The researchers-emphasizing that most of the adoptees in the study were psychologically healthy and faring well-the said that as a group those adolescents faced a greater risk for two psychiatric conditions: attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.
About 7 in 100 adolescents who were not adopted met the criteria for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, about half the rate for adopted adolescents, said lead author Margaret Keyes of the University of Minnesota.
Insufficiency of qi and blood
Vertigo, aggravation in movement, recurrence with overstrain, spiritual lassitude, pale complexion, palpita-tion, insomnia, light-colored tongue and thin pulse.
2. Hyperactivity of liver yang
Vertigo due to emotional changes, frequent nausea, flushed cheeks, bitter taste in the mouth, dry throat, fullness in the chest and hypochondria, aching and weak-ness of the loins and knee, reddish tongue with scanty fur, taut, thin and rapid pulse.
3. Consumption of kidney essence
Frequent vertigo, aggravation in the night, spiritual lassitude, amnesia, aching and weakness of the loins and knees, tinnitus, deafness, hypoacusis, dreaminess and seminal emission, tidal fever and night sweating, reddish tongue with scanty fur and thin and rapid pulse.
