drugs ◽  
The Mind

As a common clinical disease, insomnia was usually treated with anti-psychotic or sedative-hypnotic drugs in Western medicine, which showed a fast efficacy, as well as easy drug tolerance and side effects. In traditional Chinese medicine, the basic and key pathogenesis of insomnia are believed to be “the restlessness of the mind”, as well as “the absence of the mind”; and the treatment mainly focus on “regulating mental activities and smoothing the liver”. By combining the theoretical basis and characteristics of Fang’s scalp acupuncture, this paper aims to explain the advantages of Fang’s scalp acupuncture in the treatment of insomnia, and provide new ideas and methods for its clinical treatment.

Traditional Chinese Medicine and Constitutional Medicine in China, Japan and Korea: A Comparative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjun Yu ◽  
Mingyue Ma ◽  
Xuemei Chen ◽  
Jiayu Min ◽  
Lingru Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Clinical Applications ◽  
Syndrome Differentiation ◽  
Constitutional Theory ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Drug Formulations ◽  
Basic Studies ◽  
Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Geographical Culture

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), Japanese–Chinese medicine, and Korean Sasang constitutional medicine have common origins. However, the constitutional medicines of China, Japan, and Korea differ because of the influence of geographical culture, social environment, national practices, and other factors. This paper aimed to compare the constitutional medicines of China, Japan, and Korea in terms of theoretical origin, constitutional classification, constitution and pathogenesis, clinical applications and basic studies that were conducted. The constitutional theories of the three countries are all derived from the Canon of Internal Medicine or Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases of Ancient China. However, the three countries have different constitutional classifications and criteria. Medical sciences in the three countries focus on the clinical applications of constitutional theory. They all agree that different pathogenic laws that guide the treatment of diseases govern different constitutions; thus, patients with different constitutions are treated differently. The three countries also differ in terms of drug formulations and medication. Japanese medicine is prescribed only based on constitution. Korean medicine is based on treatment, in which drugs cannot be mixed. TCM synthesize the treatment model of constitution differentiation, disease differentiation and syndrome differentiation with the treatment thought of treating disease according to three categories of etiologic factors, which reflect the constitution as the characteristic of individual precision treatment. In conclusion, constitutional medicines of China, Japan, and Korea have the same theoretical origin, but differ in constitutional classification, clinical application of constitutional theory on the treatment of diseases, drug formulations and medication.

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