冥想在临床医学中的应用进展

Meditation is a broad variety of mind-training practices that has benefits to people's psychological and physiological status. Recently, it has been widely applied in psychology and clinical medicine as a main type of complementary and alternative therapy. Meditation are effective to the prevention and prognosis of chronic diseases such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, chronic pain, postoperative depression, etc. It is also proved that meditation has a good therapeutic effect to Alzheimer's symptoms, epilepsy, anxiety, depression and other neurological and psychiatric disorders. Meditation helps to improve the function of immune system, increase telomerase activity and also have a positive impact on brain plasticity. This article reviews the application progress of meditation in clinical medicine fields.?????