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Biodiversity and Description of the Main Algae with Bioactive Properties
Published in Leonel Pereira, Therapeutic and Nutritional Uses of Algae, 2018
Uses and bioactivities: In Japan and Korea it is used for foodstuff, especially for the manufacture of potash salts (Tokida 1954, Kang 1968), as animal fodder, and manure (Arasaki and Arasaki 1983). Extracts of this species have vermifuge, antibacterial, antitumor, anti-allergic, anti-inflammatory, and hypocholesterolemic activity.
Catalog of Herbs
Published in James A. Duke, Handbook of Medicinal Herbs, 2018
The leaves contain (dry basis): N, 5.11%; P205, 0.78%; K20, 1.65%; and CaO, 5.35%. It is a rich source of potash, and ash (4.4%) containing as much as 9.5% of soluble potassium salts. The indigo refuse, obtained after dye extraction, gave on analysis: N, 1.8%; P2O5, 0.4%; and K2O, 0.3%1 The plant contains indigotin and a glucoside, indican (C14H17NO6).3340
Abies Spectabilis (D. Don) G. Don (Syn. A. Webbiana Lindl.) Family: Coniferae
Published in L.D. Kapoor, Handbook of Ayurvedic Medicinal Plants, 2017
Chemical constituents — Seeds yield a bland oil. Chicory is devoid of caffeine and tannins.264 It gives a characteristic odor on roasting. The volatile matter contains acetaldehyde, acetone, diacetyl, diketopentane, furfuraldehyde, 5-hydroxy-methyl furfuraldehyde maltol, furan, methyl and furfuryl alcohols, and acetic, pyruvic, lactic, pyromucic, and palmitic acids, together with traces of phenol and neutral oil. 265 Nietzki266 isolated a glycoside cichorin, C32H32O19, mp 215 to 220°C, from the flowers. Dutt and Misra267 obtained 13.8% grayish-white ash on burning the seeds. The ash consisted of 17.5% water-soluble and 82.5% water-insoluble inorganic material containing mainly potassium, sodium (traces), calcium, aluminum sulfates, phosphates, chlorides, carbonates, and silica. It also contained semidrying oil, a mixture of unsaturated oleic and linolic acids, and saturated stearic and palmitic acids. The unsaponifiable matter contained phytosterol, mp 131 to 133°C. On analysis, the fresh root showed water (77.00%), gummy matter (7.5%), glucose (1.1%), bitter extractive (40%), fat (0.6%), cellulose, inulin, and fiber (9.0%), and ash (0.8%). The ash of the root and leaves is rich in potash. The bitter principle is a glycoside of fructose and pyrocatechuic acid. The juice of the roots is reported to contain a stearin, mannite, and tartaric acid. Betaine and choline are also present in small quantities. During storage of chicory roots, inulin is partially converted to inulide and fructose, indicating the presence of an enzyme. Another enzyme, inulocoagulase, which coagulates inulin in the expressed juice of the roots, is also reported to be present.265
Hydrogeochemical characterization, multi-exposure deterministic and probabilistic health hazard evaluation in groundwater in parts of Northern India
Published in Toxin Reviews, 2023
Herojeet Rajkumar, Pradeep K. Naik, Gagandeep Singh, Madhuri Rishi
The bivariate plot between Na++K+ and TZ+ (Figure 5(f)) infers that all the water samples are scattered below the equiline (Na++K+ = 0.5TZ+). It implies the weathering of potash and silicate-containing minerals and anthropogenic inputs like the application of potash fertilizers and sewage wastewater which contributes mainly Na+ and K+ ions to the groundwater (Srinivasamoorthy et al.2014, Rao et al.2021). The dissolution of sodium bearing silicate minerals like albite (as expressed in Equation (13) and other soda plagioclase feldspars in the presence of H2CO3 acid (formed in above mentioned Equations (11) and (12) may enhance the Na+ content in the groundwater of the study area (Keesari et al. 2021, Singh et al.2020b).
Anxiety-related Symptoms following the Sporadic Use of Ecstasy – A Case Study
Published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2022
Tomislav Majić, Lasse Brandt, Christiane Montag
To date, several case reports have been published on psychotic symptoms following recreational use of ecstasy (Potash, Gordon, and Conrad 2009; Vaiva et al. 2001; Van Kampen and Katz 2001; Virani et al. 2018). In addition, a recent study reported increased subclinical psychotic symptoms in healthy subjects to be associated with lifetime MDMA exposure and negatively correlated with an MDMA-free period (Duman, Sedes, and Baskak 2017). Both dopaminergic and serotonergic effects of MDMA have been suggested as underlying pathomechanisms for MDMA-associated psychosis (Karlsen, Spigset, and Slørdal 2008). Even if our patient had initially experienced symptoms of loosened boundaries with reality resembling early stages of psychosis, psychotic symptoms never reached diagnostic significance, with no loss of reference to reality, and gradually subsided without any specific treatment. During the further course of his illness, schizophrenia-like symptoms never again emerged, rendering further psychosis-specific assessments dispensable. Six months after discontinuation of SSRI treatment, the patient relapsed, but symptoms were now limited to regularly evolving panic attacks without any further pre-psychotic, dissociative or OCD symptoms.
Coming Full Circle and Moving Forward
Published in Art Therapy, 2018
Jordan Potash’s article about relational social justice ethics provides strategies for art therapists to employ while navigating the challenges inherent in times of political upheaval. In such times when those we serve experience systemic injustices, and when we might find ourselves in conflict with each other and with traditional approaches to our work, Potash offers a structure for ethical decision making. A social justice lens results in art therapists’ expanding their professional orientation well beyond the medical (pathology) model to embrace human rights and relationship as of primary importance in their work. Potash provides readers with examples of implementing a relational social justice ethical stance with policymakers, colleagues, and clients.