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Guizhi Constitution And The Anxiety Disorders Preliminary Association Study

Posted on:2013-02-14Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H M CengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2234330371998274Subject:Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Background:Nowadays, with the health care improved and people’s pressure of spiritual life increasing, anxiety disorder shows prominent. The modern medical science ascribes the cause of the disease to genetic, physiological, biochemical, psychological factor, social factor and neural anatomy part about disease, which is mainly treated with drug intervention. Because adverse reactions are difficult to tolerance, and the course is long, Patients can hardly keep long-term treatments, which causes the low Clinical curative effect. Traditional Chinese medicine has obtained certain curative effect on the disease. In recent years,"constitution" classification based on "fangzheng" and "yaozheng" are wildly mastered and used by whom like " jingfang"."Constitutionclassification brings good news for the patients with feature of strong practice, and easy to generalize, good curative effect, few side-effects. Observation research in our clinic shows that " guizhi constitution" in a great part of all patients, which shows relationship with anxiety disorders. To use "guizhi" and prescriptions that contain "guizhi". There is lack of standards for "guizhi constitution" classification, which Limits its promotion. This study select "guizhi constitution" as the subject,which explore personality characteristic of "guizhi" and the relationship between "guizhi" and anxiety disorders.Objective:To study basic situation and characteristics of symptoms of Guizhi constitution and explore its correlation with anxiety disorders through statistical analysis, with the purpose to providing certain reference for carrying out such clinical study of constitution diagnosis in the futureMethods: To collect clinical information of "guizhi constitution" and "other constitution", then establish database in SPSS17for statistical analysis in general information、symptom、sign and factor points of HAMA, MMPI.ect. Then summarize the core symptoms of "guizhi", and explore or establish the relationship between "guizhi" and anxiety disorders.results:This topic altogether collected "guizhi constitution" in69cases,①of whom symptoms appear more than50%as follows:Western medicine symptoms:anxious (92.80%), fear with no clear objective object (78.30%) skittishness (71.01%) Mental tired during the day, night spirit stimulated (68.10%), Memory loss (66.70%), Fidgety irritability (66.70%) palpitations (66.67%), easy to be sad ang cry (56.50%)Four examinations of TCM(inspection):emaciation (65.22%) thin and white tongue coating (73.91%)Four examinations of TCM (auscultation and olfaction):belching (54.62%)Four examinations of TCM (inquiry):listlessness (86.96%) aversion to cold (81.16%),Feel allergic on cold and pian (79.71%) Difficulty sleeping (73.91%) aversion to wind (71.01%), easy to be dizzy (68.12%) dry mouth and preference for hot drinking(55.10%), profuse cold sweating (53.62%) Wake up early (52.17%)Among them, anxious, fear with no clear objective objectskittishness, easy to be dizzy, palpitations, dry mouth and preference for hot drinking, profuse cold sweating, belching are similar to the symptoms of Anxiety disorders②of whom symptoms appear more than25%as follows:Western medicine symptoms:Chest tightness or shortness of breath (49.28%), Low sexual desire (47.83%) Fever or felt warm (34.78%)Four examinations of TCM (inspection):partial white (49.28%) partial yellow (49.28%) Tooth marks on edges of the tongue (44.93%) Tongue body fat (43.48%) Tongue body tender (36.23%) Skin exquisite (33.33%) Facial dark spots (27.54%)Four examinations of TCM (auscultation and olfaction):Lazy to talk less language (43.48%) less Qi (34.78%), low voice (30.43%)Four examinations of TCM (pulse taking and palpation):Muscle table wet (42.03%)Among them, Chest tightness or shortness of breath, Joint pain, Fever or felt warm, less Qi, Physical pain are similar to the symptoms of Anxiety disorders④Judgment for the core of the physical symptoms on Guizhi constitutionWestern medicine symptoms:anxious, Mental tired during the day, night spirit stimulated, Fidgety irritability, palpitationsFour examinations of TCM(inspection):emaciation,thin and white tongue coating, partial white, Tooth marks on edges of the tongue, Skin exquisiteFour examinations of TCM (auscultation and olfaction):belch, Words moderateFour examinations of TCM (inquiry):easy to be feer and dizzy, aversion to cold and wind, fatigue strength, Feel allergic on cold and pian, Difficulty sleeping, usually easy to catch a cold, dry mouth and preference for hot drinking, Joint pain, loose stoolFour examinations of TCM (pulse taking and palpation):thready pulse and little relaxed, partial white, Tooth marks on edges of the tongue, Skin exquisite there is significant different between guizhi and non-guizhi on all above symptoms2. There are38cases(55.07%) in guizhi and14cases (22.58%) in non-guizhi who are diagnosised anxiety disorders, which has significant difference(P<0.01). There is56.5%cases in guizhi with more than14score in Hamilton anxiety scare, and29.1%in non-guizhi. The diference is significant(P<0.01)3. Through the rank and inspection, there is-significant different between guizhi and non-guizhi on hypochondria, depression, hysteria, mental disorder, paranoid, a breakdown, light manic, social introverted, no consistency factor comparison(P<0.05). guizhi has positive correlation with hysteria and negative correlation with the manic by Logistic regression constitution analysisConclusion:Preliminarily determine the core symptoms of guizhi constitution.Preliminarily evidence the core symptoms of guizhi constitution are similar with symptoms of anxiety in modern medicine, such as dizziness, heart palpitations, tired, dry mouth, urinary frequency urgency, sweating, muscular tone such as pain consistent personality characteristics analysis research suggests hysteria personality characteristics of guizhi constitution, suggesting that we should consider about personality characteristics of guizhi contitution patients in clinical should combine psychological therapy to enhance the curative efft.
Keywords/Search Tags:Guizhi constitution, Anxiety disorders, Factor pointspersonality
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