Clinical Efficacy of Shitei-decoction for Hiccups

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We examined the clinical efficacy of shitei-decoction in 108 patients with hiccups with respect to various factors influencing them : sex, age, other drugs for hiccups, use of benzodiazepines, malignant tumors, use of antitumor agents, metastasis, complications and stress. Hiccups completely disappeared in 63 of the 108 patients following the administration of shitei-decoction, a rate of 58.3%. However, if we judge efficacy by the sum of patients whose hiccups disappeared and those who experienced remission, the efficacy rate for shitei-decoction was 82.4%. The chi-square test showed that there was no significant correlation between the above hiccup influencing factors and the efficacy of shitei-decoction. Despite previous reports to the contrary, there was no correlation between the efficacy of shitei-decoction and co-administration of benzodiazepines. However, the efficacy of shitei-decoction tended to be higher in patients with brain metastasis, suggesting that efficacy may be greater for central hiccups than peripheral hiccups.
日本医療薬学会の論文
2005-03-10