Myunghee Kim Researcher
Oriental Medicine Mental Health Center (KMMH)
Kyung Hee University, Department of Oriental Neuropsychiatry, Ph.D.
The ultimate mission of today’s ‘medical science’ is to protect humans from disease and lead a comfortable and healthy life, where health means the social well-being of ‘mind and body’.
From this point of view, the COVID-19 pandemic and severe global warming that have already been experienced for several years are manifesting as ‘burnout’ of mental health and ‘climate disaster trauma’ such as heat waves, drought, floods, heavy rains, and typhoons. It is emerging as an urgent problem.
Here, for thousands of years, oriental medicine has observed and analyzed the cosmic natural metabolism and human interaction as a whole life phenomenon, establishing a theory and demonstrating it in clinical trials.
Mental health medicine has established the ‘whole body’s blank oscillation system theory’ to coexist with mental activities through self-actualization therapy of empathy, support, listening, and win-win for burnout (mental and physical exhaustion) mental disorders that come from the basic level of the psyche. has been used in clinical practice.
As such, mental health medicine is a ‘medical science’ that respects individual lives and personality once morest mental and physical exhaustion caused by ‘long-covid’, creating a social impact effect and greatly contributing to the promotion of human health.
clinical case
A 4th grade elementary school girl who lives in Poland and visits her mother’s house every summer vacation visited the hospital with her mother and sister this summer with headaches, dizziness, and abdominal pain.
Mom: The eldest is always sick. My stomach hurts, my head hurts, my legs hurt… Even a local pediatrician in Poland says that she has depression. It’s been a few years and I’m really upset.
Oriental Doctor: (After examining Mangmunmunjeol) Is your child having any difficulties?
Mom: I speak Korean at home, I study Polish and English at school, and soon I will learn Spanish… Since all Polish students do that too, I don’t think there will be any difficulties.
Oriental Doctor: (Looking into eyes with the eldest daughter) Is your mother right? Yena what do you think?
Child: … um… (he hesitates looking at her mother).
Mom: Rather, teaching kindergarten children and housekeeping, taking care of their studies and taking care of my husband’s business, I’m always busy and hard-working.
Oriental Doctor: (Closes eyes and smiles slightly) Taking care of your husband, working and raising children in Poland… You are a wonderful mother.
Mom: (suddenly embarrassed) Oh. Yes.
Oriental doctor: I’ll only talk to the two of us. (To the younger brother who looks at his mother as he leaves) Do you want to be with your older sister too?
Sister: (nodding head) I know Leia…
Oriental Doctor: (Looking at the eldest child) Jena is really good in English, Polish and Spanish. But who the hell is Leah?
Child: (Slowly, in Korean with English pronunciation) Leah is the class leader, and I think Leah used to gossip regarding my best friend Marie a lot. She avoids me Marie. Leah is popular with her other kids, but she only gets annoyed with me and keeps talking.
Oriental Doctor: So what did Jena do?
Child: It was unfair that Leah did it unfairly, but I always endured it. She went to school following a long time due to Corona, but she still has friends…
Oriental Doctor: Well, now, the teacher will act as Leah from now on. Shall we say what Jena wanted to say in that situation? For practical practice…
Child: Okay.
Oriental doctor: (as Leah) “Jenna! You should be still, what if I tell you?”
Child: “Other kids have said it, so this time it’s my turn to speak.”
Younger brother: (loudly) “Why do you keep doing this to my sister? I’m sorry”
Oriental doctor: Is your younger sister also angry that Leah was being mean to her?
Younger brother: (crying) My sister has been tormenting me for a long time. Her sister has stomach ache every day.
Child: (Looking at his younger brother, he speaks with courage.) “Lea. It’s not right for you to do that. It’s my turn to present Please don’t do that in the future.”
Oriental Doctor: (Nodding like Leah) “Yeah, okay.”
Ai: (with clear eyes) Ummm… it makes my heart feel so much cooler.
I diagnosed this pediatric patient, who immigrated to Poland at the age of 5 years, as ‘simdam hegep, vigilantism’ caused by bullying at school. did.
In 『Donguibogam』 and 『Soamun』, it is said that ‘Soa’s illness cannot point to the pain with the hand, and the pain cannot be expressed in words’. The pediatric patient with these characteristics of children and adolescents was treated with a personalized ‘supportive gyeongjae flat therapy’ that promotes coexistence of development and propulsion functions, and was designed to help the child’s holistic brain development.
The eldest daughter, who came to the hospital with her family one month following taking the medication, said, “I want to be close with other friends. It’s a torch for her friends to come back soon,” she said, her eyes twinkling with joy. “When I go back to Poland next week, I want to go on a family trip for her, too,” said her mom, smiling broadly.
‘Soul, God, Eui, Baek, Ji’ is a structural-mechanical mental health medicine
As seen in the above clinical case, it can be seen that mental and physical activities are activities that belong to the dynamic correlation of malfunctions. In order to bring this relationship to a win-win relationship, it is necessary to see ‘body and mind’ as the two sides of a one-sided existence, to analyze it structurally and mechanically, and to use the superior function of each patient as a strength to save the divine life.
In fact, in the psychiatric ward of the College of Oriental Medicine Hospital of Oriental Medicine, patients with various mental health disorders who visit the hospital are treated with ‘win-win supportive therapy, sympathetic toilet bowl therapy, supportive back-climbing therapy, step-by-step Gyeongjaeyeongji therapy, humility oriental medicine EFT’. From therapy to ’emotional enhancement therapy of listening’, it is showing excellent effects as individualized oriental psychotherapy.
It is in the same vein that the Oriental Medicine Mental Health Center is developing a treatment guideline model such as a ‘brain research and development project’ with the principles of treatment of the five elements characteristic of oriental medicine.
