Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto

We herein report the case of a 14-year-old girl who had been experiencing chronic fatigue, febricula, and social withdrawal for 20 months. No notable abnormalities were identified during routine checkups at a general pediatric hospital; symptomatic treatments did not affect her condition. She was di...

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Autores principales: Numata, Takehiro, Miura, Kazuki, Akaishi, Tetsuya, Arita, Ryutaro, Ishizawa, Kota, Saito, Natsumi, Sasaki, Hiroyo, Kikuchi, Akiko, Takayama, Shin, Tobita, Muneshige, Ishii, Tadashi
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Publicado: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7008048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31534083
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3218-19
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author Numata, Takehiro
Miura, Kazuki
Akaishi, Tetsuya
Arita, Ryutaro
Ishizawa, Kota
Saito, Natsumi
Sasaki, Hiroyo
Kikuchi, Akiko
Takayama, Shin
Tobita, Muneshige
Ishii, Tadashi
author_facet Numata, Takehiro
Miura, Kazuki
Akaishi, Tetsuya
Arita, Ryutaro
Ishizawa, Kota
Saito, Natsumi
Sasaki, Hiroyo
Kikuchi, Akiko
Takayama, Shin
Tobita, Muneshige
Ishii, Tadashi
author_sort Numata, Takehiro
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description We herein report the case of a 14-year-old girl who had been experiencing chronic fatigue, febricula, and social withdrawal for 20 months. No notable abnormalities were identified during routine checkups at a general pediatric hospital; symptomatic treatments did not affect her condition. She was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Based on the concepts of Japanese traditional medicine, she was administered shosaikoto-based treatment. After several weeks of treatment, all of the symptoms had been dramatically alleviated, consequently resolving the issue of non-attendance at school. Shosaikoto-based medication may be a therapeutic option for treating ME/CFS in patients presenting with chronic febricula.
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spelling pubmed-70080482020-02-10 Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto Numata, Takehiro Miura, Kazuki Akaishi, Tetsuya Arita, Ryutaro Ishizawa, Kota Saito, Natsumi Sasaki, Hiroyo Kikuchi, Akiko Takayama, Shin Tobita, Muneshige Ishii, Tadashi Intern Med Case Report We herein report the case of a 14-year-old girl who had been experiencing chronic fatigue, febricula, and social withdrawal for 20 months. No notable abnormalities were identified during routine checkups at a general pediatric hospital; symptomatic treatments did not affect her condition. She was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Based on the concepts of Japanese traditional medicine, she was administered shosaikoto-based treatment. After several weeks of treatment, all of the symptoms had been dramatically alleviated, consequently resolving the issue of non-attendance at school. Shosaikoto-based medication may be a therapeutic option for treating ME/CFS in patients presenting with chronic febricula. The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine 2019-09-18 2020-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7008048/ /pubmed/31534083 http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3218-19 Text en Copyright © 2020 by The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ The Internal Medicine is an Open Access journal distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. To view the details of this license, please visit (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
spellingShingle Case Report
Numata, Takehiro
Miura, Kazuki
Akaishi, Tetsuya
Arita, Ryutaro
Ishizawa, Kota
Saito, Natsumi
Sasaki, Hiroyo
Kikuchi, Akiko
Takayama, Shin
Tobita, Muneshige
Ishii, Tadashi
Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto
title Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto
title_full Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto
title_fullStr Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto
title_full_unstemmed Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto
title_short Successful Treatment of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Chronic Febricula Using the Traditional Japanese Medicine Shosaikoto
title_sort successful treatment of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome with chronic febricula using the traditional japanese medicine shosaikoto
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7008048/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31534083
http://dx.doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.3218-19
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