Allergic rhinitis (AR) is the chronic type of that arises due to hypersensitivity response. It caused by nasal mucosa inflammation and becomes a social burden in later stages. Ponicidin diterpenoid isolated from herbs like Rabdosia rubescens possesses anti-inflammatory properties. Hence, present study was designed analyze effects against AR using ovalbumin (OVA)-sensitized murine model also rev...

Touch can be seen as inherently human. From the earliest times of Man’s development, touch has been part of everyday rituals and life – varying between affectionate touch, through neutral touch of everyday life to aggressive touch for establishing dominance in a group or for self defence, often needing therapeutic touch as a consequence. The latter taking the form of rubbing, kneading, effleura...

Infusion of physiological saline solution into the lumen of a tonically contracted resistance artery in vitro caused active relaxation. After endothelium removal by rubbing, confirmed by scanning electron microscopy and loss of the relaxation response to acetylcholine (1 microM), flow relaxation was reduced from a mean of 70% to 37%. The latter change was significant (p less than 0.01). It is c...

Massage therapy is older than recorded time, and rubbing was the primary form of medicine until the pharmaceutical revolution of the 1940s. Popularized again as part of the alternative medicine movement, massage therapy has recently received empirical support for facilitating growth, reducing pain, increasing alertness, diminishing depression, and enhancing immune function. In this article stud...

Frotteurism or Frottage is defined by Solomon and Patch (1971) as "sexual pleasure obtained by rubbing or pressing against the object, usually fully clothed woman. It commonly takes place in subways and other crowded situations and may pass unnoticed by the victim. Frotteurs are perverts only if this is the sole mode of obtaining orgasm. Little is known of its psychopathology, but it is thought...

We report on the effects of an electrical charge on mechanical loss of a fused silica disk. A degradation of Q was seen that correlated with charge on the surface of the sample. We examine a number of models for charge damping, including eddy current damping and loss due to polarization. We conclude that rubbing friction between the sample and a piece of dust attracted by the charged sample is ...