Reprinted from: The PV Foundation News, Issue 7, Page 5. Nutritional Research News To augument the article on vegetables belonging to the Allium group presented by Dr. Sarah Brenner in the last newsletter, we will site a case history presented in the European Journal of Dermatology by researchers at the Warsaw School of Medicine, Warshaw, Poland, and Keio University, School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. The case presented was one of a 42 year old woman diagnosed with pemphigus vulgaris who showed no skin lesions, only mouth sores. During her first hospitalization, the lesions regressed before any therapy was introduced. The woman was discharged and no treatment was instituted. The woman was hospitalized three more times with the recurrence of mouth sores, and each time the lesions regressed before any therapy was introduced, and she was sent home again without treatment. The physicians realized that maybe something in her home was causing the outbreaks. She was asked about her diet and said that she did not eat onions and garlic because she did not like them, but she said that leeks were a main component of her three meals a day. The woman did not believe that the leeks were causing the problem and refused to give them up, but upon another recurrence, she stopped eating the leeks. After her sores cleared up, she returned to eating leeks, had a recurrence and then saw for herself that the leeks were the culprit. She then agreed to eat a leek-free diet. Her titer count decreased and eventually became hardly detectable. Three months after she continued on a leek-free diet, she was still clear of lesions.