A Case in Which Byakujutsubushito Responded to Extremity Pain / 日本東洋医学雑誌

The patient was an 84-­year-­old woman living in a nursing home. Her chief complaint was difficulty in mov­ing her body due to extreme pain. She could not lie down especially in a supine position because of severe un­identified somatic pain from left side of lower chest to flank. According to her family, she had been taking 2-­3 L of water daily at her nursing home to avoid dehydration even in the wintertime. Therefore she urinated fre­quently, but she also had constipation for several days. Since NSAIDs had been not effective, byakujutsu­bushito was administered from the first day of her hospitalization. Accordingly, her constipation improved and her pain quickly faded away. We inferred that her pain resulted from “fluid disturbance” caused by massive in­take of water in the wintertime in Aizu region. We believe that byakujutsubushito is a useful Kampo medicine for the treatment of pain resulting from “wind-­dampness” along with keishibushito and kanzobushito.

<b>Otsujito Found Effective in Enterocutaneous Fistula after Trying Other Kampo T</b><b>reatments</b> / 日本東洋医学雑誌

<p>Otsujito is a well-known Kampo medicine for treatment of hemorrhoidal diseases. In the current report, we present end results for a case of enterocutaneous fistula treated with Kampo medicine in accordance with traditional “sho” indications.<br>An 81 year-old female developed abdominal wall-intestinal fistula right immediately following partial colectomy due to ischemic sigmoid colic perforation 12 years previously. Two years later, she had a fistulectomy and repair using intraperitoneal mesh for abdominal recruitment. Eight years after repair of the enterocutaneous fistula, she had peritonitis caused by the tardive intraperitoneal mesh infection. Since then, she has had frequent repeated ileus and received conservative treatment for two years. Several local operations and abdominal drainages were performed after transfer to Aizu Medical Center. Kigikenchuto was provided for wound healing for approximately 1 year, and one fistula was finally identified. Otsujito dramatically decreased the leakage of intestinal juice and closed her enterocutaneous fistula.<br>Angelicae Radix as an anti-inflammatory agent, and Cimicifugae Rhizoma as originally indicated, may have played pivotal roles in this case with Otsujito.</p>