慢性関節リウマチ患者の愁訴と気象との関係―とくにその東洋医学的研究―

抄録

Chinese medicine (oriental medicine) is one of the oldest medicines which recognize the relationship between the organism and meteorology by applying meteorological information to the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
In order to investigate the relationhsip of the patient's complaints to meteorological factors, the authors selected a group of patients who were suffering from rheumatoid arthritis which had been recorded as a positive indication in the classical literatures of oriental medicine. The results of the present study were summarized as follows:
1. The intensity of complaints was high when the pressure pattern showed west high east low, migratory high or a low pressure trough.
2. Analysis of the variation of complaints showed that the complaints tended to increase along with migratory anticyclone.
3. The relationship between the passage pattern of migratory anticyclone and the intensity of complaints indicated that the complaints increased when the center of migratory anticyclone was located in front of Tokyo, within Tokyo or in the northeast of Tokyo.
4. Evaluation of the above findings from the standpoint of oriental medicine showed that statistically significant meteorological factors were not specific to the arthritis patients, but rather they were common in a group whose chief complaints were pain and numbness.