Ten flatulent but otherwise healthy subjects were studied while consuming two or three different diets. Flatus collections showed that a bean-containing, high crude-fibre diet produced more flatus (mean 49.4 ml/hr) than either a diet with a restricted crude-fibre content (mean 26.7 ml/hr) or a liquid chemically defined diet (mean 10.9 ml/hr). There was a close correlation between the crude-fibr...

Colic is a common and annoying problem in infancy whose etiology is not well understood. Traditional Iranian Medicine (TIM) scientists know flatulent food effective in creating this disorder. Since the reduction or withdrawal of this kind of food in mother’s and infant’s nutrition can be effective in preventing flatulence, this study aims to study and identify flatulent foods and the mechanism ...

It has been proposed that duodenogastric reflux may be the basic underlying mechanism which gives rise to symptoms of flatulent dyspepsia. Fasting and postprandial gastric juice bile acid concentrations were measured in patients with flatulent dyspepsia with and without gall bladder disease and postcholecystectomy. There were 13 patients with gall bladder disease, 12 with normal gall bladders a...

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS This study covers a group of elderly persons who suffer from chronic atrophic gastritis and resulting vitamin B12 deficiency. Increasing weakness, loss of memory, and mental depression were common symptoms and flatulent dyspepsia was sometimes a troublesome recurring complaint. These symptoms were improved by treatment with vitamin B12. Even if untreated, persons in this grou...

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were improved but twenty-seven (30%/) were no better. Patients with a well-functioning gallbladder, demonstrated radiologically, were relieved significantly more often than those with a poor or non-functioning gallbladder. Fatty food precipitated the symptoms in the majority of patients. These figures suggest that there is neither a direct causal relationship between gallstones and flatulent dy...

BACKGROUND Male infertility accounts for 30-50% of all infertilities among couples. Iranian traditional medicine (ITM) stressed the importance of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of male infertility. Many Iranian traditional physicians have described the traits of specific foods for prevention and treatment of male infertility. OBJECTIVE To explore the principles and roles of foods r...