• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.61-79
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• 2004

Urticaria is a common dermatopathy, coming under "eun-jin(隱疹) in Korean Oriental medicine. We researched sixty-two patients of urticaria who had visited the Dept of Dermatology Oriental medical hospital Dongeui universty from January 2002 to April 2004 and had taken the Oriental herb medicine as Sungmagalguntanggamibang (SGT, 升摩葛根湯加味方) for verification of voluntariness of Korean Oriental medical treatment. In our time, urticaria is tending upwards, consequently the air pollution by industrialization, patronizing of convenience food by simplification of dietary life, stress and an abuse of medicine. Especially in case of chronic urticaria we're under going hardships in elimination of it's symptoms, because it's prognosis is inferior. We inspect the effects of SGT from various viewpoints and meet with following results. Results: 1. AS amount of taking the SGT increase, the effect in taking SGT period and the condition of present time become more satisfactory. 2. As continuous Time of urticaria decrease, the effect in taking SGT period become more satisfactory. 3. Etiology of urticaria is classified into the deficiency both of qi-blood(氣血兩虛), the moisture-heat of spleen-stomach(脾胃濕熱), the heat of blood(血熱), The wind-cold(風寒), The wind-heat(風熱), spleen-stomach accumulated heat(腸胃實熱) ect. The SGT is available in this order. 4. The effect in taking SGT period connects the quality of life of after treatment and the quality of life of after treatment is improved comparing with that of before treatment. The above results demonstrate that SGT effectively suppresses recurrent, pruitus and erythematous urticaria.

• 한방안이비인후피부과학회지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.152-176
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• 2003

This study was clinically performed with the 73 outpatients of urticaria who had visited the Dept. of Dermartology, Oriental Medical Hospital, Dong-eui University from January 1st 2000 to June 30th 2003. They have all taken the oriental herb medicine as Sungmagalguntanggamibang(SGT, 升麻葛根湯加味方) more than 1 time. Urticaria is a common disease and a well known reaction pattern of the skin charaterized by erythema, wheals and edema, that is the results of various causes. Urticaria is classified into acute or chronic type. The etilogy of acute uricaria has been determined in many cases, but the cause of chronic urticaria has been determined in 10$\%$ to 20$\%$ of cases. Character of chronic type urticaria is recurrent pruritus and erythematous skin disease by stimulating factor. Through checking up the present patient state, we verified the effect of SGT in various ways. The results were summarized as follows; 1. An increase of taking a medicine(SGT) and attending a hospital in number let down repeated urticaria occurence. 2. SGT is more effective when the symptoms with the severe pruritic wheals are spread on the whole body in daily occurrence. 3. In urticaria treatment method, gradually reducing a western medicine and going side by side SGT, that is good at symptoms improvement. 4. Etiology of urticaria is classified into intestine-stomach accumulated heat by indigestion(食滯腸胃積熱), wind-moisture(風濕), wind-heat(風熱) etc. The SGT is available in the order of frequency of use.