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Japanese Oriental (Kampo) Medicine Lab
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The lab combines Eastern and Western medicine to build a new approach to treatment.
AboutAbout the lab
Seeing both the forest and the trees to build better medicine.
Japanese Oriental (Kampo) Medicine is a clinical discipline that compensates for the weaknesses of Eastern and Western medicine and makes use of the strengths of each to provide better care.
It was proposed by the first professor, Prof. Terasawa, and the lab's roots go back to a prewar student club, the Oriental Medicine Study Group.
The lab holds that Western medicine excels at seeing the trees (the disease) while Kampo medicine excels at seeing the forest (the patient), and it aims to achieve both.
The work is carried out jointly by the Japanese Oriental (Kampo) Medicine Lab in the Graduate School of Medicine (clinical research division) and the Department of Japanese Oriental (Kampo) Medicine at the University Hospital (clinical practice division).
Key terms
- Kampo formula
- A prescription in Kampo medicine that uses multiple crude drugs in a set combination
- Crude drug
- A plant, mineral, or other natural material used as medicine either as is or after simple processing
- Qi, blood, and fluid (ki-ketsu-sui)
- Three distinctive perspectives used in Kampo medicine to understand the state of the body
ResearchResearch themes
The lab brings together the wisdom of East and West to realize personalized medicine for a new era. It re-tests in clinical practice the knowledge gained from classics such as the Shanghan Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) and the Jingui Yaolue (Essentials from the Golden Cabinet), and works with experts in basic research to unravel the mysteries of Kampo.
*Illustrative imagePathophysiological Analysis in Kampo Medicine
Kampo medicine has its own ways of understanding disease states, such as yin-yang, excess and deficiency, qi-blood-fluid, and the five viscera. The lab seeks to clarify scientifically what these concepts mean.
*Illustrative imagePharmacological Research on Kampo Formulas
Kampo formulas are made by combining multiple crude drugs, and a single crude drug contains a variety of chemical constituents. The lab studies crude drug constituents jointly with other labs, with the goal of clarifying the pharmacological effects of Kampo-derived components.
*Illustrative imageClinical Research on Kampo Formulas
The lab puts great effort into writing up cases in which Kampo treatment worked, one case at a time, as papers. It also conducts case-series studies and randomized trials using placebos, and collects and publishes evidence-based medicine (EBM) information on Kampo formulas in Japan.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Japanese Oriental (Kampo) Medicine Lab are faculty, hospital physicians, and acupuncture and moxibustion practitioners.
- Project ProfessorTakao Namiki
- Associate ProfessorYoshiro Hirasaki
- Project Assistant ProfessorEriko Saito
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Chinese Medicine” Dr. Bret Mosher / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Pathophysiological Analysis in Kampo Medicine: “Ming Chinese wheel diagram of the channels Wellcome L0039537” Zhang Shixian (Ming period, ) / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Pharmacological Research on Kampo Formulas: “Equipment and glassware” Belikov Maxim / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Clinical Research on Kampo Formulas: “Pulse evaluation” Thamizhpparithi Maari / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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