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KMID : 0861120150190010083
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Korean Journal of Oriental Preventive Medicine
2015 Volume.19 No. 1 p.83 ~ p.93
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Necessity for Revising Efficacy of Herbal Medicines Based on Low Back Pain Prescription
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Jang Soo-Bin
Jang Bo-Hyoung
Shin Yong-Cheol
Ko Seong-Gyu
Go Ho-Yeon
Song Yun-Kyung
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Abstract
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Objective : There are many documents that explain efficacy of herbal medicine products (HMP), however, explanations on efficacy are not consistent with the clinical use. The objective of this study is to identify the differences between herbal medicines used in clinics and Korean Medicine literatures. The disease was restricted in low back pain (LBP).
Method : In order to investigate HMP for the treatment of LBP, we selected five Korean medical documents as reference and searched for key words related to LBP. Five databases were Information on Herbal prescription published by Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, 56 Herbal Medicines covered with Health Insurance, Guideline for prescribing herbal medicines announced by Ministry Health & Welfare, Explanation on Herbal Medicines published by Korean Pharmaceutical Association, website of Korea Pharmaceutical Information Center (http://www.health.kr/). The keywords were ‘low back pain’, ‘lumbar’, ‘pain’, ‘myalgia’, ‘neuralgia’, ‘arthralgia’, ‘arthroneuralgia’, and ‘sciatica’. We also utilized the result of retrospective cross-sectional study in five university hospitals to investigate HMP used in practice for LBP.
Results : From five databases, the number of searched HMP was 25, 12, 40, 12 and 38 respectively and 83 remained after removing duplications. There were 43 kinds of HMP used in clinical practice and only 20 (46.51 %) were included in one or more databases.
Conclusion : This study suggests the necessity for reorganizing efficacy of herbal medicine. Standardizing explanation on herbal medicine should reflect the clinical conditions in further study.
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KEYWORD
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Herbal medicine, Korean medicine, Low back pain, Treatment outcome
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