ABSTRACT
28 years-old male patient has felt dysesthesia as swelling of forehead, numbness of cheeks and pain of eyes. Dysesthesia has developed gradually.<br>“Fuku-myaku” means the pulse difficult to be palpable. This characteristic pulse and Oketsu symptoms suggested the indications of Tokaku-joki-to and Tokaku-joki-to-go-Daio-botampi-to. As we had found “Fuku-myaku” and oketsu syndrome in this patient, we treated with these kampo medicine according to “Sho” diagnosed by Kampo. The dysesthesia in the patient has been gradually disappeared. At the same time, attacks of asthma which had appeared after discontinuation of Saiboku-to administration have been also disappeared. It is easy to make a mistake that “Fuku-myaku” is for pulse of hypo-functioning condition. But we understand that “Fuku-myaku” is not always for pulse of hypo-functioning condition, but for hyper-functioning condition.
ABSTRACT
The group of 12 “Shimotsu-to rui” chinese medical prescriptions containing Angelica acutiloba Kitag., <I>Cnidium officinale</I> Mak., <I>Paeonia lactiflora</I> Pall. and <I>Rehmannia glutinosa</I> (Gaertn.) Libosch were analysed by multiple dimensional scaling analysis (M-D-SCAL), <I>quantification of the third type</I> (QT-III) and cluster analysis (C.A.).<BR>M-D-SCAL were carried out in 2 ways, by that of the angle method and the Jaccard's coefficient. Using the angle method in analysing the 12 prescriptions, the “Orengedoku-to” groups and the diuretic & peptic prescription groups were clarified and some prescriptions containing specific herbs were located in a marginal region, and these locations were fit for traditional information.<BR>QT-III gave a simular location of the prescriptions to the result of the M-D-SCAL with Jaccard's coefficient. In this method, not only the prescriptions, but also the herbs simultaneously can be located. This made possible the interpretation of the intra-relations between the 12 prescriptions, in terms of the axis pertaining to the herbs. Certain herbs consistently fall into the same categorical region, indicating a shared relationship and corresponding to the traditionally conceived “Yaku-tsui” or “paired herbs”.