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eCAM Advance Access published online on April 29, 2009
eCAM, doi:10.1093/ecam/nep037
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© 2009 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Understanding Oriental Medicine Using a Systems Approach

Jong Yeol Kim1 and Duong Duc Pham1,2

1Department of Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Daejeon, Korea and, and 2Department of Internal Medicine, National Hospital of Traditional Medicine of Vietnam, Hanoi, Vietnam

Two international meetings, the International Physiome Symposium 2008 and the Workshop on Systems Biology (SB) and Oriental Medicine (OM), were held to discuss the most appropriate scientific tools to research OM. Participants agreed that since OM is holistic medicine it needs a systems approach such as SB. However, SB itself is still a long way from identifying the high-level organization processes in the biological system that might correlate with concepts in OM. As such, a modest goal of launching a project to examine the problems of translation and interpretation of OM concepts would be the first step.

Keywords: oriental medicine – physiome – Sasang Constitutional Medicine – systems biology

For reprints and all correspondence: Jong Yeol Kim, Department of Medical Research, Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM), 461-24, Jeonmin-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-811, Republic of Korea. Tel: +82-42-868-9489; Fax: +82-42-868-9480; E-mail: ssmed{at}kiom.re.kr

Received December 15, 2008; accepted April 2, 2009


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