scholarly journals The Association of Quantitative Facial Color Features with Cold Pattern in Traditional East Asian Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujeong Mun ◽  
Ilkoo Ahn ◽  
Siwoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Method ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cold Sensation ◽  
Color Parameter ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Color Features ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Calculation System

Introduction. Facial diagnosis is a major component of the diagnostic method in traditional East Asian medicine. We investigated the association of quantitative facial color features with cold pattern using a fully automated facial color parameterization system. Methods. The facial color parameters of 64 participants were obtained from digital photographs using an automatic color correction and color parameter calculation system. Cold pattern severity was evaluated using a questionnaire. Results. The a⁎ values of the whole face, lower cheek, and chin were negatively associated with cold pattern score (CPS) (whole face: B=-1.048, P=0.021; lower cheek: B=-0.494, P=0.007; chin: B=-0.640, P=0.031), while b⁎ value of the lower cheek was positively associated with CPS (B=0.234, P=0.019). The a⁎ values of the whole face were significantly correlated with specific cold pattern symptoms including cold abdomen (partial ρ=-0.354, P<0.01) and cold sensation in the body (partial ρ=-0.255, P<0.05). Conclusions. a⁎ values of the whole face were negatively associated with CPS, indicating that individuals with increased levels of cold pattern had paler faces. These findings suggest that objective facial diagnosis has utility for pattern identification.

Yi Chema and the Psychosocial Body in Late Nineteenth Century Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-92
Author(s):  
Kiebok Yi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Conventional understandings of Chinese medicine, and by extension East Asian medicine, are that historical and contemporary discourses on the medical body have essentially revolved around a unitary body perception—the cosmological body as demonstrated by the use of concepts such as qi, yinyang, and the Five Phases. Notably, in this body conception, the material, spiritual and emotional dimensions are not separable from each other but are rather interconnected by means of allpervasive qi that resonates in the universe. However, East Asian medicine has in fact provided a far more diverse and dynamic landscape of conceptualizations of the body than has previously been assumed. Addressing this relatively ignored topography, this paper investigates medical thought about body structure that was proposed and practiced by Yi Chema 李濟馬 (1837-1900), a physician and Confucian in late nineteenth century Chosŏn 朝鮮 Korea. Rather than considering cosmological factors, he brought into play human affairs and agency in his discussion of the medical body. In the framework of his medical system, later referred to as Sasang 四象 (fourfold imaging) medicine, psychosocial characteristics—such as affective temperaments, cognitive traits, and behavioral dispositions—are inherently interwoven with the configuration of the viscera and body parts. Importantly, the physiological processes of this psychosocial body are not so much maintained by cosmologically resonating qi flowing throughout the body, but rather, they are activated by the human agent’s psychosocial drive to engage with the world. Yi Chema, through his conceptualization of the psychosocial body, envisaged an ideal world in which the qualities and differences of people should be acknowledged to the fullest extent. Thus he rejected hierarchical socio-cultural orderings of human beings in favor of a respect of heterogeneity. Yi Chema’s effort to promote the psychosocial body can be understood against the backdrop of late nineteenth century East Asia, where the mechanistic body of what was then seen as modern medicine was encroaching upon the cosmological body.

scholarly journals Understanding Mind-Body Interaction from the Perspective of East Asian Medicine

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye-Seul Lee ◽  
Yeonhee Ryu ◽  
Won-Mo Jung ◽  
Jungjoo Kim ◽  
Taehyung Lee ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Body ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Document Frequency ◽  
Organ Systems ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

Objective. Attempts to understand the emotion have evolved from the perspective of an independent cognitive system of the mind to that of an interactive response involving the body. This study aimed to quantify and visualize relationships between different emotions and bodily organ systems from the perspective of East Asian medicine. Methods. Term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) method was used to quantify the significance of Five Viscera and the gallbladder relative to seven different emotions through the classical medical text of DongUiBoGam. Bodily organs that corresponded to different emotions were visualized using a body template. Results. The emotions had superior tf-idf values with the following bodily organs: anger with the liver, happiness with the heart, thoughtfulness with the heart and spleen, sadness with the heart and lungs, fear with the kidneys and the heart, surprise with the heart and the gallbladder, and anxiety with the heart and the lungs. Specific patterns between the emotions and corresponding bodily organ systems were identified. Conclusion. The present findings will further the current understanding of the relationship between the mind and body from the perspective of East Asian medicine. Western medicine characterizes emotional disorders using “neural” language while East Asian medicine uses “somatic” language.

scholarly journals The Association between Facial Morphology and Cold Pattern

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-129
Author(s):  
Ilkoo Ahn ◽  
Kwang-Ho Bae ◽  
Hee-Jeong Jin ◽  
Siwoo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Features ◽  
Facial Morphology ◽  
Sensory Organs ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Center Point ◽  
Facial Shape ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
The Face ◽  
Analysis System

Objectives: Facial diagnosis is an important part of clinical diagnosis in traditional East Asian Medicine. In this paper, using a fully automated facial shape analysis system, we show that facial morphological features are associated with cold pattern.Methods: The facial morphological features calculated from 68 facial landmarks included the angles, areas, and distances between the landmark points of each part of the face. Cold pattern severity was determined using a questionnaire and the cold pattern scores (CPS) were used for analysis. The association between facial features and CPS was calculated using Pearson's correlation coefficient and partial correlation coefficients.Results: The upper chin width and the lower chin width were negatively associated with CPS. The distance from the center point to the middle jaw and the distance from the center point to the lower jaw were negatively associated with CPS. The angle of the face outline near the ear and the angle of the chin line were positively associated with CPS. The area of the upper part of the face and the area of the face except the sensory organs were negatively associated with CPS. The number of facial morphological features that exhibited a statistically significant correlation with CPS was 37 (unadjusted).Conclusions: In this study of a Korean population, subjects with a high CPS had a more pointed chin, longer face, more angular jaw, higher eyes, and more upward corners of the mouth, and their facial sensory organs were relatively widespread.

Expanded Possibilities for Teaching Asian Medicines

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-326
Author(s):  
Marta Hanson ◽  
Sarah Zanolini ◽  
Natalie Köhle ◽  
Dexter Kendrick ◽  
Alexander O. Hsu
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
East Asian Medicine ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
New Type ◽  
Institutional Contexts

Abstract Asian Medicine is inaugurating a new type of article in this issue, the pedagogical forum. For our launch of this new format, forum editors Zanolini and Hanson invited a range of scholars and practitioners teaching East Asian medicine within diverse institutional contexts to contribute. Their different approaches to teaching can be more broadly applied to any medical tradition in Asia.

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