Therapy of Social Medicine

264 Pages·2016·1.94 MB·English

by  Byong-Hyon Han (auth.)

Byong-Hyon Han
Therapy
of Social
Medicine
Therapy of Social Medicine

Byong-Hyon Han
Therapy of Social Medicine
Byong-Hyon Han
Independent Scholar
Seoul , Korea (Republic of)
ISBN 978-981-287-747-5 ISBN 978-981-287-748-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-981-287-748-2
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Pref ace
There is not only one right way to living a good life.
Just as there are many routes in climbing the top of Mt. Everest,
I wish to give hope to people with a “new route” in life,
which I will call “Social Medicine.”
M any people in the pharmaceutical fi eld are trying their best to discover and
develop new drug products. However, what most people who take on the challenge
don’t know is that it takes more than a decade to create a new drug. In Aug. 22,
2013, there came good news. The research level and achievements of the College of
Pharmacy at Seoul National University of Korea were evaluated as the world’s best.
I feel very proud that the news contributed to the increasing national standing of
Korea. I know how hard the professors and students have worked to win this feat,
and I dearly hope that they carry on the good tradition.
The world of drugs, based on new drug development, is a microscopic nano-
world (10− 9 ). I hope new substances and drugs that can give hope to the humanity
can be developed by our scientists, who are working at the frontiers of cutting-edge
science technology.
The macroscopic world of “social medicine,” however, is not something that can
be seen with our eyes. It has been more than three decades that I made up my mind
to develop social medicine. Finally, after the 30 painstaking years, social medicine
started to beckon itself to me. As it turned out, social medicine has been in my
everyday surroundings, and most importantly, it was in myself. So this is how the
book made its way out into the world; I wanted to give hope to people.
Hope is like a road made on the ground,
it neither exists or not exists.
No road is there from the beginning,
but when many people walk the path,
it becomes a road.
- Lu Hsun (Hometown)
In this book, T herapy of Social Medicine, I focused on laying the theoretical
foundation of social medicine and therapy of social medicine (or SM therapy):
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F irst, social medicine is “everything that helps our health except drug products,”
which consists of two key elements originated from natural healing power (NHP)
in Oriental medicine; homeostasis (natural healing strength (NHS)), and reci-
procity (social healing strength (SHS)). As such, social medicine is woven by
two strands of double healings rather than by two strands of double helix.
Second, twenty-fi rst-century pharmacy should be a harmonious system by the con-
version of traditional drug as a core part with the new social medicine as a
remaining margin.
Third, theoretically, social medicine as a remaining margin can be screened and
developed without limitation, but here I focused on daily life and complementary
alternative medicine (CAM).
F ourth, on the eve of era for “healthy 100 years old,” individuals should be health
prosumers, which needs four major social medicines such as health diet, health
exercise, health stressor, and beautiful laughter developed from our daily life.
Fifth, social medicine can be specialized into various SM therapies (i.e., aroma-
therapy, stone therapy, diet therapy, exercise therapy, light therapy, etc.) just as
stem cell does.
Sixth, social medicine therapy can be defi ned as every event or activity including
health behavior and illness behavior for health management and improvement or
methodology derived from the theory of social medicine.
Seventh, although SM therapy is boundless, here I focus on “4+2 system.” 4 means
diet, body, stress, and facial image control and 2 refers to evacuation (–) and fi ll-
ing (+) methods originated from CAM.
Finally, “beautiful laughter” (BL) is newly introduced for pharmaco-gelotology,
which includes enforced laughing for health.
I ndividuals, the society, and the nation all have their parts to play in promoting
peoples’ health. In the book, I concentrated on what individuals and the community
can do and discussed social medicine, SM therapy, and pharmaco-gelotology from
the general to the particular.
T here is a saying that “A journey of a thousand miles begins with the fi rst step.”
I do hope that my book can be the fi rst step in our life’s journey and ultimately give
new hope to the readers around the world.
T his book could not have been completed without the devoted assistance of
translation by Mrs. Na Kyung-jin. I also thank my family (Young-joo, Sun-kyu,
Chang-kyu, and wife Lee Yong-hae), mentor (Prof. B. A. Sorofman), colleagues,
and friends including Chungwoohoe for their support, love, and especially their
understanding as I completed this task.
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Leopard of Kilimanjaro
A poem by Yang In-ja
Have you ever seen a hyena that wanders on the mountains to look for prey?
The hyena aims for the dead carcass of animals
But I wish to be a leopard, not a hyena
I want to be the leopard of Kilimanjaro,
which goes up to the mountain top and starve and freeze to death
I wake up to glory one day,
and to a battered life the other
And now I’m taking refuge at a dark corner of the world
I can’t be found anywhere, by the splendor of city lights
Who cares if I’m left alone in the middle of this big city
There was even van Gogh, who was unknown in this life
I can’t come like a wind
and leave like dew
I should leave a trace of me, like a column of smoke
Should I disappear without any piece of me,
I will burn up like the fl ames
Don’t ask me why -
Why I wish to be raised to the top
Who cares if no one knows the fi ery soul of a lonely man?
When it feels lonely and cold
the world has nothing in it to console such heart
but the only thing that makes the world beautiful
is love, is what they say
But they don’t know how much love
can make the other love so lonely
they don’t know they can get as lonely as love
You said you loved crickets
I love crickets, too
You said you loved lilacs
I love lilacs, too
You said you loved the night
I love the night, too
And I love again
Cheers to my youth,
my lonely youth, which seems full yet empty
Love is lonely, because you bet your life on it
You’re lonely because you give everything to love
Love and ideals,
they all demand your everything
It’s so lonely to bet with all the things you have
Love is a heartbreaking passion of goodbye
What is at the end of passion?
Love does not regret,
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even if you lose everything
Then you can say you truly loved
Even in the deepest nights,
I will live on as a ray of light
Even in a barren land scorched with heat
I will live on as a stream of clear water
I will be a fi rmly grounded tree,
even if storms wither the trees and grass
I live on in this world,
because the 21st century called for me
Is it clouds or snow,
covering the mountain tops of Kilimanjaro?
I keep going forward in my journey
with a backpack on my back
Who cares if I shake hands with loneliness in the mountains
and become a mountain myself?
Seoul, Korea (Republic of) Byong-Hyon Han
June, 2015
Contents
1 Why Social Medicine? .............................................................................. 1
1.1 The Rise of Social Medicine .............................................................. 1
1.2 Human Being: H omo medicus ........................................................... 4
1.3 History of Drug .................................................................................. 10
1.3.1 Ancient Times ........................................................................ 10
1.3.2 The Greek and the Roman Period .......................................... 12
1.3.3 The Middle Ages .................................................................... 14
1.3.4 Modern Times ........................................................................ 21
1.3.5 Twentieth Century and Medicine ........................................... 25
References ................................................................................................... 32
2 What Is a Social Medicine? ...................................................................... 33
2.1 The Concept of Social Medicine ........................................................ 33
2.1.1 The Remaining Margin .......................................................... 33
2.1.2 Natural Healing Power (NHP) ............................................... 35
2.1.3 Composition of Medicine ....................................................... 39
2.1.4 Characteristics of Social Medicine ......................................... 41
2.1.5 Effects of Social Medicine (SM) ............................................ 47
2.2 Development of Social Medicine ....................................................... 49
2.2.1 Social Medicine from Daily Life ........................................... 50
2.2.2 Social Medicine from Complementary
Alternative Medicine (CAM) ................................................. 57
2.2.3 Differentiation of Social Medicine ......................................... 59
References ................................................................................................... 63
3 Therapy of Social Medicine ...................................................................... 65
3.1 Concept and Scope for Therapy of Social Medicine ......................... 65
3.1.1 Social Medicine Therapy: A Formula of Hope ...................... 66
3.1.2 Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM)
and Social Medicine Therapy ................................................. 72
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