Female medicine

Strickland, T., Myers, H. and Lahey, B., Cardiovascular reactivity with caffeine and stress in black and white normotensive females. Psychosomatic Medicine 51, 381-389, 1989. 

Franz, M. and Copeman, D.B. (1988) The fine structure of male and female Onchocerca gibsoni. Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 39 (Supplement 4), 466 68. 

Increased sulfobromophthalein retention indicated impaired liver function in an individual who ingested 21 mg/kg/day chloroform in a cough medicine for 10 years (Wallace 1950). The changes reversed to normal after exposure was discontinued. Biochemical tests indicate that liver function in male and female... 

Men are usually the volunteers in Phase I and women enter the programme typically in Phase II (unless a female-specific medicine is... 

Toxicity to Male Fertility An Addendum to the ICFl Tripartite Guideline on Detection of Toxicity to Reproduction for Medicinal Products, as amended in November 2001) in a one-month repeat-dose study, a premating treatment interval of 2 weeks for both sexes can be used. The treatment period requires justification. Dosing should continue through mating and at least through implantation in the females. 

TRADITIONAL MEDICINAL USES Afghanistan. Flowers are taken orally by females for contraception k Argentina. Decoction of the dried fruit is taken orally for diarrhea and to treat respiratory and urinary tract infections " . China. Decoction of the dried fruit is taken orally for diabetes . 

I don t know whether [my insomnia] is me or whether it s the medicine, Before I took any medication, I went three years of being an insomniac. So now, when I stop taking the medicine, I don t know if it s the fact I stopped taking the medicine, or if it s just who I am, [Maybe] I m not meant to sleep. I don t know any longer [who I am], it s been so long that I ve taken medication, I don t know, (female accountant, aged 29)... 

Chinese angelica Angelica sinensis) is the most important female tonic remedy in Chinese medicine. The elfects of angelica EO in three assays in mice (elevated plus maze, light/dark and stress-induced hyperthermia test) suggested that angelica EO exhibited an anxiolytic-like effect [391]. A link to emotion and cognitive performance with the olfactory system was reported [392]. Moreover, the EOs could affect mood, concentration and sleep [393], while other studies had shown that EOs were potentially important to boost the immune system [394, 395]. 

Salvia divinorum is, in the minds of the Mazatecs, only the most important of several plants, all Labiatae, that they regard as members of the same "family." Salvia divinorum is known as la hemhra, "the female." El macho, or "the male" is Coleus pumila, of European origin. Then there is el nene, "the child," and el ahijado, "the godson," which are both forms of Coleus Blumei. Some Indians insist that these others are likewise psychotropic, but we have not tried them others say these are merely medicinal. 

Wasson (1963) suggested that S. divinorum might be the plant the Aztecs knew as pipiltzintzintli ("most noble prince" or "venerable little children") this name has become associated with the mint in recent literature (Emboden 1979 Foster 1984 Schultes 1976). Aguirre Beltran (1973) summarized the data on pipiltzintzintli contained in the Inquisitorial Archives. It was apparently an hallucinogenic plant that had male and female varieties. All plant parts, including the roots and flowers were used medicinally (no mention was made of the seeds), and it was cultivated for such purposes. Aguirre... 

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