Some Issues in the Diagnosis of Depression in China*

1987 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 368-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xu Jun-Mian
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Mental Disorder ◽  
Affective Disorder ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Lower Prevalence ◽  
The West ◽  
Seeking Help ◽  
Relevant Factors

In China, the diagnosis of depression is made much less frequently than in the West, likely because there is a somewhat lower prevalence rate and because of other factors related to culture and to the development of Chinese psychiatry. Some of the relevant factors are: 1) depressed patients often avoid seeking help because of the stigma of mental disorder; 2) many patients seek help from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine; 3) depression is often diagnosed as schizophrenia because of diagnostic criteria that are broader for schizophrenia and narrower for affective disorder than in the West; and 4) somatization is more frequent in China and many depressives receive the label “neurasthenia”.

scholarly journals Comparison of Sasang Constitutional Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Yeol Kim ◽  
Duong Duc Pham ◽  
Byung Hee Koh
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
The West ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
East Asian Region ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Based Medicine

Sasang constitutional medicine (SCM), traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda are three different forms of Asian traditional medicine. Although these traditions share a lot in common as holistic medicines, the different philosophical foundations found in each confer distinguishing attributes and unique qualities. SCM is based on a constitution-based approach, and is in this way relatively more similar to the Ayurvedic tradition than to the TCM, although many of the basic SCM theories were originally derived from TCM, a syndrome-based medicine. SCM and TCM use the same botanical materials that are distributed mainly in the East Asian region, but the basic principles of usage and the underlying rationale are completely different from each other. Meanwhile, the principles of the Ayurvedic use of botanical resources are very similar to those seen in SCM, but the medicinal herbs used in Ayurveda generally originate from the West Asian region which displays a different spectrum of flora.

scholarly journals Identification and mapping of real acupoints in the anatomical topography of Boa constrictor

2019 ◽  
Vol 79 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-247
Author(s):  
T. M. Fernandes ◽  
F. C. Lopes ◽  
G. C. O. M. Santana ◽  
M. K. S. Oliveira ◽  
M. O. Freitas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Treatment Technique ◽  
The West ◽  
Physiological Reaction ◽  
Boa Constrictor ◽  
Needle Point ◽  
The Ideal

Abstract Acupuncture is a therapy of the traditional Chinese medicine technique, which over the years has been widespread in the West. Defined as a needle-point treatment technique (acupoints), exactly preconfigured in the body to produce a specific physiological reaction to restore the balance between the function of conflicting states and homeostasis, alternating states of energy and thus maintain the ideal organ and body organization. Thus, the objective of this study was to map and describe the main points of acupuncture in the species Boa constrictor , and their indications to promote the balance of this species. The unprecedented result of the mapping was the discovery of specific acupoints with individual location indications without distribution in specific meridians and dispersedly distributed in the body.

Chinese Medicine and the Problem of Tradition

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Volker Scheid
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
It Value ◽  
Forthcoming Book ◽  
Definite Answer ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

In the West, but not only in the West, Asian medicines continue to be understood and promoted through a discourse that emphasises their status as 'traditions'. Chinese medicine, widely referred to throughout the world as 'Traditional Chinese Medicine' (TCM), is an obvious example. The problematic nature of this practice, which uses tradition as the 'other' of modernity, has often been criticised, yet no alternative has yet emerged. One solution may be to redefine the notion of tradition in an effort to accord it value in and of itself. This article is a contribution to this process. It combines two different sections from a forthcoming book Currents ef Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1624–2005. The first section briefly reviews the complex history of the concept of tradition in western social thought. The second section, written in a very different style, uses eating—and specifically the meals that the author shared with his informants during his fieldwork—as an analogy for grasping some of the essential practices that define the scholarly tradition in Chinese medicine. Introductory in nature and intention, this article is intended to stimulate debate rather than provide a definite answer to the question it raises.

scholarly journals Do dyslexia and stuttering share a phonological deficit?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Medhat Elsherif ◽  
Linda Wheeldon ◽  
Steven Frisson
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Lower Prevalence ◽  
Phonological Deficit

This study assessed the prevalence of childhood stuttering in people with dyslexia (PWD) and the prevalence of dyslexia in people who stutter (PWS). In addition, the linguistic profiles of 50 PWD, 30 PWS and 84 neurotypical adults were measured. We found that 17 out of 50 PWD (34%) reported stuttering during childhood compared to 1% of the controls. This was moderated by the severity of dyslexia: People with mild dyslexia showed a lower prevalence rate (15%) of childhood stuttering than those with severe dyslexia (47%). In addition, we observed that 50% of the PWS (n = 30) fulfilled the diagnostic criteria of dyslexia, even though they had never been diagnosed as dyslexic. Finally, PWD and PWS did not differ on any phonological measure. The findings suggest that stuttering and dyslexia may share a common phonological deficit.

The Challenges Facing Traditional Chinese Medicine in the West

2001 ◽  
Vol 05 (01) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
Henry Lee
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
The West

This article Argues about the Safety and Quality of the Traditional Chinese Medicinal Facing in the West.

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