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Published in Michael J. O’Dowd, The History of Medications for Women, 2020
Camomile or chamomile (Anthemis nobilis), which grew plentifully in the area, was prescribed when ‘much water flows’ and was also of general use for ‘disease of the uterus’. Thought to be an anodyne, antispasmodic and anti-inflammatory it was listed in conventional medical pharmacopoeias to this century and is currendy a favorite herbal and aromatherapeutic cure for women (Ody, 1993 p. 47; McIntyre, 1994 p. 41; BHP, 1983 pp. 60–1; Stuart, 1989 p. 170; Dye, 1992 p. 51). It was known in Germany as matricaria chamomile, an allusion to its beneficial effects in gynecology.
Countervailing forces and their geographic ebbing
Published in Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace, Politics, Hierarchy, and Public Health, 2019
Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
Americans want instant remedies. They have greatly limited attention spans as a culture. To bring democracy back to this country requires long-term planning ability and capacity for many setbacks, two traits in marked scarcity in the US populace at large. The American crises of addiction drugs, alcohol, calorie-rich foods, computers, sex, and other ways of tapping into the reward brain centers can only mean that the populace at large suffers chronic, deep pain that requires anodynes. Americans are addicted to something or other as a nation. Bringing democracy and public health back to this country means directing that addiction toward reshaping of the socioeconomic and political structure into something that doesn’t zombify the populace into addicts. We have no physical or existential wilderness in which to wander until the serf generation dies out. We have to grapple with this slavishness head-on.
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 — It is an important ingredient of various cosmetics and liniments, and is used in many skin diseases.1,3 It is an ingredient in various nervine tonics and in carminative and stimulant preparations. It is used in gout and rheumatism; to check vomiting; and also in snake bite. As an anodyne fumigation it is used to relieve pain in surgical wounds and ulcers. A paste of agaru and Isvari with brandy is applied to the chest in bronchitis of children and to the head in headache. Ayurvedic drugs containing agaru given in doses of 1.5 to 4 g serve as a nervine tonic in seminal debility, giddiness, and leukorrhea.
Caelius Aurelianus‘ textbook on medicine of the fifth century: rhythm in asthma, pain, and drug effects
Published in Chronobiology International, 2019
To the best of my knowledge, Aurelianus was the first not only to mention that tooth pain peaked at night, but that this pain could not totally be suppressed by drugs “ … Multi autem veterum Medicorum … ea medicamina adhibenda jusserunt, quae anodyna [Narcotica intelligit] Graeci vocaverunt, … quae ajunt nocturno tempore adhibenda, protecto sensum, non dolorem auferentia”. [Many of the old physicians' proposed drugs which the Greek named anodyne [narcotic drug] to administer at night, they protect against the sense of feeling but they do not eliminate the pain.] (Caelius Aurelianus 1722d). This is a wonderful description that the nightly peak in tooth pain cannot be totally suppressed by drugs as evidenced nearly 1500 years later in chronopharmacological studies by Hildebrandt (Pollmann et al. 1974), Reinberg (Reinberg and Reinberg 1977) and Lemmer (Lemmer and Wiemers 1989).
Effects of anodyne treatment on local blood flow and cutaneous sensation of the foot in a patient with peripheral neuropathy secondary to acromegaly
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2021
Sean C. Newton, Shelly Marshall
Initially, the patient was unable to feel the 300 g (6.65) monofilament. Therefore, to be able to track improvement in sensation, we found the level of the sensation of the monofilament and measured this level in reference to the medial malleolus in both legs. This patient was able to demonstrate “improved” sensation with anodyne treatment based on distance from the medial malleolus with a slope of roughly 1 cm per week during treatment (Figures 1 and 2).
Topical 5-aminolevulinic acid photodynamic therapy for intra anal-rectal warts
Published in Journal of Dermatological Treatment, 2020
Wei Zhao, Xiao-Feng Shan, Chang-Liang Wang, Xin-Zhou Liu, Zhen Li, Hai-Lu Xiao, Zhong-Wei Li, Rong-Tao Zheng, Jian-Ling Hou, Hong-Qing Tian
A solution of 20% 5-aminolevulinic acid (Fudan Zhangjiang Bio-Pharm Co., Ltd., Shanghai, China) dissolved in 0.9% NaCl was prepared. A 5 cm long, thin cotton swab, soaked in this solution, was gently inserted into the intra anal–rectal to interact with the intra anal-rectal lesions after anal stretch by anal dilator. Subsequently, the preservative film was used to occlude the perianal area for 3 h. For warts outside of those areas, we treated with our traditional red light PDT. The lesions were irradiated with light of wavelength 635 nm, emitted by a LED light energy (Wuhan Yage Optic and Electronic Technique Co., Ltd.). Different from traditional optical fiber treatment methods, this kind of light energy is specially aimed at the intra anal–rectal warts. The illuminant was gently inserted into the anal–rectal and the lesion was treated for 15 min at 20–40 mW/cm2 (Figure 1). Patients were treated once every week for 4 weeks. Patients were asked to assess pain using the VAS, from 0 (no sense) to 10 points (worst imaginable pain) during and after the treatment, respectively, and stratified VAS pain scores into our levels of no pain, mild, moderate and severe. If one patient cannot stand the pain during the treatment, we would suspend and continue to irradiate after the patient getting right. Topical anodyne would be applied next therapy for who could not tolerate the pain. Any adverse events experienced by the patients during and after the period were recorded. The treatment response was evaluated one week after each treatment to determine whether or not the lesions were completely cleared. The patients’ condition described as cured (100% of the condyloma lesions disappeared and no recurrent lesions), partial response (more than 50% of the warts clearance) or nonresponse (less than 50% of the lesions clearance or increased). The recurrence of completely response patients were observed at the end of 12 weeks post-therapy. SPSS 17.0 software was used to analyze all data in this study.