Archezostis

Archezostis is a non-scientific common name that may refer to a number of plant species and varieties.

Historical Use of Archezostis

Historical Use of Archezostis in Western Medicine

Quote Paraph: "botanical materials and preparations were also described for the treatment of epilepsy. These included: white hellebore contained within a split radish; root of the panaces (heraclion) in a drink with seal's rennet; plantain; betony; agaric in oxymel; leaves of cinquefoil; archezostis; dried root of baccar plus coriander; centunculus in vinegar or honey or hot water; varvain taken in wine; crushed berries of hyssop; peucedanus and seal's rennet taken in a drink; scammony in beaver-oil; hippophaestron; senecio."
Sec Auth: Eadie MJ and Bladin PF
Title: A Disease Once Sacred. John Libbey & Company Ltd, 2001
Page: 171
Source: A Disease Once Sacred, John Libbey & Company Ltd, 2001, M.J. Eadie and P.F. Bladin
Complete: Eadie MJ, Bladin PF. A disease once sacred: a history of the medical understanding of epilepsy. Eastleigh: John Libbey; 2001. p. 171.
Primary Source: Pliny the Elder, Gaius Plinius Secundus, Natural History: Books XXV to XXXII (Translated Jones WHS 1951 and Translated Jones WHS in 1963)

Evidence or the Use of Archezostis in the Treatment of Epilepesy

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Osama Y Muthaffar, Anas S Alyazidi
Epilepsia partialis continua: A review.
Neurosciences (Riyadh): 2024, 29(2);71-76
[PubMed:38740401] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

S Zarrouk, Sounira Mehri, Josef Finsterer
Comment on: Diagnosis of autoimmune epilepsy requires documentation of a causal relationship between the immune response and seizures.
Neurosciences (Riyadh): 2024, 29(2);146-147
[PubMed:38740396] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Mohammed Almuqbil, Waad Aldoohan, Sara Alhinti, Nora Almahmoud, Imad Abdulmajeed, Rayan Alkhodair, Amna Kashgari, Duaa Baarmah, Waleed Altwaijri, Ahmad Alrumayyan
Review of the spectrum of tuberous sclerosis complex: The Saudi Arabian Experience.
Neurosciences (Riyadh): 2024, 29(2);113-121
[PubMed:38740395] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Sagar Mahawar, Debarati Rakshit, Inklisan Patel, Swati Kailas Gore, Srijita Sen, Om Prakash Ranjan, Awanish Mishra
Fisetin-loaded chitosan nanoparticles ameliorate pilocarpine-induced temporal lobe epilepsy and associated neurobehavioral alterations in mice: Role of ROS/TNF-α-NLRP3 inflammasomes pathway.
Nanomedicine: 2024;102752
[PubMed:38740358] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Xiang Li, Ning Liu, Di Wu, Shu Chang Li, Qing Wang, Dian-Wen Zhang, Lian-Lian Song, Min Huang, Xia Chen, Wei Li
Hippocampal transcriptomic analyses reveal the potential antiapoptotic mechanism of a novel anticonvulsant agent Q808 on pentylenetetrazol-induced epilepsy in rats.
Biomed Pharmacother: 2024, 175;116746
[PubMed:38739991] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)