Evaluation of Efficacy of Daisaikoto for the Treatment of Patients with Generalized Fatigability or Easy Fatigability by Multiple Regression Analysis / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

Introduction: We evaluated the efficacy of daisaikoto for patients with generalized fatigability or easy fatigability by multiple regression analysis.Subject and Methods: The subjects were fifty-three patients with generalized fatigability or easy fatigability, consisting of 6 males and 47 females, mean age 38 y/o (range 23-72), who were treated with daisaikoto according to Sho for more than one month. The relationships between the improvement of generalized fatigability or easy fatigability and 46 factors, including age, sex, height, body weight, hypertension and other symptoms noted at the first medical examination, were examined by multi-dimensional cross-sectional analysis.Results: The factors of sweating, hot flushes, sensation of something stuck in the throat, and feeling of fullness in the chest were significant. Improvement of objective tenderness on the sides of the abdomen and sweating formed the best subset of explanatory variables.Discussions The sensation of something stuck in the throat and feeling of fullness of the chest often occur under Ki stagnation. The improvement rather than the existence of objective tenderness on the sides of the abdomen is assumed to be more important factor.