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Catalog of Herbs
Published in James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
Reported to be emmenagogue, expectorant, and tonic, sago cycas is a folk remedy for hepatoma and lung tumors.32,33 Chinese regard the seed as antirheumatic, emmenagogue, expectorant, and tonic. They use the terminal shoots as an astringent diuretic.41 Although the plant contains carcinogens, products extracted from the seeds are used to inhibit growth of malignant tumors,16 reflecting observations elsewhere that most plants that contain tumor-arresting compounds also contain tumorgenic compounds or that tumor-arresting compounds are themselves tumorgenic.10
Novel Starch-Derived Topical Delivery Systems
Published in Andreia Ascenso, Sandra Simões, Helena Ribeiro, Carrier-Mediated Dermal Delivery, 2017
Joana Marto, Inês Jorge, Antonio de Almeida, Helena Ribeiro
Other researchers extracted an innovative and cost-effective native starch from sago. The sago starch, a fine and white powder, was added in perfumed and cool body powders and demonstrated to provide the required physicochemical properties and acceptable levels of specific properties according to Thai Industrial Standards (TIS 443-2525—Skin Powders properties—i.e., slip, covering power, adhesiveness, absorbency, bloom, and spreading power), without causing skin irritation. Sago starch-containing body powders showed good results of users’ satisfaction, evidencing to be an excellent ingredient for skin care and one of the best applications to exploit endemic plants [69].
Functions of resemblances in medicine
Published in Alan Bleakley, Thinking with Metaphors in Medicine, 2017
‘Scaffolding’ learning suggests that analogies must be within the learner’s experience to be at all useful. Thus, a ‘sago spleen’ (amyloid degeneration of the organ, in which a cross section shows scattered grey translucent bodies resembling sago) or a ‘nutmeg liver’ (a perfusion abnormality of the liver, usually as result of hepatic venous congestion, causing dark red congested areas resembling a cut nutmeg) mean nothing if the targets (sago, nutmeg) are not in the learner’s experience. Learning then becomes rote, or hollow (‘rote’ is an adequate yet mechanical descriptor, where ‘hollow’ is a metaphor). The same danger of rote learning may occur if the learner makes the connection from an in vitro source example (a photograph in a textbook) to an in vitro reference example (at worst, an unknown quantity, such as sago to a person who has never seen sago). These are issues of learning primarily for novices, such as medical students. However, as I related at the beginning of the previous Chapter 5, rote learning of pain metaphors (‘childbirth’, ‘passing a stone’, ‘intercostal muscle strain/tear’, ‘gallstone in bile duct’), paradoxically expressed on a numerical 1–10 scale, can be carried through from medical school to early clinical practice.
A rare case of recurrent isolated eyelid myxoma: Case report and review of literature
Published in Orbit, 2022
Anamika Joshi, Saumya Jakati, Mohammad Javed Ali
A 33-year-old male presented to us with a painless swelling of temporal part of the right upper eyelid of 5-month duration (Figure 1a). The patient was diagnosed locally as chalazion and had undergone incision and curettage 3 months before the current presentation. Shortly after the procedure, his swelling recurred and increased to the present size of approximately 1.8 × 1.5 × 1 cm. The swelling was firm, cystic, and trans-illuminant with multi-loculations. It was close to the eyelid margin with intact lashes and did not cause any eyelid malposition. Eyelid eversion revealed normal tarsal conjunctiva (Figure 1b). Meibomian orifices were normal. The rest of the ophthalmic examination was unremarkable with a visual acuity of 6/6 in both the eyes. The patient was planned for an incisional biopsy. Intraoperatively, white to grayish clumps of sago-grain like mass were observed (Figure 1c), with ill-defined borders, seen infiltrating into the adjacent skin. The lesion was excised, including the overlying skin (Figure 1d). On histopathological examination, the lesion was composed of spindle- to stellate-shaped cells with scant cytoplasm and a hyperchromatic round to spindle nucleus, embedded in a myxoid matrix (Figure 1e). Thin-walled blood vessels were present in the background. The lesion was seen infiltrating the dermis of the skin with normal overlying epidermis (Figure 1f). The abundant myxoid material present also stained positive for Alcian blue (Figure 1f). Systemic examination did not reveal any cutaneous lesions elsewhere in the body. Routine echocardiography did not show any abnormality. The patient is being followed up for any recurrences.
Cordycepin-loaded Nanoparticles from Cassava Starch Promote the Proliferation of Submandibular Gland Cells and Inhibit the Growth of Oral Squamous Carcinoma Cells
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2021
Palakorn Kaokaen, Atchara Jaiboonma, Nipha Chaicharoenaudomrung, Phongsakorn Kunhorm, Kajohnkiart Janebodin, Parinya Noisa, Paiboon Jitprasertwong
Nanotechnology is attracting an increased level of interest for the role it plays in the creation of nanoparticles that can be derived from proteins, polysaccharides, or synthetic polymers. Advantages of natural polymers are that they are nontoxic, biodegradable, the raw materials are abundant in nature and they can be grown in a crop rotation (7,8). Nanoparticles obtained from starch have received increasing attention as of late, since they can be used to produce large quantities of nanoparticles that are not harmful to human health. Nano starch preparations, such as those using sago flour or corn starch prepared using the precipitation method (9–11) result in nano starch particles of ∼300–400 and 238–600 nm, respectively.