Calabar bean
From Epilepsy Naturapedia
Calabar bean is a non-scientific common name that may refer to a number of plant species and varieties.
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Nomenclature
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Historical Use of Calabar bean
Calabar bean in Traditional Chinese Medicine
Description
Historical Use of Calabar bean in Western Medicine
Quote Paraph: "Among other drugs which I have tried without seeing benefit, other than slight and rare, from their use, are aconite, hydrocyanic acid, bromide of camphor, nitrite of soda, nitrite of amyl (by the mouth), chloral hydrate, paraldehyde, benzoate of soda, Piscidia erythrina, Calabar bean, ergot, sclerotic acid, codeia, and cocculus indicus."
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Primary Source: Gowers W R, Taylor J. A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System: Brain and crainal nerves; general and functional diseases. Volume 2. 3rd ed. Blakiston. 1907. p. 765.
Background
Synonymns for Calabar bean
Patent Medicines and Medicines with Multiple Ingredients that include Calabar bean
Pharmaceutical Information
Chemical Constituents
Evidence or the Use of Calabar bean in the Treatment of Epilepesy
Basic Science
Animal Studies
Cohort, Case-Control and Non-Randomized Trials
Randomized Controlled Trials
Meta-Analysis
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