PMID: 7336705Jan 1, 1981Paper

Use of an herbal combination with laxative action on duodenal peptic ulcer and gastroduodenitis patients with a concomitant obstipation syndrome

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M MatevI Angelov

Abstract

Thirty two patients were treated--19 with duodenal ulcer and 19 with gastroduodenitis, all of them with concomitant obstipation syndrome. The patients were treated with a combination of Symphitum officinalis and Calendula officinales form the main disease. The obstipation syndrome was treated with a combination of Rhamus frangula, Citrus aurantium, Carum carvi. The laxative herb combination was effective in 100 per cent of the patients--daily defecation in 90.6 per cent and every second day in 9.4 per cent of the patients was attained. No effect on gastric mucosa was established as well as on the clinical effect of the main disease and on the percentage of the ulcer niche healing.

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