Kampo Medicine
Online ISSN : 1882-756X
Print ISSN : 0287-4857
ISSN-L : 0287-4857
Volume 50, Issue 4
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  • Won Sik BAE
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 519-524
    Published: January 20, 2000
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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  • Cultural Exchange of Two Intellectuals in the Meiji Era
    Eiji MATSUOKA
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 525-532
    Published: January 20, 2000
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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  • Katsutoshi TERASAWA
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 533-562
    Published: January 20, 2000
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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  • 2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 563-653
    Published: January 20, 2000
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  • Comparison between Modern Drugs and Kampo Medicine
    Tomohide AKASE, Tetsuo AKIBA, Hideya ISAI, Shigetoshi SUZUKI
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 655-663
    Published: January 20, 2000
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    From December 1997 to February 1998, prescriptions for 875 patients with colds at the three institutions listed were investigated. The prescriptions were divided into three groups according to the nature of the drugs; modern drugs, Kampo medicine and combined use of modern and Kampo medicine. Mean age, the number of prescribed drugs and the days of prescription were checked and the medicinal expenses were calculated. When using only modern drugs, daily expenses were 203.8yen in average. On the other hand, using only Kampo medicine they were 119.6yen. When using combination of modern and Kampo medicine, the expenses reached to 215.9yen. These results indicated that Kampo medicine was the most economical, because using only Kampo medicine made the expenses approximately 60% less than those using only modern drugs. Thus, at least 41.5 billion yen could be saved in 1998 calculating from the market share of the national medical supplies in each therapeutic category. In conclusion, treatment of colds with only Kampo medicine was considered to be the most cost-efficient way.
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  • Michio HARUTA, Fumiaki INOUE, Takeo MIZUSHIMA
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 665-672
    Published: January 20, 2000
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    Four patients suffering from akathisia and psychotic symptoms were remarkably improved with Sanou-shashin-to. The first case was a 49-year-old woman with atypical psychosis. The other cases were from twenties to thirties years old women with schizophrenia. All cases were “Jitsu sho” and had constipation. San'o-shashin-to 6.0g (EK-13) a day was administered in all cases and Toukaku-joki-to 7.5g (TJ-61) a day was prescribed in the first case and in the fourth case. In several days, the chief complaint “I can't stand still.” almost disappeared.
    These cases suggest that San'o-shashin-to involved Rhei Rhizoma (Rhubarb) may be effective for the treatment of akathisia associated with schizophrenia and atypical psychosis and the total dose was decreased by its use because Rhubarb has psychotropic effects and cathartic action.
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  • Oral Administration of Kagen-ichiin-sen-ka-kiban-kyo-sekko
    Yuji SHIOTANI, Katsutoshi TERASAWA, Toshiaki KITA
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 673-681
    Published: January 20, 2000
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    Atopic dermatitis in adolescents and adults has severe erythema and desquamation, particularly on the face and the neck, and is often resistant for various treatments. We previously reported the case of intractable erythematous dry-type atopic dermatitis where Kagen-ichiin-sen-ka-kiban-kyo was effect. Kagenichiin-sen-ka-kiban-kyo has an effect for nourishing Yin and Blood. Although its antiinflammatory effect is weak, we expected it would improve the deteriorated barrier function of the skin by moistening dry skin, and treat the atopic dermatitis more fundamentally. This time aiming broad application for the lesion of exudative eczema, we treated atopic dermatitis by using sekko-added Kagen-ichiin-sen-ka-kiban-kyo (Kagen-ichiin-sen-ka-kiban-kyo-sekko). The moisture content of the forehead and the extensor surface of forearm sequentially increased. And IgE-KIST and LDH, the markers of the state of a disease, were significantlly reduced. Good results were given; 68.8% of efficacy in men and 77.8% in women.
    This Kampo formulation is assumed one of the effective formulations for the treatment of atopic dermatitis.
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  • Toshiyuki ASAOKA, Teruhiko SUZUKI, Teppei KAMIKAWA
    2000 Volume 50 Issue 4 Pages 683-690
    Published: January 20, 2000
    Released on J-STAGE: March 12, 2010
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    A 28-year-old woman presented with persistent diarrhea, lower abdominal pain, low-grade fever and general fatigue in 1994. She was admitted to a hospital with suspected inflammatory colitis. Aphthoid mucosal changes were founded on colonoscopy, but the etiology was unknown. Salazosulfapyridine was administered for 3 months, but it was not effective for the abdominal symptoms. In November 1995, pyrexia, lymph node swelling and polyarthralgia appeared, and the patient was admitted to our hospital. Malar rash, photosensitivity, leukopenia, antinuclear antibody and anti-DNA antibody were found. She was diagnosed as having systemic lupus erythematosus and lupus colitis. Prednisolone (30mg/day) was administered, and pyrexia, polyarthralgia and leukopenia were improved, but the abdominal symptoms persisted for 5 weeks. Keisi-ka-syakuyaku-to was administered, and it was markedly effective for relieving persistent diarrhea and abdominal pain. Keisi-ka-syakuyaku-to was continued until February 1999 and the patient's clinical course was satisfactory.
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