Table 2.
Kampo medicine | ||||||||||||||
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orengedokuto | goshajinkigan | tokiinshi | hachimijiogan | rokumigan | shoseiryuto | bakumondoto | rikkunshito | keishikashakuyakuto | daiokanzoto | daikenchuto | yokukansan | hangekobokuto | ||
Clinical manifestation of frailty according to the traditional concept | Anorexia | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||
Sarcopenia | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||||
Cognition | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||||
Dementia | ◦ | ◦ | ||||||||||||
Fatigue | ◦ | ◦ | ||||||||||||
Weakness | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ||||||||||
Pain | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ||||||||||
Dysfunction of | ||||||||||||||
Respiration | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||||
Circulation | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ||||||||||
Gastro-intestine | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ||||||||
Urinary | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||||
Musculoskeletal | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||||
Skin | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | ◦ | |||||||||
Indications | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients who have ruddy face with comparatively strong constitution, a touch of hot flushes, and a tendency to irritability: nose bleeding, hypertension, insomnia, neurosis, gastritis, alcoholic hangover, climacteric disturbance and automatic imbalance syndrome peculiar to women resembling climacteric disturbance, dizziness, palpitation, eczema or dermatitis and pruritus cutaneous | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with decreased urine volume or polyuria sometimes having dry mouth who are easily fatigued and easily feel cold in the extremities: Leg pain, low back pain, numbness, blurred vision in old patients, pruritus, dysuria, frequent urination and edema | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with oversensitivity to cold: Chronic eczema (with little exudation) and itching | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with severe fatigue or malaise, decreased urinary output or increased urinary frequency, dry mouth, and alternate cold and hot feeling in the extremities: Nephritis, diabetes mellitus, impotence, sciatica, low back pain, beriberi, cystorrhea, prostatic hypertrophy and hypertension | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with decreased urine volume or polyuria sometimes having dry mouth who are easily fatigued: Dysuria, frequent urination, edema and pruritus | Watery sputum, watery nasal discharge, nasal obstruction, sneezing, stridor, coughing, lacrimation in the following diseases: Bronchitis, bronchial asthma, rhinitis, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, and common cold | The relief of the following symptoms: Coughing with a hard, obstructive sputum, bronchitis, and bronchial asthma | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with weak stomach, loss of appetite and full stomach pit, and those who are easily fatigued, anemic and likely to have cold limbs: Gastritis, gastric atony, gastroptosis, maldigestion, anorexia, gastric pain, vomiting | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with abdominal distension: Tenesmus alvi and abdominal pain | Constipation | The relief of abdominal cold feeling and pain accompanied by abdominal flatulence | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients with delicate constitution and nervousness: Neurosis, insomnia, night cry in children, and peevishness in children | The relief of the following symptoms of those patients who have depressed feelings and a feeling of foreign body in the throat and oesophagus and who sometimes have palpitation, dizziness, nausea, etc.: Anxiety neurosis, nervous gastritis, hyperemesis gravidarum, coughing, hoarseness, nervous oesophageal stricture, and insomnia | |
Components of kampo medicine | JP Scutellaria Root | JP Rehmannia Root | JP Japanese Angelica Root | JP Rehmannia Root | JP Rehmannia Root | JP Pinellia Tuber | JP Ophiopogon Tuber | JP Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome | JP Peony Root | JP Rhubarb | JP Processed Ginger | JP Atractylodes Lancea Rhizome | JP Pinellia Tuber | |
JP Coptis Rhizome | JP Achyranthes Root | JP Rehmannia Root | JP Cornus Fruit | JP Cornus Fruit | JP Processed Ginger | JP Brown Rice | JP Ginseng | JP Cinnamon Bark | JP Glycyrrhiza | JP Ginseng | JP Poria Sclerotium | JP Poria Sclerotium | ||
JP Gardenia Fruit | JP Cornus Fruit | JP Tribulus Fruit | JP Dioscorea Rhizome | JP Dioscorea Rhizome | JP Glycyrrhiza | JP Pinellia Tuber | JP Pinellia Tuber | JP Jujube | JP Zanthoxylum Fruit | JP Cnidium Rhizome | JP Magnolia Bark | |||
JP Phellodendron Bark | JP Dioscorea Rhizome | JP Peony Root | JP Alisma Rhizome | JP Alisma Rhizome | JP Cinnamon Bark | JP Jujube | JP Poria Sclerotium | JP Glycyrrhiz | JP Koi | JP Uncaria Hook | JP Perilla Herb | |||
JP Plantago Seed | JP Cnidium Rhizome | JP Poria Sclerotium | JP Poria Sclerotium | JP Schisandra Fruit | JP Glycyrrhiza | JP Jujube | JP Ginger | JP Japanese Angelica Root | JP Ginger | |||||
JP Alisma Tuber | JP Saposhnikovia Root and Rhizome | P Moutan Bark | JP Moutan Bark | JP Asiasarum Root | JP Ginseng | JP Citrus Unshiu Peel | JP Bupleurum Root | |||||||
JP Poria Sclerotium | JP Polygonum Root | JP Cinnamon Bark | JP Peony Root | JP Glycyrrhiza | JP Glycyrrhiza | |||||||||
JP Moutan Bark | JP Astragalus Root | JP Powdered Processed Aconite Root | JP Ephedra Herb | JP Ginger | ||||||||||
JP Cinnamon Bark | JP Schizonepeta Spike | |||||||||||||
JP Powdered Processed Aconite Root | JP Glycyrrhiza |
JP, The Japanese Pharmacopoeia.