Concepciones de la medicina oriental sobre el asma bronquial Concepts of the eastern medicine on the bronchial asthma

• Main Authors: Ileana Cutiño Clavel, Odalis Boudet Cutié
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas 2010-01-01
• Series: Medisan
• Subjects: asma bronquial; medicina oriental; medicina occidental; medicina natural y tradicional; manifestaciones respiratorias; bronchial asthma; eastern medicine; western medicine; natural and traditional medicine; breathing manifestations
• Online Access: http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1029-30192010000300012

Con el objetivo analizar los principios sobre los cuales se sustenta la medicina oriental para verificar la presencia del asma, se revisaron documentos específicos sobre la materia, donde se incluía la valoración acerca de si las alteraciones energéticas referidas fundamentan la existencia de manifestaciones respiratorias del asma bronquial, según las concepciones de la medicina occidental. Se encontraron puntos de contacto entre los criterios orientales y occidentales en cada una de las desarmonías energéticas.<br>With the objective of analyzing the principles on which the eastern medicine is sustained to verify the presence of asthma, specific documents on the subject were reviewed, where the evaluation about whether the referred energy alterations support the existence of breathing manifestations of the bronchial asthma was included, according to the concepts of the western medicine. Contact points among the eastern and western approaches in each of the energetic disharmonies were found.