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Anti-Inflammatory Activity of Wild Medicinal Plants of Piauí State-Brazil
Published in Mahendra Rai, Shandesh Bhattarai, Chistiane M. Feitosa, Ethnopharmacology of Wild Plants, 2021
Valdiléia Teixeira Uchôa, Mahendra Rai, Gilmânia Francisca Sousa Carvalho, Herbert Gonzaga Sousa, Patrícia e Silva Alves, Renata da Silva Carneiro, Ariane Maria da Silva Santos Nascimento, Felipe Pereira da Silva Santos, Gabriel e Silva Sales
Fruit ingestion can cause vomiting and diarrhea in children. Many people use the mastic against fevers, urinary tract problems, cystitis, urethritis, cough, bronchitis, menstrual problems with excessive bleeding, flu and inflammation in general. Its resin is indicated for the treatment of rheumatism, besides serving as purgative and to fight respiratory diseases. Its resin oil is used externally for healing and toothache. The light yellow resin (which hardens in the air turning bluish and then brown), coming from the lesions of the barks, is a drug of wide application among the sertanejos, as a tonic, when they use barks. In other times, the aroeira was used by the Jesuits, who with their resin, prepared the “Balm of the Missions”, famous in Brazil and abroad (Lorenzi 2002, Brandão 2014).
Catalog of Herbs
Published in James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
The plant contains a little volatile oil, 9% resin (soluble in alcohol and ether) and 10% resin insoluble in alcohol.2 Mastic contains 90% resin, masticin, mastichic acid, and a bitter principle.8Hager’s Handbook lists masticodienonic acid, isomasticodienoic acid, oleanohc acid, and tirucallol. Young leaves and/or twigs contain myricetin (C15H10O5), quercetin, kaempferol, shikimic acid, lupeal, cycloartenol, beta-sitosterol, pinene, camphene, and terpene.33 Seeds contain aucubin (rhinanthin), choline, and organic acids, and 0 to 0.022% plantease (a crystalline trisaccharide), much starch, and up to 22.08% of an edible oil.42
Selected Functional Foods That Combat Inflammation
Published in Robert Fried, Lynn Nezin, Evidence-Based Proactive Nutrition to Slow Cellular Aging, 2017
Biblical scholars have suggested that “balm” is a pseudonym for laudanum, and that “resin” is terebinth (Pistacia therebinthus or atlantica), probably used to extend the shelf-life of wine, while gum may be a pseudonym for lentisc (also called as lentisk) or mastic (Pistacia lentiscus) as it is now known. Mastic is a gummy resinous sap that seeps from a small bush-like tree that thrives on the Mediterranean Greek island of Chios where it is called the “Schinos tree.”
A systematic review of the efficacy of alternative medicine in the treatment of nausea and vomiting of pregnancy
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2020
Fahimeh Khorasani, Hossein Aryan, Abousaleh Sobhi, Reihaneh Aryan, Arefeh Abavi-Sani, Masumeh Ghazanfarpour, Masumeh Saeidi, Fatemeh Rajab Dizavandi
The search was undertaken by two separate reviewers on PubMed, Cochrane Library, and Scopus databases since inception until January 14, 2019 to investigate the effects of herbal medicines on NVD, using keywords such as (Pregnant OR pregnancy) AND (emesis OR anti-emetic OR Nausea OR vomit OR morning sickness), AND (Complementary treatments OR alternative treatments OR phytomedicine, herbal treatments, zingiber officinale OR Ginger OR Citrus lemon OR lemon OR Matricaria chamomilla OR Citrus medica L OR alternative medicine OR complementary medicine OR Citron OR Cydonia oblonga mill OR Quince OR Elletaria cardamomum OR Cardamom OR, Mentha spicata L. OR Spearmint OR, Mentha piperta L OR Mint OR Myristica fragrans Houtt OR Nutmeg OR Pistacia lentiscus Linn OR Mastic, Punica granatum L OR Pomegranate OR Malus domestica Borkh OR Apple OR Piper cubeba) . The researchers reviewed all abstracts and then the full-texts of relevant articles were found. Any disagreement was resolved by a third party.
Assessing cancer hazards of bitumen emissions – a case study for complex petroleum substances
Published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2018
Anthony J. Kriech, Ceinwen A. Schreiner, Linda V. Osborn, Anthony J. Riley
Mastic asphalt is an asphalt mixture in which the volume of filler (normally finely crushed rock) and bitumen binder exceeds the volume of remaining voids producing a stiffer material requiring higher mixture temperatures of >200 °C. Mastic asphalt is only used in Europe (mainly in Germany and France) and contains aggregates <2 mm in size. The mastic industry represents only 1.1% of the worldwide asphalt market (Asphalt Institute, Eurobitume 2015; IMAA 2013). Mastic asphalt pavement systems include a leveling course called pulver asphalt placed over a concrete base. Once the pulver layer is laid, the crew pours a semi-fluid, high temperature (250 °C) mastic layer. This is troweled down and then pre-coated stone chips are spread before rolling. Coal tar contamination from the subbase (pulver layer) has been shown to be a significant confounder in evaluations of the hazard from mastic asphalt use (Raulf-Heimsoth et al. 2008; Blackburn et al. 1999).
Rhazes’ (865–925 CE) contribution to surgery in Liber Almansoris
Published in Acta Chirurgica Belgica, 2023
Fuat Ince, Kamran Mahlooji, Kadircan H. Keskinbora, Arman Zargaran
If it is only one or two hairs, Chinese oil or mastic gum can be used. If it is stuck to other eyelashes, torn off, burned, or cut, its place must be heated with a needle-thin instrument, and if it is excessive, the eyelid must be cut. Talking about this is beyond the scope of our book [22].