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Usually, chronic pain is difficult to treat because this is often accompanied by none-organic factors such as psychiatric symptoms, which complicate the pathological condition. For this reason, the guidelines also call for coping with peripheral symptoms except pain. This time, we report that facial pain as well as peripheral symptoms such as mental anxiety gradually improved by a combination of decoction extract and acupuncture and moxibustion. The case was a man in his 60s, who received all kinds of treatments such as taking Western medicines and blocking trigger points for chronic facial pain of unknown cause with mental anxiety. However, even after one year the side effects were strong and the treatment was ineffective. Acupuncturists and Kampo specialists made the diagnosis and treatment based on a common concept of Kampo medicine. Treatment focused on shin abnormalities and oketsu suppressed the vicious cycle of pain and improved psychiatric symptoms and QOL. It was suggested that Kampo medicine based on the idea “the same in mind and body” is effective for chronic pain in which various symptoms are intricately intertwined.
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<p>Patients with the best supportive care often get worse and worse, and it is very difficult to improve their symptoms. As cancer is currently a leading cause of death in Japan, and adequate control of the cancer-associated pain is important to improve the quality of life (QOL) in cancer patients. Pain caused by bone metastasis is particularly difficult to control, and the strong analgesic medication which it requires is generally difficult to control. Such metastases result in reduced mobility and markedly reduced activities of daily living (ADL) and the QOL of patients. Our patient was a 67-year-old man who had been treated for metastasis from the left kidney to cancer of the right pelvic bone ; palliative chemotherapy and mild treatment were provided for his sharp pain, but control of his sharp pain was insufficient. Here we expand on our experience in a patient with bone metastasis caused by renal cell carcinoma successfully treated with Kampo medicine, using acupuncture and decoction extract.</p>
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Objective: To investigate the effects of Rehannia glutinosa decoction (RGD)、 Rehmannia glutinosa polysaccharide (RGP) and Rehmannia glutinosa non polysaccharide (RGNP) on peripheral hemogram in mice. Methods: The first experimental group were continuously given RGD、RGP and RGNP for nine days, and then blood sample was taken from tails for determination of peripheral hemogram. The second group were given RGD、RGP and RGNP for five days, after making the blood difficiency model of cyclophosphamide. Determinating peripheral hemogram of the third group, after that those mice were given cyclophosphamide by 2 days, 4 days, 6 days, 8 days. Results: Peripheral hemogram of the every normal group has no difference. To compare the model of blood difficiency group and the control group, there were significant differences, RGNP can only enhance WBC. Both RGP and RGNP can reduce WBC of the mice model of anti cyclophosphamide, while RGP was superior to RGNP. Conclusion: Rehmannia glutinosa has dual directional adjustment function. RGP is tonifying blood active fraction of RG.