Introduction about “Mind-Body Medicine

  1.What is “Psychosomatic Medicine”?  Psychosomatic Medicine is a new interdisciplinary discipline involving general internal medicine, neurology and psychiatry, which studies the interrelationship between psychological, social and biological factors and the development of diseases, it pays more attention to the influence of psychological factors on health and diseases, and emphasizes the holistic view of mind-body unity.  2.What diseases should be seen in psychosomatic medicine?  (1), those with the following symptoms, such as the nervous system: chronic dizziness, headache, insomnia, dreaminess, memory loss; the respiratory system: unexplained chest tightness, tightness, chest pain, breath-holding without pulmonary signs, foreign body sensation in the throat; the cardiovascular system: unexplained heart panic, heart tiredness, palpitations, pain in the precordial region, while the electrocardiogram is normal; the digestive system: long-term stomach pain, gastric distension, indigestion, but according to superficial gastritis poor treatment effect, and irritable bowel syndrome with long-term abdominal pain, diarrhea and constipation; genitourinary system: frequent and urgent urination without urinary tract infection, prostatitis and sexual dysfunction with obvious emotional disorders; locomotor system: unexplained pain in the lower back or extremities, etc.  (2) Various mental and psychological disorders including anxiety, depression, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, neurasthenia, neurosis, senile dementia, disorders of vegetative nerve function, bulimia, anorexia, substance dependence, hyperactivity and tic disorders in children, etc.  (3) Psychological disorders caused by physical diseases such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, coronary heart disease, myocardial infarction, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, emphysema, pulmonary heart disease, renal insufficiency, tumor and other accompanying anxiety and depression.  3.What benefits can the development of psychosomatic medicine bring to patients?  For example, patients with panic attacks (sudden panic attacks, chest tightness, tightness of breath) have 10 times more visits to the emergency department than others. Seventy percent of them have seen more than 10 doctors before getting a correct diagnosis. The development of psychosomatic medicine can enable patients to take fewer detours, suffer less, save on medical expenses, and return to normalcy sooner.