Modern Scientific Acupuncture, as Practiced in Japan

Acupuncture in modern society.

For at least 2,500 years, acupuncture has been an integral part of traditional Chinese medicine. However, recently as more people in western countries are diagnosed with chronic disease poorly treated with modern medical therapies, many are turning to acupuncture and other forms of alternative medical treatments. Based on the theory of harmonious flowing qi being the basis of good health, acupu...

Scientific aspects of acupuncture.

The QSSA in Chemical Kinetics: As Taught and as Practiced

Chemical mechanisms for even simple reaction networks involve many highly reactive and short-lived species (intermediates), present in small concentrations, in addition to the main reactants and products, present in larger concentrations. The chemical mechanism also often contains many rate constants whose values are unknown a priori and must be determined from experimental measurements of the ...

Early Modern Japan

There were two forms of nativism1 during the Tokugawa period. The first was literary in orientation. Literary nativists undertook exhaustive and comprehensive studies of Japan’s classical literature, and both poetry and prose works were central to their scholarship. An array of luminary intellects mostly from the eighteenth century made their mark on this form of nativism, including Keichū (164...

Early Modern Japan

Renewed interest in the collaborative form haikai no renga 誹諧の連歌 was an integral part of the mid-eighteenth century "Back to Bashō" movement, in which Yosa Buson 与謝蕪村 (1716-1783) and his associates condemned the commercialized practices that characterized contemporary haikai and argued for a return to the ideals of Matsuo Bashō 松尾芭蕉 (1644-1694). After the death of Bashō, who had made ga 雅, or e...