患者のための鍼灸学

• 山本 哲朗

  三重大学大学院医学系研究科システム神経科学講座教授

書誌事項

タイトル別名

• Acupuncture and moxibustion for patients
• Suggestions from the life and accomplishments of Prof. Ishikawa in pursuit of his medical practice ideals
• 石川日出鶴丸が描いた理想の医療と鍼灸

抄録

In this report, I trace the life of Prof. Hidetsurumaru Ishikawa who laid the foundation for the present successful development of acupuncture and moxibustion and pursued medical practice based on scientific evidence.<BR>Prof. Ishikawa was born in Toyama Prefecture. After graduation from Tokyo Imperial University, he moved to Kyoto Imperial University to work in Prof. Amaya’s laboratory.<BR>For 4 years starting from 1908, he studied in Europe, mainly under Prof. M. Verworn at Gottingen University, but also briefly visited Prof. I. Pavlov in Petersburg and Prof. E. Starling and Prof. C. Sherrington in England. He learned much about the newest science at that time, and these experiences served as a backbone for his later scientific research.<BR>After returning to Kyoto Imperial University as a professor of physiology, he developed the physiological sciences in Japan. Along with the progression of modern physiology, he came to recognize the need of a scientific approach to traditional medicine, especially acupuncture, as well as a psycho-physiological approach to analyzing human biological conditions. <BR>In the field of neurophysiology, he is famous for a sensational debate against Prof. Kato, who was one of his favorite disciples, about the conduction of electric impulses in anesthetized nerve cells:decrement or decrementless?<BR>After his retirement from Kyoto Imperial University in 1944, Prof. Ishikawa went to Tsu City as the head of Mie Prefectural Medical College, the predecessor of Mie University Faculty of Medicine and opened the department of acupuncture in the university hospital the following year. During the postwar occupation of Japan, the General Headquarters of the Allied Powers (GHQ) decided to prohibit Japanese traditional medicine, because at that time, the general condition of acupuncture and moxibustion therapy in Japan was far below Western standards.<BR>Learning of the prohibition order, Prof. Ishikawa visited the GHQ over and over again to explain with his own data the scientific basis of acupuncture and to demonstrate the benefits of acupuncture to the GHQ medical officers. Probably due to accumulated strain, in 1949 Prof. Ishikawa had a stroke during a faculty meeting and died about 2 weeks later. Prof. Ishikawa was succeeded by his apprentice, Prof. Kyugo Sasagawa of Kyoto University, who organized the Japan Society of Acupuncture. The first conference was held at Kyoto University in 1953, and the society has been continuously developing to its present successful status.

収録刊行物

• 全日本鍼灸学会雑誌

  全日本鍼灸学会雑誌 62 (3), 194-204, 2012

  公益社団法人 全日本鍼灸学会

キーワード

• 石川日出鶴丸
• 生理学研究
• 減衰・不減衰論争
• 鍼灸医学
• GHQ
• 鍼灸禁止令
• 自律神経研究
• 日本鍼灸学会

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390001204546398336
• NII論文ID: 130004513495
• DOI: 10.3777/jjsam.62.194
• ISSN: 1882661X
• ISSN: 02859955
• 本文言語コード: ja
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