The Review and Study Trend of Moxibustion - Focusing on Donguibogam(東醫寶鑑) Vol. Acupuncture & Moxibustion(鍼灸篇) -

뜸에 대한 문헌고찰 및 국내 연구동향 분석 - 동의보감(東醫寶鑑) 침구편(鍼灸篇)을 중심으로 -

  • Chun, Sang-Hee (Department of Nursing, The Graduate School of Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Wang, Myoung-Ja (College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University)
  • Published : 2003.12.31

Abstract

Moxibustion plays an important role not only in the medical service, but also in the health care of Korea. So this study attempted to review of moxibustion and analyze of domestic study trend. And it also intends to examine the usefulness of moxibustion treatment in Korean nursing intervention. "Donguibogam" is famous for the most comprehensive medical book in ancient Korea, indicates that moxibustion makes up a large part of it and that its contents were composed of material, size, time, caring of one's health, indication, operational procedure, contraindication in the documented in the 25 reference books. Also, It confirms that it has been widely used since old times. Especially, it seems to be a great help to researchers because its content lay a theoretical foundation. From the literature, we identified that moxibustion was most widely using method for health promotion and an efficacious cure for a disease. I searched and investigated the journals and dissertations supplied by KERIS and RICH with the key word "moxibustion". Of 10 articles with moxibustion intervention, the trend of domestic studies shows, that of an area relating to nursing was 5. Therefore, moxibustion intervention steadily increases in frequency in nursing academic circles year by year. But there is no distinction between hand moxibustion and moxibustion. According to the above results, we need to develop moxibustion learning program and well designed experimental study with moxibustion for Korean Nursing intervention.

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