情志致病研究进展

Research progress on pathogenesis of emotion-caused diseases

情志致病由来已久,从《黄帝内经》起,古人就开始重视对情志及其致病的观察,后世医家从理论探讨、临床实践、流行病学调查等方面作了大量的研究,但一直是百家争鸣,尚未形成一致认识。现代医学从分子生物学、基因组学、代谢组学等方面进行了尝试,试图用现代医学的理论来揭示中医情志致病的内在规律,但因中医固有的整体观念,单纯的一种或几种学科研究远不能揭示其本质内容。因此,情志致病的机制及防治仍需要多学科结合深入研究。

Emotion causing disease has a long history. From Inner Canon of Yellow Emperor, ancient doctors begin to focus on emotional factors in treating diseases. The later generation go on this study and make a huge research from the aspects of theory discussion, clinical practices and epidemiological survey, emerge different viewpoints without consistent judgement. In recent years, modem research technologies, including molecular biology, genomics and metabonomics and so on, are used to attempt to discover the mechanism of emotion-caused diseases. However, as its inherent feature of holism, unique or multiple scientific research can＇t discover the pathogenesis completely. As a result, pathogenesis of emotion-caused diseases need fttrther study in future.