Stress & anxiety due to unbalanced qi

Unbalanced qi (energy in the body) may be a major cause for anxiety levels and how an individual copes with stress, according to a report from Japan.

Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Saga Medical School, Japan investigated the psychosomatic function in medical students over 1.7 years whose ill-health was considered to be related to unbalanced qi, blood, and body fluid. The researchers hoped that this would help enable them create a diagnosis and treatment method for this type of condition.

The study found characteristics such as stress-related emotional problems - specifically anxiety, insomnia and the lowering of social function - were most affected on a psychological level. The researchers observed that these characteristics were associated with the eye and respiratory movements.

The report concluded that, of those students who had unbalanced qi, blood, and body fluid, symptoms related mainly to an anxious constitutional type. This indicated that constitutional treatment to re-balance a patient's qi could help in both preventing and treating stress-related illnesses.

This study showed the effect of having unbalanced qi and body fluids to be directly related to the anxiety profile in the students and recommends it as a useful future diagnostic and treatment method for persons suffering from anxiety.

Source : Studies on the psychosomatic functioning of ill-health according to eastern and Western medicine. 2. Anxiety-affinitive constitution associated with qi, blood, and body fluid-diagnostic and therapeutic methods.Takeichi M; Sato T; Takefu M. Am J Chin Med, 27:177-90, 1999

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