Latifi Seied Amirhossein, Minaiee Bagher, Kamalinejad Mohammad, Nazem Esmaeil, Gooran Shahram
School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran ; Department of Histology, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
Iran Red Crescent Med J. 2014 Apr;16(4):e13681. doi: 10.5812/ircmj.13681. Epub 2014 Apr 5.
The use of traditional medicine has been emerged in the treatment of BPS (bladder pain syndrome) due to its high prevalence and expenses and its insufficient treatment by conventional therapies. Iranian traditional medicine has discussed such diseases. Considering the signs and symptoms of BPS and "reeh", the proposed mechanism of flatulency as casualty of recurrent circulating pains seems to be a proper diagnose. So, as a preliminary study the authors administered Horse Mint as one of effective traditional herbs on flatulent pain in a patient with BPS.
A 60-year-old female was referred with the diagnosis of BPS. Six clinical visits with 2-week intervals were performed for patient, and the NIH-ICSI (National Institutes of Health Interstitial Cystitis Symptom Index) was completed, which was used as a pretreatment symptom quantifier and post-treatment outcome tool. Horse mint (Mentha longifolia) was prescribed twice a day for 12 weeks.
Clinical visits showed alleviation of signs, symptoms, and changes in the patient's NIH-ICSI score, suggesting further studies on this field.
由于膀胱疼痛综合征（BPS）患病率高、治疗费用高且传统疗法治疗效果不佳，传统医学已被用于其治疗。伊朗传统医学已探讨过此类疾病。考虑到BPS的体征和症状以及“reeh”，将肠胃胀气作为复发性循环疼痛病因的推测机制似乎是一种恰当的诊断。因此，作为一项初步研究，作者给一名患有BPS的患者服用了马薄荷，这是一种对肠胃胀气疼痛有效的传统草药之一。
一名60岁女性因BPS诊断前来就诊。对该患者进行了6次临床问诊，间隔为2周，并完成了美国国立卫生研究院间质性膀胱炎症状指数（NIH-ICSI），该指数用作治疗前症状量化指标和治疗后结果工具。开具马薄荷（长叶薄荷），每日服用两次，共12周。
临床问诊显示患者的体征、症状有所缓解，且NIH-ICSI评分发生变化，这表明需要对该领域进行进一步研究。
