Peucedanus

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

Historical Use of Peucedanus

Historical Use of Peucedanus 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 Peucedanus in the Treatment of Epilepesy

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Y J Fu, Y S Piao
[Advances of pathological research and classification in malformations of cortical development associated with refractory epilepsy].
Zhonghua Bing Li Xue Za Zhi: 2024, 53(5);419-424
[PubMed:38678320] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Gaoqiang Xu, Yao Zhang, Xiaoxi Chen
Combined diffusion tensor imaging and quantitative susceptibility mapping to characterize normal-appearing white matter in self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes.
Neuroradiology: 2024;
[PubMed:38678123] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Etienne Combrisson, Franck Di Rienzo, Anne-Lise Saive, Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti, Juan L P Soto, Philippe Kahane, Jean-Philippe Lachaux, Aymeric Guillot, Karim Jerbi
Human local field potentials in motor and non-motor brain areas encode upcoming movement direction.
Commun Biol: 2024, 7(1);506
[PubMed:38678058] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Tracy M Flanders, Jane E Schreiber, Maria A Punchak, Sierra D Land, Tom A Reynolds, Shelly Soni, N Scott Adzick, Gregory G Heuer
Periventricular nodular heterotopia in patients with a prenatal diagnosis of myelomeningocele/myeloschisis: associations with seizures and neurodevelopmental outcomes during early childhood.
Childs Nerv Syst: 2024;
[PubMed:38676719] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

G Van Cutsem, J N Siewe Fodjo, A Hadermann, L-J Amaral, C Trevisan, S Pion, R Colebunders
Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy: Charting a path forward.
Seizure: 2024;
[PubMed:38677953] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)