Treatment of Chronic Pain by Oriental Medicine

Abstract

Oriental medicine incorporates holistic approaches that is beneficial to the treatment of chronic pain.

1. Patients suffering from chronic pain tend to be vulnerable to external atmospheric stimulant such as air pressure and weather changes and therefore protection from these exasperation factors are important. In this approach, sensitivity to the external stimulant is countered from within the body.

2. There is a process in Oriental Medicine by which mental symptoms are dealt naturally through treatment of physical symptoms. Based on the notion that the physical and the mental are of a similar figure, it has a method to approach the physical through the mental and vise a versa. It is effective when patient experience difficulty coming to terms with their issues.

3. Integrating the perspective that the physical and the mental is of one body, reconstruction of body image should be encouraged to clinicians in that they develop a redefined sense of well-being within the context of the modern materialistic times.

4. The ideal treatment for Oriental Medicine is where a patient's awareness of self takes the lead in the cure of the self. This suggests that the deeper consciousness and the presence of being are related.