Stress medicine reveals the functions of nervous, endocrine and immune system in maintaining health and the occurrence and development of diseases, which expands people’s understanding of human etiology from microorganism to the background of living environment and universe, from material to spiritual thinking and cognition.

Stress medicine is a medical system of social-psychological-biomedical model, which enables people to have a broader understanding of the causes of diseases in the body. Not only tangible substances can cause diseases in the body, but intangible mental cognition and emotional changes can also cause diseases and even death. Stress response is a protective mechanism for the body to regulate the functional state. The occurrence and development of any disease are accompanied by the process of stress response, and the stress response even determines the outcome of the disease in some cases.