• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.284-288
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• 2005

The main symptoms of the Wallenberg's syndrome are ataxia of gait, clumsiness of ipsilateral limbs, nausea and vomiting, vertigo, visual disturbance such as difficulty in focusing blurred vision diplopia, numbness, dysphagia, hoarseness, hiccup, nystagmus, Horner's syndrome. The purpose of this paper is to report the patient with the Wallenberg's syndrome who was improved by oriental medical treatment. The vertigo of the Wallenberg's syndrome is classed as the pungwhadam(風火痰) and we prescribed Cheonghunhwadam-tang. The intensity and frequency of vertigo wewe dramayically improved.