Medicinal Plants Used for Abdominal Discomfort - Information from Cancer Patients and Medical Students.

Background/aim: Abdominal discomfort during tumour therapy often leads to the use of phytotherapeutics from the field of folk medicine. What knowledge base do patients and young physicians have when they come across this phenomenon together?

Patients And Methods: We conducted an online survey of 157 medical students and, in consultation, 125 patients according to a standardised algorithm about their knowledge and use of a list of given medicinal plants for the above-mentioned symptomatology. We previously created the list of traditional German medicinal plants taking into account the symptoms of bloating, fullness, diarrhoea, constipation, and nausea.