The article aims to reconstruct the perspective of bodily pathology underpinning Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the play, Scotland's body politic is frequently depicted as a macro-system suffering from a complexional imbalance of digestive origins. More specifically, Scotland comes over as a huge stomach strangled by a carcinogenic foreign body in need of being "raze[d] out". Since traditional purga...

A 29-year-old, Ethiopian-born, female student in her fourth year at a local college traveled from Houston to Mexico City during a Christmas vacation. While in Mexico City, she recalled eating uncooked beef. Several weeks after returning to Houston, she noticed white, moving objects in her stool. The objects were flat and variable in length, up to several centimeters. She was concerned that the ...

The present review of Michelia champaca L. includes its traditional uses, pharmacological activities and presence of various phytochemicals. The essential oil obtained from the flowers has useful application in perfumery and pharmaceutical industries. The plant is traditionally used for the treatment of fever, colic, leprosy and for curing cough and rheumatism. Bark is stimulant, diuretic and u...

There are approximately 28 species of Aerva genus, but only a few species are medicinal of which A. persica, A. lanata and A. javanica are of great value. A number of flavonol glycosides (e.g., aervanone, kaempferol-3-galactoside, isorhamnetin-3-O-β-D-glucoside) have been reported from Aerva persica as major phytoconstituents and the minor constituents are β-cyanins (glycine betaine and trigone...

she \ln^ ?f Pa'n *n the right side, over the region of the gall-bladder; ?Vass\'ghtly jaundiced, and under treatment improved somewhat, Peedily relapsed and the jaundice became very marked. aboutn one occasion, about the beginning of July, I was called to her p 1 a.m., and found her with typical symptoms of biliary colic. froju i?111 this time the jaundice increased, bile was entirely absent he...

more or less abdominal tenderness in spots. The fever, which often runs rather high and which may or may not be preceded by a rigor, generally lasts for some days, but gives way atonce to an efficient purgative, with or without a dose of quinine. The cases are epidemic, endemic or sporadic. The tongue is red, rather dry, with a high standing white or yellow fur, and sometimes with "strawberry" ...

BACKGROUND Da Chengqi Tang (DCT) is a common purgative formula in Chinese medicine. Flavanones are its major active compounds derived from Fructus Aurantii Immaturus. The present study developed an LC-MS/MS method to characterize two pairs of flavanone 7-glycoside isomers, i.e., hesperidin versus neohesperidin and naringin versus isonaringin. METHODS After solid phase purification, components...