Suggestions for Globalization of Sasang Constitutional Medicine(SCM)

2020 ◽  
Vol 143 ◽  
pp. 111-138
Author(s):  
Hoon Heo
Keyword(s):  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Constitutional Medicine

scholarly journals Quantitative Sasang Constitution Diagnosis Method for Distinguishing between Tae-eumin and Soeumin Types Based on Elasticity Measurements of the Skin of the Human Hand

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (s1) ◽  
pp. 93-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Wook Song ◽  
SungJun Lee ◽  
Yon Kyu Park ◽  
Sam Yong Woo
Keyword(s):  
Human Hand ◽  
Oriental Medicine ◽  
Compression Method ◽  
Repeatability Error ◽  
Sasang Constitution ◽  
Diagnosis Method ◽  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Measurement Repeatability ◽  
Elasticity Measurements

The usefulness of constitutional diagnoses based on skin measurements has been established in oriental medicine. However, it is very difficult to standardize traditional diagnosis methods. According to Sasang constitutional medicine, humans can be distinguished based on properties of the skin, including its texture, roughness, hardness and elasticity. The elasticity of the skin was previously used to distinguish between people with Tae-eumin (TE) and Soeumin (SE) constitutions. The present study designed a system that uses a compression method to measure the elasticity of hand skin and evaluated its measurement repeatability. The proposed system was used to compare the skin elasticity between SE and TE subjects, which produced a measurement repeatability error of <3%. The proposed system is suitable for use as a quantitative constitution diagnosis method for distinguishing between TE and SE subjects with an acceptable level of uncertainty.

scholarly journals Recent Progress in Voice-Based Sasang Constitutional Medicine: Improving Stability of Diagnosis

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun-Su Jang ◽  
Young-Su Kim ◽  
Boncho Ku ◽  
Jong Yeol Kim
Keyword(s):  
Gaussian Mixture ◽  
Voice Signal ◽  
Single Feature ◽  
Sasang Constitution ◽  
Diagnosis Accuracy ◽  
Good Repeatability ◽  
Diagnosis Model ◽  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Feature Values ◽  
Constitutional Medicine

Sasang constitutional medicine is a unique form of tailored medicine in traditional Korean medicine. Voice features have been regarded as an important cue to diagnose Sasang constitution types. Many studies tried to extract quantitative voice features and standardize diagnosis methods; however, they had flaws, such as unstable voice features which vary a lot for the same individual, limited data collected from only few sites, and low diagnosis accuracy. In this paper, we propose a stable diagnosis model that has a good repeatability for the same individual. None of the past studies evaluated the repeatability of their diagnosis models. Although many previous studies used voice features calculated by averaging feature values from all valid frames in monotonic utterance like vowels, we analyse every single feature value from each frame of a sentence voice signal. Gaussian mixture model is employed to deal with a lot of voice features from each frame. Total 15 Gaussian models are used to represent voice characteristics for each constitution. To evaluate repeatability of the proposed diagnosis model, we introduce a test dataset consisting of 10 individuals’ voice recordings with 50 recordings per each individual. Our result shows that the proposed method has better repeatability than the previous study which used averaged features from vowels and the sentence.

scholarly journals Strategic Approach to the Globalization of Sasang Constitutional Medicine

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Myeong Soo Lee
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
The Other ◽  
Oriental Medicine ◽  
Discussion Session ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Korean Traditional Medicine ◽  
Sasang Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Constitutional Medicine ◽  
Further Development

The workshop on “Strategic Approach to the Globalization of Sasang Constitutional Medicine (SCM)” was held in the Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM) on September 18, 2009. This workshop was designed to discuss and brainstorm the strategic approach to the globalization of SCM, one of the unique systems in Korean Traditional Medicine, with three topics and an extensive panel discussion. Professor Edwin Cooper, Editor-in-Chief ofeCAM, gave a commemorative lecture for publication of the second supplement ofeCAMentitled “Sasang Constitutional Medicine as a Holistic Tailored Medicine”. The other two presenters suggested some practical methods for globalization of SCM on the basis of their experiences. After the three main presentations, there was a panel discussion session for further development of workshop topics, extended by five other external experts. They discussed the benefits, limitations and essentials for globalization of Korean Traditional Medicine, specifically SCM, from bench to bedside.

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