• Title/Summary/Keyword: Revised Boyanghwano-tang

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Improvement of unilateral hyperhidrosis in spinal cord injury following treatment with revised Boyanghwano-tang: a case report (보양환오탕가감방으로 호전된 경추 손상 유래 편측성 다한증 1례)

  • Oh, Ji-Seok;Yang, Su-Young;Lee, Jin-Woo;Oh, Young-Seon;Lee, Yong-Koo;Park, Yang-Chun
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.85-89
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    • 2011
  • Hyperhidrosis is common complication of spinal cord injury, but localized unilateral hyperhidrosis is relatively rare disorder without autonomic disreflexia. A 52-year-old man with a 10-month history of cervical injury induced tetraplegia complained of excessive intermittent left-sided sweating. The sweating occurred by urinary retention or without any autonomic dysreflexia. The patient sweated excessively on the left face and upper body. In the point of Differentiation of Syndrom (辨證), the patient was diagnosed as Gi-Heo-Hyeol-Eo (Pi-Wei-Qi-Xu 氣虛血瘀) and was administered revised Boyanghwano-tang (reserved Bu-Yang-Huan-Wu-tang), and he was almost complaint free during 4 month about none dysreflexial hyperhidrosis.