Relationship between outside-inside situation of illness and symptomdifferentiating factors for hot and cold diatheses, especially age and urinary prostaglandin f1.ALPHA. level / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

As symptom-differentiating factors for hot and cold diatheses, urinary PGF_1α level of cholelithiasis patients (lower than about 138ng/day represented cold diathesis and above, hot diathesis) and age of breast cancer patients (lower than about 50 represented hot diathesis and above, cold diathesis) were pointed out. In gastric and large bowel cancer patients, these factors were not indicative of hoot and cold diatheses.<br>These facts were considered to be attributed to the differences of the outside-inside situation of the diseases; namely breast cancer is of outside, gastric and large bowel cancer is of inside, and cholelithiasis is of intermediate (half outside-half inside) situation. Cholelithiasis representative of intermediate situation of illness proved to be one of the diseases showing delicate relationship between urinary PGF_1α level and pathophysiological state of the patients. When situation of illness was of outside or of inside, this relationship was not recognized, probably because it was concealed by stranger factors, for example, age, energy metabolism, water balance or visceral venous stagnation.