[Effect of a "green" diet on various clinical and metabolic indicators in patients with gastrointestinal diseases].

The authors recommend that patients with all chronic diseases of the alimentary organs, particularly with colonic function abnormalities should receive, with the exception of patients with disease exacerbations, salads from raw vegetables (100 g 3 times a day) before meal being a constituent part of the balanced diet. The diet containing salad from raw vegetables was received by 93 inpatients with different chronic diseases of the alimentary tract, gastroduodenal ulcer included. The patients did not exhibit intolerance provided the salad was made properly. Pain and meteorism disappeared or were relieved, intestinal evacuation returned to normal in the majority of patients.