• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.494-497
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• 2006

A child with five delay, five ankylosis, five weakening needs to take herbal medicine for a long term. So safety, efficacy inspection for the long term usage of herbal medicine and mixed dose is needed because other medication or functional health foods, etc could be taken during this process. Operated liver function test before and after dosing herbal medicine to one hundred and sixty children who aided private oriental medicine located in Seoul, and measured the efficacy by comparing sleeping hours, morbidity, stamina, sanguineness, personality, digestion with the state before taking herbal medicine based on questionnaire done by the parents. Every children were under the limits, and there were no differences between boys and girls, and no notable differences according to family histories. There were positive results in efficacy inspection ordered as improvement in personality, stamina, sanguineness, decrease in morbidity, increase in appetite, digestion. No signs of disorder in liver function has been found during the dose of herbal medicine or simultaneous medicine, and shown promotion of health.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.97-105
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• 1992

Present study investigated the relationship between children's psychiatric disorders and their mothers' psychological problems. Ninety-one psychiatric outpatients from a children's hospital were classified into three diagnostic groups - internalizing symptom group(n=35), externalizing symptom group(n=35), and developmental disorder group(n=21) - based on their psychiatric problems. A normal control group was formed by matching on the age and education of mothers. Mothers' MMPI profiles which were classified into five types - normal, depression, anxiety disorder, somatization disorder, and personality disorder - were examined in relation with children's diagnoses. The profiles of the mothers in the normal control group were mostly normal, while depressive profiles were dominant among those of the clinical groups regardless of the children's diagnoses. Therefore, the data implied association between children's psychiatric problems and their mothers' psychological problems. A possibility of negative reciprocal interactions between children and their mothers was discussed. It was also suggested that further research need to examine the specific effects of children's psychiatric problems on the psychological adjustment of their mothers, as well as the effects of parental psychiatric problems on the adjustment of their offsprings.