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"Quarterly Journal of Pharmacy and pharmacology 3:52-58. Hamburgisches Museum fur Volkerkunde. Tairona-Goldschmiede der Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Kolumbien. 1986. (An exhibition catalogue) Harms, H. 1922. Ubersicht der bisher in altperuanischen Grabern gefundenen Pflanzenreste. In Festschrift Eduard Seler, 157-86. Stuttgart: Strecker und Schroder. Kaufmann-Doig, Federico. 1978. Sexualverhalten im Alten Peru. Lima: Kompaktos. Larco Hoyle, Rafael. 1979. Ars etAmor: Peru. Munich: Heyne. Muller-Ebeling, Claudia. 1995. Die Botschaft der Kogi. Esotera 5/95:24-29. Naranjo, Plutarco. 1974." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "The pharmacology of Amanita muscaria. In Ethnopharmacological search for psychoactive drugs, ed. D. H. Efron, 419-39. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Wasson, R. Gordon. 1967. Fly agaric and man. In Ethnopharmacological search for psychoactive drugs, ed. D. H. Efron, 405-14. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. -. 1968. Soma—divine mushroom of immortality. New York: Harcourt Brace lovanovich. -. 1972. Soma and the fly-agaric: Mr. Wassons rejoinder to Professor Brough. Ethno-mycological Studies, no. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Botanical Museum of Harvard University." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "Preliminary observations on the chemistry and pharmacology of the alkaloids of D. hopwoodii. Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Science 13:175-78. Hollingsworth, Mark. 1993. Die Cape-York- Halbinsel und Nord-Queensland. In Aratjara: Kunst der ersten Australier (exhibition catalogue), 109-15. Cologne: DuMont. Tohnson, Vivien. 1994. The art of Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. East Roseville, New South Wales: Craftsman House (Gordon and Breach Arts International). Kennedy, G. S. 1971. (-)-Hyoscyamine in Duboisia hopwoodii. Phytochemistry 10:1335-39. Luanratana, O., and W. J." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Novartis Pharmaceuticals Website "Clinical pharmacology." 11 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Website "Antidepressant Medications." 12 Shire Pharmaceuticals Website AdderallXR "Causes of ADHD." http://www. adderallxr.com. 13 Food and Drug Administration Website "Clinical Pharmacology" AdderallXR. 14 "Lilly Announces Important Strattera Label Update" September 29, 2005, Lilly Strattera Website, htlp://newsroom.lilly.com. 15 Food and Drug Administration Website "Clinical Pharmacology" Strattera, http://www.fda.gov." - Kelly Patricia O'Meara, Psyched Out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Pills That Kill (Get the book.)

"Not only is ayahuasca research now at the neuro-scientific cutting edge, but the reversible MAO-inhibitors in ayahuasca may prove to be viable, less toxic alternatives to the noxious compounds currently in use! (Ott 1994, 69) The term ayahuasca analog appears have been coined by Dennis McKenna. The American ethno-botanist Jeremy Bigwood was probably the first person to test pharmahuasca (100 mg each of harmaline hydrochloride and N,N-DMT) on himself; he reported "DMT-like hallucinations" (Ott 1994, 52)." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Is steroid psychosis the result of giving these drugs to psychiatrically disturbed people? The pharmacology textbook in effect answers "no" when it observes, "A patient history of psychiatric problems does not correlate well with predisposition to steroid-induced psychosis." In other words, prior psychiatric problems haven't predisposed these people to becoming psychotic on steroids. When the body produces too much steroid, the results are similar to an adverse drug reaction to steroid medication." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Stoll S; et al. pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 1995 October-December, 111(4): 6-8. Results of this study showed that alpha-lipoic acid improved memory in aged mice. Memory-improving Effect of Aqueous Extract of Astragalus Membranaceus (Fisch.) Bge. Hong GX; et al. Chung Kuo Chung Yap Tsa Chih, 1994 November, 19(ll):687-688. Results of this study found that an aqueous Astragalus membranaceus extract improved anisodine-induced impairment on memory acquisition and alcohol-induced memory retrieval deficit in step-down behavior of mice." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Lead, Attention, and Impulsive Behavior: Changes in a Fixed-Ratio Waiting-for-Reward Paradigm." pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior 60, no. 2 (June 1998): 545-552. Bottiglieri, T. "S-Adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe): From the Bench to the Bedside—Molecular Basis of a Pleiotrophic Molecule." American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 76, No. 5 (November 2002): 1151S-1157S. Bottiglieri, T., et al. "Homocysteine, Folate, Methylation, and Monoamine Metabolism in Depression." Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry 69, No. 2 (August 2000): 228-232. Bryce-Smith, D. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"It's apparently difficult for highly trained medical personnel, well versed in pharmacology and technology, to believe that anything so simple and so natural could be as effective as the highly engineered drugs modern medicine has to offer. Most American cardiologists cannot acknowledge that a natural substance not manufactured by pharmaceutical industry giants could be so valuable. These factors have rendered therapies including D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio victims of politics, bias, insufficient marketing, economics, and ignorance regarding the results of real science." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"A recent clinical trial published in the scientific journal Regulatory and Toxicology pharmacology showed that supplementing with just 150 mg per day of ubiquinol resulted in CoQIO blood levels of 3.84 mcg/mL, while subjects who took 300 mg daily reached levels of 7.28 mcg/mL. It took only four weeks to achieve these desirable high levels. These data can be contrasted with recently published data in the scientific journals Archives of Neurology and Experimental Neurology, which showed that much higher doses of ubiquinone were required to obtain comparable blood CoQIO levels." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Based on my background in pharmacology and medical tiaining, I developed a holistic approach to treat this condition of estrogen dominance. The approach has three components: 1. A diet specifically designed to reduce the body's estrogen levels. 2. Natural hormone replacement therapy to restore hormone equilibrium. 3. A select list of vitamins and supplements that have been proven to work synergistically to support optimal hormone balance. the results After following the plan, hormone balance was restored in all of my patients, and their symptoms of estrogen dominance disappeared." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"Frankly, I believe there is far too much reliance upon pharmacology in modern medicine. Doctors and patients too often seem to be searching for the mythical magic bullet. I do not view medication as a panacea. Even so, meds can sometimes do things that other therapies simply cannot. The Three Unique Elements of Medication Medications can work wonders. Pharmaceutical medications, in particular, can produce fast, robust, and lasting changes. However, some integrative physicians have a visceral distaste for pharmaceutical medications." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Alimentary pharmacology & Therapeutics, 2003 August 15, 18(4):357-373. Among the nutritional therapies that benefit alcoholic patients are thiamine and folate supplements, branched-chain amino acids, metadoxine and S-adenosyl-L-methionine (SAMe). S-Adenosyl-L-Methionine: Its Role in the Treatment of Liver Disorders. Lieber CS. American Journal ofClinical Nutrition, 2002 November, 76(5): 1183S-1187S." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Biochemical pharmacology. 2007 May;71(10):1397-1421. Arjmandi BH et al. Dried plums improve indices of bone formation in postmenopausal women. / Womens Health Gend Based Med. 2002 Ian-Feb;ll(l):61-68. Franklin M, Bu SY, Lerner MR, Lancaster EA, Bellmer D, Marlow D, Lightfoot SA, Arjmandi BH, Brackett DJ, Lucas EA, Smith BJ. Dried plum prevents bone loss in a male osteoporosis model via IGF-I and the RANK pathway. Bone. 2006 October. Kayano S, Kikuzaki H, Yamada NK, Aoki A, Kasamatsu K, Yamasaki Y, Ikami T, Suzuki T, Mitani T, Nakatani N. Antioxidant properties of prunes (Prunus domestica L." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"A basic lesson of pharmacology is that there is a thin line between where a drug works as a medicine and where it becomes a poison. All over Iowa, as the state's physicians busily diagnosed disease and wrote prescriptions, they were unintentionally creating a different kind of illness, one that few of them wanted to talk to about. In the medical literature, these maladies are broadly called "drug-induced disorders" or "adverse drug reactions." Industry scientists writing in medical journals often refer to them simply as "events." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Limonium wrigth II, Okinawan medicinal plants, against ischemia-reperfusion injury in perfused rat hearts. pharmacology 2003; 67(3):128-135. Hazelnuts www.hazelnutcounciI.org Bayer A et al. Doxorubicin-induced cataract formation in rats and the inhibitory effects of hazelnut, a natural antioxidant: a histopathological study. Med Sci Monit. 2005 Aug; 11 (8):BR300-304. Mercanligil SM, Arslan P, Alasalvar C, Okut E, Akgul E, Pinar A, Geyik PO, Tokgozoglu L, Shahidi F. (2006, September 13)." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"He had turned to experimental pharmacology, looking for agents with greater benefit/risk ratios than those in common use. He experimented on himself and his family, first with Jesuit's bark (see chapter 9); he termed these experiments "drug provings." He developed his theory of "similia similibus": if a drug produced symptoms in a well person, then very small doses (the "law of infinitesimals") would cure similar symptoms in someone who was ill. He named his system of therapeusis "homeopathy" and termed the standard practice of the mainstream physicians "allopathy." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"A DRUG IN SEARCH OF A DISEASE The best known of the stimulants given to children, methyl-phenidate (Ritalin), was synthesized by Ciba (a pharmaceutical company that later morphed into Novartis) in 1944, with its pharmacology described in 1954. In his excellent book, The Creation of Psychopharmacology, David Healy, M.D., [2] tells us, "Later Leon Eisenberg used Ritalin in the first randomized controlled trial involving children, to test its effects on hyperactive states." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"This revisionist theory is responsible for a new wave of experimental pharmacology. However, the occluding-plaque theory drives current practice. There are ingenious ways to diminish the effects of the occluding plaque on blood flow, either by removing the plaque or circumventing it. The hope was that such maneuvers would do more than change blood flow in the patient's heart ?they would advantage the patient. Early on, several of these theories were put to the test. By put to the test, I mean a randomized controlled trial of the intervention." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Simone, a former clinical associate in immunology and pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute, said, "Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing an existing growth." • After reviewing 117 studies conducted between 1966 and 2005, an expert panel from the American College of Physicians (ACP), found the data on mammography screening for women in their 40s are so unclear that the effectiveness of reducing breast cancer death could be either 15% or " ... nearly zero." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Journal of Pharmacy and pharmacology 2:201-16. Ruspini, G. 1995. Belladonna e conigli. Eleusis 3:29-30. Schwamm, Brigitte. 1988. Atropa belladonna, eine antike Heilpflanze im modernen Arzneischatz. Stuttgart: Deutscher Apotheker Verlag. (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Pharmazie, vol. 49.) (Excellent bibliography.) Vonarburg, Bruno. 1996. Die Tollkirsche (1. Tcil). Naturlich 10/96:61-64. Wilson, Robert Anton. 1984. Right Where You Are Sitting Now: Further Tales of the Illuminati. Berkeley, Calif.: And/Or Press." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "Quarterly Journal of Pharmacy and pharmacology 21:502 ff. Ramawat, Kishan Gopal, and Harish Chandra Arya. 1979. Effect of amino acids on ephedrine production in Ephedra gerardiana callus culture. Phytochemistry 18:484-85. Ratsch, Christian. 1995. Mahuang, die Pflanze des Mondes. Dao 4/95:68. Stein, Sir A. 1932. On ephedra, the hum plant and soma. Btn. School of Oriental Studies London Institution 6:501 ff." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Instead, we must have smart medicine in which physicians consider combinations of nutrition, lifestyle, pharmacology, and surgery to prevent or treat CVD. Hopefully, this union will occur in time to help you and your family, and before our expensive disease management approach bankrupts the Medicare and Medicaid programs." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Yohimbe does work for impotence, but like many plant products it has specific known pharmacological effects and has been absorbed into the world of pharmacology. Yohimbe is known to block certain receptors in the brain that results in a stimulation of the adrenergic system. Yohimbe does not work better than Viagra and friends, and has the same side effects (anxiety, restlessness, and the potential for cardiac events)." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Hyperforin, rather than hypericin as originally thought, has emerged as one of the major constituents for antidepressant activity," one 2001 article in the Journal of Pharmacy and pharmacology pointed out. The rich cast of active plant chemicals is undoubtedly why St. John's Wort has been found useful for such a wide variety of conditions besides depression. In fact, the Physician's Desk Reference for Herbal Medicine lists positive results in clinical trials for anxiety, cognitive function, fatigue, ear pain in children, dermatitis, and PMS, in addition to depression." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "A new study in Alimentary pharmacology & Therapeutics showed that taking antibiotics to kill H. pylori, along with medication to control stomach acid, has an 86 percent success rate, but when zinc carnosine is added to the mix, the success rate climbs to a perfect 100 percent. NSAIDs, which also include pain relievers such as aspirin and aspirin-like compounds like ibuprofen and naproxen sodium, aren't as innocuous as they seem." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Perhaps most significantly, and forebodingly, in the late 1990s, David Healy put Kramer's "cosmetic pharmacology" claims to the test. He recruited students who had no history of mental illness whatsoever for a study at his university in Wales and gave them antidepressants. Ten percent of what was an admittedly small sample developed horribly disturbing suicidal and homicidal tendencies, completely alien to anything they had ever experienced. One person imagined slitting her throat and bleeding to death in bed next to her partner." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Introduction to the pharmacology of CNS drugs. In Katzung BG (ed.). Basic & Clinical pharmacology. 6th ed. Norwalk, CT: Appleton & Lange. 1995:330. 2. Braverman ER, Pfeiffer CC, Blum K, et al. The Healing Nutrients Within. 2nd ed. New Canaan, CT, Keats Publishing, i997;246-47,247-58, 290-303. 3. Mitchell WA Jr. Foundations of Natural Therapeutics: Biochemical Apologetics of Naturopathic Medicine. Tempe, AZ: Southwest College Press, 1997^05-08. 4. Daigle RD, Clark HW, Landry MIM. A primer on neurotransmitters and cocaine. J Psychoactive Drugs 1988;20:283-95. 5. Hoes MJ, Colla P, Folgering N." - Dr. Jonathan Prousky, BPHE, BSc, ND, FRSH, Anxiety: Orthomolecular Diagnosis and Treatment (Get the book.)

"In another study examining the pharmacology of vitex (another term for chaste tree), serum prolactin levels were reduced via vitex's natural prolactin-suppressive compounds, namely diter-penes. These diterpenes have dopaminergic properties and bind to the DA2-receptor protein, which, in turn, suppressed prolactin release.15 Chaste tree is the most important herb to normalize and regulate the menstrual cycle. Chaste tree is not a fast-acting herb; do not hesitate to use it over a long period of time. In fact, results may not be achieved until after four to six months." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"However, a growing number of reports in the pharmacology literature characterize flavonoid interactions with cellular components implicated in neurological pathologies and cancer. As the effective flavonoid concentrations employed in pharmacological studies utilizing cell cultures are often orders of magnitude higher than the serum concentrations seen in humans, some discrimination is required when interpreting these reports." - Erich Grotewold, The Science of Flavonoids (Get the book.)

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