People should take medicine and injections after they are ill. But modern medicine has different treatment methods for sub-health patients. Besides conventional treatment, there are also some special treatment methods, such as music therapy. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Prince of Chu suffered from depression because he had lived in a deep palace for a long time, just like Philip V, Spain's King in the 18th century. What is more striking is that two people of different times and cultures have chosen to use music to treat them. Prince Chu's royal doctor used dance music and acupuncture to treat Prince Chu. Philip V invited Faranelli, a famous Italian eunuch singer, to sing for himself. Both patients were cured of depression.

Experience Chapter

When a person is ill, his first thought is to see a doctor in a hospital. Doctors give patients visual touch, auditory examination, open a series of tests, fluoroscopy, electrocardiogram, B-mode ultrasound and other checklists; after the diagnosis is clear, prescriptions are made; and what patients need to do is take medicine and injections. When a person is in a sub-health state, the doctor will feel headache: "patients" have a lot of "symptoms", but can not find "positive" signs, laboratory tests can not find "positive" results. This "patient" needs another type of treatment that is different from conventional treatment. Now let's listen to some "patients" and see what the experts have done to them.

Work Stress - Let Music Relax

Person No. 1 - Mr. Dong (male, 42 years old, head of a travel agency):

I am outgoing, open-minded and talkative, and very responsible for my work. Since becoming a leader, the pressure has increased. Busy day, evening there are all kinds of entertainment. In addition to frequent restaurants and hotels, but also infected with smoking, playing cards all night "Great Wall" bad habits, life is extremely irregular. Over the past three months, I have noticed a marked decline in energy, fatigue and weakness, sometimes dizziness, chest tightness, panic, and even can not keep working. I suspected that I had a heart disease or some other serious illness, so I went to see doctors in several "three A" hospitals. Results Except for blood pressure 140/105 mm mercury column and heart rate slightly slower, the results of routine examination, electrocardiogram, echocardiography and exercise test were all within the normal range. Finally, the doctor diagnosed as: (1) early hypertension? (2) Neurosis. After returning home, I insisted on taking antihypertensives and sedatives, but the symptoms never improved. Accidentally learned that there is a music relaxation therapy, like music, I rushed to consult. The doctor gave me all kinds of tests and the results were normal. Finally, he said that I had a slight neurotic tendency. The doctor suggested that I (1) use music relaxation therapy. Establish and maintain good living habits, such as adjusting sleep and proper exercise. Quit smoking, limit alcohol, eat less greasy food, etc.

Result of music relaxation therapy:

After the first music relaxation treatment, Mr. Dong's blood pressure dropped from 128/91 mm Hg to 115/72 mm Hg. He felt his fingertip skin temperature increased, his body relaxed and his mood improved. After returning home, self-adjust the law of life, quit smoking and alcohol according to doctor's advice. After 4 consecutive days of treatment, antihypertensive drugs and sedatives were discontinued, and blood pressure remained within the normal range; symptoms improved significantly after 6 days; 10 days of treatment ended. Two months later, the hospital reexamined and everything was normal.

Person 2 - Mr. Han (male, 46 years old, staff member of a securities company):

I am an introverted, conscientious, cautious and extremely responsible person. Physical health has always been good. Over the past year, due to the stock market downturn, the business has not been able to get the expected return, which makes me upset, tired, dizzy, and suffered from insomnia, which has not improved for three months. Occasionally, blood pressure was measured on 140/90 mm mercury column. So I bought an electronic sphygmomanometer and measured it continuously for 10 days. It was found that the blood pressure was always on the high side and fluctuated between 140/90 mm Hg column and 180/100 mm Hg column. I was scared. I went to the hospital right away. After examination, except for the high blood pressure, the rest were normal. The doctor diagnosed me with functional hypertension, which belongs to sub-health status. Many counseling, learning that music relaxation therapy can improve sub-health status, so with a half-trusted attitude to try. When the doctor suggested a psychological test, I firmly believed that my "symptoms" had nothing to do with psychological factors. The doctor decided to try music relaxation therapy first to see what the result was.

Result of music relaxation therapy:

Mr. Han received only one music relaxation therapy, and his blood pressure dropped from 161/99 mm Hg to 125/79 mm Hg before treatment. The experience in the treatment process is as he described it: the brain is blank, only soft music reverberates in the air. After the treatment, he slept soundly and waked up refreshed. Therefore, he stopped being stubborn and took the initiative to talk to the doctor about his troubles in life and work in the past six months, and accepted psychological tests. The results showed that there was a tendency of "hypochondriasis". Somatic symptoms were related to psychological factors, and there were mild depression/anxiety disorders. The doctor's explanation helped him understand functional hypertension and realized that his personality was not suitable for securities work. He decided to leave the securities company and seek a suitable job. Later, Mr. Han found his favorite job smoothly. Those troublesome symptoms no longer appeared, and his blood pressure returned to normal.

Person No. 3 - Mr. Liu (male, 48 years old, foreign enterprise staff):

As a representative of foreign companies, I work everyday as a fire fighter, rushing around to solve all kinds of difficult problems. Fatigue, migraine headache, insomnia, anxiety and loose stool have lasted for several years, seriously affecting my work. Every morning I feel good about myself. I feel dizzy, heavy and restless in the afternoon. To see a doctor in a hospital, the doctor diagnosed functional hypertension. Over the years, I have been looking for a good way to improve symptoms, relax, and get rest. After being recommended, I know that one kind of music therapy is called "somatosensory vibration relaxation therapy". I also want to experience it. After experiencing somatosensory vibration relaxation therapy for the first time, Mr. Liu soon entered a sleepless state. After 30 minutes, he felt clear-headed and relaxed. He thought he had found the cure he had dreamed of. But because of his busy work, he can not often go to the hospital for music relaxation therapy. He hoped that the relaxation therapy of somatosensory vibration of family uterine sounds could be popularized as soon as possible and could be treated at home.

Expert comments:

These busy middle-aged physical examinations did not find organic lesions, normal psychological tests or mild depression/anxiety disorders, but no psychiatric disorders, psychosomatic symptoms lasted for more than three months, so considered as functional disorders, in line with the diagnosis of sub-health status. The reasons are all related to high work pressure. It may be a coincidence that all the above-mentioned men have similar symptoms, but in fact, women also have similar symptoms. The above sub-health status of cardiovascular system dysfunction is prominent, but this does not mean that people with this performance are functional hypertension or cardiac neurosis. Therefore, we emphasize that when cardiovascular symptoms are found, the first thing to do is to go to the cardiology department of the hospital and exclude organic lesions. In terms of treatment, non-drug interventions, such as music relaxation therapy and the establishment and maintenance of good living habits, should be adopted to adjust. If the effect is not significant, medication can be added under the guidance of doctors. These people have been in a state of tension for a long time and have never been completely relaxed. Music relaxation therapy is a non-drug intervention that they can accept, feel the best and completely relax their mind and body. In the course of treatment, they learned how to relax their mind and body, and arranged their daily life and work reasonably according to their own experience, so as to achieve relaxation and perseverance, thus gradually getting rid of sub-health state and recovering their body functions.

Feeling unhappy Let music guide you

No. 4, Ms. Ma (42 years old):

I used to be a journalist. Every day I faced some new things, and my life was very full. After marriage, he settled in Hong Kong as a housewife. Although living conditions are very favorable, they do nothing all day. Because of different ideas, hobbies and living habits, they are unable to integrate into Hong Kong society consciously. Since then, I have repeatedly experienced nausea, vomiting, stomachache, abdominal distension, belching, acid vomiting, foreign body obstruction in the pharynx, lack of food, constipation, insomnia, fatigue, mood restlessness and other symptoms, and gradually lost weight. Some hospitals in Hong Kong seek treatment, but none of them has any curative effect. Later, I heard that there was a music relaxation therapy that could cure my illness, so I went to see a doctor. At that time, my mental state was very poor, nausea, vomiting, stomachache was obvious, and I couldn't help vomiting after talking with the doctor for a few words. My stomach ache was so painful that I could not straighten up my waist. I couldn't eat anything, and I didn't sleep for two consecutive days. I had a gastroscopy first, and the report was superficial gastritis. The doctor in the research room gave me the diagnosis of gastrointestinal autonomic nervous dysfunction. After that, I did a psychological test for me, thinking that I belonged to mild depression and anxiety, and had neurotic tendencies. The doctor suggested that I (1) use music relaxation therapy to relieve symptoms. (2) Find out the causes related to the disease as soon as possible and deal with them properly. (3) Learn self-care massage of stomach and massage 2-3 times a day after returning home. (Health massage can refer to VCD operation published by Chinese Medical Audio-visual Publishing House.) (4) The principle of diet is rich in nutrition, easy to digest and eat less and more meals. (5) Playing background relaxation music at home during the day while doing what you like to do; listening to stress-relief music before napping and going to bed at night. Sleep on time, get up on time, and do activities as you can every day. Communicate with your family more often.

Result of music relaxation therapy:

After 10 minutes of somatosensory vibration relaxation therapy, Ms. Ma consciously relieved her stomachache and went to sleep quietly after 30 minutes. After waking up, she felt relaxed and had a good effect. The next day, the symptoms improved significantly, the food intake increased, no vomiting and nausea. After 20 days, the symptoms were obviously relieved, the mood was stable, and the communication with family members was good. Recently, she returned to Hong Kong and her husband and children.

Person No. 5, Ms. Yang (49 years old, engineer):

I am an introverted person, conscientious and responsible for my work, hardworking and complaining, but pursuing perfection. Two years ago, he became more silent because of his frustration in promotion and bad work. He became cold, tired, insomnia and often caught cold. No organic lesions were found in the physical examination except for the low cellular immunity. Clinical diagnosis: neurosis. Psychological tests conducted in the sub-health laboratory revealed mild depression, mild neuroticism with mild hypochondria, and reduced psychological endurance. The doctor suggested that I (1) use music relaxation therapy to relieve symptoms. (2) Take Astragalus membranaceus, red ginseng and other nourishing traditional Chinese medicines appropriately to adapt to cold constitution and improve cellular immune function. (3) Increase interpersonal communication, establish a new life and set new work goals.

Result of music relaxation therapy:

For the first time, Ms. Yang felt relaxed and comfortable after music relaxation therapy, and for the second time, she was treated by far infrared tomography. In contrast, the relaxation therapy of somatosensory vibration of uterine sounds has a better effect in expanding peripheral blood vessels, accelerating blood circulation and balancing the whole body heat radiation. After a month of follow-up, she felt less fatigue, improved sleep and was confident to build a new life.

Expert comments:

All the above-mentioned persons are females with neurotic tendencies, many symptoms, prominent gastrointestinal dysfunction, symptoms lasting for more than three months, physical examination did not find organic lesions, which is in line with the diagnosis of sub-health status. The reasons are related to interpersonal relationship problems and the failure of expected goals. For these people, we suggest that we should first go to the Department of digestive medicine to exclude organic diseases, and then conduct psychological assessment to exclude depression or anxiety disorders and psychiatric disorders. In terms of treatment, first of all, music relaxation therapy is used to adjust their emotional state and relax their body and mind; then, self-acupoint massage and non-drug intervention measures such as adjusting diet are adopted to improve gastrointestinal function; and gradually get rid of sub-health state by re-defining life goals and establishing and maintaining good living habits.

Theories

What is sub-health?

At present, there is no standard definition of sub-health status in Chinese medical circles. From the perspective of health science, sub-health is the intermediate state between health and disease. From the point of view of disease, sub-health state can be divided into: (1) sick or disease-free state: this refers to the state in which there are all kinds of discomforts (symptoms), but no organic lesions have been found after various examinations. (2) Subclinical state: refers to the critical value or normal high limit of clinical signs reaching the diagnostic criteria of diseases. The main manifestations of sub-health state are: (1) psychological symptoms of negative emotional disorders such as depression, anxiety and tension; (2) physical symptoms such as fatigue, pain, insomnia, digestive and cardiovascular dysfunction; (3) behavioral symptoms such as avoidance, dependence, aggression, risk-taking, self-pity and substance abuse. Generally speaking, the symptoms of sub-health can be alleviated or eliminated by self-regulation and non-drug intervention and comprehensive intervention when necessary.

What are the factors leading to sub-health?

Internal causes:

* Physical factors: affected by heredity and environment. The function, structure and metabolism of each organ are relatively stable, susceptible to certain pathogenic factors and the tendency to determine the type of pathological changes. For example, some people are prone to obesity, some people are prone to diabetes, and some people are prone to tumors.

* Personality characteristics: Clinical studies show that people in sub-health state are prone to emotional fluctuation, neurotic tendency, introverted personality, strong dependence and control, and poor in psychological endurance, dominance and social responsibility.

External causes:

* Social environmental factors: 1) daily work is tense, stressful and lack of rest time; prolonged cold war and small quarrels within the family, marital breakdown, family separation; competition, interpersonal troubles, economic situation reversal, failure of expected goals and other incidents. (2) The social environment of unemployment, poverty, humiliation and discrimination. (3) Social and environmental factors that can cause acute stress response, such as rape, robbery, earthquake, flood and other natural disasters and wars.

* Bad habits: overeating, smoking, drinking, staying up late, indulgence, etc.

* Physical and chemical factors: environmental pollution, noise, radiation and so on.

* Biological factors: recessive infection. The application of music relaxation therapy and music somatosensory vibration therapy in sub-health state. Since ancient times, people have realized the influence of music on emotion and physiological function, and used music to relieve the pain of disease. Music relaxation therapy is an artistic therapy that utilizes the psychological, emotional and biological effects of music on human body to relax its body and mind and achieve the goal of improving sub-health symptoms. Music therapy is based on music perception. Human music perception is realized at physiological, psychological and conscious levels. It involves cardiovascular, digestive, respiratory, nervous, immune and endocrine systems, and its mechanism is extremely complex. The only way for the human body to feel music is through hearing and touch. The traditional music therapy is to listen, that is, to feel music through hearing. It is a kind of psychological therapy, not through conversation, but through music to express or vent emotions, release tension, depression or anxiety and other negative emotions, to achieve spiritual pleasure.

Somatosensory Vibration Music Therapy (VA Therapy) is to feel music through hearing and touch. In the music somatosensory vibration therapy, the music signal is amplified in the power amplifier at intermediate frequency, and the whole audio signal is transmitted to the speaker to produce stereo music. The low frequency part is sent to the transducer and converted into physical vibration. The human body is in this environment, while listening to music, the body can also feel the corresponding vibration, produce the corresponding psychological and biological effects, so as to achieve the purpose of music therapy. For different sub-health status and preferences, music therapy can adopt different background music, classical, modern, Chinese and foreign. The repertoire can be selected from the tapes published by the Chinese Medical Audio and Video Publishing House.