Questions:
1) Traditionally, Piscidia erythrina treats the pain associated with what condition?
2) Name the constituents in Humulus lupulus responsible for the herbs sedative effects?
3) The lectins from Viscum album have been shown to reduce the frequency and intensity of clinical signs and symptoms in patients with which hepatic condition?
4) What are two key respiratory indications for Aspidosperma quebracho?
5) Is Podophyllum peltatum safe during the first, second or third trimester?
Answers:
1) Neuralgia-historical use was for pain associated with a toothache.
2) Volatile oils- humulene, linalool, lupulone any myrcene
3) Hepatitis C
4) Asthma and emphysema.
5) None: this herb is teratogenic and feticidal.
Aspidosperma quebracho:
COMMON NAME: Quebracho.
Botanical Source.—This tree is a large evergreen, having pendant branchlets, bearing small elliptic-lanceolate, acutely-pointed leaves, which are opposite, or tri-verticillate, and subsessile. They have entire, stiff margins. The flowers are axillary, cymose, small, and yellow. The fruit is a ligneous capsule, containing seeds having broad wings.
Constituents: Alkaloids (6)
Specific Indications and Uses.—Dyspnoea of functional origin; dyspnoea with emphysema, face pale, anxious, and livid, lips cyanotic; pulse small, soft, compressible, irregular, or intermittent; orthopnoea; cardiac palpitation with cough.
Related Drugs.—Loxopterygium Lorentzii, Grisebach. Nat. Ord.: Terebinthaceae. The quebracho colorado of the Argentine Republic. The wood contains a large amount of tannin and a yellow coloring matter. Hesse obtained two alkaloids, both bitter in taste, one being unnamed and the other known as loxopterygine. The juice of the bark forms a resinous exudation not unlike kino, and is soluble in alcohol, wood alcohol, acetic acid, acetic ether, acetone, and boiling water (Arate). Has been used as a substitute for aspidosperma, but is weaker in action.
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