Kenji Watanabe Lab

Kampo Industrialization Project

Person in Charge of the Project : Sumika SennoIn this project, we continue to study daily in order to improve issues such as medical expenses increase and farm abandonment increase, which are regarded as problems in Japan which is entering a super aging society, through the sixth industrialization of Oriental medicine. "ME-BYO" is the concept of the traditional Japanese medicine "Kampo", this is aimed at bringing the whole mind and body to a healthier state, including physical disorder that cannot be discerned by Western medicine, so that the health life expectancy Extension is expected, and attention from the world is also being done. Currently, we cooperate with various organizations to produce herbal medicine which is a raw material of herbal medicine domestically, commercialize it, and sell it.

Medicinal food Project

Person in Charge of the Project : Kana InamuraI make the dishes prepared with medicinal herbs drink which targeted a member of society in cooperation with the cause of the concept of the healthy management, a company and perform health care while aiming at the spread of drinks. The prevention of the suspension of business of the employee, long-term merits include that the medical expenses burdens on company and country decrease as a short-term merit by doing the healthy increase of the employee. I decided quantity of combination of the extract in thinking about the design of the package and through sampling society and made a product by repeating the meeting with the member, and giving ideas. I will research in having PR activity and increase or not of the health conscious in future.

BEAUTY & HEALTH DIARY Project

Person in Charge of the Project : Sayuka KanekoBEAUTY & HEALTH DIARY project encourages the women of our generation to measure their Basal Body temperatures. We started this project last year and our research team has found close relationship between health literacies and Basal body temperature. We had presented these results to the Japan Society for Menopause and Women's Health. We are also collaborating with private companies and local governments to develop other similar programs.

http://www.bhdiary.com

Yugawara Project

Person in Charge of the Project : Moe TakedaThis is the project we undertake with Yoshinori Isagai Lab. in SFC and Sakakura seminar in Tokyo City University about Yugawara, hot spring in Kanagawa. We research on relationship of ME-BYO to multi-generation exchanges and collect the data on Dementia improvement through the paintings on folding screens for Yugawara 50 years ago. At the moment, we conduct "IBASYO", an empty house renovated by local children and design the multi-generational community by participating in local event. Going forward, we search the other activation method of a painting and consider clues from multi-generational exchanges to ME-BYO.

Health Education Project

Person in Charge of the Project : Kaho NonomuraKanagawa Prefecture efforts to "Cure of Me-byo". This is the task on living in life-time, and we believe that it is important to think about health from the school age. In "Health education PJ", we taught a class on "the importance of chewing" for fifth graders of Azumadaifukuura Elementary School in Yugawara Town (20 students). After that, 20 students taught kindergarteners and their parents about what they learned. We used chewing gums (chewing power), Kamikami sensors (number of chews); questionnaires for check the changes of children.