A 40-year-old man with asymptomatic chronic relapsing hepatitis was treated by Kampo-medicine. His liver function test was evidently abnormal for more than 4 years and the findings of laparoscopy and liver biopsy were compatible with chronic hepatitis. Before the therapy by Kampo-medicine, the period of the remission on liver function test was only 3-4 months long at the best, but after that, it became more than 15 months long at least, and the remission was experienced twice according to the same design of the treatment. The drugs used in the treatment were Daisaiko-To and San-oh-Gan. The mechanism of their therapeutical effect was discussed from the standpoint of the “Whole-body Pathology”.
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