Pharmacology

Hallucinogens In Your Medicine Cabinet

One of the crazy repercussions of the idiotic “war on drugs”, apart from destruction of innocent lives and whole countries like Mexico and the US, is that you cannot openly buy many quite harmless substances while relatively dangerous ones are freely avail ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 14 2011 - 2:54am

Fish Oil's Anti-Inflammatory Secret Revealed

Fish oil has been used as an anti-inflammatory (and a lot of other things) but scientists haven't been sure how the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil work in that capacity but a new report in Cell shows how omega-3 fatty acids both shut down inflammatio ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2010 - 12:17pm

Psychotropic Medications Linked To Birth Defects

Psychotropic medications-  psychostimulants like Ritalin,  antidepressants like Prozac and antipsychotics like Haldol- during pregnancy increase the probability of birth defects, according to a  University of Copenhagen study.   In Denmark, psychotropic me ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2010 - 12:46pm

Glucosamine And Chondroitin Don't Work For Joint Pain- Study

Two popular supplements taken by millions of people around the world to combat joint pain, glucosamine and chondroitin, do not work, according to research published today- but they don't hurt you either.  Basically, they are expensive placebos. Glucos ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2010 - 4:11pm

Medicinal plants of the Himalayan region

Maharanga emodi (Wall.)A.D.C. syn Onsoma emodi Wall (O. emodi Wall.=Maharanga emodi (Wall.) DC.,) (Boraginaceae) Flower and roots are used as medicine. The plants are distributed in Alpine Himalayas of Nepal from 3000 to 3900 m. also found from Garhwal to ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 18 2010 - 12:59pm

Ethnobotany And India's Natural Medicine Cuture

India, due to its unique variety of geographical and climatic factors, has a rich and varied flora of medicinal plants. No wonder that out of a total number of over 15,000 plant species in India, about 2,000 are known to have medicinal properties and some ...

Article - Ashwani Kumar - Sep 18 2010 - 12:58pm

Oxytocin Improves Social Ability- If You're Not Very Social

Oxytocin (alpha-hypophamine) is a nine amino acid peptide more commonly known as a neurotransmitter in the brain- a love hormone. There have been many studies trying to discern the impact of oxytocin on things like maternal behavior and sex but researcher ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 22 2010 - 5:32pm

Some Nutritional Supplements Work For Treatment Of Anxiety Disorders

A systematic review of research into the use of nutritional supplements for the treatment of anxiety disorders says it has found strong evidence for the use of extracts of passionflower or kava and combinations of L-lysine and L-arginine. They pooled the r ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2010 - 4:03pm

Photocontact Allergy: Why Some People Are Allergic To Suncream

What happens to sunscreens when they are exposed to sunlight?   They degrade, and how the skin is affected by those degradation products is the subject of research at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology presented at a dermato ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2010 - 6:17pm

The Dangers Of OTC Weight Loss Products

There is no quick fix for obesity- exercise devices on TV targeting fat are a hoax, for example.  Where is the first place most people lose weight?  Their face, yet no one is exercising their face. So-called natural remedies for people desiring quick obesi ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2010 - 1:16pm