**Meet the editor**

Hiroshi Sakagami received his Ph.D. from Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo. He worked for 17 years in the Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Showa University, with a 3 year post-doctoral stay at Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY. Since 1997 he has been working as a professor at the Division of Pharmacology, Meikai

University School of Dentistry, and also as the director of Media Center and chairman of international exchange program. His research interest includes the structure and the biological function of lignin-carbohydrate complex (LCC), the application of LCC-containing plant extract to oral diseases, and the quest for the compounds that specifically kill oral squamous cell carcinoma.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Historical and Cultural Perception 1**

**Kong People 25** Judy Yuen-man Siu

**Section 2 Compositional Analysis 47**

Tsutomu Hatano

**Cosmetics 85**

**Section 3 Therapeutic Potential 103**

Chapter 6 **Energy Medicine 105** Christina L. Ross

**chantrieri Rhizomes 67**

Najaran and Seyed Ahmad Emami

Chapter 2 **The Cultural Perceptions, Folk Taxonomies and the**

Chapter 3 **Herbal Drugs in Traditional Japanese Medicine 49**

Chapter 4 **Phytochemicals of the Chinese Herbal Medicine Tacca**

Chapter 5 **Application of Saponin-Containing Plants in Foods and**

Yukiyoshi Tamura, Masazumi Miyakoshi and Masaji Yamamoto

Akihito Yokosuka and Yoshihiro Mimaki

Chapter 1 **Cancer and Its Treatment in Main Ancient Books of Islamic**

**Iranian Traditional Medicine (7th to 14th Century AD) 3** Amirhossein Sahebkar, Nilufar Tayarani-Najaran, Zahra Tayarani-

**Relationship with Alternative Medicine Practices Among Hong**
