Publications by authors named "Shuji Yakubo"
Article Synopsis
- Kampo medicine uses a diagnostic method called Fukushin, where doctors apply pressure to the abdomen to assess a patient's health and recommend herbal treatments.
- A team has developed a Fukushin simulator to teach students and practitioners about different abdominal patterns, and this study builds on that by creating 13 new models that correspond with common Kampo herbal formulas.
- The new standardized models are expected to enhance the training and accuracy of abdominal diagnosis and prescriptions in Kampo medicine, benefiting both education and practice.
Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) are known to repair vascular injuries. Recent studies suggest that Saiko-ka-ryukotsu-borei-To (SKRBT), a traditional herbal medicine that has been used to treat stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders, has protective effects on cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and arteriosclerosis. Spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) were fed diets containing lyophilized SKRBT extract for 6 weeks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of sairei-to and its individual constituents on cardiac allograft survival.
J Heart Lung Transplant
July 2010
Sairei-to (TJ114), a 12-component Japanese herbal medicine, is used to treat immune-related diseases. We investigated the effects of oral administration of TJ114 in a murine model of cardiac transplantation with fully mismatched allografts. Untreated CBA mice rejected C57BL/6 hearts acutely (median survival time [MST], 7 days), whereas survival of allografts from mice given TJ114 was significantly prolonged (MST >100 days).
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