“Amaki Hamasaki clearly wins this round. His answer was accurate, and it is the same as the model answer.” A judge who came from Iwata Chinese Research Facility spoke out for Amaki Hamasaki before he continued, “The patient has early-stage Addison’s disease and using medicines like Kidney Qi Powder and Eucommia & Rehmannia Formula is the right method.”

Addison’s disease was also known as Adrenal Insufficiency. With symptoms such as extreme fatigue, weight loss, hyperpigmentation, and low blood pressure. Aside from western medicine’s etiology treatment, there weren’t other better alternatives.

Due to the fact that it’s in an early stage, it’s difficult to detect. Even doctors would have great difficulty in identifying it, thus increasing the difficulty in combating the disease.

The first treatment of Addison’s disease with Chinese medicine was recorded in the 1950s, using licorice root immersed in ointment or licorice root ground into powder.

In reality, Addison's disease was long recorded in TCM. In the Synopsis of Golden Chamber's Prescription, it was known as a black knot with symptoms of the forehead...