Traditional healing of mind and body / 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

ABSTRACT

We created a new medical interview form which is called chronological analysis for East Asian Traditional Medicine (EATM). <BR>I would like to focus on our medical interview in EATM. Our patient comes to see a doctor with his or her life and medical histories. <BR>When we interview and write them on CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CHART, we can give them into several groups. Each group is characterized as a chronic health problem (CHP) and named by the traditional major pattern diagnosis and the symptom-to-medicine pattern diagnosis. The former base on TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and the latter Japanese Kampo Medicine. <BR>On this chart the patient's life events are written in the left side and his or her active symptoms are written in right side. We write them to make in the same longitudinal time line. Comparison with light life events and right illnesses makes us understand the structure consisting of several groups. We already saw more than three hundred thousand patients in 30 years. A 52 year-old women came to see us. We interviewed by our chronological analysis. Her history consist of several groupsThe 1 st group is Detoxication pattern, the 2 nd is heat in intestine blood, the 3rd is congestion in blood, and the 4 th is Liver "CHI"congestive dysfunction and finally we diagnosed as Toukakujyoukitou decoction for climacteric dysfunction. <BR>The most significance is we could guess that she had a stressful time in the blue colored part. <BR>After observing each patient's chronic health problems, we relate them chronologically to their life events and develop a graphic structure for each patient comprehensively. To see a patient from this kind of this view, we call emphasize them in both modern and traditional medicine. We show a new interview way using chronological chart to understand patients more deeply. <BR>Amid the growing medical needs of an aging society this chronological analysis is significant to understand our patients comprehensively. <BR>Through these medical approach we understand patients and give them traditional healing of mind and body.