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HSIN-TEN HEALTH TALK 9© 1995, HTE USA THE AUTO ADJUSTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS
DR. Wei-Penu Zhao

Today in the twentieth century, people are living in an era with highly developed technology and at the same time full of competition and opportunities. A young man is facing books piling up higher and higher and computer data changing day and night; a middle-aged employee is facing endless work which cannot be done even without sleep. and the pressure brought by bills, car, home, etc. makes you suffocated. When you become old, all the problems such as medical insurance, loneliness, longing for and thinking of the past good old days, the feeling of your birthplace and countryland make up a tremendous mental burden. It makes you surrounded by an isolated cabinet. As a result, a series of mental disorders follow one by one. The followings are only some of such problems.

1. Depression
   

   It can occur in any age group. Some show mental agitation. People of this category work in a disturbed and complicated environment. Or they live in a very compact living condition with poor ventilation. They frequently yawn, doze off and catnap, react sluggishly, oftentimes are so agitated and angry, and even want to open the windows and shout loudly, or take a comfortable sleep to get rid of all these troubles facing them. Another category is the typical depression. The pressure of work and life is so serious that really makes them suffocated. They have palpation, tachysystole, bradycardia; in the digestive system, they have loss of appetite, being sick of eating, nausea, or vomiting, sometimes constipation or diarrhea. For thinking and reasoning, they usually get into a dead end; in case there is some mild ailment, they have the cancer phobia, or imagine they have some serious heart disease, etc. All day long, they are in a trance, sit isolated in a room with the door closed or talk endlessly. These symptoms are miscellaneous and vary with persons.

2. Life Style
   

   There is a new syndrome called adaptation syndrome. The main cause of it is due to internal or external over tension. The over activity of pituitary adrenal axis due to outside and inside tension makes the person secrete large amount of adrenocortical hormone to adapt the responses required by the various parts of his body. If it prolongs for a certain period of time, it will result hypertension, peptic ulcer, arrhythmia, insomnia, irregular menstruation, or neurasthenia. Hysteria breaks out in some who cannot control his emotion or feeling, especially in some females. Some may even feel cold of his limbs, simulating the symptoms of peripheral neuritis. In a word, all these diversified unhealthy syndromes are related to modern life style. At present either Western medicine or traditional Chinese medicine can only suit the remedy to the case, its effect of course is not satisfactory, because we do not resolve the cause of disease. We now propose an auto aerobic exercise, pointing to the problem and let the brain calm down. It can make the secretion curve of the pituitary adrenal axis activity reverse to normal. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves of vegetative sympathetic nerve, i.e., the nervous system regulating our viscera, must coordinate and balance. With the rhythmic aerobic swimming on land, the over secretion of sympathetic nerve may decline to normal, and the hypertension resulted from over constricted blood vessels become normal once again.

3. Digestive system
   

   The peptic ulcer resulted from too much release of gastric acid as a consequence of overexcited vagus nerve, it will be cured as a result of stabilization of the overactive pituitary adrenal axis, decrease of gastric acid, and the disappearance of the human mental psychological factors. If in an environment without consuming oxygen, one inhale more oxygen and exhale more carbon dioxide and toxin, his brain will be clear minded. The agitated psychic status will disappear, and less break out of hysteria.

Once your emotions are normal, your reasoning and thinking are of course logic and rational. Such kind of exercise may reverse all these diseases accompanied with the new era, getting rid of your agitation and fidget, your depression and melancholia. With the recovery of normal function of vegetative nervous system, and turning to normal constriction and dilatation of blood vessels, your mental and psychological obstruction can be readily solved A combination of taking Chinese medicine will have a much more better effect.