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KMID : 0608520090150030063
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Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
2009 Volume.15 No. 3 p.63 ~ p.74
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Comparative Analysis of Korean, Chinese and Japanese Articles about Oncheongeum Used for Curing Atopic Dermatitis
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Kang Hwi-Joong
Lee Hyang-Im
Cho Young-Joo
Joo Myung-Soo
Kwon Young-Kyu
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Abstract
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Background and Purpose : Oncheongeum(溫淸飮) composed of Samultang(四物湯) and Hwangryunhaedoktang(黃連解毒湯) was mainly used for healing metrorrhagia in the Qing dynasty of China. At present, Oncheongeum is used for treating a broad spectrum of diseases such as skin disease, stomatitis, behcets disease, diabetes mellitus and, especially in Japan, atopic dermatitis. To our knowledge, however, neither the precise constituents and their effects of Oncheongeum nor the criteria for the prescription of Oncheongeum were defined. To address this issue, we searched and performed analysis of Korean, Chinese and Japanese articles reporting the clinical and experimental studies of Oncheongeum.
Methods : We searched articles in the national assembly library of Korea by using keyword ‘Oncheongeum’ korean. Similarly, we did chinese articles in the CNKI and japanese ones in the CiNii, respectively.
Results : We found 13 korean articles about Oncheongeum in the national assembly library, 34 chinese articles in the CNKI, and 23 japanese in the CiNii. The papers were divided into clinical and experimental articles. The clinical articles were mainly published from China and Japan, and their subjects were predominantly on skin diseases.
Conclusions : There were a lot of case reports about Oncheongeum used in the clinical studies. In order to better understand the effects of Oncheongeum, systematic review of the studies seems essential. The efficacy of Oncheongeum reported in the clinical studies should be supported by experimental data. Not much were clinical reports in Korea, although we are expecting more to come. It is possible to not only analyse but compare Oncheongeum with other prescriptions used for atopic dermatitis. More comprehensive and comparative analysis of three countries’ prescriptions might provide a way of how to standardize prescriptions, which leads oriental medicine to an evidence based medicine.
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KEYWORD
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Oncheongeum, Prescription, Skin disease, Atopic dermatitis, Korean, Chinese, Japanese articles, Comparative analysis
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