Venlafaxine is a synthetic phenethylamine bicyclic derivative with antidepressant activity. Venlafaxine and its active metabolite, O-desmethylvenlafaxine (ODV), are potent inhibitors of neuronal serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake and weak dopamine reuptake inhibitors. This agent may reduce hormone-related vasomotor symptoms. (NCI04) Venlafaxine is a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor widely used as an antidepressant. Venlafaxine therapy can be associated with transient asymptomatic Read More …
Month: November 2018
Veratrum Album; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Veratrum album is a poisonous plant that can easily be mistaken for the yellow gentian, Gentiana lutea, used in beverages. Two adult men were brought to the emergency department six hours after drinking gentian spirit. Each presented with nausea and Read More …
Squilla Maritima; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Squilla maritima is commonly known as Squill, Sea Onion, or Scilla maritima. It is a red or white bulb grown in the Mediterranean that contains several glycosides. Toxicity can cause 2nd and 3rd-degree heart blocks, hot, dry skin with an Read More …
Causticum; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Causticum is used often in homeopathic practice, either as an individual remedy or in combination remedies. It is used as a remedy for chronic disease, wound healing (including second- and third-degree burns), and to increase energy levels as demonstrated in Read More …
Carbo Vegetabilis; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Carbo vegetabilis is a remedy that is often used in debilitated or collapsed states, with systems primarily on the physical level A homeopathic remedy used for fatigue following an illness, shock or surgery, as well as for suboptimal oxygenation; it has Read More …
Cantharis; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Cantharis vesicatoria (blister beetle) is used in Chinese medicine and has been categorized as highly toxic in the Chinese pharmacopeia. In Europe, Cantharis patches have been used since ages to treat various skin-related diseases. We investigated the cytotoxicity of the Read More …
Berberis; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Berberis is particularly important in traditional medicine and the food basket of Iranians. Given various plants from genus Berberis and their economic, nutritional, and medicinal status in Iran, this study seeks to investigate the findings of recent studies on the phytochemical characteristics, specifications, Read More …
Robinia; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Robinia is a nonindigenous species currently invading the central part of Japanese grasslands. Several allelochemicals were identified and characterized from the leaf tissue. The growth of both radicle and hypocotyl in the tested species (barnyard grass, white clover, lettuce, and Read More …
Nux Vomica; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Nux vomica (family Loganiaceae) is commonly known as kuchla. It is a major source of the highly poisonous, intensely bitter alkaloids strychnine and brucine derived from the seeds inside the tree’s round, green to orange fruit.[1] The seeds contain approximately 1.5% strychnine, and the dried blossoms contain 1.0%.[2] However, Read More …
Natrum Phosphoricum; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Natrum phosphoricum is one of the key remedies for grief and depression. A keynote of this remedy is the tendency for nocturnal seminal. Natrum phosphoricum may be recommended when the patient has a pale, bluish cast of the face, canker sores and blisters on the tip Read More …
Acemetacin; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Acemetacin is a carboxymethyl ester of indomethacin. It is a potent non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, derived from the indol-3-acetic acid, whose activity is thought to be mainly through its active metabolite indomethacin. In clinical trials, acemetacin exhibits a better gastric tolerability compared to its active metabolite indometacin. It Read More …
Kali Bichromicum; Uses, Dosage, Site Effects, Interactions
Kali bichromicum is a homeopathic remedy that is suitable to treat people with periodic arthritis and arthritis alternating with other complaints such as sinusitis, asthma and digestive disorders. The periodicity of the disease is often fixed, for example, every spring Read More …