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Volume 5, Issue 2 (Suppl) J Tradi Med Clin Natur
ISSN: JTMCN, an open access journal
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September 14-16, 2016
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6th International Conference and Exhibition on
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Literature documentation about the acupuncture for the intractable disease in Japan
Soichiro Kaneko, Shin Takayama, Takehiro Numata , Natsumi Saito, Yuka Ikeno, Minoru Ohsawa, Akiko Kikuchi, Tetsuharu Kamiya, Hidekazu Watanabe,
Hitoshi Nishikawa, Junichi Tanaka, Hitoshi Kuroda, Michiaki Abe and Tadashi Ishii
Tohoku University Hospital, Japan
Background: In Japan, 130 refractory diseases, such as ulcerative colitis and Parkinson’s disease, are considered intractable. They are
defined as (1) diseases with unidentified or undetermined treatments and (2) chronic diseases that have a large economic and mental
burden. The number of patients with such diseases has increased approximately 3 times in the last 20 years. Although not completely
proven, acupuncture is known to have positive therapeutic effects on intractable diseases. Here, we report the findings of a literature
survey on the use of acupuncture for treating intractable diseases.
Method: We searched the MEDLINE (for English literature) and Ichushi-Web (for Japanese literature) databases until May 2015, for
the keywords ‘acupuncture’ and ‘needle stimulation’ by using the ‘AND’ function to obtain articles on intractable diseases in Japan.
Results: Our search yielded 453 articles on MEDLINE and 482 on Ichushi-Web. Our analysis showed that Parkinson’s disease was
the most frequently studied intractable disease, followed by multiple sclerosis and ulcerative colitis. While 6 meta-analyses and 19
randomized controlled trials were included in MEDLINE, most reports in Ichushi-Web were conference minutes. Moreover, the
number of MEDLINE articles on intractable diseases gradually increased over the years. However, our search yielded only 6 articles
by Japanese authors.
Discussion: Most reports on the use of acupuncture for treating intractable diseases in Japan were case reports and conference
minutes, and there was a dearth of original articles. We think it is necessary to publish original articles to introduce Japanese
acupuncture to the world.
Biography
Soichiro Kaneko acquired license of Acupuncture in Japan and has completed his PhD from Tohoku University. After that, he studied about Acupuncture and Kampo
Medicine in Tohoku University Hospital.
Soichiro Kaneko et al., J Tradi Med Clin Natur 2016, 5:2 (Suppl)