On January 2018, 1, Mie University and Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. signed a joint research to work on regional revitalization in Mie Prefecture by fusing the knowledge of academia and the know-how of pharmaceutical companies and discovering new health materials. bottom.
Mie Prefecture has the lowest degree of obesity in Japan, and has the 8th highest healthy life expectancy in Japan and the 10th highest in men (2015 survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare), making it a healthy and long-lived prefecture.There are about 100 kinds of materials unique to Mie prefecture that have supported the lives of people in Mie prefecture, such as "peony", and it has been said to be good for health since ancient times.
In this joint research, Mie University and Rohto Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. will collaborate to explore the functionality of Mie Prefecture's unique food ingredients.In particular, the "Honzogaku *" created by Honzogaku *, created by Noro Genjo and Shohaku Niwa, who were born in Mie Prefecture in the middle of the Edo period, is adapted to the present age. And research and aim to establish a new health science.
In addition, at the complex facility "Aqua Ignis Taki" in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture, which is scheduled to open in February 2020, this "Honzogaku" will be one of the facility concepts, and we will disseminate learning and provide medicinal herbs and health products. schedule.
* Honzogaku is the study of drugs (animals, plants, minerals) used for disease treatment.Developed in China, books on Honzogaku have been read in Japan since the Nara period, and in the 10th century, a book called "Honzogaku Kazuna" was compiled, which contrasts the Japanese name of Honzogaku with the Chinese name.
Source: [Mie University] Mie University and Rohto Pharmaceutical conclude joint research
