The Power of Moxibustion

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  • KATAI Shuichi
    Tsukuba University of Technology, Faculty of Health Sciences
  • OTA Mika
    Kobe University Hospital, Division of Medical Informatics and Bioinformatics/Kobe Tokiwa University, Life Science Center.
  • TSUJIUCHI Keiko
    Serie Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinic
  • OTSUKA Motoko
    Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, East Asian Traditional Medicine, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Careunit
  • ITAYA Sachiko
    Moxafrica, M-Test USA

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  • お灸のチカラ
  • 第63回(公社)全日本鍼灸学会学術大会 愛媛大会 シンポジウム お灸のチカラ : 基礎から臨床へ、そして世界へ
  • ダイ63カイ(コウシャ)ゼンニホンシンキュウ ガッカイ ガクジュツ タイカイ エヒメ タイカイ シンポジウム オキュウ ノ チカラ : キソ カラ リンショウ エ 、 ソシテ セカイ エ
  • 基礎から臨床へ、そして世界へ
  • the basics, clinical studies, and global disemination

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Abstract

At the symposium, "The Power of Moxibustion", four panelists discussed the mechanism, clinical effectiveness, and current conception of moxibustion in Japan with an aim to explore the potential role of moxibustion in the future. <BR>Mika Ohta noted that a bioinformatics approach could select basic research for the effectiveness of moxibustion. She also reported an example result of bioinformatic analysis focusing on the "heat"which can be produced by moxibustion and it can predict the mechanism of moxibustion. <BR>Keiko Tsujiuchi, an acupuncture and moxibustion practitioner, has been promoting moxibustion since 1980s.She has engaged in clinical research on obstetrics and reported a variety of favorable outcomes from using moxibustion in that field. <BR>Motoko Otsuka presented Ehime's cultural inheritance of moxibustion as a "healing tradition."She reported cases in which the patients received important interventions from moxibustion for their life, measured by chronological analysis, by introducing clinical practice including acupuncture and moxibustion treatment in the Acupuncture and Moxibustion Care Unit, East Asian Traditional Medicine, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, and instruction in self-moxibustion at the Perinatal Medical Center for mother and child health. <BR>Sachiko Y. Itaya, from the United States, reported activities and results of Moxafrica, which is using direct Moxibustion as an adjunctive treatment for tuberculosis in South Africa and Uganda. She emphasized that the role of moxibustion could be expanded much further as shown by the achievements of Moxafrica.

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