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Brand Names: XanGo Mangosteen juice
Generic Name: Mangosteen

What is Mangosteen? Mangosteen is a plant native to Southeast Asia. The fruits are used in traditional medicine to treat skin infections, wounds, and diarrhea. Recent studies have revealed that xanthones from the fruit hulls exhibit antibacterial, antifungal, and antiinflammatory, cytototoxic, and aromatase-inhibitory. Read more...Click to read more below


Reasons Taken

8 patients in the community are taking or have taken Mangosteen.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
General health 5 62%
Slow my ALS progress 3 37%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Mangosteen.

  0 mL day 3 mL day 6 day 220 mL day
  3 Number of Patients: 3 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Mangosteen or how long patients were taking Mangosteen before stopping.

Currently taking Mangosteen

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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Stopped taking Mangosteen

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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1
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Why Patients Stopped Taking Mangosteen (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Expense 2 67% Expense: 67%
Did not seem to work 1 33% Did not seem to work: 33%
Personal research 1 33% Personal research: 33%


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