Eastern Medicine contribution into the theory on temperaments as well as dys-temperaments study in PSMU foreign applicants some aspects

Abstract

There are various classifications of temperaments except “habitual” division into cholerics, sanguinics, phlegmatics and melancholics described in an Eastern medicine, having not only theoretical but applied significance. The work aim: to analyze contribution of temperament study in various spheres of personal life while using the traditional and non-traditional approaches to temperaments classification and the data about dys-temperaments among the PSMU and other educational establishments Indian students as well as other people in India. Materials and methods: surveys; Eysenck’s classic questionnaire on temperament assessment; physiological methods of vagotony and sympatheticotony determining. Results: the examined Indian students demonstrated approximately equal distribution by all temperament types by traditional Eysenck’s questionnaire without valuable varieties by gender. The Indian girls reported about migraine and linked it with vagotony and dys-temperament while demonstrating the knowledge about this so called double representation. All the respondents were informed about the data on possible using the knowledge about dry and wet temperaments, gastral and hepatic, the ones of diseases and medicines. Conclusions: we consider that the data about Eastern medicine contribution into temperaments study in its theoretical and applied sides must be introduced into educative process in medical educational establishments officially in all countries.