| Theme | Kampo Medicine : New Trends in GI Therapoitics | |
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| Title | Treatment of Abnormal Sensation in the Throat with Oriental Medicine | |
| Publish Date | 1997/07 | |
| Author | Mikikazu Yamagiwa | Matsusaka Chuo Hospital |
| [ Summary ] | In western medicine, patients complaining of abnormal sensations in the throat have been treated mainly with sedatives. Unfortunately, quite a few cases are resistant to this treatment and become intractable. In oriental medicine, such patients have been described in Jin kui yao lue, a medical text compiled in 219, and Hange-koboku-to is listed in this ancient text as a medicine for females with the aforementioned sensation. Without employing the traditional methods of diagnosis described in oriental medical texts, the author has successfully treated male patients with Saiko-ka-ryukotsu-borei-to, female patients with Hange-koboku-to and patients of both sexes with Saiboku-to. The results obtained support the claims, by many modern investigators of oriental medicine, that these compounds can readily cure the condition of abnormal sensations in the throat. |
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