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Diospyrobezoar is a type of phytobezoar formed from unripe persimmons. [7] Coca-Cola has been used to treat them. [8] [9] [10] Trichobezoar is a bezoar formed from hair [11] – an extreme form of hairball. Humans who frequently consume hair sometimes require these to be removed. In cases of Rapunzel syndrome, surgery may be required.
In addition to Coca-Cola, meat tenderizer has been used to dissolve bezoars of the stomach. [10] [11] When treatment with Coca-Cola is combined with endoscopic methods, the success of treatment approaches 90%. [6] The mechanism by which Coca-Cola dissolves the bezoar is based upon its low pH, CO 2 bubbles, and sodium bicarbonate content. [9]
Generally, bezoars can be found in the stomach in less than 0.5% of patients having an esophagogastroduodenoscopy. [4] The formation of diospyrobezoars from persimmons is due to a chemical reaction between stomach acid and phlobatannin contained in the persimmon. [ 9 ]
Bezoardicum (bezoar of) is a term applied to multiple substances used in alchemy and other practices: Bezoardicum joviale, or bezoar of Jupiter, is a regulus made by melting three ounces of regulus of antimony and two of block tin. This is then powdered and mixed with six ounces of corrosive sublimate and distilled off in a kind of butter.
A Goa stone or Lapis de Goa was a man-made bezoar that was considered to have medicinal and talismanic properties. Goa stones were made in Goa, India and exported to apothecaries in Europe from the mid-16th to 18th century. [1] Goa stones were manufactured by Jesuits in the late seventeenth century in Goa because naturally occurring bezoars ...
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The bezoars may also be surgically removed by veterinarians when working cattle become ill. In Western countries, they are usually discarded. Its equivalent in Hindu culture is Gorochana. Calculus bovis have a color varying from golden yellow to brownish yellow.
Rapana bezoar is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. [1] Description. This section is empty.