Three Cases of Dry Nose Successfully Treated with Hachimijiogan or Rokumigan / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

Few reports currently exist demonstrating that Kampo medicine is effective for dry nose. Here, we describe three cases of dry nose that were successfully treated with hachimijiogan or rokumigan. The chief complaints of the three cases differed. Dry nose was the second or third most troublesome symptom. The three cases had kidney deficiency and its typical symptom of abdominal numbness in common. Upon administration of hachimijiogan or rokumigan, dry nose improved promptly, along with the improvement of kidney deficiency. In addition, it became easier for all three cases to breathe. According to “Pu ji fang”, dry nose is ascribed to wind-­heat or kidney deficiency. The kidney is considered to control the reception of qi inhaled by the lungs. Taken together, we speculate that dry nose of the three cases were due to kidney deficiency, because treatment with hachimijiogan or rokumigan improved their dry nose along with the improvement of their kidney defi­ciency as well as their breathing which suggests the improvement of the reception of qi inhaled by the lungs. Hachimijiogan or rokumigan is shown to be effective for dry nose in the patients with kidney deficiency.