Original Article
Clinical characteristics of the patients in whom kamishoyosan is effective
2023 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 1-9
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2023 Volume 8 Issue 1 Pages 1-9
Kamisyoyosan (KSS) is a traditional Japanese Kampo medicine that is Shoyosan (SS), which was listed in the classic Chinese medicine “Wazai pharmacopeia”, plus crude drugs such as Moutan Bark and Gardenia fruit.
It is suitable for women with moderate or poor physical strength who have shoulder stiffness, get tired easily, have psychiatric symptoms such as irritability and anxiety.
Sometimes it is used for cold sensitivity, a weak constitution, irregular menstruation, dysmenorrhea, and menopause in women with constipation. For that reason, it is more likely to be prescribed in obstetrics and gynecology, general medicine department, and psychiatry. But the medicine was effective in all 16 cases even in our neurosurgery department and even 2 cases were men.
We retrospectively examined the successful cases from an oriental medical viewpoint, and we consider what kind of patients can be expected to be effective by KSS. Moreover, we report about the historical background in which the medicine was created, other successful cases of men and serious adverse reaction of IMP (idiopathic mesenteric phlebosclerosis) from long–term use with relevant literature.
