Clinical Efficacy of Functional Herbal Extracts Liquid in Atopic Dermatitis Patient

아토피 피부염 환자에서 기능성 한방 추출액의 임상 효과

  • Young Hee-Tae (Dept. of Food & Nutrition, Daejeon Health Sciences College) ;
  • Choi Hwa-Jung (Dept. of Interdisciplinary program in Agricultural Biotechnology, Seoul National University)
  • 양희태 (대전보건대학 식품영양과) ;
  • 최화정 (서울대학교 협동과정 농업생물공학)
  • Published : 2005.12.01

Abstract

The aim of this study is to recognize that functional herbal extract is effective to treat the atopy dermatitis patients. The result of general survey of 36 patients who visited the pharmacy and oriental medicine clinic, males had higher ratio of troubling the atopy dermatitis than females had and the atopy suffered patients was higher under 20 age than the other age. The atopy symptom highly appeared on the leg and fleshy inside of the thigh and the patients over the 50 percentage have the part presented over three of atopy symptoms. The results taken functional herbal extract, the patients got better in atopy symptoms than before taken that.

2004년 10월부터 2005년 9월까지 대전 선골한의원에 아토피를 주 증상으로 내원한 환자 총 36명을 대상으로 증상에 따라 1개월에서 12개월 동안 복용하도록 한 후 몇 가지 일반상황 및 한방 추출물 복용 전후의 아토피 증상 호전도 등을 조사하였다. 환자 중 남녀의 성비는 61.11:38.89이었으며, 연령별 분포는 20세 이하가 18명으로 전체 환자수의 $50\%$를 차지하는 것으로 나타나 성인기, 노인기보다는 유년 및 청년기에 아토피 환자가 더 많은 것을 알 수 있었다. 아토피 증상이 호발하는 부위로는 다리와 사타구니가 $25.88\%$로 가장 많았으며, 그 다음이 팔과 목, 얼굴로 각각 $22.35\%,\;16.47\%,\;14.12\%$였고, 겨드랑이가 $2.35\%$로 가장 낮았으며 아토피가 나타나는 부위 중 한 개 혹은 두 개 이상의 부위를 가지고 있는 환자수를 조사한 결과 $50\%$이상의 환자가 3가지 이상의 아토피 호발 부위를 가진것으로 나타났다. 아토피 환자에게 한방 추출액을 복용시킨 결과 복용 전 환자들은 $72.22\%$가 중증도의 홍박과 $63.8\%$가 경도의 부종과 $44.44\%$의 경도 찰상을 보유하고 복용후 홍반과 부종, 찰상이 각각 경도 ($55.56\%$), 경도($52.78\%$), 없음($83.33\%$)으로 복용전보다 호전된 것을 알 수 있었다.

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