Evidence based medicine (EBM) has drawn the attention of the medical community around the world and is rapidly becoming the standard in medical research. EBM requires both rigorous clinical trial research design, including adequate randomization and appropriate control, and accurate and thorough reporting of the findings of trials. Despite China's active research program, the majority of tradit...

Malaria, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Urinary Tract Infection, Yellow fever, Hepatitis-B, Leprosy and Chicken Pox are the existing tropical diseases that are considered in this work. In sub-Saharan Africa, the application of fuzzy logic to the diagnosis of these diseases is still very sparse and in some places practically nonexistent. Fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic ar...

The Japanese traditional herbal medicine, Kampo, has gradually reemerged and 148 different formulations (mainly herbal extracts) can be prescribed within the national health insurance system. The objective of this article is to introduce Kampo and to present information from previous clinical studies that tested Kampo formulae. In addition, suggestions on the design of future research will be s...

Medicine, like scientific inquiry, is necessarily dynamic. As our understanding of health and disease continues to grow, medicine as we know it will change. Alternative therapies and perspectives that are coming to light will be illuminated by modern methods of inquiry applied to pre-modern healing systems. At the same time, patient demands and cultural concerns about health and healing influen...

Interest in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is growing worldwide, even in Vietnam where traditional medicine is considered mainstream. We conducted a survey of the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of CAM therapies among physicians in oriental medicine (OM) hospitals in Vietnam. A two-stage random selection process selected 337 physicians who were interviewed using a face-to-face...

BACKGROUND Physicians can play a crucial role in the knowledge that patients have about a disease and its prognosis. Recently, patients with atopic dermatitis (AD) are increasingly turning from western medicine to oriental herbal medicine. However, their awareness of AD and attitude toward Western medicine and oriental herbal medicine clinics are scarcely reported. OBJECTIVE The aim of this s...

OBJECTIVES The holistic use of a system of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is potentially linked to its treatment outcomes. This paper examines how the use of biomedicine is associated with the holistic use of CAM, focusing on traditional East Asian medicine (EM) that is uniquely integrated in the medical system in South Korea. DESIGN/SETTINGS A representative national sample of ...

History of Ayurveda in Japan went back to the 6 centuary, when Buddhism brought Ayurveda as Buddhism medicine to Japan. Since then Japanese people have had learned Indian customs, that may be the reason why there are similar customs with Ayurveda or Yoga, or Japanese language had Sanskrit words such as Danna for a husband or seva for caring. In Edo era, some physician practiced oil massage in s...

The use of herbal medicine has increased substantially in western countries as well as oriental countries for using traditional remedies. Since the kidney plays an important role in the metabolism and excretion of exogenous compound, acute kidney injury is one of the frequent complications due to toxicity of herbal medicine [1,2]. Most herbal therapies were not regulated as medicines, and their...

This study is designed to draw out new integrated subjects of the Korean Oriental Pharmacists' Licensing Examination (KOPLE). In 2004, for the revision of subjects, we have analyzed the curriculums of the Oriental Pharmacy department, the oriental pharmacist's (OP's) job description book, and the elementary items of KOPLE. We also examined the system of the Chinese Herb Pharmacists' Examination...