We report a case of intractable diarrhea successfully treated with daikenchuto. The patient was a 60-year-old female. She had suffered from diarrhea in spite of being prescribed Shimbuto, Kanzoshashinto, Shigyakuto and so on. After daikenchuto was administered her intractable diarrhea improved. However, she had not symptoms such as abdominal pain, coldness in the abdomen and abdominal movement disorder that often appear in daikenchuto-syo. We consider daikenchuto may be effective not only for diarrhea but also constipation in yin-syndrome and hypofunction when intestinal juice and gas are stagnated.daikenchuto, diarrhea
We encountered 2 cases of vomiting that were successfully treated with daisaikoto. In case 1, the patient was a 16-year-old girl. She was vomiting in the hospital with pneumonia. Referring to the vomiting and kyokyo−kuman (Subchondrial resistance and discomfort), vomiting gradually disappeared after administration of daisaikoto. In case 2, the patient was a 73-year-old woman. After aspiration pneumonia, she developed nausea and vomiting and experienced constipation and kyokyo-kuman. The nausea and vomiting gradually disappeared after the administration of daisaikoto. These findings suggested that daisaikoto, in combination with a large amount of Zingiberis Rhizoma on classic text, suppresses nausea.daisaikoto, vomiting, Zingiberis Rhizoma, kyokyo-kuman* kyokyo-kuman : Subchondrial resistance and discomfort
A 51-year-old male with cyclic neutropenia, on whom we previously reported, was admitted to our hospital with severe abdominal pain and diarrhea four years and seven months after his last hospitalization. Since then, he has received Kampo treatment at our hospital every three weeks, with good clinical results. This time, he was at first treated with Kampo daikenchuto combined with bushikobeito, which had been effective during his last hospitalization, although this time the remedy had no effect. From the viewpoint of Japanese traditional (Kampo) medicine, it was considered that the patient had severe cold syndrome. He was given uzukeishito three times a day (at 10.00, 15.00 and 20.00 hours). The dose of uzu in uzukeishito was gradually increased. Daiuzusen, in which the dose of uzu (an aconite) was 1 g or 2 g, was also administered five times a day due to the patient's very severe abdominal pain. On the fourth day of uzukeishito administration, the patient felt very hot and still had severe abdominal pain, although this pain was different from the previous pain, thirty minutes after daiuzusen (with 2 g dose of uzu) was administered. This reaction can better be explained as mengen rather than uzu poisoning. Very soon he had a good appetite, his abdominal pain was reduced and the cycle of neutropenia was normalized. The case suggests that in cases of very severe cold syndrome, frequent and highdose administration of aconite component medicine can be effective. cyclic neutropenia, cold syndrome, uzukeishito, daiuzusen, mengen
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