Lester Ho In Japan

Medicine can be found almost all the shop in Japan. However they have all kinds of medicine you can buy from one shop. Shops that sell medicine are exist in everywhere around Japan and they can be easily spot/find by just walking around the street.

Medicine in Japan are of a high quality though they can be expensive. If possible, I recommend that you bring some medicine that you might need with you if you happen to travel here. One medicine can cost around 800 Yen and above which is quite expensive to get from. The price of the medicine here is quite normal to the japanese people but not for us foreigners.

A Japanese adaptation of Chinese medicine are quite popular here and is used almost everyday in life up until today. However there are several distinctive features in Japanese medical practice. A strong tradition of blind practitioners has resulted in very well-developed palpation techniques of diagnosis and treatment, such as abdominal palpation; shiatsu, which is a specifically Japanese form of acupressure massage, has also developed.

Japan also has a strong herbal tradition, which has close links with Chinese herbal medicine but tends to use smaller amounts of more refined ingredients and also has different formulas of its own. There are also a number of specifically Japanese manipulative and bone-setting therapies. Folk remedies, spa baths, and spiritual medicine in the form of prayers and talismans from shrines and temples are also popular.

The Japanese adaptation of Chinese medicine is known as kanpo, and the main foundations of present practice date back to the 16th and 17th centuries. “Cosmopolitan” medicine now officially dominates in Japan, but kanpo is also popular. This term is now often used to denote herbalism, but the whole range of Chinese medicine is practiced.