Ventunculus

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

Historical Use of Ventunculus

Historical Use of Ventunculus 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 Ventunculus in the Treatment of Epilepesy

1st Five Results: pubmed search

Zhihong Zhuo, Yao Wang, Huimin Kong, Tianjiao Fu
GKLF, a transcriptional activator of Txnip, drives microglia activation in kainic acid-induced murine models of epileptic seizures.
Int Immunopharmacol: 2023, 121;110426
[PubMed:37295029] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Marco Gallus, Wolfgang Roll, Andre Dik, Cristina Barca, Bastian Zinnhardt, Gordon Hicking, Christoph Mueller, Venu Narayanan Naik, Max Anstötz, Julia Krämer, Leoni Rolfes, Lydia Wachsmuth, Julika Pitsch, Karen M J van Loo, Saskia Räuber, Hideho Okada, Catriona Wimberley, Christine Strippel, Kristin S Golombeck, Andreas Johnen, Stjepana Kovac, Catharina C Groß, Philipp Backhaus, Robert Seifert, Jan Lewerenz, Rainer Surges, Christian E Elger, Heinz Wiendl, Tobias Ruck, Albert J Becker, Cornelius Faber, Andreas H Jacobs, Jan Bauer, Sven G Meuth, Michael Schäfers, Nico Melzer
Translational imaging of TSPO reveals pronounced innate inflammation in human and murine CD8 T cell-mediated limbic encephalitis.
Sci Adv: 2023, 9(23);eabq7595
[PubMed:37294768] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I p)

Claudio L A Bassetti, Riccardo Soffietti, David B Vodušek, Benedikt Schoser, Jan B M Kuks, Martin Rakusa, Patrick Cras, Paul A J M Boon
The 2022 European Postgraduate (Residency) Program in Neurology in an historical and international perspective.
Eur J Neurol: 2023;
[PubMed:37294693] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)

Máté Plander, János Tajti, László Vécsei, Délia Szok
[Headache registry in Szeged: Experiences regarding to migraine patients]. [Fejfájásregiszter kialakításával szerzett szegedi tapasztalataink migrénes betegek vonatkozásában.]
Ideggyogy Sz: 2023, 76(5-6);205-211
[PubMed:37294022] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (P p)

Huey Yi Chong, Kheng-Seang Lim, Si-Lei Fong, Fatiha Hana Shabaruddin, Maznah Dahlui, Pauline Siew Mei Lai, Ching-Ching Ng, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
Integrating real-world data in cost-effectiveness analysis of universal HLA-B*15:02 screening in Malaysia.
Br J Clin Pharmacol: 2023;
[PubMed:37294011] [WorldCat.org] [DOI] (I a)