咽喉頭異常感症に対する「半夏厚朴湯」の臨床効果

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Laryngopharyngeal abnormal sensation cannot be diagnosed accurately by western medical approaches, and it is often difficult to treat. Twenty six patients were given “Hange-koboku-to (半夏厚朴湯・Ban Xia Hou Pu Tang)” a Chinese medicine. Improvement was reported by 73%, marked improvement by 46%, characteristically, the clinical effect developed gradually and persisted even after treatment was stopped. These results are superior to those obtained by conventional tranquilizers and the like, suggestingthat“Hange-koboku-to”, which is a Chinese medicine for“Tan Yu(痰鬱・retention of sputum)” a Chinese pathological entity equivalent to laryngopharyngeal abnormal sensation, is a more rational medicine for this sensation.
If the time from the onset of symptoms to the first medical examination was short, there was a significantly higher rate of over.
All of the patients over 60 years of age showed improvement, but the members were too low to be statistically significant. Probably because of the description of its effectiveness in the “Jin Kui Yao Lue(金匿要略)” “Hange-koboku-to” seems to have been used mainly by women, but it is also effective in men.
Our present clinical experience was performed according to the pathological entity of laryngopharyngeal abnormal sensation and not based upon “Sho” in the strict sense essential to Chinese medicine. However, there was an obvious clinical effect without any untoward side effects.