Objectrve : To research the trends of the study related to aging process, and to establish the direction of the study on aging process.
Method : We reviewed the journal and essay about the aging process which are published as well in Korea as in foreign country.
Results : 1. The study on the Oriental Medicine field can be classfied with the fourth. first, the study of single herb medication´s effect on the aging process. second, the study of multiple herb medication´s effect on the aging process. third, the study of herb-acupuncture solution´s effect on the aging process. fourth, journal review. We find the fact that the study on the Oriental Medicine is concerned with pathology of deficiency syndrome of the kidneys, retention of phlegm and fluid, blood stasis.
2. On the Western Medicine field, mechanism and pathology of aging pracess primarily has been studied. The mechanism of aging process is classified with ´Wear and tear theory´ and ´Genome-based theory´. Among the mechanism of aging process, ´Free radical theory´ is the most important. Additionally ´Senescence-Accelerated Mouse´ has been studied.
3. We review the journal published in foreign country and its subject was the following: first, moxibustion combined with acu-area skin allograft therapy for the aging was effective, second, the traditional chinese medicine bu-zhong-yi-qi-tang in mice have anti-aging effect. third, the overview Preventive geriatrics of Traditional chinese medicine.
4. We researched anti-aging effect study in the journal of the Korean Acupuncture and Moxibustion, and we found a few journal of Herb-acupuncture solution´s anti-aging effect. Hereafter, it is necessory that we will study about relationship between acupuncture-moxibustion therpy and anti-aging effect using Senescence-Accelerated Mouse.
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