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Pica: Treatment with Punica Granatum extract
- Source :
- Phytotherapy research : PTR. 35(9)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Pica is an eating disorder characterized by craving for nonfood items, such as dirt, clay, detergents, soap, stone, and paper. It occurs in children who start feeling the world with the oral cavity. The exact etiology of this disorder is still unknown; nonetheless, its treatment and prevalence vary according to patients' behavior and characteristics. We aim to present a case report of a patient with pica who was treated with Persian Traditional Medicine. This treatment was performed using four doses of 15 ml Punica granatum extract after every meal for 3 weeks while fasting before breakfast. The patient's appetite improve within 3 weeks, with remarkable improvement in pica symptoms. Punica granatum extract seems to be effective in controlling pica.
- Subjects :
- Male
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Craving
Oral cavity
Pomegranate
Medicine
Humans
Pica (disorder)
media_common
Pharmacology
Meal
biology
Traditional medicine
business.industry
Plant Extracts
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
Appetite
biology.organism_classification
Before Breakfast
Punica
Child, Preschool
Etiology
Pica
Medicine, Traditional
medicine.symptom
business
Phytotherapy
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10991573
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Phytotherapy research : PTR
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ed5f203ed6ea359f8c182ca2062e4c25