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Distribution of Medicinal Plants included in the Korean Pharmacopoeia at Cheongoksan Bonghwagun in Korea (봉화군 청옥산에 분포하는 대한민국약전 수재 약용식물의 분포 특성)

  • Song, Hong Seon;Gim, Mung Hea;Lee, Geo Lyong;Kim, Seong Min
    • Korean Journal of Medicinal Crop Science
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.268-275
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    • 2013
  • This text was analyzed and investigated the distribution of medicinal plants in Cheongoksan Bonghwagun Korea, in order to search the medicinal resources that are used in modern medicine. Medicinal plants of the Korean Pharmacopoeia (10th edition) distributed in Cheongoksan Bonghwagun were consisted of 93 taxa ; 82 species, 10 varieties, 1 forma of 79 genus, 50 families. In medicinal plants of the Korean Pharmacopoeia, rate of native species and exotic species was 89.2% (83 taxa) and 10.8% (10 taxa) respectively. Family classification was the most of compositae of 8 taxa, and life form classification was most of herb of hemicryptophyte species. The classification by using parts were 34 taxa of root use and the classification of efficacy utilization was 24 taxa of Cheongyeolyak (heat-clearing drug) use.

A Study on the Diagnosis and Prognosis by the Arts of Divination (명리학적 질병진단과 예측에 관한 방법연구)

  • Ryu, Si-Oak
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.21-46
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    • 2008
  • Though modern medicine has taken rapid strides, varieties of intractable maladies and diseases go on increasing more and more. And so medical technologies and academic achievements related to diagnoses and prognoses are being carried on. As the progress of genetics, all sorts of diseases have proved to be hereditary. This makes efficient use of the prevention of diseases. According to Sasang-Constitution medicine, each person inherently possesses a unique constitution different from that of any other person. The shapes and sizes, temperaments and characters of people have enormous variations that must affect our health and happiness. Without understanding our particular constitution, we must fall into poor health and disease. The food and exercise that are good for one person's constitution may not be good for another. No standardized medicine can adequately deal with our individual variations. Only a system that can discern our different constitutional types has this capacity. This paper is to study Life-Regulating Science that has taken firm root in our culture from time immemorial, so that I suggest the methods of diagnoses and prognoses by using Life-Regulating Science. In the medical texts, psychological imbalances of Eum-Yang and Five Phases generate all kinds of diseases. Accordingly visceral manifestation and diseases as a future possibility may be known by the Four Pillars.

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Analysis of Oriental Pediatrics Clinic Web Sites in Korea (소아를 주요 대상으로 하는 한의원 웹사이트의 분석 및 고찰)

  • Kim, Jang-Hyun;Seo, Young-Min
    • The Journal of Pediatrics of Korean Medicine
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2006
  • Objectives : The Internet is closely related to the live of modern people in the 21st Century. With increasing interest in health and disease of children, the public has access to a growing supply of information on oriental pediatrics clinic through Internet. The purpose of this study is to collect and analyze the Internet web sites concerning oriental pediatrics clinic in Korea, and study the effectiveness of internet toward oriental pediatrics. Methods : We selected 42 web sites by searching for such keyword as child and oriental Medical clinic at korea major web search engine. The sites were evaluated and analyzed on the basis of 24 is under three evaluation criteria such as quality of contents, the easy of use, reliability of web sites. Results: Study results indicated that 34% of web sites were built in 2004, 58% of oriental pediatrics clinic was located in Seoul & Kyunggi and 84% of them was connected network medical system. About health information was supplied in oriental pediatrics clinic web sites, the growth was high frequent information, 50% of web sites supplied high quality information and 19% of them was supplied high diversity information. Conclusions: It is necessary to control system as information certification system in the area of oriental pediatrics clinic web sites.

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A Case of Malignant Triton Tumor on Supraclavicular Area (쇄골 상부에 발생한 악성 Triton 종양 1예)

  • Lim, Sang Ho;Park, Hee Tack;Hong, Ki Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.54-57
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    • 2013
  • Malignant triton tumor(MTT) is a rare type of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor(MPNST) with focal rhabdomyoblastic differentiation. MTT constitutes about 5% of all MPNSTs and described the first case of a MTT in a patient with Von Recklinghausen disease by Masson in 1932. MTT is commonly seen in the head, neck, extremities and trunk. It can occur in sporadic form or over a setting of neurofibromatosis-1(NF-1). The diagnosis can be confirmed based on morphologic grounds supported by an immunostain such as S-100 protein. Desmin, myo-D1 and myogenin are immunostains positive for rhabdomyoblasts. MTT has an aggressive biological behavior so prognosis of this rare and highly malignant tumor is poor and optimal treatment remains unclear. But modern treatment consisted of radical excision and postoperative radiotherapy has improved the prognosis of such cases.

A Bibliographic Study on Wood-block Edition 『Donguibogam』 in Jeseon Dynasty during the 17th-18th Centuries (17-18세기 조선 간행 『동의보감』 목판본에 대한 서지학적 연구)

  • Park, Hun-Pyeng
    • The Journal of Korean Medical History
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.25-37
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    • 2015
  • "Donguibogam" has been published several times in Japan and China since the first was published and established itself as representing the East Asian medicine in 17th Century. Also, modern far has attracted attention as a major classic book of Korea medicine. For these "Donguibogam" its contents, as well as several medical historians and bibliographers were early comment on versions. However, these prior studies did not confirm about the various editions of the publication time, especially for the initial wood-block edition estimate only. Through this new study found the following facts. First, Wood-block edition of two Jeollagamyeong published until the mid-18th century to be confirmed by the "Seungjeongwonilgi". Second, the timing of the editions published later modified in Naeuiwon is confirmed by the "Chakpan Catalog" and the "Seungjeongwonilgi". Third, the person who keeps wood-block edition of Chonnamgamyeong is the first empirical examples of the same edition. Fourth, the edition is not published editions group that bypasses the Naeuiwon modified.

The Prenatal Management in the Oriental Medicine (한방측면에서 본 임신부의 영양관리)

  • Lee, Kyung-Sub
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.247-255
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    • 1997
  • The changes of mental activities and the normal life during the pregnancy have a direct and indirect influences not only on the maternal health but also on the physiological function of the fetus. In the oriental medicine, many attentions have been ordered during the pregnancy. And they called these attentions and managements during the pregnancy as 'Tia-jiao(胎敎)'. The Tia-jiao, that is the prenatal culture, means 'educations for the fetus', so it is a hygienic conception for the pregnacy and the delivery. About this, many oriental gynecologic texts contained various contents such as the prohibitions against food(Shi-ji 食忌), the attentions on the mental activities(Yang-xing-ging 養性情), the notions on the normal life(Qi-ju-ji 起居忌), the cautions against drugs(Yao-ji 藥忌), the instructions for the treatments, the preventions against abortion(Gu-tia-liang-fa 固胎良法). The Tai-jiao can be divided two categories. The one is the behaviors and mental attitudes which can induce the good characters, and the other is the intake of foods and drugs which can grow the healthy body. According to the transitions of the generation, the economies, the societies, and the cultures have been changed. Through the pursuits of the intelligent babies have been remained, all conceptions and recognitions have also been altered. Therefore the ways to the prenatal culture must be changed, The reviewing the old and learning now, and doing the appropriate Tia-jiao in the modern times may be the best way to get the good babies.

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The effective model of the human Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase inhibition by aromatic-structure inhibitors

  • Minh, Nguyen Truong Cong;Thanh, Bui Tho;Truong, Le Xuan;Suong, Nguyen Thi Bang;Thao, Le Thi Xuan
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.309-319
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    • 2017
  • The research investigates the inhibition of fatty acid biosynthesis of the human Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase enzyme by the aromatic-structure inhibitors (also known as ligands) containing variables of substituents, contributing an important role in the treatment of fatty-acid metabolic syndrome expressed by the group of cardiovascular risk factors increasing the incidence of coronary heart disease and type-2 diabetes. The effective interoperability between ligand and enzyme is characterized by a 50% concentration of enzyme inhibitor ($IC_{50}$) which was determined by experiment, and the factor of geometry structure of the ligands which are modeled by quantum mechanical methods using HyperChem 8.0.10 and Gaussian 09W softwares, combining with the calculation of quantum chemical and chemico-physical structural parameters using HyperChem 8.0.10 and Padel Descriptor 2.21 softwares. The result data are processed with the combination of classical statistical methods and modern bioinformatics methods using the statistical softwares of Department of Pharmaceutical Technology - Jadavpur University - India and R v3.3.1 software in order to accomplish a model of the quantitative structure - activity relationship between aromatic-structure ligands inhibiting fatty acid biosynthesis of the human Acetyl-CoA Carboxylase.

The Tasks of Medical Education to Support the Formation of Medical Professional Identity (전문직 정체성 형성을 위한 의학교육 현장의 과제)

  • Kim, Sun
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.104-107
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    • 2021
  • Building professional identity is the most basic purpose of medical education. Students who enter medical schools do not have an identity rooted in the medical profession, and universities should therefore take steps to help students form their identity as doctors, attitudes, beliefs, and values through the curriculum. However, while medical knowledge and clinical skills are fully reflected in basic medical education, issues persist regarding education on values, attitudes, and beliefs that are important for professional identity. Regarding the process of professional identity formation, it is important to keep in mind that rapid changes in modern society lead to corresponding changes in socio-cultural expectations and demands related to professional identity, resulting in discrepancies between the reality of medical education and the actual field of medicine. Medical schools need to prepare students for these discrepancies, and in-depth discussions should address what is important and what should be solved first at medical education sites. However, it is difficult to generalize the tasks of professional identity formation in the field of medical education because each medical school may have unique circumstances. This article discusses the tasks that medical education should solve for professional identity formation education in terms of five aspects: establishing learning outcomes, training educational experts, introducing transformative learning, utilizing self-directed learning, and developing evaluation methods.

Effects of sleep deprivation on coronary heart disease

  • Wei, Ran;Duan, Xiaoye;Guo, Lixin
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.297-305
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    • 2022
  • The presence of artificial light enables humans to be active 24 h a day. Many people across the globe live in a social culture that encourages staying up late to meet the demands of various activities, such as work and school. Sleep deprivation (SD) is a severe health problem in modern society. Meanwhile, as with cardiometabolic disease, there was an obvious tendency that coronary heart disease (CHD) to become a global epidemic chronic disease. Specifically, SD can significantly increase the morbidity and mortality of CHD. However, the underlying mechanisms responsible for the effects of SD on CHD are multilayered and complex. Inflammatory response, lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, and endothelial function all contribute to cardiovascular lesions. In this review, the effects of SD on CHD development are summarized, and SD-related pathogenesis of coronary artery lesions is discussed. In general, early assessment of SD played a vital role in preventing the harmful consequences of CHD.

RENE LAENNEC'S SYNDROME-BASED CLINICAL REASONING

  • Berezutskyi Volodymyr
    • CELLMED
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.4.1-4.4
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    • 2024
  • The development of clinical reasoning, which is the basis of medical education, is of great importance in medical universities. One of the founders of modern structural clinical reasoning, based on the knowledge of pathological physiology, is the inventor of the stethoscope Rene Laennec (1781-1826). He described the pioneering experience of clinical reasoning in the pages of his treatise A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest and on Mediate Auscultation, which is of lasting value, since every rookie physicians in his professional development goes through the path of Laennec. Laennec's practice is of great importance for novice physicians since Laennec's treatise contains a diagnostic analysis of the most common clinical cases. Each such analysis demonstrates the algorithm of clinical reasoning. The purpose of this study was to analyze the approaches of clinical reasoning by René Laennec, which made it possible to identify two basic principles. Laennec's diagnostic reasoning involved two principles: pathogenetic analysis of clinical manifestations and a syndrome-based approach to differential diagnosis. These principles help distinguish between diseases with similar symptoms and physical findings are used to demonstrate the practical application of syndrome-based differential diagnosis. These principles can be easily mastered by understanding the pathogenesis of clinical manifestations. Thanks to the pathogenetic basis, the principles of clinical reasoning of Rene Laennec are universal and applicable to the analysis of any signs of the disease: not only physical but also laboratory and instrumental.