(Department of Internal Medicine, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University)
(원광대학교 한의과대학 내과학교실)
Urticaria is a common disease and a well known reaction pattern of the skin characterized by erythema or wheal and edema, that is result of a local leakage of plasma from minute vessel into the connective tissue of the dermis. The urticaria that lasts for more than six of eight weeks, is categorized as chronic urticaria. In Oriental medicine, urticaria is classified as Yeun-jin(慇疹) and similar to Poong-yeun-jin(風慇疹), Poong-so-yeun-jin(風瘙慇疹), Poong-yum-leu, Poong-dan(風丹) and Poong-jin-geu(風疹塊). We report four improved cases of chronic urticaria that had lasted for more than eight weeks. We regarded their chronic urticaria as wind-heat(風熱) and prescribed Bangpungtongsungsan-gami(防風通聖散加味) and Seunggaltang-gami(升葛湯加味) to these patients. These patients showed improvement of chronic urticaria.