Psychosomatic Disorders
Psychosomatic disorders are defined as physical illnesses which are created or exacerbated by mental factors. It is considered that psychosomatic disorders are a condition of dysfunction and/or structural damage in bodily organs through inappropriate activation of the involuntary nervous system and glands of internal secretion.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) considers almost all physical illnesses to have associated mental or emotional factors that determine onset, presentation, maintenance, susceptibility to treatment, and resolution. While it is difficult to classify which disorders are purely physical, mixed psychosomatic, or purely psycho emotional, there are some disorders which are thought to be particularly susceptible to mental factors such as stress and anxiety. Examples include tension headaches, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), peptic ulcers, fibromyalgia, atopic dermatitis, multiple sclerosis etc.
In TCM, psychology and physiology have always been considered as equally important in any disease or pathology. In other words, a person’s physical and emotional components have been treated as a cohesive whole for thousands of years. There are hundreds of research studies that have been done in China that indicate that TCM and acupuncture treatments can help to slow or reverse the process where anxiety, depression and other forms of psychological distress are transformed into physical symptoms. Put simply, these studies show that physical and related psychological problems can be simultaneously resolved when the energy flow (qi) of the body is strong and balanced via TCM and /or acupuncture treatments.
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