On the Mind-Body Unity in the Oketsu Syndrome / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

The mind-body unity is a fundamental doctrine in Kampo medicine. In this report, the author tried to consider oketsu syndrome as a concrete object because this syndrome consists of both emotional and physical disorders. The oketsu syndrome has been recognized as blood stagnation in the microcirculatory vessels. On the other hand, the emotional aspect of this syndrome correlates with anger or aggressive affection. It is well known that emotional disorders are brought by very complicated neural circuit in the cerebral limbic system, so that this report referenced suitable articles among numerous scientific evidences, and discussed about mindbody unity.