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By R. Yugul. Strayer University. 2018.

Daturine acts more powerfully than atropine order 200mg pyridium overnight delivery gastritis doctor, though its action is regarded as identical. Stramonium is a narcotic poison, a stimulant to the nerve force in its direct effects, and profoundly so in its influence upon the sympathetic nervous system. Therapy—In proper doses it acts as a sedative and anodyne in a manner similar to hyoscyamus. It is a remedy for excitable mania and acute delirium, with violent uncontrollable tendencies. It has been given in epilepsy for its soothing and tranquilizing effect, but its antispasmodic influence is not sufficiently great to place it among the agents for this disorder. In hysterical mania, accompanied with convulsions, epileptiform or other convulsions, it is an excellent remedy. It is credited with controlling the contractions and pain in approaching miscarriage and abortion, and preventing those accidents. In the treatment of that condition usually known as milk sickness in malarial localities, Kipley claims to cure all cases with the freshly bruised seeds of stramonium, giving as many as from fifteen to thirty seeds Ellingwood’s American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy - Page 167 every two hours. To the animals who contract the disease, a teaspoonful of the seeds is given three or four times daily with satisfactory results. He also gives it in the painful menstruation of women with good results, giving fifteen bruised seeds every few minutes until the pain is relieved, then farther apart. As an ointment it has been long applied to inflamed swellings and to glandular inflammations and in painful hemorrhoids. It is useful in mastitis, orchitis, parotitis, in rheumatic inflammations, and as a fomentation in these latter conditions, and in pleuritis and peritonitis, using caution not to obtain too marked cerebral effects. In muscular tremblings it is indicated, especially if of functional or reflex origin. In the vertigo and unsteadiness from chronic indigestion or disordered stomach from hyperacidity and in headache from this cause it is the remedy. In spasmodic or paroxysmal cough, as whooping cough, and in the violent paroxysms of acute bronchial cough, it is a soothing remedy, as it acts without suppressing secretion as actively as belladonna. Because of its antispasmodic influence upon spasmodic asthma, it has come into general use as an agent in that disease, used principally as an inhalant. The dried root in coarse powder as well as the powdered leaves may be smoked in a common tobacco pipe. This use of the agent produces excessive expectoration, and also marked nervous phenomena, such as vertigo, nausea, determination of blood to the brain and stupor. In plethoric patients these induced symptoms are sometimes violent and even dangerous. It is sometimes burned in conjunction with potassium nitrate, to enhance its effects. Absorbed into the circulation it causes convulsions and loss of sensation and motion; the action of the heart and respiration is lessened and death is caused by paralysis of the spinal cord and asphyxia. The agent is a permanent stimulant, resembling nux vomica somewhat and acting in harmony with avena sativa, cactus and zanthoxylum. It relieves mental depression, and should be given in hysteria and hypochondriasis, where there is melancholia, despondency, and a general depression, Scudder says, especially if accompanied with violent outbursts of passion. Specific Symptomatology—This agent exercises a stimulant and tonic influence upon the central nervous system, and is especially valuable in sexual disorders accompanied with melancholia, hypochondria, and hysteria, especially if there be outbursts of passion and a tendency to moroseness. It is not curative in the entire range of disease of the prostate, but is of much importance in assisting other indicated remedies. While not alone curative in spermatorrhea, the complete cure depends upon the action of this remedy in many cases, combined with others. It relieves irritation of the prostate gland, testicles, and vesiculae seminales, overcomes impotency, and increases sexual power. It arrests the excessive prostatic discharge and muco-purulent discharges from the urethra and is valuable in old standing cases of gleet, often curing otherwise intractable cases, and in dysuria, especially if accompanied with feebleness in expelling urine, with the above specific indications. It soothes the nervous excitement consequent upon these genito-urinary Ellingwood’s American Materia Medica, Therapeutics and Pharmacognosy - Page 169 or uterine disorders and is prompt and permanent when prescribed directly. I have used it to good advantage with avena and saw palmetto in impotence, especially that occurring in men who have been excessive and dissipated in their habits, appearing usually about the age of forty- five.

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His finding is not confirmed by other collections generic pyridium 200mg with amex gastritis diet , which emphasize the exist- ence of numerous proverbs about doctors and sleep (Vysotskii 1903: 238–239; Fialkov & Fialkova 2009: 96–109; Zakharov & Zhungietu 1975: 208–212). Thus Elmquist and Mieder indicate the large number of medical proverbs about fruit, meat, vegetables and drinks, while Folklore 46Folklore 46Folklore 46Folklore 46Folklore 46 117 Larisa Fialkova Vysotskii does not mention fruit or meat at all. Soup, salted cucumbers, bread, garlic, onion, point, butter, kasha and alcohol make up his menu based on proverbs (Elmquist 1934: 79; Mieder 1993: 153–154; Vysotskii 1903: 238–239). Vysotskii and Mieder, unlike Elmquist, highlight an abundance of proverbs on psychosomatic issues. Garrison perceives physiological and psychological observations, rather than notions of pathology which can be found in proverbs, to be of major importance for a physician (Garrison 1928: 984). In Russian-language collections fruits are rarely mentioned in a strictly medical context. So the English proverb “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away” (Mieder 1993) is found only once (Sysoev 2007: 80). It appears also on the Internet in a couple of versions Kto iabloko v den’ siedaet, u togo doktor ne byvaet (‘Who eats an a apple a day, is not visited by the doctor’), Iabloko v den’, i doktor ne nuzhen (‘An apple a day and there is no need for a doctor’) in sites on diet problems or regarding apples: http://www. On the other hand, Russian proverbs about onions and garlic are extremely popular: examples are Luk da bania vsie praviat (‘The onion and the bathhouse cure everything’), Luk sem’ nedugov lechit (‘The onion cures seven diseases’), Chesnok sem’ nedugov izvodit (‘Garlic cures seven diseases’), Khren da red’ka, luk da kapusta khudogo ne pustiat (‘Horseradish and radish, onion and cab- bage will not lead to any harm’), Chesnok da red’ka – tak i na zhivote krepko (‘Garlic and radish make the stomach strong’), Esh’ chesnok i luk – ne voz’miet nedug (‘Eat garlic and onion and no disease will catch you’) etc. Occasional prov- erbs and proverbial sayings refer to hernia, Na molodu mesiatsu i gryzha besitsia (‘When the moon is new, the hernia goes wild’), to diabetes, I sakharnaia bolezn’ ne sladka (‘Even a sugary disease is not sweet’ – Russian), to measles, plague, typhus, cholera, smallpox, and elephantiasis: Vot tri kavalera – tif, chuma i kholera (‘Here are three cavaliers – typhus, plague and cholera’ – Ukrainian), Kto ot chumy utselel, tot ot khmelia umer (‘The one who survived the plague died of alcohol’ – Adygea), Zimoi opasaisia kori, letom – ospy (‘In winter be afraid of measles, in summer – of the smallpox’ – Turkmen), Pleshivost’, 118 www. Some extremely rare items about leprosy and consumption are also found: Prokazhiennomu i bogatstvo ne v radost’ (‘A leprous person can’t be happy even with wealth’ – African Malagasy); Prokazhennyi prokazhennogo i v temnote uznaet (‘Lepers see each other even in the dark’ – Uzbek), Ot fevralia do ianvaria kashlianul odnova, da i govorit: chakhotka (‘From February till January he has coughed once, and says tuberculosis’ – Russian), V griazi zhit’, chakhotku nazhit’ (‘Liv- ing in the dirt means getting tuberculosis’ – Russian), Piesh’ vodku, nazhiviesh’ – chakhotku (‘He who drinks vodka will get tuberculosis’ – Russian), (Fialkov & Fialkova 2009: 85–86, 88; Sysoev 2007: 50, 58–59, 79; Zakharov & Zhungietu 1975: 200). According to Vysotskii, moderate use of alcohol is perceived as healthful in folk wisdom: Posle supu vina vypit’ – u doktora chervonets ukrast’ (‘Drinking wine after soup means stealing ten roubles from the doctor’)2, Khleb serdtse cheloveku ukrepliaet, a vino vozvesseliaet (‘Bread makes the heart stronger while wine makes it cheerful’), but excessive use is censured (Vysotskii 1903: 238). Proverbs in favor of alcohol can be also found in contemporary Russian-language collections of medical proverbs if modera- tion is stressed (Fialkov & Fialkova 2009: 152; Zakharov & Zhungietu 1975: 167–168). They may be missed out when the collectors want to propagate so- briety and are not concerned with showing the diversity of the material (Sysoev 2007). Along with typical proverbs about the danger of alcohol, which are pub- lished in all collections, nowadays a number of proverbs are about drug addic- tion: K narkotikam lipnut’, ot nikh i gibnut’ (‘Sticking to drugs means dying from them’ – Russian), Kto kurit travku i tabak, tot sam sebe zakliatyi vrag (‘Whoever smokes grass and tobacco is his own worst enemy’ – Russian), Narkomania v mogilu zamaniavet (‘Drug addiction traps one in a tomb’ – Rus- sian), etc. The absence of proverbs about drugs in earlier Russian-language collections may due to two processes: the limited number of drug addicts as against the high numbers of alcoholics and/or a censorship policy in Soviet publishing. Still, I know for sure that the last quoted example was produced by the students in the medical genetics department at the University of Kazan as an assignment. The students were given guidance on how to create new proverbs: they could either take a well known proverb and change it according to a given biological phenomenon or first compose a brief description of the phenomenon and then through the key-words find a suitable proverb for subsequent modifications. The creation and dissemination of anti-drug and anti-alcohol proverbs may be a deliberate work of doctors and educators to influence the behaviour of the general public. For example, at a children’s library a competition was held on knowledge of anti-alcohol proverbs: http:// nevinka. This is one of the tools of Zhitnikova and Polivanova in their practical work (2001). The Internet may be regarded as an appropriate place to search for new proverbs – serious and ironical including medical ones (Mieder 2008: 91–94, 101–102; Mieder 2008a: 133). Several variations of a well known proverb Luchshe sinitsa v rukakh, chem zhuravl’ v nebe (‘Better a titmouse in the hands than a crane in the sky’) have an evident medical meaning: Luchshe sinitsa v ruke, chem utka pod krovatiu (‘Better a titmouse in the hands than a duck under the bed’) http://www. It is im- portant to note that “a duck under the bed” has nothing to do with ornithology: the duck here is a men’s chamber pot which has a narrow duck-like neck. The same “duck” is used in the identical pattern “better x than y” with another medical meaning: Luchshe utka i krovatka, chem kalitka i ogradka (‘Better a duck and a bed than a wicket and a fence [i. Sometimes the duck is lost although the meaning does not change: Luchshe gips i krovatka, chem granit i ogradka (‘Better gypsum and a bed than granite and a fence’) http://l504. For example, the proverb Kakoi palets ne porezhesh’ – bolit (‘Any finger slashed – is in pain’) (Fialkov & Fialkova 2009: 76) may in another context refer not to fingers but to a child, whose suffering is painful for the mother regardless of the number of her children. The same is true of the proverb Skripuchee derevo ne legko lomaetsia (‘A creaky tree is not easily cracked’).

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