A Case of Lower Back with Extremity Pain Successfully Treated with Kanzobushito / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

We report a case of lower back with extremities pain, whose cause could not be established in the medical sense nor relieved by analgesic drugs, was successfully treated with kanzobushito. The patient was a 69-­year-old male. Because of extremity pain of his lower left back, he could not move by himself and was transported to our hospital by an ambulance. Having persistent pain, he could not turn over or stretch his left leg and anal­gesic drugs and sacral nerve blocks were ineffective. We administered kanzobushito referring to the phrase “pain that gets worse as someone approaches” in the Shokanron. After administering kanzobushito, his pain was reduced remarkably and he could sit down on the bed. And his activities of daily living improved immedi­ately. Thus, kanzobushito may be useful for severe pain and should be administered to neuropathic pain compli­cated with psychogenic factors referring to coldness, severe pain and abnormality of qi (irritable).