Abstract
A traditional Chinese medicine, Hange-koboku-to was administerea to patients wnose sensations of occlusional abnormality were presumably induced by psychosocial factors. The results were as follows:
1. The medicine was effective or very effective in seven out of nine patients suffering from Meiheqior, the sense of dyspnea.
2. Psychological tests detected a tendency toward depression in all subjects.
3. Hange-koboku-to was very effective for treating the sense of occlusional abnormality in two patients and effective in six, while produting no change in one patient.
These findings point to the efficacy of Hangekoubokutou for patients complaining of malocclusion and suffering from the sense of dyspnea and depressive tendencies.
