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The authors studied the doses and usage directions for some of the first Traditional Japanese Medicines (TJM) and reached the following conclusions. Since Dosan Manase, who had strong influence on TJM, adopted a method of selecting drugs one by one and refused to use fixed prescriptions, it has been hard to comprehend how much of any drug he administered. As criterion, he showed a half common system of weights. Ekiken Kaibara defined an extremely small dose as 1 ∼ 2 <i>qian</i>. Todo Yoshimasu set around 3 <i>qian</i> as the quantity for one dose, although he calculated that 1 <i>liang</i> was equivalent to about 2 <i>qian</i> (7.5g). Additionally, the Koshogaku school proposed that 1 <i>liang</i> was equivalent to 1.4g.
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Twelve of the best-noted doctors, mainly from the Edo Period (the golden age of Kampo in Japan), were selected for a discussion of how they taught their apprentices about attitudes towards patients when examining and treating.This showed that these excellent doctors had, as a matter of course, the knowledge and techniques to cure their patients: what's more, they were sincere as well as understanding of their patients' minds. Learning and practicing Kampo medicine requires us to have a keener sense of observation. By learning Kampo medicine in addition to western medicine, we could even be Hippocrates!
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The form of modern Kampo Medicine is made after the influence of the schools at past time. This medicine was at first imitation of TCM in China and slowly had acquired the own Japanese form. At 16 century, Dosan Manase introduced the system of TCM from Ming-China to Japan successfully and made a great school called Goei-School. Late stage of 17 century, the influence of “Shang han Lun” research boom in China came to Japan and the new school called Koho-school which was based on this Classic has established. Especially Todo Yoshimasu researched the prescriptions in this book and invented new system named “Ho sho so tai”. After then, doctors had to compromise the thinking of both school. The form of eclectic school was so various that the doctors made individual medicines. After the Meiji Restoration, Kampo Medicine was out of political system but soon obtained revival. The several great doctors of Kampo Medicine have written “Practice of Kampo Medicine” at 1941 which made the base of the modern Kampo Medicine. Current Kampo Medicine adopted a lot of modern medical researches and there are new schools which are different from the past time.