Tài liệu ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE - Edited by Hiroshi Sakagami

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
Edited by Hiroshi Sakagami
306 pages

​The content of this book does not cover all areas of alternative medicine, but provides the reader with insights into selected aspects of established and new therapies. The book will be useful to students, clinicians, teachers and researchers who have interest in advances in alternative medicines.

Alternative medicine is recognized as medical products and practices that do not belong to the standard cares taken by medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy and allied health professionals. It has developed into a multitude of medical products and practices that significantly improve the body condition and show disease prevention actions.
The book consists of 12 chapters that are separated into 4 parts: (1) Historical and Cultural Perception, (2) Compositional Analysis, (3) Therapeutic Potential, and (4) Action Mechanism and Future Direction



Contents
Preface VII
Section 1 Historical and Cultural Perception 1
Chapter 1 Cancer and Its Treatment in Main Ancient Books of Islamic
Iranian Traditional Medicine (7th to 14th Century AD) 3
Amirhossein Sahebkar, Nilufar Tayarani-Najaran, Zahra Tayarani-
Najaran and Seyed Ahmad Emami
Chapter 2 The Cultural Perceptions, Folk Taxonomies and the
Relationship with Alternative Medicine Practices Among Hong
Kong People 25
Judy Yuen-man Siu
Section 2 Compositional Analysis 47
Chapter 3 Herbal Drugs in Traditional Japanese Medicine 49
Tsutomu Hatano
Chapter 4 Phytochemicals of the Chinese Herbal Medicine Tacca
chantrieri Rhizomes 67
Akihito Yokosuka and Yoshihiro Mimaki
Chapter 5 Application of Saponin-Containing Plants in Foods and
Cosmetics 85
Yukiyoshi Tamura, Masazumi Miyakoshi and Masaji Yamamoto
Section 3 Therapeutic Potential 103
Chapter 6 Energy Medicine 105
Christina L. Ross
Chapter 7 Propolis: Alternative Medicine for the Treatment of Oral
Microbial Diseases 133
Vagner Rodrigues Santos
Chapter 8 Functional Evaluation of Sasa Makino et Shibata Leaf Extract as
Group III OTC Drug 171
Hiroshi Sakagami, Tomohiko Matsuta, Toshikazu Yasui, Oguchi
Katsuji, Madoka Kitajima, Tomoko Sugiura, Hiroshi Oizumi and
Takaaki Oizumi
Section 4 Action Mechanism and Future Direction 201
Chapter 9 Promotion of Blood Fluidity Using Electroacupuncture
Stimulation 203
Shintaro Ishikawa, Kazuhito Asano and Tadashi Hisamitsu
Chapter 10 Enormous Potential for Development Liriope platyphylla
Wang et Tang as a Therapeutic Drug on the Human
Chronic Disease 221
Dae Youn Hwang
Chapter 11 Investigation on the Mechanism of Qi-Invigoration from a
Perspective of Effects of Sijunzi Decoction on Mitochondrial
Energy Metabolism 247
Xing-Tai Li
Chapter 12 Network Pharmacology and Traditional Chinese
Medicine 277
Qihe Xu, Fan Qu and Olavi Pelkonen


Preface
Alternative medicine is recognized as medical products and practices that do not belong to
the standard cares taken by medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy and allied health professionals.
Alternative medicine includes the mind-body interventions (i.e., meditation, yoga,
acupuncture, deep-breathing exercises, guided imageryAny of various techniques (such as a
series of verbal suggestions) used to guide another person or oneself in imagining sensations—
especially in visualizing an image in the mind—to bring about a desired physical response
(such as stress reduction).hypnotherapy, progressive relaxation, tai chi), the practices
based on putative energy field (also called biofield) (i.e., qi gong, healing touch) and the biologically
based therapies (i.e., herbal medicines, vitamins, minerals other natural products
mostly available as over the counter dietary supplements). Among them, herbs, relaxation
and massage are worldwide popular. The therapeutic potential of acupuncture and herbs
has been documented during the long history of human uses. Herbal medicines are used in
the hospitals of Japan, Korea and China for the treatments of several diseases that are resistant
to or inoperable by chemotherapeutic agents. Increasing amounts of research funds are
poured into the study of alternative medicine. Furthermore, most of the medical universities
in U.S. incorporate the lectures of alternative medicine. Recently developed technologies
spanning through the fields of genomics, proteomics and metabolomics would surely become
potential tools for the elucidation of the action mechanisms of alternative medicine.
However, due to the lack of well-designed clinical trials, the safety and effectiveness of
many alternative therapies are unclear. Accumulation of scientific evidence, based on the
component analysis by three-dimensional high-performance liquid chromatography, pharmacokinetics-
pharmacodynamics analysis and clinical trials are urgent to fill this gap.
The book Alternative Medicine consists of 12 original chapters that are divided into four
parts. Part 1 describes the historical (chapter 1) and cultural perception (chapter 2) of alternative
medicine. Part 2 presents the topics of structure-activity relationship of anti-bacterial
tannins (chapter 3), anti-tumor steroidal glycosides (chapter 4) and anti-yeast saponins
(chapter 5) purified from various plants, using the state-of-the-art analytical technologies.
Part 3 reveals the therapeutic potential of energy (chapter 6), herbal (chapter 7) and overthe-
counter medicines (chapter 8). Part 4 proposes the action mechanism of electroacupuncture
(chapter 9), herbal medicine (chapter 10) and Qi-invigoration (chapter 11), and introduces
new concept of “Network Pharmacology” that is expected to become the powerful tool
for designing drugs and the estimation of therapeutic potential and side effects of alternative
medicine (chapter 12).
All these chapters are written by world experts who are reviewing their original and others’
research. Overall, alternative medicine has developed into a multitude of medical products
and practices that significantly improve the body condition and show disease prevention actions.
The content of the book does not cover all areas of alternative medicine, but provides
the reader with insights into selected aspects of established and new therapies. The book
will, therefore, no doubt be useful to students, clinicians, teachers and researchers who have
interest in advances in alternative medicines.
Hiroshi Sakagami
Division of Pharmacology
Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences
Meikai University School of Dentistry, Japan