Nasaret International Hospital was founded based on Nasaret Oriental Hospital which was established with Cooperative Treatment System of Modern · Oriental · Integrated Functional Medicine in 1980. General Hospital NIH provides emergency treatment · surgery · rehabilitation treatment for treatment in one place through specialized cooperative treatment of Modern · Oriental · Integrated Functional Medicine. NIH delivers accurate early detection of disease through advanced medical equipment such as MRI, 64-channel MDCT, ultrasonography, Olympus endoscope and also leads patient-centered treatment system with integrated medical information system including OCS (Order-Communicating System), PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication System) and EMRS (Electronic Medical Record System). With specialized medical team, most advanced medical equipment, reliable system and hospitable service curing mind, NIH would be trustworthy partner of people suffering from diseases.

Centers of Excellence

1. Treatment of Stroke

NIH Stroke Center provides early responds to stroke patient with fast and accurate one-stop system through complete cooperative treatment between modern medicine and oriental medicine.

Pharmacotherapy

• Thrombolytic Therapy for Cerebral Infarction In the event of cerebrovascular occlusion, thrombolytic agent should be immediately administrated to dissolve thrombus obstructing vessels for restore vascular circulation.
• IV administration of thrombolytic agent: This method is to intravenously administrate thrombolytic agent within 3 hours of occurrence.
• Anticoagulant: The method using anticoagulant is to perform angiography for verification of cerebral vessel occlusion, followed by insertion of catheter and administration of thrombolytic agent.

Surgical therapy

• Hematoma Evacuation
• Craniotomy
• Craniectomy
• Cerebral depressurization(Cerebral edema and increase of intracranial pressure after stroke result in pressurizing crucial parts of brain stem that can threaten life. At this time, decrease of incracranial pressure reduces degree of pressurization to brain stem for saving life.)

2. Oriental Medicine Treatment of Stroke

• Improvement of cerebral circulation and metabolism
• Selection of oriental medicinal herbs depending on accompanying manifestations of cerebrovascular impairment, constitution, symptoms
• Side effect is less than western medicine and ideal for long-term administration
• Treatment for accompanying manifestations of stoke patients
• (subjective symptoms such as fatigue, headache, dizziness, shoulder discomfort / psychologyic symptoms such as disorders of volition and depression / / sequela such as pain and dumbness / vascular dementia / decrease of general quality of life)
• Minimizing of stroke sequela
• Restoration of routine function of stroke patient

3. Oriental Medicinal Herbs Therapy

Prescription

Oriental medicinal herbs therapy for stroke patient mainly consists of three types. First therapy type is to determine the cause based on the patient symptoms, secondly medicine prescription depending on minor or severe degree of stroke. Third type is to prescript according to Sasang Constitutional Theory This therapy selects and approaches through most proper therapy type for patient status based on diagnosis by specialist.

Effect of Oriental medicinal herbs

• Oriental medicinal herbs increase vascular circulation and improve neurological defects including motor paralysis and sensory disturbance.
• Recent studies have demonstrated the effects of oriental herbal medicine for prevention of stroke. This suggests that oriental medicinal herbs have effects to reduce risk factors of cerebrovascular disorder (hypotensive effect, improvement of lipid metabolism, anti-platelet effect).
• Recently, Japan Neurosurgery Association has reported that specific oriental herbal medicine was effective to hematoma absorption due to intracranial hemorrhage. This study demonstrated that oriental medicinal herbs were helpful to hematoma absorption and patients' recovery.
• Oriental herbal medicine is effective on the various complication and accompanying manifestations of stroke patients. Ex) Numbness and pain, headache, fever, voiding dysfunction, gastrointestinal disturbance, hiccup, insomnia, vascular dementia, constipation.

Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment

• Acupuncture is effective on specially hemiparesis, stiffness, edema of affected side.
• Electro-acupuncture (electro-acupuncture stimulation) treatment facilitates recovery of motor function.
• Electro-acupuncture treatment reduces stiffness of patients with upper and lower limb stiffness.
• Moxibustion treatment reduces edema due to stroke and enhances recovery of motor and function.
• When electro-acupuncture was performed at specific acupoints, increase of cerebrovascular circulation was observed using MRI(fMRI).
• Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment is beneficial to language and swallow disorder.
• Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment is beneficial to voiding dysfunction of stroke patients.
• Acupuncture and moxibustion treatment is beneficial to the various complications and accompanying manifestations including headache and painful limbs.

Pharmacopuncture

• Various pharmacopuncture procedures reduce symptoms of stroke patients such as pain, dumbness.
• Cervi Pantotrichum Cornu and Cultivated Wild Ginseng pharmacopuncture improve chronic fatigue of stroke patients.

NIH conducts real-time cooperative treatment between western and oriental medicine specialists and one of a few hospitals which are capable of general hospital scale cooperative treatment. Therefore, NIH systems can deliver integrated treatment combined with western and oriental medicine which is ideal for each patient. Main cooperative treatments are following.

4. Integrated Treatment of Stroke

• Cooperative treatment with neurosurgery: provides necessary medical treatment including fluid therapy and anticoagulant administration for prevention of thrombosis formation which needs at early stage of stroke, and aspirin administration recognizing only well-known way which is effective on improvement of cerebral infarction and preventive effect.
• Cooperative treatment with rehabilitation medicine. Rehabilitation for stroke patients is crucial for early recovery of disease and minimization of sequela. For these, patients can receive proper rehabilitation treatment through cooperative treatment with rehabilitation medicine which is a part of western medicine.
• Cooperative treatment with cardiology. For stroke occurs secondarily due to dysfunction of heart in most cases, cooperative treatment with cardiology provides proper diagnosis and medication for hear disease to prevent stroke.
• Other cooperative treatment. A number of the applicable divisions of western medicine perform cooperative treatments for the various complications and accompanying manifestations of stroke patients.

Medical team which is comprised of four specialists of orthopedic, anesthesiology, oriental rehabilitation medicine delivers perfect teamwork, accurate diagnosis and most ideal treatment for you.

Artificial Joint Clinic

Joint Replacement Surgery is mainly performed at hip and knee joint for who dose not respond to pharmacotherapy and physical therapy, to replace joint with artificial joint which is manufactured with advanced alloy and ceramic materials for the purpose of eliminating pain, improving joint motion and gait and recovering routine function of patient.

• Computer Navigated Joint Replacement Surgery

omputer Navigated Joint Replacement Surgery is the novel method of joint replacement surgery applying the satellite GPS function and guiding location of artificial joint employs the same way that car navigation system guides to destination to enable more accurate surgery.

Moreover, Computer Navigated Surgery predicts the location of patients' joint, the balances between muscle and tendon, the range of motion of artificial joint as well as traces the location of artificial joint, so that medical team enables to perform more accurate artificial joint replacement.

Advantages of Computer Navigated Surgery

• Accurate surgical procedure using computer.
• Performing at the near normal angle of knee joint, elongating lifetime of artificial joint.
• Contrasting with the previous methods, surgical instruments are not introduced in bone marrow cavity, it reduces embolism.
• Accurate insertion of artificial joint.
• Shortening of the admission and recovery period.
• Less incision size than previous methods.
• Conserving normal structure, joint motion is close to the normal range.
• Minimizing bleeding during surgery.

Knee Joint Replacement

Knee Joint Replacement is to perform resection of wear lesions of femur and tibia and then to replace articular surface with metal insertion and insert artificial cartilage for facilitating early gait and normal joint motion and eliminating pain causing degenerative arthritis in patient with arthritis. Disease considering Knee Joint Replacement: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head / Femoral Degenerative Arthritis / Elderly Femoral Neck and Trochanteric Fracture

Hip Joint Replacement

Hip Joint Replacement is to perform resection of damaged femoral head or tibial lesions and then to insert artificial joint for facilitating early gait and normal joint motion in patient with femoral neck fracture or arthritis. Disease considering Hip Joint Replacement: Rheumatoid Arthritis / Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head / Femoral Degenerative Arthritis / Elderly Femoral Neck and Trochanteric Fracture

Shoulder Joint Replacement

Shoulder Joint Replacement can be considered especially when shoulder joint due to severe damage was deformed and could not apply conservative treatment. This surgery is to remove severely damaged and nearly non-functional joint and then to replace with specially manufactured artificial joint.

Active physical therapy following surgery can be helpful to recover the normal range of motion and function of joint. Disease considering Shoulder Joint Replacement: Severe Complex Fracture of Radius / Rheumatoid Arthritis / Rotator Cuff Full Thickness Tear / Rotator Cuff Arthropathy / Avascular Necrosis

Arthroscopy Clinic

Arthroscopy

Minimizing surgical procedure and maximizing effect, arthroscopy is the causal treatment to stimulate regeneration of cartilage using restoration power of human body. Arthroscopy applies same theory with well-known gasgastroscopy and is used to diagnose and treat injury of the shoulder, knee and tarsal joint through direct observation with arthroscopy. 2~3 holes less than 1 cm in size are made at the affected joint lesions and arthroscopy and surgical instruments 2~5 mm in diameter are inserted into the joint, observing and performing procedure directly through monitor.

Indication

1. Knee Joint: Degenerative Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Meniscus Tear, Anterior and Posterior Cruciate Ligament Tear

2. Shoulder Joint: Rotator Cuff Impingement and Tear Syndrome, Traumatic·Habitual Dislocation, Frozen Shoulder, Superior Labrum Tear

3. Carpal, Tarsal and Elbow Joint: Multiple Sprains, Persistent Pain, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cartilage and Tendon Injury, Tennis Elbow

Oriental Medicine Treatment

Shoulder Arthritis, Frozen Shoulder, Knee Degenerative Arthritis, Knee Septic Arthritis, Youk Jeol Poung, Pain in Limb Paralysis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Beriberi, Gout, Pain in Paresthesia. All oriental medicine treatments use only acupuncture and prescription of oriental medicinal herbs.

Spine Center takes pride in the rich clinical experiences and successful surgical performance. From surgical and non-surgical therapy to rehabilitation therapy, we give back right posture. 

Percutaneous Vertebroplasty

• What is Percutaneous Vertebroplasty?: Percutaneous vertebroplasty is performed in patients with compression fracture. Compared to traditional procedure which makes incision in the skin under the general anesthesia, during this procedure, artificial bon components are injected with a biopsy needle penetrating skin into vertebra that provides stabilization of fractured bone under the local anesthesia. .
• Characteristics: The most prevalent fracture due to osteoporosis is pressure fracture which causes a sharp pain at flank and back, especially becomes severe when one in supine position tries to turn toward side or lift up body. Also, life-threatening complications such as pneumonia and septicemia can be resulted from.
• Pathogenesis: Osteoporosis is especially problematic among women after menopause. Prevalence of osteoporosis significantly increases in late 50 year old. Osteoporosis is the most representative elderly disorder which 80% of elderly populations in 70~80 year old have suffered and bone density due to calcium loss leads to fractures of bone even with minor impingement.
• Treatment Methods: For vertebroplasty, gel-type bone enhancements are injected into the fractured vertebra to generate artificial bone. With 3~5 hours of bed rest after injection, patient can move freely and be discharged from the hospital after 1~2 days. Procedure is performed under the local anesthesia that can be applied to the patients with hypertension and diabetes. Anyone who can tolerate in prone position for 1 hour can be treated.
• Effectiveness: This procedure treats nerves effectively through heat at high temperature generated by artificial bone components. With 1 day of bed rest after injection, patient can move freely and be discharged from the hospital going back to the daily activity after 1~2 days.
• Advantages: The cost of vertebroplasty is half of that of the traditional procedure and can be finished within 30 minutes. Also, performing in local anesthesia eliminates the needs of additional visit after surgery.

Radiofrequency Ablation

• Radiofrequency ablation: In radiofrequency ablation, catheters attached with electronic leads are inserted through fine needle holes at problematic discs and heat of 65~90 ℃ is generated which destroys nerves and vessels causing pain to result in the transformation of discs to change their shapes.
• Characteristics: Most important characteristic of radiofrequency ablation is the ability that determines the right problematic disc correctly. Therefore, this procedure is performed using auto positioning system and endoscopy which guide injection needle to the disc.
• Pathogenesis: Intervertebral discs act as shock absorber between adjacent vertebrae in the spine and consist of strong fibrocartilage. However, wear or tear of intervertebral disc over the time leads to chronic lumbar pain.
• Procedure: This procedure uses high frequency similar with hepatic cancer, which lead-attached needles is placed inside vertebral discs through the vertebral muscle. This causes generation of radiofrequency that shrink discs and strengthens fibercartilage of discs. This tissue extrudes outside between adjacent vertebras and makes disc applying pressure to nerve to shrink and prevent reccurence.
• Advantages: Procedure can be completed within 15 minutes under the local anesthesia, so that it is recommended to elderly patients. Also, Radiofrequency temperature is low to minimize the damage to the adjacent tissue and to enable accurate procedure. In some clinical study in America, this procedure achieved 81% of treatment effectiveness.

Lumbar Disc Treatment using Advanced Therapy

Causes result in symptom and pain in lumbar region.

① Trauma

② Degenerative Lumbar Spinal Stenosis

③ Lumbar Herniated Disc

④ Pain in Osteoporosis

⑤ Spinal Tuberculosis and Infection

⑥ Effects of Bone Tumor

Treatment Methods

1) Conservative treatment: Bed rest, pharmacological (anti-inflammatory drug, muscle relaxant) and physical therapy, use of spinal orthosis improve symptoms evidently. 

2) Surgical treatment: Vertebral disc surgery (laser + microscope), cervical disc surgery, spinal fusion surgery, artificial disc replacement

Joint Chondrogenesis Stem Cell Treatment

Superior effectiveness of angular deformity surgery and stem cell using computer navigated technology! Regenerative and stem cell treatment conserve natural structure of the knee joint in patients with arthritis. In stem cell treatment , mesenchymal stem cells are isolated and cultured from the allogenic cord blood (human umbilical cord) and mixed with polymers for surgery. Prepared stem cell can be used as knee joint regenerative treatment agent derived from allogenic cord blood employing novel theory to treat cartilage disease such as arthritis due to degenerative and recurrent trauma. NIH maximizes effectiveness of degenerative arthritis based on rich clinical experience in the leg surgery combined with stem cell treatment.

Advantages of Stem Cell

1. Treatment of osteoarthritis due to degenerative and recurrent trauma through only one time of surgical procedure.

2. Consistent treatment effectiveness by selection of ideal cell with superior treatment effectiveness among isolated stem cells from cord blood.

3. Allogenic cord blood has no influences depending on patients' age, disease and nutritional status.

4. Direct sampling and immediate use without culture period when needed. 

Stem Cell Treatment for Myocardial Infarction

Myocardial infarction is heart disease that coronary artery supplying blood flow to myocardium is obstructed and mainly due to transition of narrowing to obstruction of vessels. Then myocardium is lost functions and heart rate become irregular. Furthermore, arrhythmia becomes developed and finally is in cardiac shock that heart beat stops.

Recently, emergent angiography and vasculoplasty, stent implantation have improved the patients outcome, however, further complications can be developed for damaged myocardium is not regenerated. For now, stem cells are injected into ther infarcted vessel that regenerate myocardial necrosis and recover health condition so that development of complications can be reduced. This method is only treatment which completed world first commercial and safety evaluation and gives hope to patients with myocardium infarction.

Characteristic of Stem Cell

1. MFDS (Ministry of Food and Drug Safety)-certified world first stem cell treatment. Regenerating damaged myocardium, mitigating a number of complications of myocardial necrosis due to myocardial infacrtion.

2. Stem cell is isolated from bone marrow and cultured for 3~4 weeks to stem cell treatments followed by reintroducing by injection. 

3. Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cell is used as adult stem cell resolving ethical issue and securing stabilization.

4. Endocrine, vascular and incurable diseases including stroke, spine injury, hepatic disease, multiply system atrophy, diabetes, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, renal disease and impotence are used for treatment by off the label according to specialist.

NIH Stem Cell Center has committed to research and treatment to give hope and well-being for patients suffering from incurable disease.

Medical Examination Program

• Basic comprehensive program: Basic examination program including gastroscopy to detect most prevalent disease.
• Gastrointestinal examination: Examination program designed for the early detection of gastrointestinal cancer including stomach, colon, liver and pancreas cancer.
• Man examination: Program for detection of prostate cancer and disease.
• Women examination: Program designed for the early detection of prevalent cancer in women (thyroid, breast, uterine cancer).
• Smoker examination: Program for screening of lung, heart and brain vessels of patients with smoking history or is smoking.
• Stroke examination: Program designed for determining Atherosclerosis and brain vessels to prevent brain disease such as stroke, brain tumor and dementia.
• Heart examination: Precise heart examination program for diagnosing of cardiovascular and coronary artery disease.
• Cardio-cerebrovascular examination: Precise examination program designed for one who has family history and adult disease inducing factors such as hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, smoke and obesity that can be susceptible to cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases.
• Integrated functional examination: Program to elucidate the causes of the incurable and chronic disease being hardly treated and to provide systemic treatment.
• Premium examination: Most precise examination program including all of precise examination items designed for the early detection of major cancers and various diseases.

Compared to traditional open surgery, laparoscopic surgery minimizes surgical incision, leading to reduce pain significantly and shorten the admission period of patients. Laparoscopy Center performs laparoscopic and gynecologic laparoscopic surgery. Laparoscopy applies for treatment of various diseases including bile duct disease, appendicitis, inguinal hernia, gastrectomy of morbid obese patient, ectopic pregnancy, ovarian tumor resection, endometriosis, tubal reconstructive surgery, myomectomy, hysterectomy and gynecologic malignant tumor resection.

Advantages of Laparoscopic Surgery

• Less impairment of immune system function, fast recovery after surgery
• Small incision size ensuring esthetics enhances patients' satisfaction.
• Small incision size reduces pain after surgery and facilitates intestinal function for shortening the admission period.
• Lung function is conserved and the rate of abdominal wound infection is low.
• After surgery intestinal adhesion is low, reducing complications.

Categories of Laparoscopic Surgery

Recently, laparoscopic surgery is performed in almost every disease of medical divisions except some types of cancer.

Laparoscopic surgery

• Hepatopancreatoabiliary surgery: Laparoscopic cholecystectomy and splenectomy

Gynecologic laparoscopy

• Treatment of ectopic pregnancy
• Ovarian tumor resection
• Treatment of endometriosis
• Myomectomy
• Hysterectomy

Oriental Medicine Center is equipped with one-stop treatment system operating lumbar, cervical, disc, rhinitis, atopy, women diseases and weight control clinics to provide differentiated medical care services.

Rhinitis Clinic

• Fumigating therapy: Fumigation is the treatment method that inhales preparations eliminating inflammations through patients' nose. Nasal discharge, acute rhinitis, cough, prevention of common cold
• Intranasal administration therapy: Distilled solution which is extracted from oriental medicinal herbs eliminates inflammation and reduces edema for treatment of nasal obstruction.
• Oriental Medicine Herbal Therapy: This therapy is causal treatment method for rhinitis that reduces inflammation and recovers function of nasal structure, as well as enhances immune system. Also, allergic rhinitis and chronic sinusitis can be cured.

Weight Control Clinic

• Oriental Medicinal Herbs Therapy: Tailored oriental medicinal herbs therapy based on individual's constitution and health status:
• Lipolytic acupuncture therapy: Frequency is applies into acupuncture points along the lipid layers, then heat is generated into the somatic cell leading to lipid to dissolve into water, CO2 and energy.
• Ear acupuncture therapy: Ear acupuncture strengthens stomach and spleen and improves the functions of endocrine system, eliminating body fat and stimulating daily activities.

Women Diseases Clinic (Infertility & Menorrhalgia)

Menorrhalgia and menstrual irregularity can be treated within 1~2 months by acupuncture and oriental medicinal herbs. For infertility and spontaneous abortions, this therapy can reach 90% of treatment effectiveness within 1~2 months.

Dermatology Clinic

• Atopy and allergic disease: Oriental medicine cures atopy and allergic disease completely that strengthens lung for balancing of five-viscera and six-bowels and eliminates wastes for purifying blood, combining with constitution improvement therapy for effective energy circulation.
• Acne: This therapy regulates excessive sebum causing acnes for sebum balancing.
• Treatment Methods: Oriental medicinal herbs, acupuncture, oriental herbal spray, moxibustion, aroma therapy, oriental herbal pack

Disc Clinic

Oriental Medicinal Herbs Therapy: Oriental Medicinal Herbs are administrated that protects the system and vertebra and relaxes extravasated blood for recovery of tendon, ligament and muscle which is supported vertebra.

Acupuncture therapy: Acupuncture therapy relaxes extravasated blood in stiff tendon and facilitates energy circulation.

Moxibustion therapy: When cold energy invades into the lumbar region, adjacent tendons and ligaments become stiff that develop disc disease or worsen in affected region. At this time, disc disease can be treated with moxibustion that eliminates cold energy in the body system and transfers heat to adjacent tissues.

Integrated Functional Center

Integrated functional medical care center overcoming cancers. When immune function of body is decreased, diseases can develop. Integrated functional medicine is medical system that determines the potential to develop disease in Grey Zone (middle of point between normal and disease conditions) in advance and analyses and treats systemic causes of disease based on the investigation on nutrition, physiology and chemistry which are the basic components of the body.

Integrated functional medical care is required at following cases:

• When diagnosis and treatment is not proper due to idiopathic symptoms
• Considering evidently that there is certain disease, but diagnosis can not be elucidated.
• When neurological disorders are diagnosed or are referred to the division of psychiatry for no abnormal findings in examinations.
• Complicate chronic disease
• Original health examination in the terms of the early detection (cancer, metabolic syndrome, auto-immune disease).

Target Symptoms and Diseases

1. Cancer: Prevention and treatment with supplementary alternative therapy

2. Incurable disease: Management of patients before and after anticancer treatment (surgery, anticancer chemotherapy, radiotherapy), degenerative neurological disease (dementia, Parkinson disease).

3. Neurological disease: Emotional disturbance (anxiety and depression), autism, AHDA

4. Women disease: Menopausal transition and menopause, chronic pelvic pain and other pains not responds to traditional treatment, menstrual irregularity, cold hypersensitivity in hands and feet, thyroid and hormone imbalance.

5. Skin disease: Atopy (children, adult), allergy (food, environment), incurable skin disease, esthetic skin care

6. Chronic disease: Headache, dizziness, chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, chronic dyspepsia, recurrent ulcer, reflux esophagitis, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory intestinal disease, stress-related symptoms and manifestations

7. Detoxification of heavy metal and environmental hormone: Mercury, lead, arsenic

8. Other disease: Hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, metabolic syndrome, alopecia, obesity, impotence, anti-aging, development delay, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, ulcerative colitis, Crohn disease and auto-immune disease

Systemic Cancer Examination (DNA methylation profiling of cancer-related genes using blood test)

This test detects cancer-related genes (oncogenes) circulating in blood to determine whether are there cancer or susceptible to cancer. Through this test, cancer can be detected at low stages and be treated risk factors aggressively. Target cancer: Lung cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer, pancreas cancer, gallbladder cancer, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer, prostate cancer, urinary bladder cancer, kidney cancer, skin cancer, head and neck cancer

Laser surgery that can go back normal daily activities just after procedure. Causes of Varicose Vein:

1. Genetic factor: Incidence is high when there is family history.

2. Job: Especially prevalent in people with standing job for long time.

3. Age: Incidence of varicose vein is increased with aging.

4. Obesity: Especially prevalent in over weight and exercise insufficiency.

5. Pregnancy: During pregnancy, vessels are dilated due to hormone change, increased systemic fluid volume, as well as enlarged uterus applying pressure on vein is one of the causes of varicose vein.

6. Birth control pill: Taking birth control pill for longer period.

Treatments of Varicose Vein

1. Conservative therapy(Medical compression stocking) : Medical compression stocking: Compression stocking strengthens lower muscle which is crucial for vein circulation to facilitate blood circulation. 

2. Pharmacotherapy: Improve circulation of vein and lymphatic vessel to mitigate a number of symptoms with various medications. 

3. Partial phlebotomy: This surgery makes small 2~3 mm incisions in the skin overlying the severely dilated and turbulent veins. Usually, this method is used for treatment under the knee joint and simple under the local anesthesia. 

4. Sclerotherapy: Sclerotherapy is procedure that sclerosants are injected into the vessels, which induce injury of endothelium of vessels and make them shrink. Hardened vessels get to be absorbed and disappeared as time goes by. This is effective on treatment of bluish and reddish spider veins. 

5. Varicose vein causal surgery: This surgery is most effective with lowest recurrence on trucal varicose vein. This method eliminates stiffness of legs and residual veins, so that side effects like post-surgery pigmentation dose not appear.

6. Endovenous laser treatment: Endovenous laser treatment is the most recently developed treatments, and treats varicose veins using an optical fiber that is inserted into the vein to be treated, and laser light shines into the interior of the vein. This causes the vein to be damaged and contract, and obstruct backward flow of the veins. (Optical fiber has fine and precise microstructure like a hair).

Advantages of Laser Treatment

1. Almost no side effects.

2. No pain.

3. Short procedure time.

4. Can go back normal daily activities just after procedure.

History of diseases began with that of humanity. Humanity has suffered from tremendous number of diseases. We have looked for effective treatment medicines and methods continually to beat diseases and are also now. However, we are suffering from diseases of unknown causes and yet we does not have any treatments. These are called incurable diseases. 

Various infectious disease vaccines, new drugs and medical equipments were developed thanks for advanced technology; however, modern medicine is reaching the limits. Cancer, Parkinson disease, epilepsy, allergic skin disease, atopic dermatitis, degenerative disease, asthma, bronchiectasis, allergic rhinitis, infertility, menorrhalgia, spontaneous abortion, uterine bleeding, allopecia, Hwa-Byung, neuropsychiatric disease, headache, dyspepsia, functional disease and many other diseases can not be solved with modern medicine. 

These diseases that can not be treated with modern medicine are treating with combination of oriental medicine and integrated functional medicine including acupuncture, moxibustion, oriental cupping, and oriental medicinal herbs. NIH is leading hospital in Korean oriental medicine with the history which has treated a lot of patients with incurable disease so far.

Treatment of Incurable Disease: Case study 

1. Skin disease (30 yr, female)

Atopic dermatitis was developed before 13 years and became inducing serious pruritis that could not take cloths or go outside before 3 years. Insomnia due to serious pruritis. She was suffering from the discharge running all over the body, so she had to peel off keratinized cuticles continuously. Not respond to the dermatology clinic. She complaints attempting suicide for long pain. For 1 month taking of oriental medicinal herbs, discharge and pruritis become disappeared, and she sleeps well at night and can perform normal daily activities.

2. Cerebral infarction (43 yr, female)

Left upper and lower paralysis due to cerebral infarction were treated for 80 days in other general hospital, and then visited to NIH. Performed combination therapy with acupuncture, moxibustion, oriental medicinal herb and rehabilitation therapy. 2 month later from starting of inpatient treatment, she could stand and walk holding safety side rail of the wall.

After 3 months, she could move around alone with support and arm, leg, dysarthria were improved.

3. Systemic skin purpura (45 yr, male)

Symptoms including edema, keratinization, pruritis, jaundice, hepatitis were treated inpatient in other general hospital for 15 days but got worse, and then visited NIH. Stop taking all of western medicine and start acupuncture and prescription of oriental medicinal herbs. At 7 days, edema was disappeared and reduced 12 kg of weight that could be considered as improvement of conditions. Also, keratinized cuticles were almost disappeared and albumin level returned back normal value.

4. Hyun-Min (5 yr, male)

He was premature infant and was suffered from the consistent pain and crying due to convulsive epilepsy and could not support head position.

Weight was 6.5 kg at that time, considering absolute diet and sleep deprivation. After 50 days therapy with acupuncture, moxibustion, oriental medicinal herb, epilepsy symptoms were significantly decreased that improved night sleep condition, reduced crying and made easier to ejaculate sputum or cough. Weight gain due to increased diet size.

After 2 months treatment, diet size and sleep time returned back to normal conditions. Epileptic convulsion was disappeared and weight gained to 10 kg.