Vitamin B3 Healing Properties, Deficiency Symptoms and Precautions

Vitamin B3 Healing Properties, Deficiency Symptoms and Precautions

Vitamin B3 Deficiency symptoms

1. A mild deficiency of niacin may result in a coated tongue, sores in the mouth, irritability, nervousness, skin lesions, diarrhoea, forgetfulness, insomnia, chronic headaches, digestive disorders, and anaemia.
2. Severe prolonged deficiency may cause neurasthenia (weakness of the nerves), mental disturbances, depression, mental dullness, and disorientation.

Vitamin B3 healing properties

Large doses of upto 100 mg or 100,000 mcg of niacin with each meal, preferably taken together with other B group vitamins, provide tremendous relief in cases of pellagra, migraine, headaches, high blood pressure caused by nervousness high blood cholesterol, arteriosclerosis, and diarrhoea.

Precautions

1. The use of large doses of niacin for long periods-causes release of histamine. This in turn can cause severe flushing, severe itching of the skin (pruritls), and gastro-intestinal disturbances.
2. If taken in doses of 3 g per day, niacin has been reported to cause elevation of uric acid in the blood and glucose.

What are the Sources of Vitamin B3?

What is Vitamin B3 or Niacin?

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