Clinical experience of Kanpo (Chinese herbal remedies) for oral psychosomatic disorders

Abstract

There are recent reports indicating that symptoms which have not responded to European medical treatments have improved with Chinese herbal remedy administration.
The present study is concerned with the usefulness of Kanpo in halitosis with psychogenic factor and glossodynia, both being oral psychosomatic disorders.
The usefulness was evaluated in five grades: 1: Extremely useful; 2: Considerably useful; 3: Fairly useful; 4: Usefulness doubtful; 5: Undesirable.
Accordingly,
(1) The results of Sho-saiko-to for halitosis with psychogenic factor (44 cases) were as follows: 2: 16 cases (36.4%), 3: 19 cases (43.2%), 4: 9 cases (20.4%) .
(2) The results of Sho-saiko-to for glossodynia (11 cases) were as follows: 1: 2 cases (18.2%), 2: 1 case (9.1%), 3: 4 cases (36.4%), 4: 4 cases (36.4%) .
(3) The results of Kami-shoyo-san for glossodynia (26 cases) were as follows: 1: 2 cases (7.7%), 2: 8 cases (30.8%), 3: 4 cases (15.4%), 4: 12 cases (46.1%) .
The above results suggest some usefulness of the two remedies for the respective disorders.
Furthermore, this report mentions our opinions on Kanpo.