• Journal of The Association for Neo Medicine
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.39-55
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• 1996

The theory of seven emotions is a unique theory in oriental medicine which describes the mutual relationship between body and mind of human. Although, the term 'Seven emotions' was not clearly indicated in ${\ulcorner}$The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic(黃帝內經)${\lrcorner}$, it is appeared in ${\ulcorner}$A Treatise on the Three Catagories of Cause of Diseases(三因方)${\lrcorner}$ written by Chen Yan(陳言) in South-Song Dynasty. It seemed that Chen Yan explained seven emotions as the internal etiologic factor according to the classification of seven emotions of ${\ulcorner}$Ye-Gi(禮記)${\lrcorner}$ under the academic influence during Song Dynasy which emphasized more on the standard of right and wrong rather than individual emotion. Meditation or consideration modulates the function of spleen and stomach and the metabolism of blood and body fluid and it also controls the various emotions and maintains the equilibrium of human body. Human emotions are influenced by the changes of nature and deeply related to time and space including social-environmental factors. The function and strength of seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, worry, grief, apprehension and fright are determined by the external stimulation as the causes of illness.

• The Journal of Korean Medical History
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.67-75
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to consider how Kim Young-hun approached and treated diseases caused by seven emotions using Cheonggang medical records database. Kim Young-hun often related seven emotions with qi, phlegm, fire and depressions of these three and with the loss of dignity (脫營). Records of seven emotions were especially concentrated in the 1950s, and it seems to have been influenced by the Korean war. The prescriptions which Kim used frequently were introduced as modified 六鬱湯. Analyzing the medicinal herbs Kim used, it was estimated that Kim would have applied "allevating phlegm and regulating qi" as the principle of the treatment of the seven emotions using 二陳湯 and Cyperus(香附子) with some adjustment of 利濕藥, 疏導藥, 淸熱藥, and 四物湯.

• Journal of Korean Medical classics
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.39-47
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• 2011

The study is a new way of treating and preventing various diseases and promoting health by means of music specially picked and designed to produce Qi fitting to an individual person in the areas of the structure of human body, physiological function, pathological change, diagnosis and treatment. Oriental medicine music therapy is based on the concept and methodology of the Oriental Medicine, actually meaning the Oriental Medicine, that is specialized in controlling the human biological energy, the Qi, and in coordinating human body and mind which are easy to be unbalanced. The seven emotions affect the change of Qi. The weakness and strength of seven emotions can induce constraint of Qi, the seven emotions music therapy and relieving constraint music therapy can be used in this case.

• The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.169-174
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• 2011

Objectives: Seven Emotions consist of Joy(喜), Anger(怒), Anxiety(憂), Thought(思), Sorrow(悲), Fear(恐), Fright(驚). If Seven Emotions are excessive, their extreme mental stimulations cause physical illness. The aim of the research is to make a proposal on the concept of Seven Emotions by a statistical comparison between guibi-tang questionnaire and health related questionnaires. Methods: We studied the similarities among three factors of guibi-tang questionnaire and three health related questionnaires(subjective symptoms of fatigue test, beck depression inventory, state-trait anxiety inventory, etc.) using multidimensional scaling. Results and Conclusions: 1. Physical-Emotion Dimension and Chronic-Acute Dimension were labelled in two-dimensional solution. 2. Seven Emotions and Fatigue have a high correlation. 3. Seven Emotions and Trait-Anxiety have a high correlation.

• The Journal of the Society of Korean Medicine Diagnostics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.13-24
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• 2010

Background and purpose: Seven Emotions consist of Joy(喜), Anger(怒), Anxiety(憂), Thought(思), Sorrow(悲), Fear(恐), Fright(驚). If Seven Emotion is excessive, its extreme mental stimulation causes physical illness. There was no study of the Seven Emotion Disease in detail for now. Therefore the purpose of this study is to pigeonhole the Seven Emotion Disease. Methods: We extract the sentences about the Seven Emotion and related words in Donguibogam. We classify the sententences into Joy(喜), Anger(怒), Anxiety(憂), Thought(思), Sorrow(悲), Fear(恐), Fright(驚), Frustration, Mental Exhaustion, Character. We analysis pattern of Symptoms Derived from Seven Emotions. Results and Conclusions Seven Emotion give rise to various type of symptom. In special Anger cause more illness than other Seven Emotion.

• Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.119-130
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• 2016

Objectives The Purpose of this study was to conduct a characteristic study on cancer patients using the Core Seven Emotions Inventory (CSEI) followed by a correlation analysis with STAI, STAXI and BDI.Methods This study was conducted by analyzing the medical records of 21 patients who had visited ○○ University Oriental hospital and completed the Core Seven Emotions Inventory (CSEI), BAI, and BDI. A total of 21 patients diagnosed with Cancer were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science, IBM, United States of America, Version 22.0). Frequency Analysis, independent t-test, one-sample t-test, and correlation analysis were conducted.Results 1. The Seven Emotion Characteristics of the Cancer patients showed a fairly stable emotional Distribution. The Gong (恐) and Kyeong (驚) emotions were relatively higher than U (憂), Bi (悲), Sa (思), Hui (喜), No (怒). 2. According to Gender, Female patients exhibited higher Sa (思) and Kyeong (驚) emotions while male patients exhibited higher Bi (悲) Emotion. 3. No (怒), U (憂), Bi (悲), Sa (思), Gong (恐), and Kyeong (驚) emotions showed a high correlation with the BDI and BAI scores of cancer patients.

• Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.241-257
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• 2022

Objectives: To investigate emotional characteristics of healthy adults using the Core Seven Emotions Inventory-Short Form (CSEI-s) and to investigate the correlation between the CSEI-s and Korean version of the Perceived Stress Scale (K-PSS). Methods: Overall, 2,178 healthy adults aged ≥19 years who completed the CSEI-s and K-PSS in a nationwide multicenter study were included in this study. One-way analysis of variance was performed to identify associations of seven emotions with sociodemographic characteristics. Bonferroni corrected post-hoc tests were performed for multiple comparisons. Pearson's correlation analyses were conducted to examine the correlation between each emotion and stress. Results: Scores of all emotions except for joy (喜) and stress were significantly greater in women than in men. However, the score of joy (喜) in women was significantly less than that in men. There were significant differences in joy (喜), thought (思), depression (憂), fear (恐), and fright (驚) according to age groups in both men and women. The score of depression (憂) was significantly lower in women attending or graduating from graduate school than in those attending or graduating from undergraduate school. Significantly lower scores in joy (喜), thought (思), depression (憂), sorrow (悲), fear (恐), and fright (驚) were observed in married men than in single men. There were significant positive correlations between depression (憂) and stress and between sorrow (悲) and stress in both men and women. Conclusions: There were significant associations of seven emotions with sociodemographic characteristics in healthy adults.

• Journal of Oriental Neuropsychiatry
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.83-94
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• 2017

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to conduct a characteristic study on Bell's palsy patients using the Core Seven Emotion Inventory (CSEI) followed by correlation analysis with BAI and BDI. Methods: This study was conducted by analyzing medical records of 30 patients that had visited ${\bigcirc}{\bigcirc}$ University Oriental hospital and completed the Core Seven Emotions Inventory (CSEI), BAI and BDI. A total of 30 patients diagnosed with Bell's palsy were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Science, IBM, United States of America, Version 22.0). Descriptive statistics, Independent t-test, One-way repeated measure, ANOVA and Pearson Correlation analysis were used for data analysis. Results: 1. Kyeong (驚), Bi (悲) and Gong (恐) emotions were relatively higher than U (憂), Hui (喜). 2. According to sex, female patients exhibited higher Kyeong (驚) and Gong (恐) emotions than male patients. 3. According to age, patients older than 60 exhibited higher Hui (喜) emotion than patients younger than 59. 4. According to the correlation between prognosis and age in patients older than 60 revealed negative correlation in Kyeong (驚) and Gong (恐) emotions. Conclusions: Using the Core Assessment Instrument based on Chiljeong for Bell's palsy patients is effective relative to diagnostic and clinical aspects of Bell's palsy.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.869-879
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• 2013

This study is related to the acquisition of physiological signals of human emotions and the recognition of human emotions using such physiological signals. To acquire physiological signals, seven emotions are evoked through stimuli. Regarding the induced emotions, the results of skin temperature, photoplethysmography, electrodermal activity, and an electrocardiogram are recorded and analyzed as physiological signals. The suitability and effectiveness of the stimuli are evaluated by the subjects themselves. To address the problem of the emotions not being recognized, we introduce a methodology for a recognizer using prototype-based learning and particle swarm optimization (PSO). The design involves two main phases: i) PSO selects the P% of the patterns to be treated as prototypes of the seven emotions; ii) PSO is instrumental in the formation of the core set of features. The experiments show that a suitable selection of prototypes and a substantial reduction of the feature space can be accomplished, and the recognizer formed in this manner is characterized by high recognition accuracy for the seven emotions using physiological signals.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.596-599
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• 2005

Human health is affected by not only physical conditions but also mental and social well-being. Changes of human emotions show up as gestures, facial expressions and sweating. Human emotions are affected by such automatic nerve system functions as blood pressure, blood circulation speed, heart beats, pupillary reflex, fluid transfusion, muscular contraction and digestive organs, all of which influence the holistic diseases. The Oriental Medicine sees from a perspective of unity of divinity and men that human life activities are united in terms of their physical and mental functions. From such a perspective, human Five Organs are linked with Five Mental(五神) and Seven Emotions(七情), while they are affected by each other, influencing the life activities both directly and indirectly. Based on Confucianism, Sa-Sang Theory argues that human emotions can be categorized into four energy states and therefore, that human diseases and physiological conditions there of may be determined differently depending on the Four Energies(四氣). There seems to be some common points between Sa-Sang Theory and the conventional Oriental Medicine in that human emotions affect individuals' health conditions, so there seems to be much room for mutual complementation.