<b>Efficacy of a Combination Treatment for Glossalgia with three Kampo Medicines : Orengedokuto, Bukuryoin, and Kososan Extracts</b>

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  • ISHIDA Kazuyuki
    Department of Neurology, Ebina Medical Support Center, Ebina General Hospital

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  • <b>舌痛症に対する黄連解毒湯・茯苓飲・香蘇散エキス併用の使用経験</b>
  • 臨床報告 舌痛症に対する黄連解毒湯・茯苓飲・香蘇散エキス併用の使用経験
  • リンショウ ホウコク ゼツツウショウ ニ タイスル オウレンゲドクトウ ・ フクレイイン ・ コウソサンエキス ヘイヨウ ノ シヨウ ケイケン

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A patient with intractable glossalgia was successfully treated with a combination of three Kampo medicines : orengedokuto, bukuryoin, and kososan extracts. Then, 3 more patients with glossalgia were administered similar treatment based on the experience of the first case. The clinical features of these four patients and the efficacy of the combination Kampo treatment are reported herein. <br>A 61-year-old man with a 3-year history of glossalgia had been treated with psychopharmaceuticals for 4 months at another hospital, without any relief from symptoms. Upon referral to this Kampo clinic, the patient was treated with goreisan extract, daisaikoto extract, or other Kampo medicines, but these medicines were not effective. The prescription was then changed to a combination of orengedokuto, nichinto, and kososan extracts, which ameliorated the glossalgia symptoms almost by half. Furthermore, the glossalgia improved completely after the nichinto extract in the Kampo combination was replaced with bukuryoin extract. <br>After successful treatment of the first patient, three other patients were treated with the same Kampo combination. Two patients showed improvement within 2 weeks, but the combination treatment was ineffective in the other patient, whose symptoms finally improved with a zinc supplementation from Polaprezinc. The clinical features of the patients with good outcome were generally characterized by a combination of symptoms such as glossalgia, tendency toward depression, and digestive symptoms. <br>The combination treatment was prescribed as a substitute for seinetsugeutsuto decoction, and it was effective in three of the four patients with glossalgia. These results indicate that the combination treatment could be a candidate medicine to treat glossalgia.

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  • Kampo Medicine

    Kampo Medicine 67 (1), 54-60, 2016

    The Japan Society for Oriental Medicine

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