The Treatment of Trichuriasis with Leche De Higueron
Summary
- 1.Trichuris trichiura is not a harmless parasite but frequently gives rise to severe or even fatal disease.
- 2.We find in the literature no specific treatment.
- 3.Chenopodium does not remove this parastie.
- 4.Leche de Higueron offers a safe and hopeful means of treating this disease.
- 5.This juice possesses a slight vermicidal action on ascaris and ankylostoma.
- 6.In this series of cases, this treatment caused the passage of trichuris in 57 per cent of cases.
Author Notes
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