A report on a patient, suspected of erythema annulare centrifugum, well treated with "Dai-saiko-to" / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

A 48-year-old man, suspected of erythema annulare centrifugum, was treated by Kampo-medicine. His clinical picture and findings were evidently consistent with those of erythema annulare centrifugum. Skin lesions, chiefly consisted of erythema with a little of exfoliation, were noticed both on the upper abdomen and on the bilateral lumbar regions.<br>Decoctions of Dai-saiko-to (Da-Chai-Hu-Tang) were mainly used for the treatment, concurrently with Keishi-bukuryo-gan (Gui-Zhi-Fu-Ling-Wan). Lumbar eruption comp letely disappeared after one month of the treatment and abdominal one also after four months without any trace of lesions.<br>The therapeutic mechanism of the skin lesions was briefly considered from both the stand point of “cell pathology” and that of “whole body pathology”.