Title: Why do Patients Still Have Anxiety Symptoms Despite the Use of Psychotropic Medications?

Biography:

Huang Wei Ling, born in Taiwan, raised and graduated in medicine in Brazil, specialist in infectious and parasitic diseases, a General Practitioner and Parenteral and Enteral Medical Nutrition Therapist. Once in charge of the Hospital Infection Control Service of the City of Franca’s General Hospital, she was responsible for the control of all prescribed antimicrobial medication and received an award for the best paper presented at the Brazilian Hospital Infection Control Congress in 1998. Since 1997, she works with the approach and treatment of all chronic diseases in a holistic way, with treatment guided through the teachings of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Hippocrates. Researcher in the University of São Paulo, in the Ophthalmology department from 2012 to 2013.Author of the theory Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine.

Abstract

Statement of the Problem: Anxiety is described as “a diffuse, unpleasant, vague sense of apprehension.” It is often a response to an imprecise or unknown threat. It is not the result of a known or specific threat. Rather it comes from the mind’s vision of the possible dangers that may result in the feared situation. The purpose of this study is to show why patients still have anxiety symptoms despite the use of psychotropic medications A broader view seems to show the necessity of seeing the patient in a holistic way, not only focusing in “containing” the disease. Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: a review of theories such as those presented by Hippocrates (“Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.”), as well as others from oriental medicine, which explain that diseases originate from three factors: external (exposure to cold, heat, humidity, wind and dryness), internal (emotional) and dietary habits.  Findings: Approaching in a holistic and integrated way all the possible factors that are causing energy imbalances, it is possible to control or even cure the symptoms of anxiety without the use of psychotropic medications, but by treating the root of the problem, not just the symptoms. Conclusion & Significance: Anxiety, according to Traditional Chinese Medicine is triggered by the imbalance of the Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood energies, with consequent formation of Internal Heat. In this study, we can demonstrate that patients still have anxiety symptoms despite the use of psychotropic medications, for we should consider and control a variety of factors, including diet and high concentrated drugs that could be perpetuating the energy imbalance that is causing the anxiety symptoms.