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Evidence-based Reconstruction of Kampo Medicine: Part-III—How Should Kampo be Evaluated?
Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University Japan
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In the previous two lectures, I tried to explain in detail that the paradigm of Kampo is basically different from that of modern Western medicine, focusing especially on the concept of Sho. Kampo has been developed to cope with Sho, not with the disease entities understood in terms of modern Western medicine. Thus, there is little point asking, for example, ‘Are there any Kampo remedies effective for lung cancer (or type C hepatitis, or essential hypertension)?’
This question, asked wrongly, however, highlights two important issues, one intriguing and long term, and the other important and short term. The former is that the effects of Kampo herbs have so far not been tested properly against any of the specific disease entities defined in the framework of modern Western medicine. The latter is that we urgently need some methods to accommodate evaluation of the clinical effects of Kampo remedies in the framework
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Kampo as a Frontier of Research on Complex Agents (drugs): a Long-term View |
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Evaluation of Kampo Formulae on Disease Entities in the Modern Western Framework: Standard and Novel Clinical Trials |
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Standard Double-blind Randomized Control Trials (RCTs)
A Modified Double-blind RCT Based on Sho
New Trial Designs Being Investigated
For reprints and all correspondence: Professor Katsutoshi Terasawa, Department of Japanese-Oriental (Kampo) Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan. E-mail: terasawa@ms.toyama.ac.jp
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