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of a superb and sound treatise on a subject that has waited too long for such a study and which obviously is the product of a number of years of penetrating research. The reviewer congratulates both the author and the publishers for their dedication and efforts. Richard
Evans Schultes
Medicine: Kampo, Past and Present, T. Takemi, M. Hasegawa, A. Kumagai and Y. Otsuka (Eds.), Tsumura Juntendo, Inc., Chuo-ku-Tokyo, 1985, pp. ii -t- 148, tables and illustrations.
Herbal
Here is an unusual herbal of traditional Japanese medicines, many of which are accepted in the modern Japanese pharmacopoeia. The editors all medical doctors - are hopeful that Kampo traditional medicine may achieve greater international recognition. Kampo refers to Japanese herbal medicine in the Chinese tradition. Its characteristics are: its applicability to diseases of the aged, lack of side effects, emphasis on the patient rather than the disease, affinity with the increasing trend towards naturalism in health and technical advances making the preparation of Kampo prescriptions easier. Kampo medicine is ancient, going back 4000 years in China, 1000 years in Japan, but only in recent times has it attracted modern scientific attention. This volume represents the proceedings of the International Kampo Symposium held in Tokyo in 1983 and comprises ten lectures given in three sessions by eleven authors. A general discussion follows each session. There is, in addition, a section entitled General Concept in which there are two chapters: “Traditional Kampo Medicine of Japan” and “An Introduction for Application of Kampo.” At the end of the book one finds the personal histories and photographs of the lecturers. Richard
Evans Schultes
Women’s Medicine - a Cross-cultural Study of Indigneous Fertility Regulation, Lucille F. Newman (Ed.), Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick,
NJ, 1985, pp. x f 216, tables (US$28.00) Experts have collaborated in producing nine chapters devoted, in the main, to a study of aboriginal methods of controlling or believing that fertility is controlled amongst primitive societies in both hemispheres. This publication represents the result of a long-term project and the research of many people. It fills a much-needed niche in our knowledge of ethnogynecological data and will most certainly engender more interest in this field.
of a superb and sound treatise on a subject that has waited too long for such a study and which obviously is the product of a number of years of penetrating research. The reviewer congratulates both the author and the publishers for their dedication and efforts. Richard
Evans Schultes
Medicine: Kampo, Past and Present, T. Takemi, M. Hasegawa, A. Kumagai and Y. Otsuka (Eds.), Tsumura Juntendo, Inc., Chuo-ku-Tokyo, 1985, pp. ii -t- 148, tables and illustrations.
Herbal
Here is an unusual herbal of traditional Japanese medicines, many of which are accepted in the modern Japanese pharmacopoeia. The editors all medical doctors - are hopeful that Kampo traditional medicine may achieve greater international recognition. Kampo refers to Japanese herbal medicine in the Chinese tradition. Its characteristics are: its applicability to diseases of the aged, lack of side effects, emphasis on the patient rather than the disease, affinity with the increasing trend towards naturalism in health and technical advances making the preparation of Kampo prescriptions easier. Kampo medicine is ancient, going back 4000 years in China, 1000 years in Japan, but only in recent times has it attracted modern scientific attention. This volume represents the proceedings of the International Kampo Symposium held in Tokyo in 1983 and comprises ten lectures given in three sessions by eleven authors. A general discussion follows each session. There is, in addition, a section entitled General Concept in which there are two chapters: “Traditional Kampo Medicine of Japan” and “An Introduction for Application of Kampo.” At the end of the book one finds the personal histories and photographs of the lecturers. Richard
Evans Schultes
Women’s Medicine - a Cross-cultural Study of Indigneous Fertility Regulation, Lucille F. Newman (Ed.), Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick,
NJ, 1985, pp. x f 216, tables (US$28.00) Experts have collaborated in producing nine chapters devoted, in the main, to a study of aboriginal methods of controlling or believing that fertility is controlled amongst primitive societies in both hemispheres. This publication represents the result of a long-term project and the research of many people. It fills a much-needed niche in our knowledge of ethnogynecological data and will most certainly engender more interest in this field.