The authors tried a new barium opaque, “Barer Relief”, for the x-ray relief of digestive organ, by means of Acacia powder, Mineral oil and Barium, in which Acacia powder works as protective colloid. Our opaque, “Barex Relief” is composed of 20cc of mineral oil, 10g of acacia powder, 30cc of water and 104g of barium. The authors applied the “barex relief” in 450 cases and obtained successful relieves in their x-ray diagnosis. For the x-ray examination of oesophageal mucosal pattern, patients were given one tea-spoonful of “barer-relief”. As soon as the excess passed through oesophagus, generally, the residual layer adhered to the walls so that a sharper and clearer images could be obtained for several minutes. Moreover, our method was proved to be efficient in the early diagnosis of small infiltrating lesions of lower oesophagus, where ordinary barium relief failed to give pathological picture. Three cases of oesophageal varices were detected in our patients with cirrhosis of liver. For the x-ray examination of gastric mucosal pattern, our procedure was to use one tablespoonful of “barer-relieft”, which was distributed over the mucosa of stomach through palpation at various positionings by the patients. This method was proved to be efficient in the visualization of gastric mucosal pattern on a single x-ray film, especially, of the total region of stomach and full defects, ulcerations or various pictures of gastritis. For the x-ray examination of intestinal crassum mucosal pattern, “fbarex-relief” was diluted 3 times with lucid water and the double contrast technique with Fischer's method was conducted. The method was successful in the detection of inflammation, polyp, and ulceration of intestinm crasum.
