A Case of Recurrent Nausea with Vomiting for Past Sixteen Years Successfully Treated with a Kampo Formulation Shimbuto

VernacularTitle:真武湯が奏効した16年間遷延した反復性悪心嘔吐症の1例
Author: Katsutoshi TERASAWA ¹ ; Toru KOBAYASHI ² ; Mizue SAITA ³ ; Makoto SUMIKOSHI ⁴ ; Yoshiro HIRASAKI ⁵ ; Atsushi CHINO ¹
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1. Department of Japanese-Oriental (Kampo) Medicine, Chiba Central Medical Center
2. Department of Neuro-Surgery, Hoshi General Hospital
3. Department of Gneral Mdicine, Jyuntendo University, Faculty of Medicine
4. Sumikoshi Kodomo Clinic
5. Department of Japanese-Oriental (Kampo) Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University
Keywords: shimbuto; water imbalance syndrome; recurrent nausea; recurrent vomiting; para-navel tender point
From:Kampo Medicine 2023;74(1):60-66
CountryJapan
Language:Japanese
Abstract: We herein report a 36-year-old male patient, who complained of persistent and recurrent nausea with vomiting for 16 years in spite of various standard treatments, was successfully treated with Kampo formulation Shimbuto, which selected based on the left para-navel tender point. We speculated that the clinical disorder in this case was related to suitai i.e. water imbalance syndrome in Kampo medicine. However, there has never been such a case report in the field of Kampo, and no related papers have been found in the standard database Medline. We believe this report is valuable from the viewpoint of therapeutics in both Western and Kampo medicine.