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Knowledge and Attitude Analysis of CAM and Aromatherapy (For students in the Department of Health) (CAM과 아로마테라피에 대한 지식 및 태도분석 (보건계열학과 학생을 대상으로))

  • Jeong, Mi-Ra;Lee, Gyeong-Ha;Park, Mi-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.231-238
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    • 2018
  • This study is a descriptive research study to analyze knowledge and attitude about CAM and aromatherapy for health department students in H8 university health department students(528 students) in Chungcheongdo-do. The results of this study showed that the treatment methods and therapeutic advantages of CAM showed a positive attitude and the recognition of the therapeutic effect on aromatherapy was somewhat higher. However, the knowledge level of aromatherapy was rather low. The students of the department of health science showed a relatively high awareness of the need for education in CAM, but aromatherapy showed a relatively low perception. Therefore, in order to reduce patient welfare and symptom in health department, it is necessary to develop knowledge training for knowledge application and effective treatment and development of clinical practice program for various treatment methods.

The Effects of Sojucheon Meditation therapy on Relieving Stress and the Improving of The Quality of Life (소주천 명상요법이 스트레스 해소 및 삶의 질 향상에 미치는 영향)

  • Jo, Myung-Sung;Cho, Il-Young
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.469-478
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of meditation therapy on stress relief and quality of life. The experimental group included 85 Sojucheon meditation members in Gwangju and Jeonnam, and the control group was a survey of 48 members including general office workers and beauty school students. One-way ANOVA was performed for the statistics of differences in study variables between the two groups. The results of the analysis showed a significant difference in stress, and the F test also showed a significant difference in quality of life. Therefore, most of the meditation practitioners have been found that meditation therapy has a positive effect on stress relief and quality of life. These results suggest that Sojucheon meditation therapy is effective in relieving stress and quality of life, and it can be said that it is sufficient to provide a reference of meditation therapy for psychological stability.

Change of Ginsenoside Composition in Ginseng Extract by Vinegar Process

  • Ko, Sung-Kwon;Lee, Kyung-Hee;Hong, Jun-Kee;Kang, Sung-An;Sohn, Uy-Dong;Im, Byung-Ok;Han, Sung-Tai;Yang, Byung-Wook;Chung, Sung-Hyun;Lee, Boo-Yong
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.509-513
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study was to develop a new preparation process of ginseng extract using high concentrations of ginsenoside $Rg_3$, a special component in red ginseng. From when the ginseng saponin glycosides transformed into the prosapogenins chemically, they were analyzed using the HPLC method. The ginseng and ginseng extract were processed with several treatment conditions of an edible brewing vinegar. The results indicated that ginsenoside $Rg_3$ quantities increased over 4% at the pH 2-4 level of vinegar treatment. This occurred at temperatures above $R90^{\circ}C$, but not occurred at other pH and temperature condition. In addition, the ginseng and ginseng extract were processed with the twice-brewed vinegar (about 14% acidity). This produced about 1.5 times more ginsenoside $Rg_3$ than those processed with regular amounts of brewing vinegar (about 7% acidity) and persimmon vinegar (about 3% acidity). Though the white ginseng extract was processed with the brewing vinegar over four hr, there was no change for ginsenoside $Rg_3$. However, the VG8-7 was the highest amount of ginsenoside $Rg_3$ (4.71%) in the white ginseng extract, which was processed with the twice-brewed vinegar for nine hr. These results indicate that ginseng treated with vinegar had 10 times the quantity of ginsenoside $Rg_3$, compared to the amount of ginsenoside $Rg_3$ in the generally commercial red ginseng, while ginsenoside $Rg_3$ was not found in raw and white ginseng.

Effect of Cordyceps militaris on Testosterone Production in Sprague-Dawley Rats

  • Hong, In-Pyo;Choi, Yong-Soo;Woo, Soon-Ok;Han, Sang-Mi;Kim, Hye-Kyung;Lee, Man-Young;Lee, Myung-Ryul;Humber, Richard A.
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.143-146
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    • 2011
  • Some of men have been suffered from the insufficient secretion of testosterone causing by physical factors, social and psychological factors. Testosterone is an essential steroid hormone controlling male reproductive function. Alternative medicines in plants, fungi, and insects have been studied to enhance sexuality. $Cordyceps$ species including $Cordyceps$ $sinensis$ (CS) and $C.$ $militaris$(CM) has been used as for the enhancement of sexual functionfor hundreds of years in Far East Asian. In the present study, we determined the effect of fruiting bodies of $C.$ $militaris$ which cultured on bee drone medium (CMD) and brown rice medium (CMB) on testosterone concentration in Sprague-Dawley rats. Eighteen rats per group were housed to regular diet or diet supplemented with CMB and CDD, respectively for 4 weeks. Serum was collected from 6 rats per group. Results showed that changes of the body weight, food and water intake of the rats were not observed in this study. However, both CMB and CDD increased the serum testosterone concentration in rats. Furthermore, CMD significantly stimulated testosterone production (p <0.05) compared to the control. Hence, it suggests that $C.$ $militaris$ fruiting bodymight be developed as a complementary medicine to improve sexual hormones.

Changes in Ginsenoside Composition of White Ginseng by Fermentation

  • Ko, Sung-Kwon;Cho, Ok-Sun;Bae, Hye-Min;Yang, Byung-Wook;Im, Byung-Ok;Hahm, Young-Tae;Kim, Kyung-Nam;Cho, Soon-Hyun;Kim, Jae-Young;Chung, Sung-Hyun;Lee, Boo-Yong
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.253-256
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of the study was to develop a new process to manufacture ginseng extract containing saponin aglycon of high concentration. The process to transform saponin glycosides to saponin aglycon was analyzed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). GCK-1 (open cultured mixture for 1 day at $42^{\circ}C$) had the highest content of protopanaxadiol (0.662%). However, other mixtures (GCK-2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) had less than 0.152% in the content of protopanaxadiol. In case of fermentation by inoculation of Bacillus natto, BNG-5 (B. natto inoculated mixture for 5 days at $42^{\circ}C$) showed the highest content of protopanaxadiol (0.364%). Other mixtures (BNG-1, 2, 3, 4, and 6) also showed the high content of more than 0.2% in protopanaxadiol. B. natto inoculation or open culture fermentation with soybean transformed ginseng saponin glycosides into saponin aglycon.

Quality properties of Jeonbyeong containing bamboo sprout powder (죽순분말을 첨가한 전병의 품질특성)

  • Moon, Eun Woo;Park, Hun Jo;Park, Jung Suk;Na, Hwan Sik
    • Food Science and Preservation
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.322-327
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    • 2015
  • Bamboo sprout powder was added to Jeonbyeong dough for improving its quality and functional properties. Crude protein and ash content increased as the amount of bamboo sprout powder increased, while the crude fat content was decreased. As the content of bamboo sprout powder increased, total amino acid content also increased. As bamboo sprout powder content increased, Hunter's L, a and b values decreased whereas sugar-free content increased. The addition of bamboo sprout powder to Jeonbyeong increased its dietary fiber contents. The sensory score of Jeonbyeong containing 300 g of bamboo sprout powder showed the highest score among all other tested Jeonbyeong. Based on the results, the addition of bamboo sprout powder could improve the quality and sensory characteristics of Jeonbyeong.

The Study of Emotional Experience to MBTI Personality Type in University Students (대학생의 MBTI성격 유행에 따른 정서적 경험에 미치는 실태연구)

  • Lee, Kum-Bee;Lee, Tae-Young;Lee, Han-Chun
    • Journal of Korean Clinical Health Science
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.188-194
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    • 2014
  • Purpose. The aim of this study was to provide for guidance of life, counsel and check their mental condition and analysis of correlation between MBTI personality type and emotional experience in university students. Methods. Data was analyzed by students whom participated in the research on the diagnose of mind of students from m university men and woman who accomplished to MBTI personality survey. Results. These result emotional experience of male-female that had deserved hospitality(p=0.22) statistically. This result had deserved emotional experience of extraversion personality of MBTI personality type in hospitality(p=0.000),introvert personality type in interpersonal sensitivity(p=0.002). It had deserved thinking extraversion personality type in obsessive-compulsive(p=0.000)emotional personality type in depression(p=0.000)in hostility(p=0.000). It had deserved judgement personality type in interpersonal sensitivity(p=0.043). Conclusions. The results of this study were as follow. Frist as a result of MBTI personality type of emotional experience on extraversion it was found that hospitality was leveled high and personality type of introversion is that Interpersonal sensitivity was leveled high. Thinkful personality type was leveled high on obsessive-compulsive. As a result of this study, personality indexes of MBTI of university student, it was found that there was related to emotional experience.

Ginsenoside Composition Changes in Ginseng Extracts by Different Ascorbic Acid Treatments

  • Ko, Sung-Kwon;Cho, Ok-Sun;Bae, Hye-Min;Sohn, Uy-Dong;Im, Byung-Ok;Cho, Soon-Hyun;Yang, Byung-Wook;Chung, Sung-Hyun;Shin, Wang-Soo;Lee, Boo-Yong
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.883-887
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this study was to develop a new preparation process for chemical transformation of ginseng saponin glycosides to prosapogenins. Ginseng and ginseng extracts were processed under several treatment conditions using ascorbic acid solution. Treating with ascorbic acid at pH 2-3 and above $80^{\circ}C$ increased the ginsenoside $Rg_3$ content of samples to over 3% as compared to other pH levels and temperatures. In addition, ginseng and ginseng extracts that were processed under a high ascorbic acid solution treatment condition (pH 2.0, 5 hr) contained more ginsenoside $Rg_3$ (approximately 16 times) than those processed under a low ascorbic acid solution treatment condition (pH 3.0, 5 hr). The highest quantity of ginsenoside $Rg_3$ (3.434%) occurred when a sample of fine ginseng root extract (AG2-9) was processed with the ascorbic acid solution at pH 2.0 for 9 hr. However, there was no change in the amount of ginsenoside $Rg_3$ when fine ginseng root extracts were processed with ascorbic acid solution at pH 2.0 for over 9 hr. In conclusion, the results indicated that ascorbic acid treatment of ginseng extracts can produce a level of ginsenoside $Rg_3$ that is over 90-fold the amount found in commercial red ginseng.

Heat Stability and Glucose-Lowering Effect of 1-Deoxynojirimycin from Silkworm (Bombyx mori) extract Powder

  • Ryu, Kang-Sun;Lee, Heui-Sam;Kim, Kee-Young;Kim, Mi-Ja;Kang, Pil-Don
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.277-281
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    • 2013
  • Silkworm powder, which contains 1-deoxynojirimycin (DNJ), is a promising complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Korea. Silkworm powder was produced from Yeonnokjam pupae at d 3 of the 5th instar at the National Academy of Agricultural Science. The powder was derivatized with 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC-Cl), and the DNJ-FMOC content was measured by HPLC. We investigated the content of 1-DNJ in the silkworm powder and its glucose-lowering effect when it was treated at different temperatures. The content of 1-DNJ was the lowest at $150^{\circ}C$, while it was constant at other temperatures. The silkworm extract powder was orally administered to diabetic mice (20 mg/kg/d) for 4 wk. Water intake did not significantly change when compared with the control group (T0). The blood glucose levels significantly decreased when mice where administered silkworm powder treated at $60^{\circ}C$ (T60) compared to the control group, but no difference was observed between the groups T100 and T150. Moreover, the blood levels of TG significantly decreased compared with the control group. Based on these results, we surmise that the properties of the silkworm extract powder were stable upon heating at $100^{\circ}C$ but not at $150^{\circ}C$.

The Significance of Serum Thyroid Peroxidase as a New Tumor Marker in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma after Thyroidectomy (유두상 갑상선암의 수술후 재발예측인자로서 혈청 Thyroid Peroxidase의 의의)

  • Chang Hang-Seok;Na Jae-Wung;Chung Woong-Youn;Park Cheong-Soo
    • Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.46-51
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    • 1999
  • Background: Total thyroidectomy and postoperative radiodiodine ablation therapy in differentiated thyroid carcinomas enhance the reliability of serum thyroglobulin(Tg) levels and radioiodine scan in detecting recurrence or distant metastasis. There have been, however, some limitations in using these methods under certain conditions. Recently, several reports have indicated that thyroid peroxidase(TPO) could be used as an alternative tumor marker. We aimed to estimate the significance of serum TPO levels in differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Materials and Methods: Forty-eight patients who had undergone total thyroidectomy due to papillary thyroid carcinomas and who had been followed-up for at least 3 years were classified into two groups: 27 patients without any evidence of recurrence in group 1; and 20 patients with recurrence or distant metastasis in group 2. All patients were examined by radioiodine scans. Serum Tg, TSH, antithyroglobulin antibody, and TPO were measured and the relationships were statistically analyzed. The sensitivity and specificity of $^{131}I$ scan, serum Tg, and serum TPO were evaluated. Results: Serum Tg levels were $3.81{\pm}5.16ng/mL$ in group 1 and $147.02{\pm}193.75ng/mL$ in group 2. Only 2 patients in group 1 showed Tg levels exceeding 10ng/mL. In contrast, 4 patients in group 2 were under 10ng/mL. Serum antithyroglobulin antibody and TSH levels showed no statistical difference between the two groups. In group 1, 16 patients showed negative serum TPO results, and 4 patients in group 2 showed negative results. There was no correlation among serum Tg levels, antithyroglobulin antibody titers, and serum TPO levels in each group. In group 2, 4 patients with negative serum Tg levels showed positive TPO results and positive whole body scans. Two cases with false negative $^{131}I$ scans showed positive serum TPO and Tg results. In 4 cases showing false negative serum TPO levels, serum Tg levels and $^{131}I$ scans were positive. Conclusion: Serum Tg levels, radioiodine scans, and serum TPO levels can be clinically used as complementary methods in the diagnosis of recurrent or metastatic thyroid carcinomas. Serum TPO levels may be helpful when other methods fail to detect recurrences or distant metastasis in highly suspected patients.

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