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가금티푸스 감염에 대한 키토산의 면역반응 (Immunomodulatory effect on chitosan against Fowl typhoid infection)

  • 조경오;고흥범;김계엽
    • 대한수의학회지
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    • 제44권1호
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    • pp.73-82
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    • 2004
  • Chitosan is similar in structure to cellulose and are the second most abundant polysaccharides in nature, comprising the horny substance in the exoskeletons of crabs, shrimp and insects as well as fungi. This study was conducted to access the effect of immunomodulation responses of chitosan(N-acetyl-${\beta}$-D-glucosamine) chicken infected with in Fowl typhoid(Salmonella gallinarum). One-day-old broiler chicks were divided into eight groups: The 1st group was inoculated intra-peritoneally with chitosan and challenged intra-peritoneally with S. gallinarum. The 2nd group was inoculated intra-peritoneally with chitosan. The 3rd group was feeding with chitosan and intra-peritoneally inoculated with cyclophosphamide and challenged intra-peritoneally S. gallinarum. The 4th group was feeding with chitosan and intra-peritoneally with cyclophosphamide. The 5th group was feeding with chitosan and challenged intra-peritoneally with S. gallinarum. The 6th group was feeding with chitosan. The 7th group was challenged intra-peritoneally with S. gallinarum. The 8th group was nontreated-uninfected control group. The results shows that $CD4^+$, $CD8^+$ and B lymphocyte in lymphoid organs of chickens treated with chitosan increased in especially $CD4^+$, $CD8^+$ lymphocytes (p<0.05). The group of feeding chitosan showed the significantly increased $CD4^+$, $CD8^+$ and B lymphocyte than inoculated intra-peritoneally with chitosan. As the result suggests that the feeding of chitosan induced immunostimulatant effect than the inoculation intra-peritoeally of chitosan.

How can we feel the compassion effect like the Mother Teresa effect?

  • Kyung Ja Ko;Hyun-Yong Cho
    • 셀메드
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    • 제13권10호
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    • pp.12.1-12.4
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    • 2023
  • The purpose of this study is to suggest that compassion is used as a mechanism to improve immunity by activating people's parasympathetic nerves. Compassion is pity and heartbreak for the misfortune of others. The instinctive emotion of compassion is the basis for humans to achieve and develop society. This is also linked to the laws of nature and the factors of evolution that Kropotkin, famous for his "mutual assistance (mutualism)" that all things help each other. Compassion is an individual's instinctive emotion and at the same time a driving force for forming and developing society. If the Hopeful World (希望世上) performs Korean traditional music healing at a nursing home, first, it will have a positive healing effect on the elderly in the nursing home, who are the audience. Second, positive healing effects can also be expected from performers. The stronger the compassion, the greater the healing effect. Third, people who watch the performance also enjoy the healing effect. This seems to have brought about a synergistic effect by combining the feelings felt while looking at the excellent behavior felt by seeing the poor person. It seems that this effect can be named the compassion effect that developed the Mother Teresa effect. The Mother Teresa effect refers to a significant improvement in the body's immune function just by volunteering or seeing good things. By expanding this Mother Teresa effect, it can be inferred that a pitying heart, helping behavior, and being with good behavior will all help improve the human immune system. This can also be called the compassion effect. Therefore, we think having compassion activates the parasympathetic nerves, improving your mood, and increasing your immunity.

타박(打撲)에 의한 활액낭종(滑液囊腫)의 치험례(治驗例) (Treatment Example of Bursitis Caused by Stroke)

  • 이수경;이용양;김영환;박원환
    • 대한한의진단학회지
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    • 제14권1호
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    • pp.79-95
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    • 2010
  • Background and Purpose : By preventing diseases caused by exogenous evil, disorder of internal organs, and seven modes of emotions and adapting to mother nature when the mind is unsettled, and keeping the body and mind relaxed diseases can be avoided, but there can be unpredicted situations caused accidentally by stroke. Currently the general prescription is regulating the flow of vital energy including drugs eliminating blood stasis. Even though the stroke is resulted from diseases caused by exogenous evil, by observing the patient's physical appearance, essence of life, vital energy, and mental faculties which are believed to be the functions of the heart to clear the upper body and invigorate the functions of the spleen and stomach and purge with drugs of warm nature is a closer approach than simply prescribing vital energy regulating drugs with eliminating blood stasis to the main purpose of treatment. Methods : 1) The subject of the study are 2 cases of patients who have visited the private hospital of the person who is announcing the results of the study. These patients have been given a diagnosis of edema or cystoma caused by bursitis in the knee joint through perception or medical examination and were waiting for operational application. 2) Sources related to stroke from Dong Eui Bo Gwam(東醫寶鑑) were used as the general standard of Korean Traditional Medicine, and to promote the understanding the original text and the translation has been given. 3) By observing the whole body such as the patient's usual physical appearance, essence of life, vital energy, and mental faculties which are believed to be the functions of the heart, or partly using the "Yin is even and well while Yang is firm" theory of "Plain Questions" as the background to present the results of the clinical study. Results and Conclusion : Generally the prescriptions from the first volume of Dong Eui Bo Gwam(東醫寶鑑) are mostly drugs eliminating stagnated blood including extravasated blood and the blood moving sluggishly in circulation or congested in a viscus, alleviating pain, invigorating blood circulation. Also prescriptions for bone fracture or fracture of bones and sinews are mostly to eradicate blood stasis with drastic drugs or coaptation drugs added to drugs eliminating stagnated blood including extravasated blood and the blood moving sluggishly in circulation or congested in a viscus, alleviating pain, invigorating vital energy, possessing warm properties for the Xue system.

성인 경부 림프절 비대 환자들에서 미세침 흡인 세포검사법의 유용성과 문제점: 342 증례의 분석 (Usefulness and Limitations of Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology in Adult Cervical Lymph Node Enlargement Patients: An analysis of 342 cases)

  • 이재호
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • 제56권1호
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    • pp.18-28
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    • 2004
  • 연구 배경 : 미세침 흡인 세포검사법은 말초 림프절 비대의 원인규명에 매우 우수한 선별검사로 알려져 있으나 각 원인질환이나 림프절의 이학적 소견에 따른 유용성이나 검사한계에 대한 연구는 아직 미진하다. 방 법 : 경부 림프절 비대를 주소로 내원한 16세 이상 성인환자들 중 진단을 위해 미세침 흡인 세포검사법을 시행 받고 외과적 조직 생검, 미생물 검사, 임상적추적관찰 등을 통해 최종 진단이 가능했던 342명을 대상으로 검사의 예민도와 유용성, 문제점이 각 원인 질환이나 림프절의 이학적 소견에 따라서 어떠한지를 후향적으로 알아보았다. 결 과 : 342명의 림프절 비대 환자 중 양성 병변은 176예인 51.5 %, 결핵성 림프절염은 88예로 25.7 %, 악성 종양의 전이는 66예로 19.3 %, 그리고 림프종은 12예로 3.5 %였다. 결핵성 림프절염, 악성 종양의 전이, 림프종 등으로 최종 진단된 환자군들은 양성 병변에 비해서 높은 연령을 보였고 남성이 많았으며 빗장위 림프절을 침범한 경우가 많았다. 림프절의 이학적 특징에서도 림프절의 평균 크기가 특이 질환이 있는 군에서 양성 병변인 군에 비해서 유의하게 컸으며 20 mm 이상의 크기를 가진 환자들의 수도 유의하게 많았다. 악성 종양의 전이인 경우에는 고정화됐거나 굳은 경도를 가진 경우가 유의하게 많았다. 미세침 흡인 세포검사법은 전체적으로 88 %의 진단 예민도를 보였으며 악성 종양의 전이인 경우가 90.1 % 로 가장 높았고 림프종인 경우에 58.3% 로 가장 낮았다 양성 병변인 경우는 88.6 %, 결핵성 림프절염인 경우는 77.3 %의 예민도를 보였다. 미세침 흡인 세포검사법의 진단 예민도는 질환의 종류나 비대 기간, 림프절의 크기 등과 관련이 없었고 다만 빗장위 림프절인 경우에는 80.0 % 로 다른경부 림프절의 91.3 % 에 비해서 유의하게 낮은 예 민도를 보였다.결 론 : 미세침 흡인 세포검사법은 림프절 비대의 원인 감별에 우수한 선별진단법으로 판단되나 림프종이 의심되거나 빗장위 림프절의 경우에는 낮은 진단율을 보이므로 주의해야 한다.

조선시대(朝鮮時代) 꿈(몽(夢)) 인식에서 나타난 자연관(自然觀)과 과학성(科學性)의 성격 (View of Nature and Science in Perception of Dreams in the Chosun Dynasty)

  • 김성수
    • 한국의사학회지
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    • 제19권2호
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    • pp.101-118
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    • 2006
  • Phenomena experienced by all individuals and cultural interpretation of such phenomena seem to be irrelevant to the change of time. The subject dream to be discussed in this study is one of them. Nevertheless, people's attitude of understanding dreams in the past is obviously different from the contemporary one, and the interpretation of dreams reveals the science of the corresponding age. Bishop Daveluy, a missionary to Chosun in the mid 19th century, observed Korean people's hardly understandable response to dreams. According to his explanation, Chosun people regarded what they saw in a dream as a fact. It might have been quite long that a dream is regarded as a sign of the future. However, how a dream can be a sign of the future is explained different according to the science of the corresponding age. Many records on dreams since the late Koryo Dynasty and the early Chosun Dynasty did not give satisfactory answers to this question. However, new interpretations of dreams were attempted occasionally in the process that the Sung Confucian view of nature in the Chosun Dynasty was being matured. One of such interpretations is that a dream is obviously a phenomenon of human cognition and there is a rule behind dreams. I t was believed that the rule is a flow of energy defined by reason penetrating through the past, the present and the future and, as a consequence, dreams are future oriented. The view that a dream is a phenomenon with a causal relation is observed more specifically in medicine. I t was understood basically as a pathological phenomenon but, at the same time, a substance in an organic relation with the human body. In addition, it was understood as the results of facts (physiological and pathological processes) experienced by the body in the past and the sign of diseases in the future. However, from the viewpoint of contemporary science based on empirical rationalism, such foreseeability is fundamentally unacceptable. In contemporary science, in which scientific analysis of phenomena has to be of the past tense, dreams exist as the representations of the past. What Bishop Daveluy saw in Korean people was a phenomenon observed when the pre modern met the modern as pre modern people's life and idea were viewed from a modern people's eye.

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항해승제론(亢害承制論)에 대한 제가설(諸家說) 연구(硏究) (A study on all the theories about KangHaiChengZhiLun)

  • 윤창열
    • 대한한의학원전학회지
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    • 제29권2호
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    • pp.135-150
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    • 2016
  • Objectives : KangHaiChengZhiLun (亢害承制論; If Excess Brings Harm, Lifing Qi (承氣) Restrains) was originally a theory that explained how the realms of nature remain in harmony and equilibrium. It later became an important theory for clinical trials of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explaining the physiological and pathological mechanism. Methods : The researcher considered all the annotations and the original text of SuWen(素問), LiuWeiZhiDaLun(六微旨大論) and theories of medical practitioners who applied KangHaiChengZhiLun(亢害承制論) to their clinical trials. Results & Conclusions : Wangbing (王氷) went with a theory that phenomena of Lifting Qi (承氣) take place in the realms of nature when Qi (氣) flourishes. In XinJiaoZheng(新校正), he wrote about two theories: one was that Six Kinds of Natural Factors (六氣) first work as the main Qi (本氣) but later bring about Lifting Qi. (終見下承之氣說); the other was that excessive Stagnation Qi (鬱氣) can be exploded and invite another accompanying Qi, Lifting Qi. (甚者兼其下承之氣說) Liuwansu (劉完素) had a theory that if Six Kinds of Natural Factors go disproportionately excessive, it becomes accompanied by imaginary Qi (假象) that conquers self. (反兼勝己之化說) $Wangl{\ddot{u}}$(王履) maintained that Lifting Qi usually works as a means to prevent Six Kinds of Natural Factors (六氣) from becoming rampant; but when Six Kinds of Natural Factors become overly excessive, Lifting Qi restrains them in order to maintain equilibrium. (防之與克勝說) Yutuan explained that since Excessive Qi (亢氣) does damage to the mother of Lifting Qi, Lifting Qi restrains Excessive Qi to protect Original Qi (元氣), its mother. (護救承者之元氣說) Gongtingxian was in favor of two theories: one argued that causes and symptoms of a disease differ from each other. (體用不同說); the other said that diseases are naturally cured if the patient finds out the time when Lifting Qi gains strength. (得承之時自愈說) Mashi (馬蒔) had a theory that Lifting Qi is generated when Six Kinds of Natural Factors are prosperous and reveals itself when its season comes. (極則生承氣 至本位著說) Zhangjiebin (張介賓) asserted that when Six Kinds of Natural Factors are thriving, Lifting Qi, as a restraining force, is generated to disperse the thriving natural factors and leads to a new one. (前之退而後之進說) Zhangqi (張琦)'s argument was that if Lifting Qi restrains the main Qi, a son of the main Qi is generated and every four season goes in harmony. (承氣制則生化說) Hemengyao (何夢瑤) had an argument that a son of the restrained Qi succeeds to its father and later achieves equilibrium by restraining Excessive Qi. (被克承父 制之平衡說).

기업조직 특성에 따른 사무직 근로자의 직무스트레스와 조직효과성 간의 관계 (The Relationship between Job Stress and Organizational Effectiveness for Office Workers)

  • 채유미;이정배;이숙
    • 한국산학기술학회논문지
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    • 제17권7호
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    • pp.389-399
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    • 2016
  • 본 연구는 대기업과 중소기업 사무직을 대상으로 직무스트레스 하부 요인과 조직효과성의 관계와 이를 통해 사무직 근로자의 직무스트레스 개선을 위한 관리 전략 수립에 필요한 근거자료를 제공하고자 한다. 조사내용은 개인의 일반적인 특성, 업무관련사항, 직무스트레스와 사회심리적 건강수준 및 조직효과성 평가를 위해 직무만족도, 직무몰입, 이직의도, 프리젠티즘을 포함하였다. 모든 평가 도구의 Cronbach's ${\alpha}$값은 0.640~0.924로 만족할 만한 수준이였다. 자료 수집은 2014년 6월 26일~8월 1일까지 설문지 154부를 배포하였고, 150부를 최종 분석대상으로 하였다. 자료는 SPSS 23.0을 이용하여 카이제곱 검정, t-test, ANOVA, 다중회귀분석을 실시하였다. 대기업 모델에서는 직무스트레스 하부 요인 중 보상부적절이 직무만족도, 직무몰입, 이직의도에 통계적으로 유의한 관련성을 보였다(p<0.05). 중소기업 모델에서는 조직체계 요인이 직무만족도, 직무몰입에 유의한 관련성을 보였으며, 특히 이직의도는 직무스트레스 하부 요인 중 조직체계, 보상부적절, 조직문화와 밀접한 관련성을 보였다(p<0.05). 사회심리적 스트레스는 대기업 모델에서는 조직효과성과 유의한 관련성을 보이지 않았으나, 중소기업 모델에서는 프리젠티즘과 유의한 관련성을 보였다. 직무스트레스와 조직효과성의 관계는 조직특성에 따라 달라지므로, 직무스트레스 관리 계획 수립 시 해당 조직에 필요한 스트레스 관리 영역을 확인할 필요성을 제시했다는 측면에서 본 연구의 의의가 있다.

두개강내 척삭종 및 연골육종 : 수술 및 방사선 치료의 효능 (Intracranial Chordomas and Chondrosarcomas : The Effectiveness of Surgery and Radiation Therapy)

  • 정영섭;곽호신;정희원;박홍준;백선하;김동규;김현집
    • Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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    • 제29권7호
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    • pp.910-917
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    • 2000
  • Introduction : The management of chordomas and chondrosarcomas in the skull base is difficult due to the critical location, locally aggressive nature, and high recurrence rate. The authors present the effectiveness of surgical removal and radiation therapy on survival and tumor recurrence. Material and Methods : Thirty cranial base chordomas and chondrosarcomas from 23 patients(14 patients with chordomas and 9 patients with chondrosarcomas) were operated in our institution between 1985 and 1998. There were 15 men and 8 women, with a mean age of 40.7 years. The largest diameter of tumors ranged from 15 to 70mm (mean 41.5). The extent of surgical removal was subtotal or total in a half(15 operations). In nineteen operations, tumors were removed by conventional approaches and skull base approaches were applied in 11 operations. Postoperative radiation therapy was performed in 16(70%) patients. The mean duration of follow up is 50 months(1- 156 months). Results : The 3- and 5-year survival rates(YSR) of overall patient are 75% and 67%, respectively. The analysis showed that 1) skull base approach to chordomas and chondrosarcomas showed a tendency to remove more portion of the tumors(p=0.058) but leave more frequent incidence of new deficits(p=0.047) : 2) larger tumor diameter af-fected the extent of removal(p=0.028) : 3) the extent of removal seemed to be the determining factor for overall survival and recurrence-free survival(the 5-YSR and RFSR of subtotal or total removal group are 92% and 80% vs. 40% of partial removal or biopsy group) : 4) conventional radiation therapy improved patient survival(5-YSR of patients who received RT is 76% whereas 5-YSR of those who didn't receive RT is 43%) but failed to prolong long-term recurrence-free survival. Conclusion : The extent of removal and postoperative radiation therapy are determining factors of patients' survival in skull base chordomas and chondrosarcomas. However, none of these factors significantly influenced the survival in multivariate analysis. Aggressive surgical removal of more than subtotal resection combined with postoperative radiation therapy seems to be the choice of therapy in the management of these tumors.

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장부상통과 지산도표의 이해 (Correlation Between the Jang and Bu Organs and Jeesan′s Diagram of Pulse)

  • 김경철;이용태
    • 동의생리병리학회지
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    • 제17권3호
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    • pp.617-623
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    • 2003
  • The following conclusions are drawn from a review on the theory of correlation between the jang-bu organs in 'Ojangchunchaklon(五臟穿鑿論)' which is quoted in 'Uihakipmoon(醫學入門)' and 'Donguibogam(東醫寶鑑)'. The three yangs and three yins are trisections each of yang ki and y1n ki. They represent three aspects of change in powers of yin ki and yang ki. The theory of Kaehapchu(開闔樞 the opening, closing and pivot) is thought to be the concept which explains the three states of jang-bu organs and meridians in terms of three yangs and three yins. The three yangs and three yins are assigned to twelve months according to the generation, prosperity and vanishment of the water, the fire, the wood and the metal in the circulation of nature with the lapse of time. Most of all, the change of the water and the fire is the main guide to the assignment. Both the theory of exterior-interior relations in jang-bu organs and meridians and the theory of Kaehapchu are founded on the assignment of three yangs and three yins to twelve months. The correlation between jang-bu organs is based on the monthly assignment of three yangs and three yins described in 'Internal classic(內經)' and the theory of Kaehapchu. In the correlations between jang-bu organs and meridians, the exterior-interior relations are the correspondences of Hand to Hand and Foot to Foot. but the relations of Kaehapchu are those of Hand to Foot and Foot to Hand. Jeesan's diagram of pulse is grounded on the correlations between jang-bu organs. On the left of the diagram, jang organs are arranged in the order of hierarchic positions in body. On the right, bu organs are disposed according to the correlations with the jang organs. Jeesan's diagram includes the principles of triple harmony and diagonal groups in twelve earthly branches(十二支). Jeesan's diagram is the frame through which correlations of jung-ki-shin-hyul, five jang and six bu organs, twelve meridians and six intrinsic factors can be observed at once.

"동의수세보원(東醫壽世保元)"의 병증론이 8체질론(體質論)의 형성에 미친 영향에 대한 고찰(考察) (A Study on How the Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases in "Donguisusebowon" Influenced the Formation of the Theory of Eight Constitution)

  • 정용재;박성식
    • 사상체질의학회지
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    • 제23권4호
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    • pp.445-457
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    • 2011
  • 1. Purpose Lee Je-Ma had continued to revise "Donguisusebowon" by adding the contents of the Symptomatic-pharmacology(病證藥理論) on Soeumin, Soyangin and Taeeumin to it from the first establishment of the old version in 1894 to 1900.(new version). This paper tries to find out the contents and meaning of the Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases(病證論) between the old version and new version and what the Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases affected the Theory of Eight Constitution created in subsequent years. 2. Methods I classified the Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases in "DongYiSuseBowon" into old version and new version and tried to find out the Theory of Eight morbidities(8病證論) which is the predecessor of the Theory of Eight Constitution, before reviewing their relation. 3. Conclusions 1) The Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases in the old version specify that the externally sensed diseases are caused by the deep sediment of nature(性) and that the internally touched diseases are caused by the violent activities of emotion(情). In addition, it said that all diseases are caused by the specific characteristics of patient's smaller internal organs(偏小之臟). But in new version, the diseases were understood through the concept Exterior, Interior, Heat and cold(表裏寒熱). The new version said that the diseases may be caused not only the specific characteristics of patient's smaller organs but also by bigger organs(偏大之臟). 2) The Theory of Eight Constitution was derived from the Theory of Eight morbidities, in which all kinds of human diseases are caused by 8 disease-orgin organ and that the diseases therefore can be classified into 8 morbidities. The Theory of Eight morbidities reorganized the Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases in "DongYiSuseBowon" by classifying them into first morbidity and second morbidity. 3) The Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases in "DongYiSuseBowon" has decisively affected the creation of the Theory of Eight morbidities which is the predecessor of the Theory of Eight Constitution. The Theory of Eight morbidities may be deemed another interpretation of the Discourse on the Constitutional Symptoms and Diseases in "DongYiSuseBowon". As the Theory of Eight morbidities put emphasis on the genetic characteristics, the Theory of Eight Constitution stating that Eight morbidities are caused by different specific constitution was derived.