Treatment Of Blood Stasis Is Guizhi Fuling San
Kampo medicine is widely practiced in Japan, and is fully integrated into the modern health system. Kampo is based on traditional Chinese medicine but adapted to Japanese culture. With slight modifications, has also been adopted in Taiwan and exported from Taiwan to the west
Kampo (also spelled Kanpo, Kampo is more transliteration) literally means the method of Han, referring to the herbal system of China that developed during the Han dynasty Although Kampo includes acupuncture, moxibustion and other components of medical system Chinese, is mainly based on the prescription of herbal formulas. The Kampo of today differs from the practice of Chinese herbal medicine in mainland China mainly because of the reliance on a different collection of formulas based on Herbal important and somewhat different set of primary herbs.
For example, one of the traditional herbal formulas mentioned most frequently in China is Xuefu Zhuyu Tang (Persica and Achyranthes combination), a formula used to treat blood stasis, devised by the medical reform in the early Qingren Wang nineteenth century.
On the contrary, the herbal formula mentioned most frequently in Japan for the treatment of blood stasis is Guizhi Fuling San (Tan and Formula Hoelen), a formulation of the Han dynasty described by Zhang Zhong Jing in the third century. While both formulations from China, Tang Xuefu Zhuyu is new to the relatively large scale in the history of Chinese medicine, and was developed after Japan had ceased to be directly influenced by developments in China.