1998 Volume 49 Issue 3 Pages 441-448
Before the administration of conventional medicines, outpatients with indefinite complaints answered 51 questions (six mental categories) from the Cornell Medical Index (CMI) and 43 questions (seven physical categories) from the Abe questionnaire for vegetative syndrome. The subjects of this study were 18 cases with CMI III-IV scores who were effectively treated with Saiko-ka-ryukotsu-borei-to (n=9; SR group) or Kami-shoyo-san (n=9; KS group). In order to compare the clinical features of both groups, the average complaint rates responding to the mental and physical categories were evaluated in each group.
Psychologically, the average complaint rates related to depression and tension were high in the SR group, and the average complaint rates related to hyper-sensitivity and anger were high in the KS group. Discriminant analysis revealed that three categories —tension, hyper-sensitivity and depression— contributed to a difference between the SR and KS groups. Physically, the average complaint rates responding to all of 7 categories of the SR group were not significantly different from those of the KS group.
