1st July last, page 197), has given a faint idea of the medicinal properties of the oil of ?' Argemone Mexicana"?Linn. Ccalled in Bengal Slie-al Kanta, and in Upper India Karivah). He was not aware that a number of experiments have been made in Oudh, which prove it to be a much more useful oil than for the mere purposes of burning. Some time ago I read in Simmond's '' Commercial Products of the...

Objective: We report an outbreak of epidemic dropsy following ingestion of cooking groundnut-oil adulterated with Argemone oil. Methods: We describe 40 patients (18 families) from three towns in Gujarat in 1998, affected with epidemic dropsy during an outbreak and its control measures. They were successfully treated with supportive measures and antioxidants. The outbreak control measures used w...

In the present study methanolic and ethyl acetate extracts of Argemone mexicana whole plant (Papaveraceae) were tested orally in swiss albino mice at doses of 100 mg/kg, 200 mg/kg and 400 mg/kg b.w. for CNS related activities. Papaveraceae family is known to have CNS depressant activity, so A. mexicana was evaluated for CNS activities. Significant central and peripheral nociceptive activity was...

Chopra et al. (1939) showed, by a controlled feeding experiment in man, that argemone oil (expressed from the seeds of a weed Argemone mexicana) produces symptoms resembling those of epidemic dropsy. In this experiment five individuals, who ate food cooked in mustard oil containing known quantities of argemone oil, developed well-marked oedema and two of them showed the characteristic flushed a...

background:epidemic dropsy occurs due to ingestion of mustard oil contaminated with oil from argemone mexicana, leading to edema and tenderness of the abdomen, upper and lower limbs. in this study, clinical profiles of patients presented with epidemic dropsy in north india are described. methods: this was a prospective study of patients presented with epidemic dropsy to the emergency department...

Objectives: The current study was planned to evaluate the phytochemical analysis of chloroform, ethanolic extracts and acute toxicity study of the root of Argemone mexicana. Methods: The soxhalate extraction and standard methods were used for extractions and phytochemical analysis. The drug was administration orally and animal’s observed from cage side observations. Animals were anesthetized wi...

Laboratory experiments were conducted to evaluate the allelopathic effects of the water extract of Argemone mexicana L. on the seed germination, plumule length, radicle length, fresh and dry weight in Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor Moench). The allelopathic potentialities of leaf extracts of A.mexicana decreased the seed germination of Sorghum bicolor with raise of extracts concentration. The extract...

objective: argemone mexicana is a papaveracea plant; some reports have shown their antibacterial, anti-cancer, sedative and probably anti-anxiety properties. from their aerial parts, flavonoids and alkaloids have been isolated, which are intrinsically related to some actions on the central nervous system. the aim of this study was to evaluate the anxiolytic-like effects of the plant, using its ...

CYP719A14 structure analysis and its interaction with ligands via bioinformatic methods. Methods. Homologous modeling of three-dimensional enzyme. Molecular docking. Results. enzyme, which shows cheilanthifoline synthase activity, model was build based on results homologous modeling. Interaction built possible substrates – benzylisoquinoline compounds: (S)-Scoulerine, (S)-Cheilanthifoline, (S)-...

Epidemic dropsy is a disease occurring in epidemic or endemic form characterized clinically by (edema, erythema, cutaneous nodules, diarrhoea, cardiac failure, glaucoma and/or abortion in pregnant women. Pathologically there is an extensive dilatation and engorgement of the capillaries in the skin and the internal organs. Its ajtiology has been traced to the use of adulterated mustard oil, the ...