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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Yaron Gu, Sophy T F Shih, Nimeshan Geevasinga, Linda Chan, John W Frew, Deshan F Sebaratnam
Economic Evaluation of HLA-B*15:02 Genotyping for Asian Australian Patients With Epilepsy.
JAMA Dermatol: 2024;
[PubMed:38717780] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Qiao Zeng, Xueqian Xia, Li Jiang, Jin Chen, Yuhang Liu, Yue Hu
Efficacy and safety of adjunctive perampanel treatment in pediatric patients with epilepsy aged 4-12 years: a real-world study.
J Neurol: 2024;
[PubMed:38717610] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Evelyn Pan, Martin G Piazza, Robert J Kellogg, Steven Wisniewski, Taylor J Abel
A survey of preferences and expectations for surgical interventions targeting atonic seizures in Lennox-Gastaut syndrome.
Childs Nerv Syst: 2024;
[PubMed:38717604] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Louison Pineau, Emmanuelle Buhler, Sarah Tarhini, Sylvian Bauer, Valérie Crepel, Françoise Watrin, Carlos Cardoso, Alfonso Represa, Pierre Szepetowski, Nail Burnashev
Pathogenic MTOR somatic variant causing focal cortical dysplasia drives hyperexcitability via overactivation of neuronal GluN2C N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors.
Epilepsia: 2024;
[PubMed:38717560] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Mauro Granado, Santiago Collavini, Nataniel Martinez, Federico Miceli, Osvaldo A Rosso, Fernando Montani
A multiscale symbolic approach to decoding delta and ripple oscillation bands as biomarkers for epileptiform discharges.
Chaos: 2024, 34(5);
[PubMed:38717398] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)