The Development of Kampo Medicine in Kagoshima University in the Field of Clinical Practice, Research and Education

Abstract

In Kagoshima University Hospital, Kampo Medical Center was established in 2012. There, we try to perform several achievement to improve clinical, research, and educational performance. Kampo Medical Center is consist of the member from several departments, including obstetrics and gynecology department, pain department, dentistry department as well as psychosomatic medicine department. Kampo Medical Center has the function to cooperate each department and cross-sectional work, then act in the field of clinical, research, and education. We induce the simulated training and problem based learning to learn Kampo medicine. In research field, we publish several paper and reported the mechanism and the effect of Rikkunshito in cancer. Herein, we discuss about the works Kampo Medical Center has done for the development of Kampo medicine.