Traditional remedies put animal species at risk

Safety of Traditional Remedies

Contents 1. Introduction―safety of phytotherapeutic preparations 2. Examples of safety issue with traditional remedies 2.1. Acute toxicity 2.2. Chronic Toxicity 2.3. Drug interactions 2.4. Adulterations 2.5. Quality of botanical products used 3. How frequent are toxic effects of traditional remedies 4. Quality control measures 5. Toxicity of traditional medicines – a public health perspective 6...

Managing Value at Risk Using Put Options

A natural approach to reducing the risk of a position in stock, is by buying put options on the underlying. We consider a model where the Value at Risk is taken as measure of risk, in the framework of the BlackScholes model. We show a method for the choice of the optimal strike price of the options, and provide an analytic formula for the optimal Value at Risk, for arbitrary hedging expenditure...

The faunal drugstore: Animal-based remedies used in traditional medicines in Latin America

Zootherapy is the treatment of human ailments with remedies made from animals and their products. Despite its prevalence in traditional medical practices worldwide, research on this phenomenon has often been neglected in comparison to medicinal plant research. This review discusses some related aspects of the use of animal-based remedies in Latin America, identifies those species used as folk r...

Do Maladaptive Schemas Put Young People at Risk for Addiction?

The use of psychoactive drugs is a wide spread phenomenon which occurs in virtually all cultures of the world. Most people who consume psychoactive substances may control their consumption well over their whole life span and even draw benefits from it (1). In a minority of the users , however, controlled drug use can make a transition to drug addiction. This is a psychiatric disorder which requ...

do maladaptive schemas put young people at risk for addiction?