Table 1 Need for Kampo medicine in modern medical treatment

1.

There is now a major shift from HRT to various alternative medicine systems, such as Kampo, in the treatment of postmenopausal symptoms in the United States and elsewhere.

2.

Many aspects of daily life have undergone modernization over the past century, and today, individuals are exposed to significant mental and physical stress. Therefore, there is an increased risk of developing mental and physical dysfunctions.

3.

Modern medicine has been divided into various small fields based on the organ targeted by the medicine and usually assesses the morphological and quantitative abnormalities observed in the human body according to the criteria based on mean values.

4.

There is a large gap between academic medicine, which is based on the features and fundamental characteristics of diseases, and the medical care that patients actually wish to receive.

5.

When patients present diseases or symptoms that cannot be explained by modern Western medicine, doctors advise them that the illness is all in their mind, and they have the ability to endure it. Therefore, these patients remain untreated and concerned about the illness.