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At the symposium, "The Power of Moxibustion", four panelists discussed the mechanism, clinical effectiveness, and current conception of moxibustion in Japan with an aim to explore the potential role of moxibustion in the future. <BR>Mika Ohta noted that a bioinformatics approach could select basic research for the effectiveness of moxibustion. She also reported an example result of bioinformatic analysis focusing on the "heat"which can be produced by moxibustion and it can predict the mechanism of moxibustion. <BR>Keiko Tsujiuchi, an acupuncture and moxibustion practitioner, has been promoting moxibustion since 1980s.She has engaged in clinical research on obstetrics and reported a variety of favorable outcomes from using moxibustion in that field. <BR>Motoko Otsuka presented Ehime's cultural inheritance of moxibustion as a "healing tradition."She reported cases in which the patients received important interventions from moxibustion for their life, measured by chronological analysis, by introducing clinical practice including acupuncture and moxibustion treatment in the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Care Unit, East Asian Traditional Medicine, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, and instruction in self-moxibustion at the Perinatal Medical Center for mother and child health. <BR>Sachiko Y. Itaya, from the United States, reported activities and results of Moxafrica, which is using direct Moxibustion as an adjunctive treatment for tuberculosis in South Africa and Uganda. She emphasized that the role of moxibustion could be expanded much further as shown by the achievements of Moxafrica.
ABSTRACT
We created a new medical interview form which is called chronological analysis for East Asian Traditional Medicine (EATM). <BR>I would like to focus on our medical interview in EATM. Our patient comes to see a doctor with his or her life and medical histories. <BR>When we interview and write them on CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS CHART, we can give them into several groups. Each group is characterized as a chronic health problem (CHP) and named by the traditional major pattern diagnosis and the symptom-to-medicine pattern diagnosis. The former base on TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and the latter Japanese Kampo Medicine. <BR>On this chart the patient's life events are written in the left side and his or her active symptoms are written in right side. We write them to make in the same longitudinal time line. Comparison with light life events and right illnesses makes us understand the structure consisting of several groups. We already saw more than three hundred thousand patients in 30 years. A 52 year-old women came to see us. We interviewed by our chronological analysis. Her history consist of several groups:The 1 st group is Detoxication pattern, the 2 nd is heat in intestine blood, the 3rd is congestion in blood, and the 4 th is Liver "CHI"congestive dysfunction and finally we diagnosed as Toukakujyoukitou decoction for climacteric dysfunction. <BR>The most significance is we could guess that she had a stressful time in the blue colored part. <BR>After observing each patient's chronic health problems, we relate them chronologically to their life events and develop a graphic structure for each patient comprehensively. To see a patient from this kind of this view, we call emphasize them in both modern and traditional medicine. We show a new interview way using chronological chart to understand patients more deeply. <BR>Amid the growing medical needs of an aging society this chronological analysis is significant to understand our patients comprehensively. <BR>Through these medical approach we understand patients and give them traditional healing of mind and body.
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Our institute was established in 1979 with the mission given by the Ehime prefectural government and Medical Association to supply traditional medical care under the leadership of MDs. We developed The concept of chronological analysis for researching individual health needs and also instituted associated systems such as chronological analysis care system and chronological audit system. Through these systems, our staff of therapists developed a common integrated cognitive perspective and we established the identity of our traditional medical care as a system in which supervising physicians offer leadership of a team care system of traditional medicine. In this way we have fulfilled the heavy mission given to us by the government and medical association.<BR>We were also given a heavy mission to research about the individuation of each traditional medical technique, by seniors such as Takeshi Itakura. For this purpose we adopted the chronological analysis care system as the field scientific method of case study. These systems have been useful to improve the care level of the staff and also useful for training program for post graduate medical and traditional medical students.