Strophanthintherapie

An in-depth look into a well-known herbal drug: Fingerprinting, isolation, identification, and content estimation of saponins in different Strophanthus seeds

“…Although the general (particularly the oral) use of Strophanthus preparations is currently marginalized by academic medicine [15,44,45], some scientific reports and papers describe the advantages of this therapy based on medical experience and practice [13,15,17,18,46]. In the past, the Strophanthus tincture (that, as demonstrated here, should contain saponins) was found to be more effective than isolated ouabain in an oral application [5]. This finding suggests a possible impact of saponins as active constituents of the extract, on the overall bioavailability and thus the activity of Strophanthus cardiac glycosides.…”

“…Kirk, a doctor of the Livingstone expedition, noticed that when brushing teeth with a toothbrush contaminated with a tiny dose of Strophanthus, the pulse slowed down [4]. At the same time, other pioneers, de Bellay and Pelikan, noted the power of this herbal drug [5]. The above findings and subsequent exploration of Equatorial and Tropical Africa regions led to…”

Subject, topic, given and salient: sentence-beginnings in Latin

“…In example (29) the whole phrase, subducebat Giton ab ictu corpus seems to be required before the connection is fully revealed, but the connection may begin to take form very early and there is psycholinguistic evidence both that a certain amount of 'on-line' analysis occurs even before 'all constituents of a linguistic unit are received and identified' 32 and that languageprocessing overall deals in units of something like phrase length. 33 In example (30) the underlined initial verbs do not introduce new entities, but such is their semantic link with the context that there is no temptation to expect the subject to change. There is another complexity in this example: after exit cum nuntio Crassus it is Caesar who is still the point of reference, and not Crassus.…”