title: Complementary treatment in chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a case report study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Clinical visits showed alleviation of signs, symptoms, and changes in the patient's NIH-ICSI score, suggesting further studies on this field.
authors.affiliation: School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Seied Amirhossein
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Latifi
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Bagher
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Minaiee
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kamalinejad
authors.affiliation: School of Traditional Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Esmaeil
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nazem
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran.
authors.forename: Shahram
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gooran
keywords: Medicine, Traditional; Pelvic Pain; Treatment