Opium is a drug being used in modern medicine as well as in homeopathy. Despite of the same source, both the pathies have different principles and indications. Opium is an alkaloid having main action on CNS. So in this study, we evaluated the effect of different dilutions of Opium in homeopathic potencies on CNS in mice and compared with that of Pentazocine. We divided forty mice of either sex ...

E xpanded flap method for microtia reconstruction is widely used in clinical practice, including expanded 1-flap method and expanded 2-flap method. However , the color, texture, and thickness of the expanded flap can influence the appearance of the reconstructed ear markedly. 1956 patients with microtia or anotia were treated in our department in which 391 patients were treated by expanded one-...

To the Editor, Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In my article " Clinical Studies on Digitalis in Bengal," which appeared in the Indian Medical Gazette of April 1924, it was stated as a result of therapeutic tests on a large series of cases of heart failure in Calcutta that there is 110 tincture of digitalis that acts in the dose of 5 to 8 drms. as in "Europe and America. On the other hand, it was e...

Several sub-committees are reporting on the work that has been done since the last meeting of the Health Committee in June, 1923. Thus the Opium Sub-Committee?made up of members of the Opium and Health Committees?has undertaken an inquiry into the average amounts of opium and dangerous drugs required by each country annually for medical and scientific purposes, and the best way of pursuing furt...

In this study, we have chosen HPTLC as a method of analysis to develop a standard procedure based on fingerprinting characteristics for the evaluation of homoeopathic formulations. A simple and accurate HPTLC method has been developed for the quantification of BacosideA and fingerprinting of the in-house mother tincture considered here to be a standard with that of different marketed samples av...

I then started the use of salol locally, arid tincture iodine injections intravenously in alternate cases. The results were most gratifying; but with far-reaching, quicker, and greater beneficial action with the iodine injections than the salol dusting. I invariably start with an injection of tincture iodine m. v. in 1 c.c. normal saline solution, and go up to m. xx. in 10 c.c.'s. The injection...

Opium addiction and cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) are endemic in different parts of Iran, particularly in Bam, where a massive earthquake occurred. This study was designed to compare the incidence rate and severity of CL cases among opium addicted and non-addicted individuals in south-eastern Iran. This study was carried out as a prospective cohort by active house-to-house visits of 1,481 habita...

BACKGROUND There is evidence that opium addiction has immunosuppressant effects. Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a condition resulted from atherosclerosis which is dependent on the immune response. PURPOSE To evaluate plasma levels of interleukin-6 and interleukin-1Ra in 30 patients with three-vessel coronary artery disease, ejection fraction of more than 35% and to evaluate their changes af...

Background/Aims. Destructive and metabolic changes in hepatobiliary system have been demonstrated following opium use; however, cholangiographic features of bile ducts in opium-addicted patients with sphincter of Oddi dysfunction are not clearly determined. We described these differences and assessed the effects of opium use on postendoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography complications. M...