Psychosomatics

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The word " psychosomatics " is new. It was first used in German medical literature in 1922 but it didn't come to America until the 1930's. Phychosomatics is a term that studies emotions and bodily change. Huang Ti, from China, observed that frustration can make people physically ill. Many people have believed that the body could not be cured without the mind, while others still overlook phychosomatic principles despite the growing evidence that links emotions to physical illness.
Studies have shown, and analyzed human behavior and by knowing the function of cells and tissues it helps in maintaining health. Phychosomatics is an approach of reforming medicine and this suggests new treatment in medicine, psychiatry, and psychology. Many psychosomatic conditions arrive under fear or anxiety. When you have a strong emotional reaction hormones are secreted and bodily chemistry is altered, when this reaction is strong a physical reaction will be equally the same. Emotions alter endocrine balance, blood supply, and pressure, inhibit digestion, and change breathing patterns, along with the temperature of the skin, a constant state of emotional imbalance may lead to a disease because of the over reaction of hormones.
The body tries to be in a constant state of equilibrium, it has to maintain a balance of not to much nor too little, so if a factor upsets this the body adapts by altering its chemistry. This damages the rest of the organism causing a disease of adaptation.
All illness has emotional components, except for inherited conditions such as sickle cell and disease caused by the environment such as food poisoning, though even with these diseases the emotional state often determines the course of the illness.
Symptoms arrive through the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and when phychosomatic disorders are individually examined ANS is found in each of them. Examples of ANS are in the sweat glands, which are enervated only by the sy...