• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.1352-1355
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• 2007

Dissociative disorder is a breakdown of one's perception of one's surroundings, memory, identity, or consciousness. Dissociative amnesia is too wide-ranged to define itself of simple amnesia or oblivion. In this case, a 62 years old female diagnosed as Geonmang due to Dameobijo. The patient was treated with mainly Gungsindodam-tang and Gamisachil-tang. Clinical symptoms and general conditions are improved after treatment and more extensive researches are needed.

• The Journal of Korean Medical History
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.5-10
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• 2012

The aim of this study is to create a catalogue of amnesia synonyms in Traditional Korean Medicine for database utilization. A two-staged literature search was carried out. First, two databases(China National Knowledge Infrastructure:CNKI, Oriental Medicine Advanced Searching Integrated System:OASIS) were searched for eligible articles, and a set of candidate words was identified from the articles. Second, the candidate words were searched in 30 medical classics to check the frequency of use. As a result, 9 candidate words including 喜忘(huimang), 善忘(seonmang), 多忘(damang), 好忘(homang), 健忘(geonmang), 遂忘(sumang), 遺忘(yumang), 忘事(mangsa), and 易忘(imang) were identified from the 10 eligible articles. Among the 9 candidate words, 健忘(geonmang) was a descriptor and 7 other words including 喜忘(huimang), 善忘(seonmang), 多忘(damang), 好忘(homang), 遂忘(sumang), 遺忘(yumang), 忘事(mangsa) were non-descriptors. 易忘(imang) was not an adequate synonym for amnesia.