Exodus of Kampo, traditional Japanese medicine, from the complementary and alternative medicines: Is it time yet?

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 837-840

  Kono, Toru ^a   Kanematsu, Takashi ^b   Kitajima, Masaki ^c,d  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

6 SHOGOAL; ADRENOMEDULLIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE RECEPTOR; CALCITONIN RECEPTOR LIKE RECEPTOR; DAIKENCHUTO; GASTROINTESTINAL AGENT; GINGER EXTRACT; GINSENG EXTRACT; GINSENOSIDE RB 1; HYDROXY ALPHA SANSHOOL; INFLIXIMAB; KAMPO; MALTOSE; PEPPER EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN 1; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN 2; RECEPTOR ACTIVITY MODIFYING PROTEIN 3; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLON MUCOSA; CROHN DISEASE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG SOLUBILITY; HERBAL MEDICINE; HUMAN; ILEUS; INTESTINE BLOOD FLOW; INTESTINE MOTILITY; JAPANESE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; TRADITIONAL MEDICINE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANIMALS; CROHN DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MEDICINE, KAMPO; PLANT EXTRACTS;

EID: 70349769195     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.012     Document Type: Review

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