In August 2011, in the section of "Psychology", the magazine published an interview with Professor Xu Mingtang. The material was released under the title "Am I really invent my illness?"
Professor Xu Mingtang clarified some questions related to mental health, from the point of view of Image Medicine. This science finds that the cause of the disease is disharmony between the three factors of human: substance, energy and information.
Heroine of the article –is a woman of 37 years old, named Lily, who had to work very hard, to look after the baby and take care of their parents. She was very tired and so started to worry about her health very often, most of all she feared ill. She thought that if she falls ill, there will be nobody to feed the baby and take care of her parents.
One day, walking down the street, she felt uncomfortable when walking. It seemed to her that she lost  synchronism of movements between the right and left foot, that she was not be able to control her left side of the body  properly, she felt that she was about to fall. Her husband also started to worry about her health. On medical examination at the hospital revealed no pathological changes in the body, all the results were normal, but it is not pleased Lily. She supposed that the doctors perhaps were wrong and failed to make a correct diagnosis. So she decided to be tested in other, more reputable hospital, where she had all kinds of surveys, but there was nothing found. She was very surprised, because she obviously felt unwell.
Husband and her colleagues began to doubt her words, thinking that she's making this up. But she insisted. After all, if the doctors did not find anything, it's nothing to say! Medical science has not yet learned to identify the energy meridians with modern equipment and advanced technologies. Lily wondered why no one believes her, and began to look for confirmation of her words on the Internet.
She found a lot of information regarding her state of health, she learned that her condition may develop stroke, and this made her strongest fear and anxiety. She felt horrified looking at the difficulty walking people on the streets who have had a stroke. Since then she began to consider herself a sick person, which no one believes.
Hypochondriac syndrome  - is not inventing of the disease, but the disease at the informational level. In the case of Lily, modern medicine on the base of examinations, which didn’t find organic changes, considers that she is healthy, despite of her complaints. But from the point of view of Image Medicine, in this respect there is a different view. According to the theory of Image Medicine, disease - is the imbalance between substance, energy and information, so we can emphasize the physical, energy and informational diseases.
The physical illness: for example, broken bones, dislocated joints, and so on.
The energy illness: for example, when the anatomical structure of the organ  is not changed, but its physiological function weakened, it often means that the energy level of this organ decreased.
The informational illness: it is the spiritual disease, mental illness and so on.
Some health problems, accompanied by pain, are also informational diseases. For example, if a person quarreled with someone, he can feel the tightness or pressure in the chest, or be in a depression. If someone hears the bad news, he may feel pain in the heart, if the terrible news - fear.
After the first signs of the illness Lily became all days search information about her state of health in the Internet. But these researches have made her even more disturbing and threatening.
If the informational disease hides in the body for a long time, it can goes to the physical and energetic levels. Our thoughts can be materialized, and as a result we will get what we think, and so we can "invent" our illness.
How to treat hypochondriacal symptoms?One of the important methods is the method of relaxation. There are mild and severe forms of hypochondriac syndrome.
Mild form even useful as a signal about the state of health, so in most cases can not be treated. If you ever suspect that you have hypochondriacal symptoms, you should  relax as much as possible and, for example, listen to music, do exercises, read a book to focus your attention on something else. If you can not relax and calm your mind, you have to apply for help to a psychologist or to Image therapist.
Treatment by methods of Image Medicine based on changes of the pathological image, which is diagnosed with help of "inner vision".
Methods of Image Medicine help enlarge the energy resources of the body, activate the dormant or lazy cells, remove the negative images from the memory, clear informational channels, to take away the excess heat or cold, to achieve mobilization of internal reserves of  organism and activate the body's ability to heal itself. Thus, we can achieve a balance and harmony between substance, energy and spirit, we can improve patency of energy through the meridians, strengthen the function of internal organs and the immune system.
Should try to change the character. Hypochondriac syndrome usually manifests in anxious people who worried about their state of health too much. Modern medicine has confirmed that more than 70% of diseases have the informational nature and are closely united with the people’s character.