A Case Report of Chronic Idiopathic Urticaria Successfully Treated with Kampo Formula, Seijobofuto and Inchingoreisan
- VernacularTitle:慢性蕁麻疹に対して清上防風湯と茵蔯五苓散の併用が著効した1例
- Author:
Masahiro FUJITA
1
;
Chitoshi IZOE
2
;
Takashi NISHIMOTO
1
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- Keywords: chronic urticaria; seijobofuto; inchingoreisan; dampness-heat
- From:Kampo Medicine 2021;72(2):159-165
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: We report a case of a 51-year-old male who suffered from chronic idiopathic urticaria on every part of his body. Urticaria appeared especially in the morning and evening. He visited our Kampo clinic because of insufficient effect of antihistamine drug and tokiinshi that had been prescribed by a dermatologist for about a half year. We thought this might be caused by blood deficiency, blood stasis and liver qi depression because he had symptoms of sensitiveness of heat, dry skin, purple tongue with yellow fur, a deeply located string-like pulse,and fullness in the chest and hypochondrium. Therefore, we administered keigairengyoto and ryutanshakanto but the effect was insufficient. During this treatment, we revealed his state of having thick fur in tonguediagnosis. Finally we prescribed him seijobofuto and inchingoreisan because we concluded that it might be necessary to remove dampness-heat in this case. His symptom improved within about a week after taking this formulation. Some cases of chronic urticaria are resistant to standard treatments in modern western medicine. Kampo medicine may be useful and hopeful in these cases.
