Culture-bound syndrome and oriental medicine in Korea

This article introduces oriental medicine (traditional Korean medicine) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in Korea. Oriental medicine or traditional Chinese medicine belongs to conventional medical system in Korea and China, and is most world-widely spread as CAM. In particular, oriental medicine can have a major role as a model of integrative medicine on the basis of psychosomatic medicine.This article also introduces culture-bound syndrome in Asia which is based on psychosomatic aspect of oriental medicine.