[Stress in traditional Oriental medicine and clinical chemistry--from the viewpoint of salutogenesis].
The main methodology of modern medicine is pathogenesis, and that of traditional Oriental medicine, complementary and alternative medicine, and mind-body medicine is salutogenesis. Health in pathogenesis is an absolute idea, and health, disease, and death are separate. However from the viewpoint of salutogenesis, the human condition in pathology progresses continuously from health to disease (functional, organic and fatal one) to death, and in each level the subject can create relative health according to the condition. The evaluation of stress consists of evaluating wear-and-tear and the repair and restoration of the body. The general adaptation syndrome, 17-KS-S(S), 17-OHCS (OH), the S/OH ratio, and traditional Oriental medicinal evaluation are clearly related. It may be said that medical care in the new era (comprehensive medicine) consists of pathogenesis by modern medicine, salutogenesis by traditional Oriental medicine, complementary and alternative medicine and mind-body medicine, and the patient's individual autonomy (self-determination by self-responsibility).
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Health Administration Center and Psychosomatic Medicine, Hamamatsu University, School of Medicine, Hamamatsu 431-3192.
D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D008518:Medicine, East Asian Traditional; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D013315:Stress, Psychological