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What Makes Japanese Kampo Different: A Clinical System That Treats Illness by Location, Not Labels (English Edition)

(著) 菅原健

作品詳細

[About the Book]

Why does the body continue to suffer even when medical tests show no abnormalities?

Why do people fail to feel truly healed, even after changing medications or receiving a diagnosis?

This book proposes a fundamental shift in medical thinking: instead of focusing on the name of a disease, it asks us to examine where the illness resides within the body.



Drawing on more than twenty years of clinical experience in Japanese Kampo medicine, the author—a physician who has treated conditions ranging from acute and chronic illnesses to intractable diseases and psychiatric disorders—introduces the principles of Japanese Kampo, a medical system uniquely developed in Japan.

Japanese Kampo is presented here not as abstract traditional wisdom, but as a practical form of clinical medicine: one that identifies where illness exists in the body, how it moves and changes, and how treatment can be guided through a coherent medical framework.

The book clearly explains the characteristics and history of Japanese Kampo, along with real clinical cases and treatment approaches.



At the same time, this is not a book that unconditionally praises Kampo medicine. The author also calmly acknowledges that there are situations in which Western medicine is more appropriate.



Precisely because of this balanced perspective, the book quietly resonates with readers who have begun to sense the limitations of modern Western medicine.

“Why was I not able to heal?”

“From where should treatment truly have begun?”

The journey toward those answers begins here.



[Author Biography]

Takeshi Sugawara

Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Yamanashi Medical University in 1997, after which he entered the university’s Department of Anesthesiology. He worked at various hospitals, including Yamanashi University Hospital, Yamanashi Prefectural Central Hospital, and Ome Municipal General Hospital, and for approximately eight years before opening his own clinic, he served as the Kampo outpatient physician at the university hospital, engaging in Kampo-based medical treatment. In 2011, he opened Ken’yudo Clinic, offering Kampo and anesthesiology-based treatment. At the same time, he became a part-time lecturer at the Yamanashi University Faculty of Medicine, where he continues to teach Kampo medicine. Recipient of the 2019 Japan Society for Oriental Medicine Encouragement Award. Since 2022, he has also served as a Specially Appointed Professor at Health Science University. His publications include the Kampo specialty books “Arimoti Keiri Hoyogei Kaisetsu” and “Kōsei Hoyogei Kaisetsu Kōgi (Section on woman and of pediatrics)”. The Kōsei Hōyogei Kaisetsu Kōgi series is currently serialized in “Monthly Kampo Therapy”.