Five Cases of Chronic Primary Headache in Children Successfully Treated with Shokenchuto
10.3937/kampomed.66.93
- VernacularTitle:小建中湯が奏効した小児一次性頭痛の5症例
- Author:
Katsutoshi TERASAWA
;
Makoto SUMIKOSHI
;
Masaki RAIMURA
;
Toru KOBAYASHI
;
Atsushi CHINO
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
headache;
chronic primary headache;
shokenchuto;
orexin;
ghrelin
- From:Kampo Medicine
2015;66(2):93-98
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
Recently, the authors experienced five cases of chronic primary headache in children which were successfully treated with shokenchuto. This report describes the details of these five cases and results of references in past literature. The common physical findings in these five cases were soft abdominal walls with a spasmodic bilateral m. rectus abdominis. There was only one case report of headache which was successfully treated with shokenchuto. We believe that our case report sheds light on a new aspect of shokenchuto, which might be a useful formulation for chronic headache. In this paper, we also speculate about the mechanism of this formulation for headache from the view point of former research showing the relationship between brain orexin behavior, and ghrelin which is induced from the digestive system.
