TCM and Kampo medicine are treatment systems that have their own theories and their own medicines which consist of natural remedies. Interestingly, diseases specified as “incurable” by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, often respond to TCM treatment quite successfully. I have been engaged in TCM treatment for more than 35 years, and I have used Kampo medicines or herbs selected based on TCM principles in patients who do not respond to conventional therapies including those who suffer terrible side effects with conventional medicines or cannot take them, for other reasons. Many Japanese doctors use Kampo medicines, because of the existence of patients who are not successfully cured after trying all possible conventional therapies In Japan, more than 90% of medical practitioners treat patients with Kampo medicine (herbal medicine based on Japanese Kampo theory) or traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that do not respond to conventional treatments.įurthermore, about 80% of universities with medical departments have sections that deal specifically with Kampo medicine. There exist diseases that cannot be cured by conventional therapies.

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