Disappearance of Various Abdominal Symptoms with Kampo Treatment in a Postoperative Patient with Renal Cell Carcinoma
10.3937/kampomed.60.385
- Author:
Yuji KASAHARA
;
Nobuyasu SEKIYA
;
Atsushi CHINO
;
Takao NAMIKI
;
Kenji OHNO
;
Masaki RAIMURA
;
Sumire HASHIMOTO
;
Keiko OGAWA
;
Yosiro HIRASAKI
;
Katsutoshi TERASAWA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
renal cell carcinoma;
postoperative abdominal symptoms;
bukuryoin;
anchusan
- MeSH:
Therapeutic procedure;
Medicine, Kampo;
symptoms <1>;
Postoperative Period;
Nausea
- From:Kampo Medicine
2009;60(3):385-389
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
We report a case with various postoperative abdominal symptoms that were successfully treated with Kampo medicine. A 58-year-old Japanese female had nausea, eructation, epigastric pain, lower abdominal pain and anorexia that appeared just after laparoscopic nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma. No abnormal findings were discovered by gastroenterological examinations. Western medical therapy was not successful. We used bukuryoin under the interpretation that nausea and eructation represent phlegm-fluid retention in the chest. The bukuryoin therapy cleared up her nausea and eructation in about one week. Additionally, her epigastric pain, lower abdominal pain and anorexia were cured by use of anchusan.
