Clinical Experience with Kanpo (Chinese Herbal Remedies) of Oral Psychosomatic Disorders

Abstract

Oral Psychosomatic disorders are in a tendency to increase by the overflow of stressors and the complexity of contemporary society, and it is not seldom to find cases difficult both to diagnose and to treat.
Realizing the need of an approach based on psychosomatic medicine for such disorders, we have been practising brief psychotherapy, autogenic training, as well as medication for more than a decade.
Here we report on administration of KakkontO, Hange KObokutO, and Kami Shoyosan as positive results were obtained for 22 halitosis patients.
3 out of 4 patients with detectable halitosis showed an symptom improvement, out of whom 2 were treated with Chinese herbal remedies alone.
10 out of 18 halitosis patients with psychogenic factors, that is, not objectively detectable, showed decreased in symptom, 3 treated with Chinese herbal remedies alone.