| 龍膽瀉肝湯을 이용한 帶狀疱疹의 急性期 痛症에 대한 治驗1例 |
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| A Case Report of Herpes zoster with acute pain by Yongdamsagan-tang(longdanxiegan-tang) |
| Chang-Mo Koo1, Young-Jun Park2, Joo-Han Park1, Geum-Jeong Heo2, Chang-Gyu Nam2, Jung-Ki Sun1 |
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kwang-Dong Oriental Medicine Hospital
2Department of Circulatory Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Semyung University |
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Received: September 28, 2002, Accepted: December 20, 2002, Published online: March 30, 2003. |
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| ABSTRACT |
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Herpes zoster is a viral disease characterized by unilateral radicular pain and vesicular eruptions that are generally limited to the dermatome innervated by single spinal or cranial sensory ganglion. The disease causes severe pain and in particular, put elderly patients in great risks and further it develops postherpetic neuralgia. Nowadays western medicine use antiviral durg(ex: acyclovir), analgesics, nerve block and etc for treatment of herpes zoster and pain control, but the effect is not much satisfactory. A 73- year-old patient, admitted to our hospital because of severe migrain. Two days later, her illness was diagnosed as herpes zoster so we administrated Yongdamsagan-tang. After the six-day of treatment, all symptoms improved, especially headache was cleared since the four day long administration of Yongdamsagan-tang. |
| Key words:
Herpes zoster, Yongdamsagan-tang(longdanxiegan-tang), pain |
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