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| - Improving the system of KOM hospitals |
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- Survey data for designation of KOM training hospital for KOM specialists and
- fixing quota of the interns and residents for KOM training |
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| - Managing KOM training hospital and the interns and residents |
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| - Promoting mutual exchange of member hospitals |
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| Nov. |
1987 |
Inaugural Assembly of KOMHA |
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1988 |
Authorization of KOMHA by the Ministry of Health and Welfare |
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1997 |
Commission of survey data for the korean oriental medical officer and
public health doctor by the Ministry of Health and Welfare |
| Dec. |
1999 |
Commission of survey data for korean oriental training hospital |
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KOM thinks that a person gets a disease because his / her healthy
qi (Jeongqi in Korean) is weakened so much that it cannot resist the attacks of pathogenic qi (Saqi in Korean) Healthy qi refers to all normal functions of the human body and the abilities to maintain health, including the abilities
of self-regulation, adaptation to the environment, resistance against pathogens and self-recovery from illness.
On the other hand, pathogenic qi refers to an agent qi causing disease.
In KOM, a person gets a disease mainly because his / herbody's resistance to germs is weakened. In addition, KOM sees that getting a disease does not simply concern certain parts of a body.
Rather, it thinks that a disease comes from physiological disharmony of the body. That is, yin and yang of the body is not well balanced.
KOM regards a human body as a small universe and uses a variety of treatments to deal with a disease.
Hence come the huge variations in KOM's treatments. This wide variety may explain the KOM's long time popularity with the Korean people.
From a broader prospective, prescription refers to all treatment methods applicable to diseases.
In KOM, prescription is not limited to simple administration of medicine, but covers therapeutic treatments based on the diagnosis of patient’s conditions, which include acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, regimen (exercise) and dietary therapy as well as doctors’directions and advice to patients.
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