A Case of COVID-19 Successfully Treated with Combination of Kakkonto and Shosaikotokakikyosekko
- VernacularTitle:COVID-19に対する葛根湯と小柴胡湯加桔梗石膏併用の使用経験
- Author:
Hideya ISAI
1
;
Masahiro IMAI
1
;
Akihiko UEHARA
1
;
Takahiro ITOYAMA
1
;
Kumi SUYAMA
1
Author Information
- Keywords: COVID-19; saikatsugekito; kakkonto; shosaikotokakikyosekko
- From:Kampo Medicine 2021;72(4):415-419
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: Prior to the current pandemic caused by Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), there was a worldwide pandemic of H1N1 subtype influenza during 1918-1920. One of the most notable records of treatment in Japan is the story of Hiroaki Kimura in Tokyo. He used a formula including saikatsugekito and no patients died. The case was a 31-year-old woman testing positive for COVID-19 was treated with kakkonto (ge-gen-tang) and shosaikotokakikyosekko as an approximate prescription for saikatsugekito for one week from the first day of follow-up at the hotel. On the first day of treatment, the patient had severe headache, decreased oxygen saturation, increased heart rate and shortness of breath at rest as well as during physical activity, and the next day, smell and taste disorders appeared. However, by the time she left the hotel, these symptoms almost completely disappeared. This suggests the efficacy of combination of kakkonto and shosaikotokakikyosekko. Since COVID-19 often presents with symptoms of the interior organs from the early stage of the disease, combination of kakkonto and shosaikotokakikyosekko is considered to be one of the options of Kampo treatment for COVID-19.
