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- Title
Long-term maintenance of nutritional status with ninjinyoueito in terminal patients with chronic respiratory disease: Two case reports.
- Authors
Sasatani, Yuika; Okauchi, Shinichiro; Ohara, Gen; Kagohashi, Katsunori; Satoh, Hiroaki
- Abstract
Ninjinyoeito, is a traditional herbal (Kampo) medicine which is administered to patients with debilitating diseases in North-East Asia. Ninjinyoeito has been reported to be effective against loss of physical strength, fatigue and loss of appetite in patients with wasting diseases. The present study described long-term maintenance of body weight with ninjinyoueito in 2 terminal patients with chronic respiratory diseases. The first patient was a 75-year-old with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who took ninjinyoueito for ≥5 years and the second patient was a 72-year-old man with metastatic lung cancer with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) who took ninjinyoueito for ≥1 year. Both of them maintained their physique and nutritional status during the terminal stages of disease and there were no adverse effects observed in these 2 patients which could be attributed to ninjinyoueito. The results suggest that ninjinyoueito may be a supplementary treatment for the maintenance of nutritional status in patients with a chronic respiratory disease accompanied by wasting, such as COPD.
- Subjects
CHRONICALLY ill; NUTRITIONAL status; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; PULMONARY fibrosis; PULMONARY emphysema
- Publication
Biomedical Reports, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 3, p121
- ISSN
2049-9434
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3892/br.2019.1267