Family medicine - family medicine

...Medicine based on traditional knowledge and practiced by ordinary people without medical qualifications. Many of these are generally performed at home, such as eggnog for colds and wart removal, and are also called amateur therapies or home medical care, but in a broader sense, they also include therapies using magnets or electronic devices, special dietary therapies such as fasting, and combinations of these. In Japan, Western medicine became mainstream after the Meiji period, and Kampo medicine was excluded from medical administration and medical education as a medical quasi-medical practice. As a result, it was only practiced on a small scale by private citizens, and Kampo medical treatments such as acupuncture and moxibustion and massage were considered folk remedies. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "family medicine" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…医師の資格をもたない一般人が，もっぱら伝統的な知識にもとづいて行う治療。風邪のときの卵酒，いぼとりなど，一般に家庭内で行われるものが多く，これらは素人療法，家庭医療などともいわれるが，広義には磁気や電子機器を用いた療法，断食療法など特殊な食事療法，またこれらを組み合わせたものなどをも含めたものをいう。また，日本では明治以後，西洋医学が主流となり，漢方医学は医療類似行為として，医療行政や医学教育から排除され，その結果，民間で細々と実施されるにすぎなくなったことから，鍼灸（しんきゆう）やあんま(按摩)など漢方医学的治療も民間療法とされてきた。…

※「家庭医療」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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