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KMID : 1129720230400020044
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Korean Journal of Acupuncture
2023 Volume.40 No. 2 p.44 ~ p.53
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Observational Clinical Study on Mibyeong Based on Korean Medicine Diagnosis, Questionnaire, and Radial Artery Tonometry
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Moon Hee-Young
Han Jae-Won
Lim Su-Hyun
Chae Youn-Byoung
Lee In-Seon
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Abstract
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Objectives : This study was conducted to reveal the relationship between multiple factors of traditional Korean Medicine diagnosis and consider the further probabilities of treating people with physical and mental problems not defined as diseases, which is called ‘Mibyeong’ in traditional Korean Medicine. Methods : 40 healthy participants were included in the observational clinical trial. The participants were asked to complete health questionnaires (e.g. State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Stress Response Inventory) and they went through a traditional diagnosis process, including four stages of diagnosis (looking, listening/smelling, inquiring, and pulse taking), by a Korean
Medicine doctor. Both the Korean Medicine doctor and an artery tonometry device performed the pulse diagnosis.
Results : Although all participants were healthy people with no history of disease, more than half of participants had a problem related with severe level of fatigue (n=19), sleep disturbance (n=26) and stress (n=27) status according to the related questionnaires. Participants diagnosed with phlegm syndrome by the Korean Medicine doctor showed significantly greater score in phlegm pattern questionnaires than participants who were not. However, there was little agreement between the doctor’s pulse diagnosis and radial artery tonometry results.
Conclusions : We conducted a pulse diagnosis and measured health-related information along with the traditional Korean Medicine diagnose procedure, including four stages of diagnosis, and we found a linkage between diagnosis of phlegm and the phlegm pattern questionnaire score. The results suggest that a number of healthy participants, with no disease diagnosed, have Mibyoung symptoms which need further clinical management. Thus, we suggest that Mibyoung management programs based on qualified diagnosis tools and traditional Korean medicine diagnosis procedures be developed, and that future research using various diagnostic tools be carried out on a large population.
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KEYWORD
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Mibyeong, Korean medicine diagnosis, pulse diagnosis, radial artery tonometry, observational clinical study
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