Ffficacy of Dai-Saiko-To(TJ-8) on Billiary Colic Attack / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

Dai-Saiko-To (Tsumura-8) is well known to have excellent antispastic effects on smooth muscle of cystic duct and common dile duct. Dai-Saiko-To has been used to administer for biliary colic attack in Aiseikai Hospital. Eleven patients of biliary colic were treated by Dai-Saiko-To during these five years. Two patients showed to relieve severe pain attack and revealed to excrete stones in short periods after Dai-Saiko-To administration. The remaining nine patients were released the pain of biliary colic and improved infection of gallbladder and to be common bile duct by using Dai-Saiko-To. It is suggested that Dai-Saiko-To induces of excretion of amall stone from cystic duct and the ampulla of vater, and releases of biliary colic.