Kampo is more than a traditional medicine imported  from China. It has fully-integrated with the Japanese health care system and has continually accommodated the needs of the Japanese people.  In Japan the scientific revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries encouraged a flood of Western medicines and  information.  Thus Japanese traditional medicine consistently adapted to the same trends that molded medicine in the West.
      Although Japan has a highly sophisticated pharmaceutical industry, and no economic need for traditional medicines, Kampo's role in Japan has nonetheless increased. Since the development of extract preparations in the 1950s and insurance payments in the 1970s, popular demand has lead Japanese physicians to research effective Kampo treatments for chronic degenerative conditions, as well as the comorbidity that attends an aging population.
     Japanese experience with the integration of traditional medicine can be eminently instructive for the West and conditions associated with the menopause are among those most commonly treated. Kampo's concern with individual variations is especially pertinent because of the variation of symptoms among patients.  Thus, many gynecologists in Japan consider Kampo as either substitute or addition to a conventional treatment. Among the 70% of Japanese gynecologists who utilize Kampo, 90% prescribe it for their climacteric patients. This book was born out of the desire to introduce to the West an effective therapy with few side effects that is suitable for the long term administration often association with menopause-related disorders.
     

Dr. Yoshio Shibata's experience is among the most valuable.  His career as a radiologist and Kampo  practitioner spans four decades and includes service as a founder of the Japanese Society for Oriental medicine.  He is the author of research on the prevention of cancer and prepared the largest compendia of prescriptions to have appeared in the history of Kampo, a concise reference to 1,000 formulas compiled from classical sources. Jean Wu investigated Kampo at the the Harvard School of Public Healthy where she received a S.M. in Health Policy and Management.

Publication Date: February, 1998
Paperback, 266 pages, 7 x 10, $29.95
With illustrations of abdominal diagnoses, differentiation tables, references, Appendices for Cautions List, Directory of US. Distributors, a Glossary of Technical Terms, Bibliography, and Index.
ISBN 0-912111-51-8

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