Efficacy of “Stopmin” to Tinnitus and Deafness

Abstract

Authors experienced the treatment of tinnitus and deafness with “Stopmin”, contained the vasodilators, such as coffein, papaverin, nicotinic acid and vitamin B₁, etc, administrating 2 tablets 3 times a day.
Those tinnitus (158 ears) and deafness (84 ears) included various kinds of impairment, such as nerve deafness of unknown cause, acoustic trauma, streptomycin deafness, Ménière's disease, intoxic deafness, catarrh of middle ear, perforation of tympanic membrane, otitis media etc.
The results were as follows
(a) For tinnitus
(1) The effectiveness was performed in 64.0% of the cases. Tinnitus disappeared perfectly in 15.1% of all cases.
(2) Especially effective for the cases with tinnitus which caused in chronic middle ear catarrh, nerve-deafness of unknown cause, cranial trauma and streptomycin-intoxication.
(3) Effective not only for the lowtone tinnitus but also for the high tone tinnitus.
(4) Unexpectedly effective for the protracted tinnitus, such as for several years or ten years.
(5) To get a favorable effect,“Stopmin” should be administrated for more than 20 days.
(b) For deafness.
(1) The efficacy was 47.6% in the lump.
(2) Effective not only for nerve deafness of unknomin cause, acoustic trauma, cranial trauma, but also for streptomycin-deafness finely.
(3) Regarding to the types of audiogram, remarkably effectivs for the horizontol type and the concave type, even for the abrupt type in high frequencies.
(4) Preferable to administrate “Stopmin” for more than 40 days to get a good efficacy. Authors confirmed that “Stopmin” was finely effective for tinnitus and deafness.