VALERIAN.

Valerian -- American Family Physician

Several clinical studies have shown that valerian is effective in the treatment of insomnia, most often by reducing sleep latency. A double-blind, placebo-controlled trial compared a 400-mg aqueous extract of valerian and a commercial valerian/hops preparation with placebo of encapsulated brown sugar. A total of 128 volunteers completed a subjective study evaluating the effects of single doses ...

Professor Valerian P. Bulatov

The 15th Baikal International School-Seminar on OPTIMIZATIONMETHODS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS is dedicated to the memory of Professor Valerian Pavlovich Bulatov.

Valerian: No Evidence for Clinically Relevant Interactions

In recent popular publications as well as in widely used information websites directed to cancer patients, valerian is claimed to have a potential of adverse interactions with anticancer drugs. This questions its use as a safe replacement for, for example, benzodiazepines. A review on the interaction potential of preparations from valerian root (Valeriana officinalis L. root) was therefore cond...

The Mathematics of Lars Valerian Ahlfors

Lars Valerian Ahlfors died October 11, 1996, and a memorial article appears elsewhere in this issue. This feature article contains three essays about different aspects of his mathematics. Ahlfors’s contributions were so substantial and so diverse that it would not be possible to do all of them justice in an article of this scope (the reference [36] serves as a detailed map of Ahlfors’s contribu...

Valerian - A Sleep Aid and Anxiolytic