Developments in synthasizing traditional and modern medicine

[Guest guest]

The Chinese and Japanese have done important work in synthasizing

modern and traditional medical concepts. Many medicines as an example

have been devloped in China and Japan that use modern concepts of

diabetes for resolving type 2 diabetes. One example is Dr. Xianen

Wang's formula Ketsumeisei (Juemingjing) which has many studies behind

it to demonstrate it's effecacy - there are actually several of these

'new' medicines. These medicines use traditional herbs in completely

new ways. As a student Dr Wang wrote his thesis - Treatment of

Emergencies such as Diffuse Intravascular Coagulation with Traditional

- Dr. Wang is Chairman of the American Institute of

Eastern Medicine.

 

 

As far as emergency medicine is concerned many famous techniques have

been used for hundreds of years to manage emergency situations. The

Chinese and Japanese have developed new techniques and medicines for

handling emergency cases. One new concept used in China and Japan is

the use of injections of systemic enzymes and herbal extracts to

resolve the clots in infarctions. I beleive these medicines are much

more effective than current medicines and with many fewer sideeffects

- in the future these medicines will become the standard for managing

these cases - that is after the political and financial conflicts are

resolved - even in China and Japan there are turf conflicts in the

development of medicines. This work is going on at full steam in Japan

and China. In China there is an institute that has done much of this

work in regards to heart disease - treatment of chronic cases as well

as emergency management - National Integrative Medicine Centre for

Cardiovascular Diseases, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing.

China and Japan are far ahead in this work compared to the Indians and

Americans. Much of this is also going on in Europe - especially Germany.

 

No matter how many traditional practitoners criticize modern medicine

or modern practitoneers and researchers criticize traditional medicine

the fact remains that the medicine of the future will be a synthasis

of what is valid in tradition and the new understandings arising. The

clock can not be turned back. I have many associations in the Kampo

community in Japan and there is no question that the new developments

in Kampo are creating a much more effective system than has existed

before. Many of the modern Kampo clinicians have medicines and

techniques that are far far ahead of what the traditional practioners

had - plus in Japan all of these medicines and techniques have been

very strictly studied by the Japanese government as it is illegal in

Japan to prescribe any medicine which has not been demonstrated to be

safe and effective. The Japanese system of medicine in general is far

ahead of any other country and is a model of how the modern and

traditional systems can be integrated with full cooperation of the

pharmacutical industry and health care institutuions like hospitals.

Many of my good friends in Kampo practice in mainstream hospitals -

something that would never be allowed in most countries. The part I

like the most about these new developments is the research that is

being done which clearly demonstrates to the modern researchers the

validity of traditional medical theory. It will take sometime for this

enlightened cooperation to spread to USA since there are powerful

interests that are fighting it but the march of progress will not be

stopped. The development of alternative medical associations with

their thousands of clinician members demonstrates the trend toward a

new synthasis in medicine - this will only grow and further develop -

we are only in the early stages of this synthasis but the directions

can be seen and it is very encouraging.

 

Dr. Vinod Kumar