<b>NAKAGAMI Kinkei's (中神琴渓) Remedy and His Philosophy of Medicine</b> / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

NAKAGAMI Kinkei 中神琴渓 is one of the greatest practitioners in the Edo 江戸 era Japan. His remedy and his philosophy of medicine on which his remedy is based is a treasured part in the history of Japanese Kampo 漢方 medicine. However I can hardly find any researches on this point.<br>Then in this paper, I enrolled these Kinkei's works <i>Seiseidozakki</i>, <i>Seiseidoyoseiron</i>, etc., and took an overview on them philologically first to clarify his remedy practically, then I considered his philosophy of medicine.<br>After that, I can show that Kinkei's remedies were delivered in various fields(1)acupuncture (hemospasia/phlebotomy), (2)bathing, (3)moxibustion/moxa cautery, (4)galenical/medication. Kinkei, taking over his mentors' ideas and remedies, but established his own modality of remedy based on his innovative philosophy of medicine, which actually is derived from his accurate and unrestricted diagnoses.<br>As we have come this far, we can assert that Kinkei's remedy is always unrestricted assortments of various methods. That is what he described “unfettered remedy” and he described that he “unfetters himself away from the fixed rule”<規則を離れる>.