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Urine therapy briefing for scientists

  • Kang, Kook-Hee
    • CELLMED
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.32.1-32.3
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    • 2012
  • Urine is a gift of God for the health of human being in proverbs of the Old Testament in Hindu. Urine therapy (UT) is not a mysterious folk remedy, it is doctor's examined prescription based on modern science and UT is recommended strongly with absolute confidence. It is effective and amazing to a number of incurables such as chronic fatigue, lingering, a cold, nose allergy, diabetes, high blood pressure, and gout. Also, UT is applied not only for human beings but also for animals, the latter including amazing effects for pigs and cows. The purpose of this manuscript is to help change the misunderstandings of urine and UT and to help reader realize it is one of the helpful alternative remedies.

A Case Report of Symptomatic Character and Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia (섬유근통(fibromyalgia)의 병태와 진단을 위한 임상 1례 보고)

  • Jeong, Tae-Young;Cho, Jung-Hyo;Park, Bong-Ky;Son, Chang-Gue
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.162-168
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    • 2009
  • Objective: This report aimed to study fibromyalgia's diagnostic criteria, differential diagnoses and its pathology from the viewpoint of oriental medicine. Method: We observed and diagnosed a female patient who complained of prolonged whole body pain, even several times hospitalized for treatment. Result: The patient's symptoms correspond with fibromyalgia and we ruled out other suspected diseases. Conclusion: Fibromyalgia is prone to be misdiagnosed because the patient has complicated symptoms such as various pains and chronic fatigue as well as depression unexplained by medical tests. Furthermore, the symptoms often never disappear completely, although it isn't progressive or life-threatening, and can be improved. So accumulation of data and analysis from the viewpoint of oriental medicine is necessary for development of oriental medical standard treatment.

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Acute Hepatitis during the Treatment of Postherpetic Neuralgia -A case report- (대상포진후 신경통 치료중 발생한 급성간염 -증례 보고-)

  • Park, Hee-Jeung;Jung, Mi-Hyang;Lee, Cheol-Seong;Kim, Won-Tae
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.244-247
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    • 1996
  • A 67 year old male with postherpetic neuralgia complained of right anterior chest throbbing pain and also allodynia. We performed thoracic epidural block with 0.25% bupivacaine and 1% lidocaine. Oral carbamazepine and imipramine were also administred concomitantly. One month later, patient complained of fatigue, anorexia, pruritis, jaundice, and dark urine. Liver function test values were significantly elevated then. Therefore we removed the epidural catheter and ceased all medication. Liver function test values decreased rapidly after discontinuation of medication. Hepatitis might have developed as result of drugs administered and could have been prevented if the patient had been monitored with regular clinical laboratory follow up. The purpose of this case report is emphasize the importance of early regular laboratory test to detect any possible side effect that may occur by administration of drugs during treatment of chronic pain.

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A study on caregiving situations and resources for adjustment among family caregivers of the elderly with dementia (치매노인 가족의 부양상황과 적응자원에 관한 연구)

  • 김태현
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.145-160
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    • 1996
  • The purpose of this study was to identify caregiving situations and to examine resources for adjustment among family caregivers of the elderly with dementia. Thereby the study can provide the basic information for the development of education programs for family caregivers through in-depth interview. The main result of this study was as follows : 1) The major problems identified by family caregivers I caring for the elderly with dementia were related to care recipient's toileting and to care recipient's confusion and wandering. 2) The family caregiver expressed feelings of burden including chronic fatigue, depression, guilt and frustration. 3) The factors influencing the adjustment of family caregivers for demented elderly were quality of relationship, motivation for caregiving, circumstances of caregiving, social support and coping strategies.

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A Study on Vinyl House disease and Seo-byung (HOUSE병(病)과 서병(暑病)에 관(關)한 고찰(考察))

  • Gwon, O-Seong;Gang, Yun-Ho
    • The Journal of Dong Guk Oriental Medicine
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    • v.5
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    • pp.273-280
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    • 1996
  • This study is to know the relation between the symptom of Vinyl House disease and seo-byung of oriental medical. The results are summarised as follows, 1. One of the pathogenic factors of Vinyl house disease is the environtal of high temperature and humidity,that is coincident with seo-byung's pathogenic factors. 2. The most common symptoms of Vinyl house disease are heaedache, sweating, dizziness, weightloss, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, numbed limb, breathless etc. that are included in seo-byung's symptoms. 3. Vinyl house disease belong to the category of the seo-byung of oriental medical. In concrete term, Vinyl house disease is come under chronic seo-byung or symptomic seo-byung.

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Perineal Pain due to Bladder Stones after Total Abdominal Hysterectomy - A case report - (전 자궁 절제술 후 방광 내 결석으로 유발된 회음부 통증 - 증례보고 -)

  • Park, Sang Hyun;Park, Jong Cook;Lee, Pyung Bok
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.251-254
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    • 2007
  • Perineal pain is a significant diagnostic challenge to the pain practitioner, and accurate diagnosis and treatment is essential. We report a case of 42-years old female patient suffering from excruciating vulvodynia for 5 years. Her pain on the visual analogue scale was 10 out of 10 and her pain was associated with sleep disturbance, dyspareunia, and chronic fatigue. She was diagnosed with a bladder stone by imaging, and The pain was relieved by cystolitholapaxy.

Related Factors between Chronic Fatigue Symptoms and Health Behaviors of Adults in Korea (국내 성인들의 만성 피로증상과 건강행태와의 관련된 요인)

  • Lee, Seong-Ran
    • Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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    • 2011.12a
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    • pp.181-184
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    • 2011
  • 본 연구는 국내 성인들의 만성 피로증상과 건강행태와의 관련요인을 파악하기 위해 시도하였다. 자료수집은 2011년 6월 8일부터 2011년 7월 13일까지 서울에 소재한 종합병원 내과에 내원한 환자군 37명, 대조군 111명을 대상으로 설문 및 면접조사를 하였다. 연구결과는 첫째, 운동여부는 정기적으로 운동하는 경우 남성환자군은 26.7%로 대조군의 42.2%보다 낮았으며 여성환자군도 22.7%로 대조군의 31.8%보다 낮은 분포를 보였다. 둘째, 남성의 경우 사회적요인은 45.18배의 위험비를 보였으며 유의한 것으로 나타났다. 여성의 경우 신체적 요인은 237.1배, 가정적 요인은 140.6배의 위험비를 보였으며 유의하였다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 만성피로를 예방하기 위해서는 규칙적인 생활, 건전한 생활리듬을 유지하며 취미생활등을 통해 심신의 만성피로 스트레스를 해소하는 것이 중요할 것으로 본다.

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A frameshift mutation in the TRPS1 gene showing a mild phenotype of trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type 1

  • Park, Jin-Mo;Lee, Yun Jeong;Park, Jin-Sung
    • Journal of Genetic Medicine
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.97-101
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    • 2018
  • Tricho-rhino-phalangeal syndrome (TRPS) is a hereditary disorder characterized by craniofacial and skeletal abnormalities. A mutation of the TRPS1 gene leads to TRPS type I or type III. A 20-year-old male patient visited our neurologic department with chronic fatigue. He presented with short stature, sparse hair, pear-shaped nose, and brachydactyly. Radiologic study showed short metacarpals, metatarsals with cone-shaped epiphyses, hypoplastic femur and hip joint. Panel sequencing for OMIM (Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man) listed genes revealed a de novo heterozygous frameshift mutation of c.1801_1802delGA (p.Arg601Lysfs*3) of exon 4 of the TRPS1 gene. The diagnosis of TRPS can be challenging due to the rarity and variable phenotype of the disease, clinicians should be aware of its characteristic clinical features that will lead a higher rate of diagnosis.

A Study on Health condition and Drug use of Female Workers in Incheon area (산업장 여성 근로자의 건강과 약물사용)

  • Cho Wonsun
    • Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.17-32
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    • 1995
  • The purpose of this study is to promote health for young female workers. It is based on questionnaires collected from 215 female workers in Incheon area. This study includes health condition (fatigue scores), occupational disease, knowledge of abused drugs and the actual condition of drug use. The results are summerized as follows: - $47.4\%$ visited their health center and were treated with diseases like cold and headache $(34.9\%)$, gastroenteric disease $(6.5\%)$, trauma $(7.9\%)$ and chronic disease such as diabetes and hypertension $(3.3\%)$ - $44.7\%$ received regular health education and $4.7\%$ among them received education on abused drugs. - $20.5\%$ were suffering from work related diseases such as gastroenteric disease, headache, trauma, repiratory disease, skin problem, arthritis, low back pain, shortsightness and tuberculosis. - Total mean fatigue score as an indication of health status was $9.0\pm5.4$ points out of 30 points. Physical mean score (group I) was $3.92\pm2.2$ points and psychological mean score was $2.5\pm2.3$ points and neurosensory mean score was $2.6\pm2.1$ points out of each 10 points. - They recognized analgesics $(55.0\%)$ and the next are laxatives $(49.8\%)$, inhalants $(40.0\%)$, narcotics $(24.2\%)$, stimulants $(24.0\%)$, antihistamines$(5.9\%)$, diuretics $(3.0\%)$, tranquilizer $(2.4\%)$ and sedatives $(1.4\%)$ - They used analgesics $(37.2\%)$ the most and then laxatives $(6.0\%)$, stimulants$(5.6\%)$, diuretics $(1.9\%)$, antihistamines$(0.5\%)$, And nobody used tranquilizer, sedatives, narcotics and inhalant. - The relationship between career, drug abuse education, health center utilization and and the actual condition of drug using was examined. The longer the career and the more educated with drug abuse, the less drug used. And those who utilized health center rarely used more drugs. - The relationship between career, health center utilization, the score of fatigue and use of analgesics was also examined. Those group who have a longer career above 3 years and the group who have never used health center used more analgesics. And the group of fatigue score above 11.0 points used a little more analgesics than the other group. These results indicate that analgesics are the most frequent used drugs among female workers. Those analgesics such as geborin, penzal, saridon, aspirin, tyrenol should be used properly. These basic data is submitted for the education and consultation which are carried out by industrial nurses for promoting health of industrial workers.

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Outcome of Low-Back Pain and Sciatica : Relationship among Self-reported Pain Intensity, Disability, Sleep Disturbance and Fatigue (요통 및 좌골신경통 환자의 치료결과 : 수면장애 및 피로감과 자각적 통증 및 장애정도의 관계)

  • Lee, Kyeong-Seok;Yoon, Seok-Mann;Doh, Jae-Won;Bae, Hack-Gun
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.324-329
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    • 2000
  • Objective : Psychological factors may have a major influence on the outcome of treatment for back pain. We investigated the relationship between the outcome and some psychological factors, such as self-reported pain intensity, disability, sleep disturbance and fatigue. Method : The study was conducted as a survey using a questionnaire and telephone interviews. The survey included consecutive 294 patients who visited the neurosurgical out-patient department complaining of low back pain and contacted by telephone on average seven months after the first visit. Pain intensity was measured by visual analog scale, and disability was assessed by Waddell's chronic disability index. Results : The outcome of treatment for back pain was recovered in 36.7%, improved in 30.6%, almost same in 28.6%, and aggravated in 4.1%. Overall rate of improvement was 67.3%. The rate of improvement was related to the duration, patterns and intensity of the symptom, and Waddell index. It was not influenced by the doctors, special studies, and methods of treatment. When the duration was more than 6 months, there were the symptoms of both back and legs, and the self-reported Waddell index was 1-3, the rate of improvement was relatively low. Although the intensity of the pain and disability was closely related to the degree of sleep disturbance, fatigue, appetite, or indigestion, the outcome of treatment for back pain was not always bad in patients with high psychological stress. Actually the outcome of the patients who complained severe pain and disability was better than the outcome of the others. Conclusion : The outcome of the back pain can be predicted by the duration, patterns and intensity of the symptom, and Waddell index. The multidisciplinary treatment will be necessary for the patients whose expected outcome is not good to reduce not only the physical symptoms but also the psychological stress.

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