Orthomolecular psychiatry#Pyroluria

Hämopyrrollaktamurie ( HPU ), kryptopyrroluria ( KPU ) or Malvaria is a postulated of orthomolecular medicine syndrome, which is marketed as a manifestation of porphyrinuria with numerous symptoms related to, but their clinical significance is not widely recognized and counted towards alternative medicine.

It is supposedly a genetic metabolic disorder that leads through the excretion of pyrroles in the urine to a deficiency of vitamin B6 and zinc in particular, but this can not be detected in the blood.

As a diagnostic procedure, the detection of Hemopyrrollactamcomplex applies some supporters of orthomolecular medicine in the urine. In Germany the so-called HPU tests are not recognized by health insurance, but can be carried out free of charge at his own request. Others see as the consequences of this disease that the memory capacity is for acoustic information that have not been understood, reduced and memories of the dreams of the night would be impossible. This is also my followers to use orthomolecular medicine diagnostic.

The clinical picture of Hämopyrrollaktamurie and the effectiveness of appropriate therapies could in independent clinical trials to date not been demonstrated.

Some supporters of orthomolecular medicine claim that diagnostic difficulties in the analysis of urine have meant that this syndrome has not been programmed on studies, but no studies have presented with conflicting results.