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Korean Oriental Medicine has developed over thousands years with the Korean people and is still widely popular among Koreans.The Korean medicine has made enormous progress and maintained its firm status as a mainstream medicine by constantly being applied to treat various illnesses of ordinary people. Therapeutic experiences and know-how accumulated for thousands years have helped establish solid foundations for Korean Oriental Medicine, which provides cures for diseases and helps to enhance the public health. 1.2 Characteristics of Korean Oriental Medicine.

• ㆍ Comprehensive Approach of Korean Oriental Medicine
  Oriental Medicine of Korea has a very unique way of understanding a disease. For example, in Korean Medicine, an eye disease does not mean that a person has problems just in his eyes. The medicine tries to identify the cause of the disease by examining his entire body to find out any physical or psychological changes that might have led to the problem. Once determining the cause, the medicine cures the disease by correcting abnormal changes.
• ㆍ Korean Medicine and Nature
  The Korean Medicine approaches a disease not by using any invasive means such as a dissection or experiment, but by carefully examining a natural human body. Its therapeutic philosophy is based on a thorough observation of a human body.
• Individual and Relative Nature of the Oriental Medicine of Korea
  None of us are the same. Some people like spicy foods, others love salty foods while some others prefer mild dishes. Every individual has different tastes and their own peculiar physical characteristics. The Korean medicine takes a unique physical status of each individual into account in treating an illness.
• ㆍ The Purpose of the Medicine
  The purpose of the traditional medicine is not limited to just cure a disease. It sees a human body as an integrated organic whole and tries to determine what is wrong in a human body as a whole. The Medicine does not examine only small parts of a body directly related to a disease when treating it, but extensively looks into an entire body for any other sources of the disease. The Korean Medicine focuses on curing an illness naturally by correcting problems in a human body.