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The Arab influence
Published in Michael J. O’Dowd, The History of Medications for Women, 2020
Camphor was prescribed during the Middle Ages in Europe for menorrhagia (Rowland, 1981 p. 79) and to relieve uterine pain, inflammation and ulceration. It was also availed of to treat venereal disease, and to ‘restrain’ sexual intercourse. In the seventeenth century James Wolveridge (1671 pp. 139, 148) advised the use of camphor to suppress lactation and to prevent breast inflammation. Camphor was still used to control excessive menstruation in the nineteenth century (Pseudo-Aristotle, 1830). Hobart Amory Hare, professor of therapeutics and materia medica at the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia advised camphor for dysmenorrhea, and menopausal symptoms, to promote sleep in ‘hysterical females’, for spermatorrhea, and as a nervous sedative. He also reported that it acted as a sexual stimulant if taken in large doses (1901 pp. 121–5).
Hypochondria
Published in Francis X. Dercum, Rest, Suggestion, 2019
True to his fear of being ill, the hypochondriac patient constantly observes his functions. Atonic indigestion and constipation offer him abundant opportunity. He may note carefully the character of the bowel movements, observing the most minute details with regard to the forms, size, color, and other qualities of the evacuations. Less frequently, he observes the urine. Now and then, however, if it be phosphatic, it is in turn carefully studied, and becomes a fruitful source of nosophobia, the patient not infrequently believing that he has spermatorrhea.
Abies Spectabilis (D. Don) G. Don (Syn. A. Webbiana Lindl.) Family: Coniferae
Published in L.D. Kapoor, Handbook of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants, 2017
Medicinal properties and uses — Decoction of the bark with ginger is an astringent wash for the teeth and is useful in bleeding of the gums. A gum exudes from the bark of the tree which is a good substitute for gum arabic. Tender leaves are bruised and swallowed with a liitle water for gonorrhea. The oil is employed as an adjunct to an aphrodisiac in spermatorrhea. Purified silajit, a drug of mineral origin soaked in a decoction of this plant, is reported to increase efficacy.1
Reduced sleep duration increases the risk of lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia in middle-aged and elderly males: a national cross-sectional study
Published in The Aging Male, 2022
Yang Xiong, Yangchang Zhang, Fuxun Zhang, Changjing Wu, Feng Qin, Jiuhong Yuan
In CHARLS, male participants were further interviewed that “Have you ever been diagnosed with a prostate illness, such as prostate hyperplasia (excluding prostatic cancer)?” The symptoms of BPH were interpreted to the participants as follows: “The main symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia are difficulty in urination. For mild cases, patients get up at night for urinating more frequently than their healthy counterparts. Moreover, mild cases also have increased frequency and urgency of voiding. In severe cases, it is noted that patients have a slow urinary stream, even urine retention, generally accompanied by backache, limb weakness, spermatorrhea, etc.” If positive, the respondents were noted as LUTS/BPH cases. The same approaches were also used in previous studies [1,6,15].
Evaluation of the inhibition of human carboxylesterases (CESs) by the active ingredients from Schisandra chinensis
Published in Xenobiotica, 2019
Qiang Fu, Kai Yang, Rui-Xia Hu, Zuo Du, Cui-Min Hu, Xibo Zhang
Schisandra chinensis, also called wuweizi in Chinese, is the fruit of Schisandra chinensis (Turcz.) Baill., and has been officially utilized as a Chinese medicine for more than two thousand years. Schisandra chinensis has been utilized as a sedative and tonic to treat various diseases such as chronic cough and dyspnea, nocturnal emission, spermatorrhea, enuresis, and frequent urination. Schisandra chinensis can also be used as flavoring agent of foods (Alexander & Wikman, 2008; Chen et al., 2013). It can be used for the treatment of viral and chemical liver injuries with an obvious therapeutic effect (Ali et al., 2018). Schisandra chinensis can also be used to treat cancer and some inflammation diseases (Zhao et al., 2013). Through isolation from Schisandra chinensis, many bioactive ingredients (e.g., lignans, nortriterpenes, sesquiterpenes, phenolic acids, etc.) have been obtained. Among these ingredients, lignans have been widely accepted to be one of the most important pharmacological ingredients. For example, Schisandrol B has been demonstrated to play an important role in the protection of liver toxicity (Jiang et al., 2016; Zeng et al., 2017). Another lignan Schisandrin A has been reported to exert anti-tumor activity toward multiple types of cancers, such as ovarian cancer (Lee et al., 2018). Schisandrin B has been also demonstrated to show therapeutic function towards cancers, such as glioma (Jiang et al., 2017).