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Arobon in the Treatment of Infantile Gastro-Enteritis: A Clinical Trial

1949; BMJ; Volume: 24; Issue: 117 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/adc.24.117.41

1468-2044

D.W. Gareth Beynon,

Infant Health and Development

In recent years a new therapeutic agent, ' arobon,' has been used in Spain, Switzerland, and other continental'countries in the treatment of gastro- intestinal disorders in infants.Arobon is a powder prepared from the bean of the carob tree, Ceratonia Siliqua, which grows abundantly on the shores of the Mediterranean.During the Spanish Civil War Professor Ramos (1941) noticed that the children of the poor in Barcelona who ate large quantities of carob bean tended to constipation and also were less subject to gastro-enteritis than were the better fed.This led him to use the roasted pulp of the bean mixed with starch in the treatment of gastro-enteritis, and with this mixture he claimed good results.Similar trials were carried out by Rozalen Sales (1942) and by Anton (1943).Following these results Messrs. Nestle Ltd., in Switzerland, marketed a product of the carob bean mixed with starch and cocoa under the name of 'Arobon,' and this has since been used in several continental countries in the treatment of gastroenteritis and other intestinal disorders with much reported success.