Study on the School of Traditional Japanese Medicine in the Dose and the Usage Directions of Medication
10.3937/kampomed.62.382
- VernacularTitle:薬用量および服薬法から見た日本漢方の流派
- Author:
Tatsuhiko SUZUKI
;
Jiro ENDO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
dose;
usage directions for medication;
Todo Yoshimasu;
Dosan Manase;
the Koshogaku school
- From:Kampo Medicine
2011;62(3):382-391
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
The authors studied the doses and usage directions for some of the first Traditional Japanese Medicines (TJM) and reached the following conclusions. Since Dosan Manase, who had strong influence on TJM, adopted a method of selecting drugs one by one and refused to use fixed prescriptions, it has been hard to comprehend how much of any drug he administered. As criterion, he showed a half common system of weights. Ekiken Kaibara defined an extremely small dose as 1 ∼ 2 qian. Todo Yoshimasu set around 3 qian as the quantity for one dose, although he calculated that 1 liang was equivalent to about 2 qian (7.5g). Additionally, the Koshogaku school proposed that 1 liang was equivalent to 1.4g.
