• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.4931-4933
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• 2013

Reiki is a form of energy therapy in which the therapist, with or without light touch, is believed to access universal energy sources that can strengthen the body's ability to heal itself, reduce inflammation, and relieve pain and stress. There is currently no licensing for Reiki nor, given its apparent low risk, is there likely to be. Reiki appears to be generally safe, and serious adverse effects have not been reported. So in this article provides coverage of how to use Reiki in oncology services.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2019

With the progress of regenerative medicine, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have received attention as a way to restore ovarian function. It has been reported that MSCs derived from bone marrow, adipose, umbilical cord blood, menstrual blood, and amniotic fluid improved ovarian function. In light of previous studies and advances in this field, there are increased expectations regarding the utilization of MSCs to restore ovarian function. This review summarizes recent research into potential applications of MSCs in women with infertility or primary ovarian insufficiency, including cases where these conditions are induced by anticancer therapy.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.72-78
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• 2013

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare the phototoxic effects of blue light exposure on periodontal pathogens in both planktonic and biofilm cultures. Methods: Strains of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Porphyromonas gingivalis, in planktonic or biofilm states, were exposed to visible light at wavelengths of 400.520 nm. A quartz-tungsten-halogen lamp at a power density of $500mW/cm^2$ was used for the light source. Each sample was exposed to 15, 30, 60, 90, or 120 seconds of each bacterial strain in the planktonic or biofilm state. Confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) was used to observe the distribution of live/dead bacterial cells in biofilms. After light exposure, the bacterial killing rates were calculated from colony forming unit (CFU) counts. Results: CLSM images that were obtained from biofilms showed a mixture of dead and live bacterial cells extending to a depth of $30-45{\mu}m$. Obvious differences in the live-to-dead bacterial cell ratio were found in P. gingivalis biofilm according to light exposure time. In the planktonic state, almost all bacteria were killed with 60 seconds of light exposure to F. nucleatum (99.1%) and with 15 seconds to P. gingivalis (100%). In the biofilm state, however, only the CFU of P. gingivalis demonstrated a decreasing tendency with increasing light exposure time, and there was a lower efficacy of phototoxicity to P. gingivalis as biofilm than in the planktonic state. Conclusions: Blue light exposure using a dental halogen curing unit is effective in reducing periodontal pathogens in the planktonic state. It is recommended that an adjunctive exogenous photosensitizer be used and that pathogens be exposed to visible light for clinical antimicrobial periodontal therapy.

• 대한한의진단학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.105-129
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• 2007

Objectives: The purpose of this research is to obtain basic data about the effects of Constitution-Acupuncture (CA) based on Eight-Constitution Medicine (ECM) by the expert CA Oriental Medical Doctors. Methods: The resources were collected from the internet survey method. 35 samples were collected. The SPSS 13.0 for windows and Answer Tree 3.0 was used for statistical analysis. Results: The results from this research are as follow. 1. The motivation that apply ECM to clinic are 'Because ECM is effective for diagnosis, treatment and prevention against disease' 48.6% and 'Because CA therapy is effective' 25.7%. 2. The advantage that CA therapy compare to the other acupuncture therapy are 'Management and prevention against disease are available by ECM theory to a person who exact constitution is confirmed' 82.9%, 'CA therapy is superior in treatment of hard symptoms to treat by the other acupuncture therapy' 80%, 'Treatment effect is good' 77.1%, 'Needle manipulation of CA is simple comparatively' 57.1%, 'It is definite whether treatment effect is good or not' 54.3% and CA therapy is superior all in diseases of twelve category. 3. When the effects of CA is good, patients expressed much 'Eyesight lightened', 'Took deep sleep at night', 'Fatigue decreased', 'Body is light', 'Feelings became refreshing' as well as 'Symptoms were improved' and also physicians confirmed as those reactions whether treatment is effective. Conclusions: The research suggest that CA is effective therapy in clinic, and so further study is needed for CA therapy.

• 혜화의학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.79-102
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• 2003

It has been believed that the human body can be effected by color, sound, smell, and taste - each of them is based on the original character. Out of these elements, the color can be a mediation that absorbs energy into human body and adapts it to the creatures whose life are definitely based on the solar energy. This thesis makes a study of the possibility of applying the color to the oriental medical science by researching the color psychology and therapy which are studied in the west medical science, the recognition and application of color developed from orientalism, and the opinion of color in the oriental medical science. Color therapy is one of the psychological treatment techniques that are able to recover and maintain the health with the rays of the sun rays and the color. The light and the color have its energy that may relax, harmonize, encourage, or excite a human being. This is because the wavelength and the vibration of each color will take effects to human body. The core energy of absorbing and distributing the color vibration is made in the 7 "chakras" in the body, which are the pith and marrow of bio-energy directly connected with the center of the nervous system. There are several methods in the color therapy - the treatment of solar ray, the color-bath, the water-therapy using color energy, the inducement of the solar energy into the body, the acupuncture, the therapy of crystal and jewel, and the self-suggestion dependent upon the color. The color therapy can help us to keep our balance by changing the emotion into the positive energy that will cure the disease with color. As a result, this method not only must be useful to cure physical disease, or develop into good health but also will be used in conforming itself to the mental disease. The color therapy mainly uses the eight colors, which are made by mixing Red, Yellow and Blue basic colors in the field. They are never used in the treatment, but they will go along with complementary colors. This rule is closely connected with the theory of yin and yang which lies at the root of oriental philosophy, and with the treatment principle of oriental medical science whose field is focused on the balancing the body mentally as well as physically. In the East, it is the Obangsaek - the color of blue, red, yellow, white, and black in the theory of yin and yang and the five elements that have been used in helping people having trouble with their health for a long time. In the view of the oriental medical science, these five colors attached the theory of five-elements have been very useful to the physiology, the pathology, or the diagnosis, and been applied to the medical treatment, combining themselves with a five-taste in medicinal herbs. Since the study of color and human physiology has been made in some different interest and fields these days, it goes to prove that the different function of color we couldn't have got before becomes very useful to the medical science. The color must be worth researching the diversity for applying itself to the oriental medical science.

• 대한통합의학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.121-136
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• 2022

Purpose : Marine therapy is an activity that promotes public health such as constitution improvement, immunity improvement, and anti-aging by utilizing marine therapeutic resources such as seawater, mud, seaweed, salt and sea climate. In Europe developed countries, the marine therapy industry has been developing for centuries, with France, Germany, and Israel leading the way. Currently, it has achieved great industrial achievements and is of great help in improving the human health. The purpose of this study is to investigate how marine therapeutic resources benefit to human health, as well as how to study and utilize their efficacy. We analyzed previous research articles related to the effects of marine therapeutic resources. Methods : The study included a total of 830 published literatures in the last 20 years from the Republic of Korea and other contries. PubMed and Google Scholar were utilized to collect the foreign source while the local scientific publications were accessed through the Korean Education and research Information Service (KERIS) and Korean studies Information Service System (KISS). The keywords used to search foreign literature were "marine therapy", "Thalassotherapy", "seawater", "deep seawater", "saline groundwater", "sand therapy", "mud therapy", "hydrotherapy", "seaweed", "Sun light", "sea salt", "marine animal", and "marine microorganisms" were combined, and for the domestic literature, the keywords were "marine therapy", "marine therapeutic resources", "seawater", and "sand". Results : A total of 830 research papers were found as a result of searching for domestic and international papers related to marine therapeutic resources. The collected documents were classified into 175 seawater resources, 259 marine mineral resources, 41 marine environment, and 355 marine organisms. The efficacy of each marine therapeutic resources was analyzed. By resources type, there were about 213 papers on the efficacy of seaweed, followed by about 175 papers on seawater, 142 on microorganisms, 124 on mud/peat, and sand, salt, minerals and others are appeared in order (Table 1). Conclusion : Korea has the highest marine biodiversity index, excellent tidal flats, four distinct seasons, and various sea environments of the East sea, Yellow sea, South sea and Jeju sea. For this reason, Korea has a much more diverse marine therapeutic resources than other advanced countries in the marine therapy industry. prebiously, we thought that the sea was only valuable as a shipping port and fishery industry. But now, it been shown that the ocean can become a new industrial field which can contribute to human health and well-being by providing healing and therapy to people through the gift of marine resources.

• 정신신체의학
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2023

신경인지장애 환자들은 인지저하 뿐만 아니라 초조, 공격성, 우울, 배회 등의 정신행동증상들을 나타내며 이로 인해 환자와 가족이 상당한 고통을 받게 된다. 정신행동증상의 치료를 위해서는 환자 중심의, 비약물학적인 치료가 우선되어야한다. 본 논문은 신경인지장애 환자에서 나타나는 정신행동증상을 관리하고 치료하기 위한 비약물학적인 개입에 대하여 기술하였다. 초조, 우울, 무감동, 불면, 배회 등의 정신행동증상을 조절하기 위해서는 환경변화, 약물 등의 유발 인자를 파악하고 평가한 뒤, 그러한 문제를 해결해주는 것이 중요하다. 비약물학적인 개입 방법으로는 안심시키기, 활동 격려하기, 주의를 분산시키기, 환경을 변화시키기 등을 들 수 있다. 환자의 관점에서 행동을 이해하고, 그들의 요구와 능력에 맞게 접근해야한다. 비약물학적인 개입 방법으로 회상요법, 음악치료, 향기요법, 다중감각자극요법, 운동요법, 광선치료, 마사지 요법, 인지중재치료, 애완동물요법 등의 다양한 요법이 시행되고 있으며, 이러한 접근 방법이 환자의 우울, 무감동, 초조, 공격성, 불안, 배회, 불면 등의 증상을 호전시켜준다고 알려져 있다. 그러나, 효과에 대한 증거 수준이 높지 않아 향후에 좀 더 광범위하고 정확한 효과 검증 연구가 필요하다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.407-414
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• 2014

이 연구의 목적은 광감작제인 라다클로린과 포토프린을 발광다이오드에 접목하여 포도알균의 광역학치료 효과를 평가하고자 하였다. 실험방법은 황색포도알균이나 표피포도알균의 $1{\times}10^5CFU/ml$이 되게 균주부유액을 준비하였고, 광감작제(포토프린 또는 라다클로린)를 1.25, 2.5, 5, $10{\mu}g/ml$가 되도록 희석하였다. 균주희석액은 에너지밀도 각각 $14.4J/cm^2$와 $19.8J/cm^2$로 630 또는 670 파장 발광다이오드 빛을 조사하였다. 황색포도알균과 표피포도알균의 집락형성수는 포토프린 $5{\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서 33, 50개의 집락이 각각 형성되었고, 두 세균 모두 라다클로린 $5{\mu}g/ml$ 농도에서는 완전한 살균을 나타냈다. 유세포분석에 의한 형광강도는 정상세포보다 죽은세포에서 증가를 보였다. 투과전자현미경의 사진에서는 세포막의 손상과 부분적으로 세포형태의 파괴가 관찰되었다. 이 결과로 포토프린과 라다클로린을 이용한 광역학치료는 항균치료의 새로운 방법이 될 수 있음을 제의한다.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.5-13
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• 2007

Objectives : Depression disturbs the individual life from the loss of productivity to suicide. Furthermore the whole society is also influenced by depression in social and economic areas. Many scientific treatment methods are known to be effective in depression. But in reality more than half of patients with depression prefer self help treatment rather than medically based treatment. For the patients with mild depression and primary physicians, it is reasonable to provide the evidence based self care including self help or alternative treatment. This study is supported by the Korean Health 21 R&D Project for the Depression Center to establish the Korean treatment guideline for depression. Methods : The members of Depression Center including the authors attended the workshops where the methods of evidence based medicine such as literature search, quality evaluation of the articles, making the level of evidence were educated. The professional librarians helped the authors for get the searched articles. Among the total of 354 abstracts of systemic review and 300 abstracts of random controlled trials, 3 systemic reviews and 2 random controlled trials were the main structure of evaluation. Result : Among the 37 self care methods known to be effective for depression, 11 kinds of methods were worth of evaluation. The first step for the self care of mild depression is to use St. John's wort, exercise, bibliotherapy, and light therapy in depression during winter season. Acupuncture, negative ion therapy, massage, relaxation technique are known to be efective with evidence. Music therapy, hypnotherapy, and aromatherapy are known to be effective but until now the evidences is insufficient and further evaluations are needed. Conclusion : Among 11 listed self-care methods, several methods need more evidence especially in Korean situation. Exercise is the most recommendable evidence based self care method in Korea nowadays. St. John's wort is effective with evidence, but it is not the OTC drug in Korea, so it is not recommendable now. For the bibliotherapy, there is no book such as "Feeling Good" in Korea. Only the introductory book about depression is available. Publishing the self help book based upon cognitive behavioral approach or psychodynamic approach is needed. Light therapy is practiced in a few clinics, but not self-help style. Exposure to the sunlight is recommended in the level of commen sense. These self care methods are for the mild patient. Moderate to severe patients with depression should seek the professional treatment.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.72-77
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• 2004

연구배경 : 폐암의 말기에 관찰되는 기도 폐쇄는 호흡곤란, 기침, 객혈 및 발열 등을 일으키고 반복적인 호흡기계 감염의 원인이 되기도 한다. 그러나 대부분의 경우 방사선 치료, 항암화학요법 또는 수술적 치료를 받았기 때문에 더 이상 치료를 할 수 없는 어려움이 있다. 따라서 기도 폐쇄를 호전시키기 위한 보조적인 방법으로 광역동 치료가 한 방법임이 알려져 있다. 방 법 : 기도 폐쇄가 관찰되는 폐암 환자에게 기관지 내시경 시행 48시간 전에 광감작물질인 porfimer sodium (Photofrin$^{(R)}$)을 kg당 2mg으로 정맥주사 후 일광화상 및 광과민반응을 방지하기 위해 직사광선을 차단시켰다. Light source는 diode laser를 이용하였고, light dose는 180-200 $joul/cm^2$, 방사하는 빛의 강도는 400 $mW/cm^2$ 으로 하였으며 interstitial irradiation 및 cylindrical diffuser 를 이용하여 630nm의 레이져를 조사하였다. 시행 48시간 후 기관지내시경을 시행하여 괴사된 조직을 제거하고 남아있는 종양 부위에 대해 재조사를 시행하였다. 결 과 : 폐암 수술 후 수술부위의 국소적인 재발을 보인 경우가 1예, 기도 폐쇄로 인한 호흡곤란을 호전시키기 위해 시행한 경우가 4예였다. 광역동 치료를 통해 종양조직의 선택적인 괴사를 관찰할 수 있었고 괴사조직을 제거한 후에는 기도 폐쇄가 4예에서 호전되었다. 광역동 치료 종결 후 호흡곤란 및 활동도가 호전된 경우가 3예에서 관찰되었고 폐쇄성 폐렴으로 인한 객담 및 발열의 소견 및 기관지암에 의한 객혈의 경우에도 광역동 치료 후 호전되었다. 결 론 : 기도 폐쇄가 관찰되는 폐암 환자에서 보존적인 치료 방법으로 기관지내시경을 이용한 광역동 치료는 호흡곤란, 반복적인 호흡기계 감염 및 객혈 등을 호전시키기 위한 효과적인 방법 중의 하나이다.