A Case of Child Who Improved Difficulty in Walking Due to Lower Limb Pain by Traditional Chinese Medicine (Dankanzen-based Prescription)

Abstract

As for the clinical condition to be called “cold stagnating in the liver vessel” (寒滞肝脈kantaikanmyaku),cold invades a liver-­meridian (肝経絡) and causes pain. We report a case of 7-­year-­old boy that reached the difficulty in walking for agreed pain of lower extremities in a liver-­meridian by cold house environment after the diarrhea. There was no abnormality in a blood test and the MR imaging in Western medicine. The treat­ment principle was to warm the meridian and reduce the pain. We chose the infusion of “dankanzen­-based prescription” (暖肝煎加味方) to warm the meridian and to remove the pain. The symptom improved. And the bathing therapy to warm a body relieved pain too. The case report of children of kantaikanmyaku was not found as far as we examined it. However, we believe that such cases are latent in Japan where air conditioners are widely used.