Classification of the Oriental Herbal Prescriptions for Top 10 Diseases
Cold Medicine
In traditional Korean medicine, cold is represented as ‘cold damage,’ and the name of disease stems from the basic theory of the internal diameter that “man will suffer from fever if he is injured from the cold.” Cold, which in our native language is kkoppul or gamchang, varies in terms of the severity of the symptoms depending on the person’s constitution or cause of the disease, and is divided into coryza, flu and soar throat. General symptoms include sneezing, runny nose, coughing, chills, fever, headache, muscle ache, and arthralgia of the limbs. If prolonged, it will be accompanied by loss of appetite, collapse, sweating caused by qi deficiency and fatigue. Therapeutic methods include promoting sweating to release the exterior, clearing the wind for heat relief, heat-clearing and detoxification, etc., and at times, the therapeutic technique of supplementing deficiency to treat the cold s used in parallel.
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Medicine for Circulatory Diseases
In traditional Korean medicine, medicine for the circulatory system belongs to qi-regulating medicinal (facilitates blood circulation by unblocking the qi) and blood-activating medicinal (facilitates blood circulation by removing pathological substances in the blood that are disrupting blood circulation such as static blood and pathogenic liquid substances caused by metabolic disorders or abnormal water stasis) categories. By promoting blood circulation, it unblocks the meridian, dissipates blood stasis, stops pain, and disperses swelling. This medicine is administered in case of menstrual irregularities, bruising, pain in hands and feet, sense of paralysis as well as cardiovascular diseases and cerebrovascular diseases such as stroke.
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Medicine for Respiratory Diseases
The herbal medicines for respiratory diseases are divided into the cough-suppressing and panting-calming medicinal type that removes sputum and suppresses coughing, and the yin-tonifying medicinal type, which promotes the functions of the lungs that are source of water through nourishment.
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Antipyretic, Analgesic, Anti-inflammatory Medicine
The herbal medicines and prescriptions with antipyretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects are diverse. The representative of these types of medicines include analgesic (pain relief), exterior-releasing, heat-clearing and detoxicating medicinal, water-draining and swelling-dispersing medicinal herbs. Wind-dampness dispelling medicinal, interior-warming medicinal, qi-regulating medicinal, blood-activating and stasis-resolving medicinal, orifice-opening medicinal, tonifying and replenishing medicinal types are also applied.
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Medicine for Digestive Diseases
In traditional Korean medicine, mainly the resolving dampness with aroma medicinal type (removes static dampness and sputum in the spleen and the stomach to facilitate digestive functions) and the digestant medicinal type are used to help the digestive functions of the spleen and stomach.
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Medicine for Enteric Diseases (Diarrhea, Constipation)
Herbal medicines used to treat enteric diseases caused by the imbalance in water metabolism and homeostasis in the intestines treat constipation by increasing the peristalsis of the small and large intestines, while on the other hand, treat diarrhea by warming the middle to stop diarrhea (relax the intestinal muscles with warmth to stop main and diarrhea).
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Medicine for Liver Diseases
The medicines used to treat liver diseases in traditional Korean medicine are herbs with clearing liver by extinguishing wind by removing accumulated toxins in the liver and removing liver heat and liver wind caused by toxic substances. Also, yin-tonifying medicinal herbs which tonify the liver yin and the liver blood are also applied as medicine for liver diseases.
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Medicine for Skin Allergies
Medicines used to treat skin allergies in traditional Korean medicine include heat-clearing medicinal, wind-dampness dispelling medicinal and yin-tonifying medicinal herbs, which remove the heat toxin accumulated in the blood, wind-dampness in the skin and intestines, and nourishes the skin through the yin-tonifying effect to help relieve itchiness and allergic reactions.
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Medicine for Neurological Disorders
Medicines used to treat neurological disorders in traditional Korean medicine belong to the tranquilizing medicinal type, which mainly have properties for the heart, which corresponds to the neurological field in traditional Korean medicine. Herbs that can treat heart blood deficiency, heart qi deficiency and insomnia caused by anxiety due to excess fire qi in the heart, as well as depressive psychosis, manic psychosis and epilepsy.
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Health Tonics
In traditional Korean medicine, health tonics are tonifying and replenishing medicinal type that treats deficiency syndrome. They are largely divided into yin-tonifying and blood-tonifying medicinal types that treat the deficiency of the traits and qi-tonifying and yang-tonifying medicinal types that treat weakened functions. It treats the symptoms (physical fatigue, lethargy, weight loss, loss of appetite, frequent urination, reduction in urine, forgetfulness, anemia, dizziness, shortness of breath, cold sweats, etc.) caused by the deficiency in qi and blood, and yin and yang, resulting from excessive stress, imbalanced care of health, overwork, aging, etc.
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