As a preliminary research for the prescriptions applied to the mental disorders in the field of the traditional medicine, this thesis tries to study of prescriptions for the mental disorder explained in the Book of Tong-Eui-Po-Kam. (Manual for the Traditional Korean Medicine and Therapy).
The prescriptions for mental disorders mentioned in this manual were rearranged according to the descriptive indication, and also the herbs used as the prescriptions were specified in relation with phytotomy.
The result is as follows:
1. The total number of the prescriptions for mental disorders are 98, and the total number of the herbs 156.
2. Among the herbs, chemically unconstrued herbs are 18, obnoxious 30, and almost all of them are used mainly for the "Jeonkan", "Jeonkwang", and "Sasu".
3. Among the herbs, 35 herbs are clearly testified their pharmacological functions through the animal experiments and careful investigation showed the sedative effects among the 6 of the above 35.
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