ABSTRACT
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!
ABSTRACT
The historical circumstances about the application of the Japanese Kampo-medicine on the point of clinical view are the following that the original directions of the Chinese medical classics have been strictly adhered in China while the directions of those have been remarkably developed in Japan after the import. Now the Japanese Kampo-medecine are based upon these recent developments as well as the current pharmacological studies. Several clinical casereports are demonstrated who are treated with Daisaiko-to, Hachimijio-gan, and Hochuekki-to.<br>Finally the noteworthy opinions by Sensai Nagayo who laid the foundation of the medical system in modern Japan are quoted from his autobiography. Namely the really valuable new medicine should be established with the combination of both the western medicine and the Kampo-medicine.
