Oral Preparations of Rauwolfia Serpentina in Treatment of Essential Hypertension
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Rauwolfia Serpentina in Essential Hypertension
jHauwolfia serpentina has been known as a medicinal plant in India for a long time but its use in the treatment of hypertension is of comparatively recent origin. The dried root contains 1 per cent of total alkaloids besides resin, starch, potassium carbonate, phosphate, silicate and traces of iron and manganese (Sen and Bose, 1931). Siddiqui and Siddiqui (1931) found two groups of alkaloids an...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1955
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.4917.809