The action research for innovation of the analysis strategy of medicinal inheritances: clinical practice of Koan Ogata

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K19150
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical sociology
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: TAKAURA Kayoko 大阪大学, 総合学術博物館, 特任助教(常勤) (10747653)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 薬史学 / 生薬標本 / 文化財科学 / 統計解析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Koan Ogata was the physician who contributed to the treatment of infectious diseases at the end of the Edo period. We investigated his documents and inheritances from interdisciplinary view points and considered his medicinal strategies. We used historical crude drug samples stored in Osaka University for comparative analysis of ones left in Koan Ogata’s medicine chest. We also comprehensively investigated medical literature mainly written in Edo period and identified some of the contents of his medicine chest. What is more, we suggested that Koan applied both Western medicine which was the latest knowledge at that time and traditional Kampo medicine to provide the best treatment by statistical analysis of data collected in this project. We inspected the future preservation plan through the inspection of current insect damage and aged deterioration of Koan Ogata’s medicine chest and other medical inheritances.

Free Research Field

伝統医薬学