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Happy tree

Camptotheca acuminata Decne. Xi Shu (Happy tree) (fruit) Camptothecine, venoterpine, hydroxyleamptothecin, methoxyl-camptothecin, irinotecan, 10-hydroxycamptothecin 33-457-458469 This herb is toxic. Treat breast cancer, carcinoma of the stomach, rectum, colon and bladder, chronic leukemia. [Pg.46]

Camellia sinensis (Tea, green tea, black tea) Camptotheca acuminata (Xi shu, tree of joy, happy tree, cancer tree)... [Pg.132]

Camptothecin (CPT, 1) is a natural compound isolated for the first time [1] from the wood of Camptotheca acuminata Decne (Nyssaceae), a deciduous plant (xi shu, happy tree) of Southeastern China, but produced also by the Indian Icacinacea Nothapodytes foetida (Wight) Sleumer (formerly Mappia foetida Miers) [2], and by some other plants [3], the two former being the major sources of the compound. [Pg.503]

Happy tree Camptotheca acuminata, family Nyssaceae)... [Pg.261]

Branches of elder were often buried with the dead to protect them from evil. The wood was sometimes burned on funeral pyres. If the tree bloomed after being planted over a grave, it meant the deceased was happy in Paradise. Drivers of horse-drawn hearses would carry a whip of elder for protection. Some associate elder with the queen or king of the underworld. [Pg.83]

Neoprene, Carothers first practical invention, was made reluctantly, as a kind of side issue to his scientific investigation of polymers. Synthetic rubber was of great commercial interest. The car-happy United States used half the world s natural rubber, and demand had outstripped the supply from wild rubber trees in the Amazon. Price fluctuations on British rubber plantations in Southeast Asia provided further incentive for the development of synthetic substitutes. Du Pont had been trying without success to... [Pg.130]

The Traitor depicts a man suspended from a tree by one ankle. Hanging his corpse upside down is the traditional Italian way to disparage a traitor, but in my deck the Traitor seems alive and happy in his odd position and has a mop of golden hair like a halo. He is not just a convicted criminal. [Pg.145]

Sideline. The word oscillator derives from the Latin words "os" (mouth) and oscillum (little mouth) in the Italian forests of 1000 BC to 500 BC, little effigies with mouths (happy faces ) were hung from trees to propitiate the... [Pg.134]

Lewiugton, Richard, and David Streeter. The Natural History of the Oak Tree. New York Dorling Kindersley, 1993. Miller, Howard, and S. Lamb. Oaks of North America. Happy Camp, CA Naturegraph Publishers, 1985. [Pg.627]

Breakfast over, you go out to look for more wood so you can whittle a monkey to go with the bananas. Then the Man sees this weird hair and a guy walking around with a happy expression on his face. The siren pops on and you freak out. You re really paranoid now as they check out your tracks and your eyes. No dope, though, and luckily they let you hose. By Friday night you ve nearly finished the monkey, and going to start some palm trees soon. You keep Imagining there s someone looking at you through the window. Your... [Pg.6]

But none of that mattered to the alchemist. He had already seen many people come and go, and the desert remained as it was. He had seen kings and beggars walking the desert sands. The dunes were changed constantly by the wind, yet these were the same sands he had known since he was a child. He always enjoyed seeing the happiness that the travelers experienced when, after weeks of yellow sand and blue sky, they first saw the green of the date palms. Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees, he thought. [Pg.44]

Some say that Happiness is not Good for Mortals, they ought to be answer d that Sorrow is not 6t for Immortals is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree, if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit, let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight. [Pg.350]


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