Soap-wort

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

Historical Use of Soap-wort

Historical Use of Soap-wort in Western Medicine

Quote Paraph: "beneficial effect of powdered soap-wort seed, offered for three months at the time of the new moon. .. The plant has a 'signature' of its property, for if rubbed in water it emits a soap-like foam and is therefore profitable to the frothing epileptics.
Sec Auth: Temkin O
Title: The Falling Sickness. Second Edition, Revised, Softshell Books edition, 1994
Page: 178
Source: The Falling Sickness, Second Edition, Revised, Softshell Books edition, 1994,Owsei Temkin
Complete: Eadie MJ, Bladin PF. A disease once sacred: a history of the medical understanding of epilepsy. Eastleigh: John Libbey; 2001. p. 178.
Primary Source: 196 Petrus Borellus (137), Historiarum et observationum… centuriae, Observatio 18; p. 27; cf. above, II-3c.

Evidence or the Use of Soap-wort in the Treatment of Epilepesy

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Carol Blixen, Gena Ghearing, Owen Wade, Kari Colon-Zimmerman, Maegan Tyrrell, Martha Sajatovic
Engaging stakeholders in the refinement of an evidence-based remotely delivered epilepsy self-management program for rural populations.
Epilepsy Behav: 2021, 118;107942
[PubMed:33845345] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Gernot Hlauschek, Benjamin Sinclair, Benjamin Brinkmann, Joshua Fuge, Patrick Kwan, Terence J O'Brien, Lucy Vivash
The effect of injection time on rates of epileptogenic zone localization using SISCOM and STATISCOM.
Epilepsy Behav: 2021, 118;107945
[PubMed:33845344] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

N Lu, H Liu, Y Huang
A survey of values and related factors among 200 guardians of children with epilepsy.
Public Health: 2021, 194;17-18
[PubMed:33845274] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Andrew J Roebuck, Quentin Greba, Anna-Maria Smolyakova, Mariam Alaverdashvili, Wendie N Marks, Sumanta Garai, Samantha L Baglot, Gavin Petrie, Stuart M Cain, Terrance P Snutch, Ganesh A Thakur, Matthew N Hill, John G Howland, Robert B Laprairie
Positive allosteric modulation of type 1 cannabinoid receptors reduces spike-and-wave discharges in Genetic Absence Epilepsy Rats from Strasbourg.
Neuropharmacology: 2021;108553
[PubMed:33845076] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

M L Eckard, S G Kinsey
Gabapentin attenuates somatic signs of precipitated THC withdrawal in mice.
Neuropharmacology: 2021;108554
[PubMed:33845073] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)