M. K., a Burmese girl aged 15, had some ' colicky'' pains in the lower part of her abdomen towards the evening of the 3rd September, 1935, and to relieve her she was given a purgative. Next morning she purged and while straining down noticed some blood-tinged mucus coming from her rectum. The pains continued and became worse and were associated every now and then with the expression of some blo...

Cissus populnea has been used locally to treat many ailments such as venereal, stomach and skin infections; and also used as laxative or purgative. Economically it has been used as binder in food and in lining dye pits. This work aims at determining the type of anthraquinones from the stem bark of C. populnea which might be a potential source of drugs (laxative/cathartic) using thin layer chram...

Adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) phosphodiesterase inhibition testing provides a useful means for the screening of biologically active compounds contained in medicinal plants. We have identified cAMP phosphodiesterase inhibitors contained in various medicinal plants.2a-k) The present paper deals with the identification of cAMP phosphodiesterase inhibitors contained in the flowers and...

Costus speciosus (Koen) J.E. Sm. plant and its extracts are used for treatment of fever, snake bites, jaundice, and as a purgative, astringent and antibacterial agent. In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate in vitro antioxidant activity of different extracts of this plant by DPPH radical scavenging activity, total antioxidant capacity, nitric oxide scavenging activity, ion c...

Costus speciosus (Koen) J.E. Sm. plant and its extracts are used for treatment of fever, snake bites, jaundice, and as a purgative, astringent and antibacterial agent. In the present study, an attempt has been made to evaluate in vitro antioxidant activity of different extracts of this plant by DPPH radical scavenging activity, total antioxidant capacity, nitric oxide scavenging activity, ion c...

Sir,?I hope the following observation may be of some interest to your esteemed readers : Castor oil is protective and sedative while applied externally, a soothing application when dropped into the inflamed eye, a solvent for homatropine, and decidedly an excellent, mild and simple purgative, and a suitable remedy for getting lid of undigested food causing diarrhoea, a proper and favourite prep...

tinued ; barring complications of the kind, this lotion will cure almost every case of muco-purulent conj unctivitis within a few days, provided the affection arises from contagion or zymotic influences, the latter cause undoubtedly inducing by far the majority of instances we meet with in practice. If the nitrate of j silver appear3 to cause irritation or pain, cold water, or a weak | solution...

The paper reports the isolation and characterization of β-sitosterol, t-cinnamic acid [undecyl (E)-3-(4hydroxyphenyl)-2-propenoate], an unknown coumarin and a lignan type resin glycoside from the tuberous roots of Ipomoea digitata. The structures of the compounds were elucidated on the basis of extensive chemical and spectroscopic data. Importantly, one of the compounds exhibited significant an...

stage, I wanted to displace the ribs outwards and asked him to submit to surgical interference, w'hich he refused. Treatment.?Calcium, opium and a purgative by the mouth. I kept him without any pillow. I did not see the patient for five days and I was told that some evil spirit was working on him and this spirit had inflated his whole body and the man was unrecognisable, and many mantras were b...