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KMID : 0363320090300010228
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Journal of Korean Oriental Internal Medicine
2009 Volume.30 No. 1 p.228 ~ p.232
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Chronic Iron Deficiency Anemia Treated with Bojungicki-tang : A Case Report
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Son Chang-Gue
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Abstract
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Objective: To expend the oriental medicine-based strategies or therapeutics for anemia, including iron deficiency anemia.
Methods: A 23 year-old man suffering from severe and chronic iron deficiency anemia was believed to have disorder of iron absorption. He had neither specific medical cause nor positive response to western treatments. Blood and biochemical parameters such as levels of hemoglobin, ferritin, transferrin and serum iron were serially chased during treatments.
Result: Bojungicki-tang was given to the patient based on diagnosis as a deficiency of spleen qi. The hemoglobin level was normalized along with administration of Bojungicki-tang. Also, the distortions of biochemical indicators (ferritin, transferrin and serum iron) reached a normal range within three months.
Conclusion: Bojungicki-tang could be a curing remedy for iron deficiency anemia caused by problems in iron absorption if symptom-differentiation has deficiency of spleen qi.
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KEYWORD
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Iron Deficiency Anemia, Bojungicki-tang, Oriental medicine, Herbs
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