• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.655-661
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• 2004

Anorexia nervosa is a serious, often chronic, and life-threatening eating disorder defined by a refusal to maintain minimal body weight (within 15% of an individual s normal weight). Other essential features of this disorder include an intense fear of gaining weight, a distorted body image, and amenorrhea(absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles when they are otherwise expected to occur). With anorexia nervosa, the nails and hair become brittle, and the skin may become dry and yellow. In addition to depression, hypothermia, lanugo, nausea, vomiting, anxiety and dehydration from sweating can appear. Starvation, weight loss, and related medical complications are quite serious and can result in death. Recently one patient was admitted with anorexia nervosa-like symptoms. The patient is a 18-year-old girl with complaints of weight loss, amenorrhea, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, tremor, and sweating. After treatment through oriental medicine for 2 weeks, most of the symptoms improved. Therefore, this application of oriental medicine is reported with a plea for further investigation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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• v.60 no.7
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• pp.131-142
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• 2010

The ethnic image in modern fashion can be interpreted as a trend of post-modernism, which appeared after modernism's established style. It has relativity, pluralism and variety, and it tries to revive style of the past. This makes style that borrows and combines image and style of different era and culture as distinctive feature, and in turn is expressed by a new image that is combined with the country's clothes. Also, thanks to the customers who are tired of artificiality and convenience, gift of modern science and technology, simple and natural sensitive marketing and being 'raw' are getting popular as new trend. Today's ethnic image is not merely borrowing visual, superficial image of culture and clothes of other ethnic group, but pursuing natural as purely created by human senses rather than being polished. In terms of ethnic image's formative beauty and aesthetic value, foreign and domestic collections are compared. But for domestic image, only Korean ones are researched, and for foreign designer's fashion image, there are ethnic styles of Japan, China and Korea. Although the documents of domestic designers that I investigated is not sufficient, canonic simple being of oriental image that is seen by the westerners is summarized.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Costume Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.71-71
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• 2003

In the 21st century, people expect new era and are skeptical about standardized life made by mechanization as well as information. They start to regard the Oriental culture, which was thought to be quite different from the Western culture, as an alternative overcoming Western ideas spiritual crisis because the Oriental culture has exotic beauty.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.71-77
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• 2009

Objectives : The aim of this study is to investigate radiological changes in cervical disc herniation after oriental medical treatment. Methods : 9 patient diagnosed as cervical disc herniation by MRI were treated with oriental medical treatment and underwent a follow up MRI study. Results & Conclusions : Comparison of initial MRI with follow-up MRI showed that 2 of the herniations dimensions decreased between 1% and 25%, 1 decreased between 26% and 50%, 5 decreased between 50% and 75%. The mean disc herniation dimensions decrease was 40% in 9 patients. Comparison of initial MRI with follow-up MRI showed that 4 of the herniations diameter decreased between 1% and 25%, 2 decreased between 26% and 50%, 3 decreased between 50% and 75%. The mean disc herniation diameter decrease was 36% in 9 patients.

• Journal of Society of Preventive Korean Medicine
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.1-23
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• 1999

The purpose of this paper is to survey the current status of service utilization in oriental medicine, to identify the determinants of consumers' decision in the service utilization, and then suggest policy implications for promoting the consumers' utilization. A multiple regression model was adopted to analyze the factors that influence consumer's decision in purchasing the oriental medical services. Data used in this research relied on National Survey Data conducted by Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs, and sampling survey. The results could be summarized as follows.: 1. the number of visits to oriental medical institutions has shown an overall increase during the last decade since the inception of health insurance for oriental medical services. It still, however, revealed a relatively iow figure to western medical services. 2. the main factors, after controlling demographic variables, that determine consumers' selection between oriental medical services and western medical services are considered to be price, belief in effectiveness of services, waiting time for service. Implications for policy recommendation include 1. to reduce a barrier to service utilization by discounting dramatically the price of herb medicine, which is believed to be crucial in expanding market share, 2. to encourage consumer's belief in clinical effectiveness through a specialization in competitive services compared with wertern medicine, 3. to keep the affirmative image among consumers alive through an active participation of oriental medical doctors in community activities, 4 to change the health care system in favor of oriental medicine in the long run.

• The Journal of Churna Manual Medicine for Spine and Nerves
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.49-56
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• 2010

Objectives: The objective of this study is to report the effectiveness of conservative treatment on pelvic fracture accompanied with osteoporosis. Methods: A female patient, 68 years old, who were diagnosed as right iliac wing fracture with osteoporosis by X-ray, bone scan and bone densitometry, were treated with conservative treatment. We evaluated the effectiveness by checking Visual Analog Scale(VAS), Oswestry Disability Index(ODI) and 3D computed tomography. Results: The symptoms of the patient got improved and the 3D computed tomography image showed the fracture were healing. Conclusions: Conservative oriental treatment can be effectively used for a patient with iliac wing fracture and osteoporosis.

• Journal of Korean Biological Nursing Science
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.77-83
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• 2012

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the self image according to body mass index in middle school students. Methods: The study included 260 students. Self image was measured using structured questionnaires. Statistical analysis was performed using t-test, ANOVA, Scheffe's test and multiple regression analysis. Results: The proportions of under weight, normal weight, and overweight were 36.1%, 53.9%, 10.0% respectively. Also, the mean of the self image score was 4.0. The score of self image was significantly higher in the normal weight group than the over weight group or the under weight group. This trend was also consistent in multiple regression. The score of self image was lower in high school grades, low perceived record, under-weight and over-weight. Conclusion: This study shows that many students are under weight. The score of self image was related with body image. So, level of obesity in each student should also be considered, to elevate the self image.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.1185-1193
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• 2007

Ginsing polysaccharide, known to have an immune regulating effect, was administered to 23 randomly selected healthy male subjects with a mean age of 23 years in accordance with an IRB approval. Then, these subjects underwent physico-chemical tests and serum proteome was analyzed from the blood sample taken from these subjects. Analyses of proteome involved image analysis, protein sections and protein identification in sequence after two-dimensional electrophoresis was carried out. During the physico-chemical test, 4 subjects were excluded from the study. In the proteome analysis, identified were 5 spots such as SP40, 40, Cytokeratin 9, hypothetical protein LOC544932, Apolipoprotein E ,similar to Human albumin, which showed differences in the amount of protein expression. In conclusion, changes of 5 proteins were remarkable before and after administration of ginsing polysaccharides. In certain cases, hepatic and renal slight injury occurred. Thus, further clinical study on dosage regimen would be necessary for securing the basis for concentration-dependent effectiveness and safety.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.672-676
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• 2013

The purpose of this study is to report that a patient suffered from Common Peroneal Neuropathy (CPN) caused by ankle sprain was improved by acupuncture plus electro-acupuncture. In this study, the patient was diagnosed with magnetic resonance image(MRI) and electomyography(EMG). We treated at acupoints ST36, ST41, SP9, GB34, GB39 and LR3 by acupuncture plus electro-acupuncture twice a day for 16 days; a total of 30 times. We used evaluation scale including muscle manual testing(MMT) and visual analogue scale (VAS). MMT changed from Grade 0 to Grade 5 and VAS changed from 10 to 2 after treatment for 16days with hospitalization. Though it is a case report, these results suggest that acupuncture and electrical acupuncture might have valid effect on CPN in controlled environment.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.1167-1171
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• 2009

Ischemic stroke has been the leading cause deaths and the critical disability. In addition, the clinical problem of ischemic stroke have the poor prognosis and high mortality rate. The study aim was to identify the incidence variation of ischemic stroke by days of the week and its relationship with residences in males. We analyzed 607 males patients with ischemic stroke diagnosed by magnetic resonance image or computerized tomography. They were admitted to the oriental hospital of Kyunghee, Daejeon, Wonkwang university. We analyzed the onset of ischemic stroke using a ${\chi}2$ test. The results showed significant weekly variation of ischemic stroke onset and the differences of weekly variation according to residences. A deeper knowlegde of the underlying weekly variation could be provide more effective insights for preventive approach.