Varvain

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

Historical Use of Varvain

Historical Use of Varvain 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 Varvain in the Treatment of Epilepesy

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Grazia Bossi, Raffaele Bruno, Stefano Novati, Roberta Maserati, Georgia Mussati, Mariasole Prevedoni Gorone, Edoardo Vecchio Nepita, Corrado Regalbuto, Gioia Gola, Anna Maria Simoncelli, Antonella Bruno, Paola Musso, Edoardo Clerici, Gian Luigi Marseglia
Cerebral Toxocariasis as a Cause of Epilepsy: A Pediatric Case.
Neuropediatrics: 2021;
[PubMed:33472248] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Margarita Papassava, Ekaterini Siomou, Iliada Nakou, Vasileios Cholevas, Anna Challa, Meropi Tzoufi
Effects of long-term antiepileptic polytherapy on bone biochemical markers in ambulatory children and adolescents and possible benefits of vitamin D supplementation: a prospective interventional study.
Epilepsy Behav: 2021, 115;107708
[PubMed:33472116] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Edda Haberlandt, Taras Valovka, Tanja Janjic, Thomas Müller, Georgios Blatsios, Daniela Karall, Andreas R Janecke
Characteristic facial features and cortical blindness distinguish the DOCK7-related epileptic encephalopathy.
Mol Genet Genomic Med: 2021;e1607
[PubMed:33471954] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Ruth Tsigebrhan, Abebaw Fekadu, Girmay Medhin, Charles R Newton, Martin J Prince, Charlotte Hanlon
Comorbid mental disorders and quality of life of people with epilepsy attending primary health care clinics in rural Ethiopia.
PLoS One: 2021, 16(1);e0238137
[PubMed:33471799] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I e)

Isabel Manzanares, Sonia Sevilla-Guerra, Javier Peña-Ceballos, Mar Carreño, María Palanca, María Lombraña, Estefanía Conde-Blanco, María Centeno, Antonio Donaire, Francisco Gil-Lopez, Mariam Khawaja, Mireia López Poyato, Adelaida Zabalegui
THE EMERGING ROLE OF THE ADVANCED PRACTICE EPILEPSY nurse: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN TWO COUNTRIES.
J Clin Nurs: 2021;
[PubMed:33471366] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)