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Hydrotherapy can Modulate Peripheral Leukocytes: An Approach to Alternative Medicine

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Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 546))

Abstract

Along with treating illness, one of the purposes of alternative medicine is to promote the quality of life (QOL) of healthy people. In Japan, centuries of tradition have shown that alternative therapies like hot spring hydrotherapy, acupuncture, and herbal medicine enhance the QOL of empirically healthy individuals. Evidence has been accumulating that this may be the result of immune system regulation. The scientific basis, however, has not yet been established.

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  1. Department of Serology, Kanazawa Meidical University, Daigaku 1-1, Uchinada, Kahoku-gun Ishikawa, 920-0293, Japan

    N. Yamaguchi, S. Shimizu & H. Izumi

  2. Ishikawa Natural Medicinal Products Research Center, Fukubatake, Kanazawa, 920-0167, Japan

    N. Yamaguchi, S. Shimizu & H. Izumi

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  1. University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Edwin L. Cooper

  2. Kanazawa Medical University, Uchinada, Ishikawa, Japan

    Nobuo Yamaguchi

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Yamaguchi, N., Shimizu, S., Izumi, H. (2004). Hydrotherapy can Modulate Peripheral Leukocytes: An Approach to Alternative Medicine. In: Cooper, E.L., Yamaguchi, N. (eds) Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Biomedicine. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 546. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4820-8_18

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