Generally speaking, there are two types of medicine in Japan, though they were categorized into various groups by lots of viewpoints, in short western medicines and oriental medicines. I didn't learn any remedies by oriental medicines in my college days, because they were not acknowledged to be sufficiently effective. Only a few physicians used to believe in the effectiveness of them at that time.
Originally, these medicines were developed in ancient China. Numerous plants, trees, stones, soils and animals were used as medicines, and those materials had been mixed or thrown away for a few thousands years. They were imported into Japan long ago and were developed individually by the efforts of Japanese researchers.
You might be wondering why they hadn't been used in modern medicine. It's because they haven't any scientific evidence. They had been created through a trial and error process. I imagine that a huge number of people would have been killed in this process. In western countries, evidence is the key to medicine, and so this type of medicine hadn't been used. However, a famous medical journal, "Surgery", adopted a research paper about one of the Japanese herbal medicines several months ago and it was epoch-making.
Boohuutuusyoosan in the title of this entry is well known and one of this kind. It is said to be able to remove excessive adipose tissue. I started a human experiment on me. Japanese herbal medicine is really mysterious.
(Vocabulary)
through a trial and error process 試行錯誤して
(KW: 防風通聖散)
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