Iwasaki Koh, Kurachi Motonari, Nogami Tatsuya, Takayama Shin
Division of Internal Medicine, Miyama Hospital, Oshu, Iwate Prefecture, Japan.
Department of Japanese Oriental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, Japan.
J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Sep 30;8(9):3059-3060. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_670_19. eCollection 2019 Sep.
Banxia Houpu Tang, a traditional Chinese medicine, helped in initiating oral feeding in a stroke patient, after three years of nasogastric tube feeding. This Chinese medicine has potential in eliminating the need for nasogastric feeding and for physical restraints in geriatric individuals after a stroke.