Two Cases of Hair Loss Due to Long COVID Treated with Ninjin'yoeito
- VernacularTitle:新型コロナウイルス感染症後遺症の脱毛に人参養栄湯が有効であった2例
- Author:
Yoshinao HARADA
1
;
Mizue SAITA
2
;
Yukiko FUKUI
3
;
Mai SUZUKI
3
;
Meiko TADOKORO
3
;
Hiroyuki KOBAYASHI
1
Author Information
- Keywords: Long COVID; hair loss; ninjin'yoeito
- From:Kampo Medicine 2022;73(3):342-346
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
- Abstract: Two cases of hair loss due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) sequelae as known as Long COVID were successfully treated with ninjin’yoeito. Case 1 was a 45-year-old woman who complained of hair loss about 2 months after COVID-19 (moderate II in Japanese criteria). Case 2 was a 50-year-old woman who complained of hair loss about 2 months after COVID-19 (mild). In all cases, hair loss stopped next month after treatment with ninjin’yoeito. And their hair began to grow 2 months later administration, the depression caused by hair loss improved as the symptoms improved. Hair loss is one of the symptoms with blood [TM1] deficiency, and patients suffering from Long COVID are also with qi deficiency. We gave ninjinʼyoeito for pattern of both qi and blood [TM1] deficiency with reference to traditional key of treatment, and it contributed to the improvement of symptoms.
