2025 Volume 76 Issue 2 Pages 114-119
We herein report a case of a 19-year-old male patient who presented with traumatic alopecia and was successfully treated with Kampo formulation saikoseikanto (Ikkando). This patient was referred to the Kampo outpatient department of Hoshi General Hospital from a neurosurgery hospital located near his workplace. The reason for the consultation was alopecia with subcutaneous hemorrhage that appeared several days after a blow to his parietal region. The patient presented with kyokyokuman on the right side along with chronic pharyngitis. We suspected that the alopecia was caused by folliculitis, so we prescribed saikoseikanto. The results of this medication were dramatic ; his alopecia and pharyngeal inflammation resolved within three months. His depressive mental state and his irritability improved significantly. We recognized that this Kampo formulation controlled both physical and mental disorders.
